Sports Release
August 17, 1999

DAVID SEGURA NAMED HEAD CROSS COUNTRY COACH AT ENMU
PORTALES, NM — David Segura, the head track and field and head cross country coach at Saint Michael’s High School in Santa Fe, New Mexico for five seasons, has been named head men’s and women’s cross country coach at Eastern New Mexico University, Athletic Director Rosie Stallman announced.

Segura will begin his duties immediately. ENMU’s cross country teams will open the 1999 season at West Texas A&M on Thu., Sept. 2. Eastern is a member of the Lone Star Conference and competes in NCAA Division II in all sports. Segura coached at Saint Michael’s from Fall, 1992 through Spring, 1997.

He has been a validation specialist in Rensselaer, New York since the fall of 1997. He is very familiar with Eastern New Mexico University. He is a graduate of ENMU, who earned a B.S. degree in Secondary Education in 1990. He graduated Summa Cum Laude, and was chosen Outstanding Men’s Undergraduate in Education. Segura holds the NCAA Division I American collegiate record in the marathon, which he set while attending the University of New Mexico.

Segura, who was at UNM for two years before transferring to ENMU, qualified for the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Trials. He was a substitute teacher in the Santa Fe Public School District in 1991-92, then became an elementary school teacher at Saint Francis Cathedral School in Santa Fe in 1992-93. He taught mathematics, general science and physical education to fifth and sixth graders.

Starting in 1993, he was a mathematics teacher at Saint Michael’s. He taught a variety of mathematics course, and also developed a junior high math curriculum. Segura then became a head coach at Saint Michael’s.

He coached junior high school and senior high school boys and girls, and directed home meets in both cross country and track. He started the school’s first cross country teams.