Sacramento State

Cade Burks joined the Sacramento State coaching staff in September of 2023. Burks oversees the cross country teams as well as coach the distance runners during the indoor and outdoor track seasons.

At Sacramento State

2024-25 Season

• Helped guide Tia Oliver and Dominique Abbott to NCAA West First Round appearances in the steeplechase and 800, respectively.
• Abbott was named all-Big Sky after placing third in the 800 at the conference meet at Hornet Stadium.
• Oliver scored for the team by placing sixth in the steeplechase and Marina Lipary was seventh in the 10K.
• Brandon Moreno reached the event finals in the men's 800.
• Oliver set the school record in the steeplechase with a time of 10:24.82.
• Moreno ran 3:46.15 to set the school record in the 1500. That effort was named the Sacramento State Male Individual Performance of the Year.
• Overall, Burks coached three men and five women to school top 10 marks.
• During the indoor season, Moreno set the school record in the mile after running 4:07.19.
• That was one of seven school top 10 marks set by the men in the 800, mile, 3K and 5K.
• The women produced four performances to land in the top 10 in school history in either the 800, mile or 3K.
• The women's cross country program tallied its longest stretch of time to be ranked regionally in school history.
• The team was guided by Oliver and Anna Harmon who each moved into the program's top 10 for 6K races.
• Oliver highlighted the season with a win at the SF State Invite.
• The men's cross country team earned Sacramento State Male Academic Team of the Year award.

2023-24 Season

• Coached four women’s school indoor top 10 performances with Dani Gee placing fourth in the 5K (17:11.72) and seventh in the 3K (9:59.07), Mia Lawrence moving into seventh in the 800 (2:11.37) and the distance medley relay team of Ashley Businei, Emily Giddens, Lawrence and Gee running 12:01.87 to stand seventh.
• Freshman Brandon Moreno set the school record in the indoor mile after running 4:07.75. Moreno also moved into third place in the Hornet record book in the indoor 3K in 8:29.94.
• During the outdoor season, Tia Oliver produced the third fastest steeplechase by a Hornet woman with a time of 10:46.73. Ashley Busienei moved into a tie for seventh in school history behind an 800 time of 4:26.60.
• Moreno continued his momentum from the indoor season by posting the sixth-fastest outdoor 800 by a Sacramento State male when he ran 1:50.55. He qualified for the USATF U20 Outdoor Championships where he advanced to the finals in the 800.
• Coached Moreno (800) and Busienei (1500) to berths in the finals of the Big Sky Outdoor Championships.
• Burks mentored the women’s cross country team to its highest finish at the Big Sky Championships since 2014.
• The women recorded three school top 10 performances in a 6K at the Santa Clara Bronco Invitational. That trio was led by Molly Latincsics who ran 20:33.5.
• Latincsics was named the Big Sky Women’s Runner of the Week after winning the Pacific Invitational.

Burks competed at Northern Arizona from 2017-21 where he was an NCAA West Preliminary qualifier in the 1500. He also earned all-Big Sky honors as a member of the Lumberjacks’ distance medley relay team at the 2019 Big Sky Indoor Championships.

“It gives me great pleasure to announce that Cade Burks has join our staff as our new distance coach,” McDaniel said. “Within five minutes into the interview, I could sense he was a student of distance running. I wanted a coach with a high level of track/cross country acumen and someone who has been around a championship culture. Cade’s passion and programming  caught my attention during the early process for this position. Cade is an ardent proponent of caring for the student-athletes and making sure they are having a positive experience overall. Cade’s experience as a NAU distance runner will serve him well as he adjust to his new role.”