Megan Elliott

Megan Elliott joined the Husker track and field/cross country staffs in August of 2024. She was an assistant coach for Arkansas in 2023-24, after serving as the Razorbacks’ director of operations since 2014. She coached the cross country team, as well as the distance runners on the track and field team.

In her first season as Nebraska's head cross country coach in 2024, Nebraska's women placed 11th at the Big Ten Championships and fifth at the NCAA Midwest Regional. Ali Bainbridge grabbed a fifth-place finish as an individual at the regional meet and became the first Husker since 2021 to qualify for the NCAA Championships. There, she finished 76th, the highest finish since Lara Crofford in 2008. Bainbridge earned All-Big Ten second team honors and NCAA All-Midwest Region honors.

Under Elliott’s leadership at Arkansas in 2023-24, Laura Taborda claimed a fifth-place finish in the 3000m steeplechase at the NCAA Championships. 

In her role as the director of operations, Elliott handled behind-the-scenes work, coordinating travel, recruiting, student-athlete eligibility, team equipment and gear. She helped Arkansas women’s track and field to a pair of national championships, while the men were runners-up twice during her tenure. Prior to returning to her alma mater, Elliott was an assistant coach at IU-Indianapolis for a year.  

As an athlete with the Razorbacks, Elliott earned All-America honors in the steeplechase in 2008, while being named to the All-SEC First Team every year of her collegiate career. A two-time team captain for both the track and field and cross country teams, she was also on the Athletic Director’s honor roll all four years and was an Arkansas Student-Athlete Advisory Committee Member.

The Middlebury, Ind., native earned her bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology from Arkansas in 2010 and completed her master’s degree in Kinesiology/Exercise science in 2013, while serving as a graduate assistant with the Razorbacks.