Pat McCurry enters his eighth year at the helm of the track & field and cross country programs at The College of Idaho.  In seven years (after the Coyote running programs were dormant for nearly 30 years), McCurry has built the Coyote men and women into perennial NAIA Top-25 programs - with the men’s cross country team earning five berths to the NAIA Championships, with the Lady Yotes advancing to three-straight NAIA meets, winning the 2008 and 2009 Cascade Conference titles, with the squad finishing ninth at the National meet and seventh in 2009. For his efforts, McCurry was named 2008 and 2009.CCC women's cross country Coach of the Year.

Student-athletes have claimed 18 individual CCC titles on the track, 11 NAIA All-American awards in cross country and track & field, seven All-NAIA Region I awards in cross country, 38 All-CCC awards in cross country - along with 67 NAIA All-America Scholar-Athlete awards. 

Prior to his arrival at The C of I, McCurry was an assistant coach at his alma mater, Eastern Oregon University, helping EOU to a national runner-up finish at the 2002 NAIA Men’s Cross Country Championships and the 2003 CCC title in men’s track & field.  As an athlete at EOU from 1997-1999, McCurry claimed two consecutive CCC titles at 5000-meters and finished eighth at the NAIA Championships at 10,000-meters.  His best athletic years came after college while running for Nike Portland, and later the Eastside Track Club - where at the 2003 University of Oregon Preview Meet, the Coyote skipper took home the title in the 3000-meters and has a personal best of 8:13 at that distance.  He also holds the Willamette Invitational meet record and Charles Bowles track record at 10,000-meters from his 2004 performance there.  McCurry has also claimed the title at many Treasure Valley area races, including the infamous Race to Robie Creek in 2005, 2009. and 2010, along with the City of Trees marathon.