Head Coach
Allen Etheridge: Coach Etheridge is a 1984 ORHS graduate who ran for former ORHS coach Jim McNamee and who was a member of the 1983 State Championship team. Coach Etheridge was an ORHS assistant 1996-1997 and 2001-2003 before becoming Head Coach in 2004. During his tenure, Coach Etheridge has coached 6 State Championship teams and 4 runners-up, as well as Oak Ridge's first individual male state champion since 1960 (John Sharpe). In 2007, Etheridge's boys' team won the Nike Team Nationals Southeast Region and placed 18th at the NTN championships. Coach Etheridge was the PrepXtra Boys' Coach of the Year in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, and was the Girls Coach of the Year in 2007, 2008, 2009, and 2010. He was the TSSAA State Coach of the Year in 2006 and was inducted into the Oak Ridge Sports Hall of Fame in 2008. Etheridge has a USATF Level 1 Certification.
(home)865-483-8556
(work) 865-425-9601, ext. 2657
(cell) 865-742-7489
Assistant Coaches
Sam Roberts: Since 2007, Coach Roberts has been an Assistant Cross Country coach and an Assistant Track coach for sprints at ORHS. He also teaches Civics at ORHS. Prior to teaching at ORHS, he was the Head Cross Country coach at West High School where he coached 42 individual state champions in Cross Country and Track during his 21-year stint. Coach Roberts is also a many-time Coach of the Year in our area and state.
Ed Wright:
Coach Wright is a graduate of Oak Ridge High School and was a member of the ORHS State Championship Cross Country Runner-up teams in 1988 and 1989. Coach Wright is a teacher at Andersonville Elementary school and has coached cross country at ORHS since 2005. He is also a distance runner and actively participates in many races in our area.
Staff
Kate Shult, M.S.: Ms. Shult is an exercise physiologist who works with the team on core strength, flexibility, and nutrition and conducts weekly yoga sessions with the team. She has been with the cross country program since 2004. | 
