Chris Cameron begins his 17th season as head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country teams.

For the second straight year, both of Cameron’s 2008 squads were named the USTFCCCA National All-Academic squads, while the men’s team repeated with the highest grade-point-average among men’s sports at Merrimack. Both teams earned regional rankings throughout the year, with the men’s team finishing fourth in the Northeast-10 and the women placing eighth.

Cameron has been named the Northeast-10 Women’s Coach of the Year three times and has coached numerous Northeast-10 Conference Runners of the Year and Freshmen of the Year. He guided the women’s cross country team to three-straight conference titles from 1997-1999. On several occasions, his teams have been selected by the NCAA Division II Cross Country Coaches Association as an Academic All-America, and many individual runners have garnered Academic All-America honors. In 2005, such was the case with both the men's and women's team, as well as Alison O'Brien, who was named an All-American by the Coaches Association.

A 1989 graduate of Clemson University where he earned cum laude status as a secondary education and history major, Cameron was a member of the three-time Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) champion Tiger cross country and track & field teams. In 1989, Clemson placed fourth at the NCAA Cross Country Championship. Cameron is also a four-time ACC All-Academic Honor Roll member.

A native of Methuen, he resides in Barrington, N.H. with his wife Mary-Jo and their two children.