Ray Appenheimer
Head Run Coach

Ray Appenheimer is head coach of the cross country program and the men's and women's track and field teams at Oberlin College. Appenheimer previously worked with the Nike Farm Team, where he coached eight athletes to the 2004 Olympic Trials – three in the marathon and five on the track. Appenheimer had more athletes in the final of the men’s 5000 meter trials than any other coach in the country.

A six-time Academic All-American and 1994 graduate of Colgate University, Appenheimer received a bachelor's degree magna cum laude in English. He earned an NCAA post-graduate scholarship, won the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year award twice and became a semifinalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. As a cross country and track and field athlete for the Red Raiders, Appenheimer won five All-American awards and was inducted into the Colgate Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001.

Upon graduation from Colgate, Appenheimer joined the Nike Farm Team, a post-collegiate club focused on developing world-class distance runners. There he won the national title at the 1999 United States Cross Country Championships and the 3000 meters at the 2000 United States Indoor Track and Field Championships. He has represented the United States at the 1999 World Cross Country Championships in Belfast and the 1999 World University Games in Majorca, Spain. He qualified for the 2000 United States Olympic Trials in the 5000 meters with a time of 13:28.99.