John Murray is an assistant coach for Northeastern University's cross country and track and field program in Boston, Massachusetts, where he works with the women's cross country team and the women's distance and middle-distance athletes. He enters his ninth season at Northeastern in 2026-27 after joining the staff in 2018-19 and taking over leadership of the women's cross country and women's distance group in 2020-21.
Across his first eight seasons, Murray's athletes produced 76 performances that rank in Northeastern's all-time top 10 and 27 school-record marks. He has coached 25 CAA champions, seven NCAA First Round qualifiers, five NCAA Northeast Cross Country All-Region athletes, three CAA cross country individual champions, one NCAA cross country national qualifier, one CAA cross country team champion, three CAA event records, and two CAA meet records.
