UA alum Cale Wallace employed as Arkansas males’s distance coach
FAYETTEVILLE – Arkansas males’s head coach Doug Case has introduced the hiring of UA alum Cale Wallace because the Razorbacks males’s head coach in cross nation and assistant coach in monitor and area.
“It’s a real dream come true,” said Wallace. “Once I began volunteering at Arkansas you at all times dream about coming again and attending to do the actual factor and being in cost. It’s only a true dream come true.
“Even once I began teaching it was one thing that you just at all times hoped and thought it will occur, and it form of occurred rather a lot before possibly I’d have thought. So, I’m simply tremendous excited.”
A former All-America and group captain with the Razorbacks, Wallace has coached at Iowa State since 2021. In 2024, he was promoted to girls’s cross nation affiliate head coach and served as monitor and area assistant coach in main the Iowa State girls’s distance group.
“We’re tremendous enthusiastic about Cale coming in right here,” stated Case. “He’s alumni and a terrific athlete whereas he was right here at Arkansas. He’s excited and we’re excited. I feel it’s going to a very good scenario.
“We employed a man who has nice expertise at a really excessive degree with each women and men. He’ll be accountable for the lads’s distance program right here. It’s the expertise that counts while you take a look at any person that may do these items. I really like that he’s alumni and is aware of our system in addition to town of Fayetteville and all of the folks round it. I can’t wait to get him right here and get him going.”
In the course of the 2025 cross nation season, Iowa State girls completed runner-up to BYU within the Huge 12 Championships and third within the NCAA Midwest Area behind Oklahoma State and Northwestern. They earned an at-large choice for the NCAA Championships the place the Cyclones positioned twentieth with a pair of All-America finishers.
The Iowa State males’s cross nation program produced a pair of NCAA runner-up finishes in current seasons.
“Simply being round a program that twice within the years that I labored with the lads we completed second on the nationwide championship,” stated Wallace. “Being round that form of surroundings and tradition positively confirmed me what it takes from a training perspective. Working with the ladies we have been capable of remodel a group that didn’t make nationals final yr to a group that was ranked as excessive as No. 6 within the nation this yr.
“From an athlete perspective I bought plenty of that in my time working with Coach Bucknam and dealing with not simply the gap runners, however together with the hurdlers, the jumpers, and the sprinters. That’s form of the cool half about Arkansas is being round all of the occasion areas.”
In working with Iowa State steeplechasers, Wallace coached a pair of Iowa native athletes to bronze medal performances within the 2024 NCAA Championships as every bettered males’s and ladies’s Cyclone college information along with securing the automated normal for the U.S. Olympic Trials.
“He’s had nice success in all the pieces that he’s achieved,” famous Case. “Not solely within the cross nation realm, but in addition on the monitor. He’s had great success from the 800m all the way in which as much as the ten,000m with children he’s coached and recruited there at Iowa State.
“He’ll are available right here and we’ll have that very same expertise. He’s enthusiastic about it and I feel we’ve plenty of recruiting energy. Then while you add a man like Cale into the combo we’re going to get some good children.”
Previous to teaching at Iowa State, Wallace served as an assistant coach for 2 seasons at North Dakota. Throughout his time at North Dakota he guided the Preventing Hawks to its highest end in cross nation for the reason that program entered Division I with the lads putting third and the ladies runner-up on the Summit League Championships.
Wallace additionally spent two seasons as a volunteer assistant at Arkansas.
Competing with the Razorbacks from 2012 to 2017, Wallace was a group captain each in cross nation and in the course of the monitor and area season. He earned a first-team All-America honor as a member of the gap medley relay that positioned seventh within the 2014 NCAA Indoor Championships.
“I feel what I sit up for from the teaching perspective is simply persevering with to attempt to uphold that custom of excellence,” famous Wallace. “In my 5 years as an athlete at Arkansas, we by no means misplaced a convention championship in cross nation. Within the 10 indoor and outside monitor seasons, I feel we received six of them.
“So simply attending to be part of that as a coach and attending to contribute yr spherical is one thing that I’m actually enthusiastic about, and never simply on the cross nation course. There’s three seasons within the yr for us. At Arkansas we’re attempting to win each single season and so I’m simply actually, actually enthusiastic about that.”
Wallace produced a profession better of 8:41.47 in claiming a silver medal within the 3,000m steeplechase on the 2016 SEC Championships. He certified for the NCAA West Preliminary spherical twice within the steeplechase in 2016 and 2017.
On the SEC Indoor Championships, Wallace was a member of distance medley relays that positioned fourth (2016) and fifth (2015). He additionally completed fifth within the mile on the 2014 SEC Indoor.
Competing within the 4 x 800m relay, Wallace was a part of a Texas Relays victory in 2014 in addition to runner-up finishes on the 2014 and 2015 Drake Relays.
In cross nation, Wallace competed at 4 consecutive NCAA Championships. At SEC Championships, Wallace positioned 14th (2012), fifteenth (2013), eighth (2014), and seventeenth (2015) as Arkansas claimed group titles every year. Within the South Central Area, he completed sixth (2015) and ninth (2014).
Wallace is married to Logan (Bishop), who can also be a UA alum and was a part of the ladies’s monitor and area program. They’ve a son, Pierce, who is 2 years previous.
