Mike Audette took over the men's cross country program in 2021 and began adding oversight of the women's cross country program in 2022. He is also the assistant coach for the men's and women's track and field teams.
The 2024 season saw strength in Wayne Alexander, who was named the MVP and led the squad to a third-place finish at the Castlleton Invitational with a time of 30:32 and a 24th-place finish at the NCAA Regionals with a mark of 30:30. Leading the women's side was Team MVP Bethany Davis who placed 135th at the NCAA Regionals with a mark of 25:51.
The Prior to joining Castleton, Audette spent 15 years as the head Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Coach at Rutland High School. During his time at Rutland, Audette helped guide several Division I State Meet individual champions and top-ten finishers, as well as several New England Championship qualifiers in the 800, 1500, and 3000m runs, as well as in the distance and mid-distance relay events.
As a high school athlete, Audette was the 1999 Vermont Division I Cross Country State Champion and a four-time New England Qualifier in Cross Country at Rutland High School. At the collegiate level, Audette competed at the NCAA Division III Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, and was a two-time Cross Country individual conference champion and runner of the year (2001-2002) in the Capital Athletic Conference, a three-time All Mason Dixon Conference runner (2001-2003) and the first three-time NCAA Southeast Region Cross Country all-region runner in school history (2001-2003). In college Track, Audette competed in the 1500 -10,000m distances and was the 2004 Mason Dixon Conference Indoor and Capital Athletic Conference Outdoor 5000m individual champion.
Audette is a high school teacher at Mt. St. Joseph Academy in Rutland where he lives with his wife Jessica and three children, Graeson, Finnegan, and Cecelia.
