Starting at age 4, Artie Gulden spent several weekends each fall attending college cross country meets alongside his father, Art, a longtime coach at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. It wasn't long before the younger Gulden decided he would love to someday follow in his Dad's footsteps and become a college coach.
Still, Artie didn't become a college head coach until the fall of 2017 when he was 38 and took over a Utah State cross country program that had never before qualified for the men's or women's NCAA Championships. Gulden had been an assistant at Utah State for the previous two seasons and a volunteer coach at Idaho State for two years before then. But he spent numerous years juggling coaching while working as a health care administrator, a job that paid much more than coaching and helped him financially support his wife and ...
