Northwestern University Athletics
Amy Tush Named Head Coach of Women's Cross Country
7/5/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Cross Country & Track
July 5, 2001
EVANSTON, Ill. - Amy Tush has been hired as the head coach of women's cross country at Northwestern University. The announcement was made today by athletics director Rick Taylor.
Tush, 28, comes to Northwestern from Butler University in Indianapolis, where she has been an assistant coach for both the men's and women's cross country programs since 1997. In 1998, she helped coach the Bulldog men's team to 16th place at the NCAA Championships, Butler's first and only appearance in the national meet. She also helped oversee six Midwestern Collegiate Conference (now Horizon League) team championships -- three men's, three women's -- and seven individual MCC titles.
Prior to her stint at Butler, Tush was a graduate assistant at Indiana State for two years. During that time she coached the distance runners and helped oversee two Missouri Valley Conference championship teams.
A 1995 graduate of Indiana State, Tush was a Missouri Valley Conference champion in cross country and track, and was the MVC Athlete of the Year in cross country. She led the Sycamore cross country and track programs to eight MVC titles and a pair of third-place finishes at the NCAA District Cross Country Championships.
Being in Indianapolis, Tush was heavily involved in helping stage the NCAA Indoor Championships -- she was on the administrative staff for the 2000 Division I NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships, and the administrative staff and operations supervisor for the 1999 NCAA Division I and II Indoor Track & Field Championships. Tush also served as the meet host organizer for the 1998 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Additionally, Tush was director of the Junior Indiana Invaders kids program and coordinated the Hoosier State Games in 2000, and in 1999 she coordinated the NCAA's YES (Youth Education through Sports) Clinic in Indianapolis.
