Dan Graber

Dan Graber

Dan Graber enters his seventh year as Head Cross Country and Track & Field coach for both men and women teams at Webster University. Graber came to Webster after five years on the Centre College (Ky.) cross country and track staffs.

While at Webster, Graber's men's cross country teams had their highest conference meet finish in program history, while the women have won three consecutive St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and had the individual SLIAC Champion in both 2015 and 2019. 

On the track and field side, in addition to continuing to set record roster numbers for men and women, school records have been set in almost all events in Graber's six years and it culminated with the women's program earning its first-ever SLIAC Outdoor Championship in 2018 and then having the women's team repeat as SLIAC Champions in 2019 and the women's indoor team earning the inaugural SLIAC Indoor Championship in 2020.

Graber served as an assistant coach for both sports at Centre from 2008-2013. In addition to managing recruitment for both sports, Graber specifically supervised the training for middle distance, hurdles, and pole vault events for track.   

During Graber's tenure, Centre won men's track and field conference championships in 2011 and 2012, and won cross country championships for men in 2008 and 2012, and women in 2011 and 2012.

The 2011 Centre men's cross country had the highest team grade point average of any NCAA III team in the nation.  Also in 2011, Graber was named the USTFCCCA South/Southeast Regional Men's Assistant Track and Field Coach of the Year.

Graber noted, "Webster is a great place to coach.  With the opportunities for student-athletes and its location in a great city like St. Louis, Webster's the ideal place to build an outstanding program."
 
Graber graduated from Heidelberg (Ohio) University, where he was a three-time Academic All-American in cross country, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006. He completed his Master's of Theological Studies at Emory (Ga.) University in 2008.