Alex Muntefering is in his fourth season on the Texas State track & field/cross country staff. He serves as the assistant coach for cross country/distance.
In the 2018-19 season, Muntefering led the entire women’s cross country team and two male athletes to the NCAA South Central Regional Championships and coached seven All-Sun Belt Conference selections (seven cross country, 12 indoor, three outdoor), including four-time Sun Belt Champion Leslie Romero. The Bobcats hoisted two conference championship titles with the women winning the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championship and the men winning the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championship.
In the 2018 cross country season, Muntefering helped produce the first woman to win an individual title for Texas State since 1994 with Romero clocking a 17:22.91 in the women’s 5k at the Sun Belt Conference Championships. Romero earned All-Sun Belt First Team honors and was selected as the league’s Runner and Newcomer of the Year. On the men’s side, Joseph Meade was selected first-team after placing fifth in the men’s 8k with a time of 25:01.00.
At the conference indoor championships, Romero set two school records with the first in the women’s 3,000-meter run with a 9:40.57 time, and the 5,000-meter run with a 17:06.00 time to earn Sun Belt Conference Newcomer of the Year accolades. At the outdoor championships, she went gold in the 10,000-meter run with a 36:11.53 time.
The 2017-18 season started off with the women’s cross country team winning the Sun Belt Conference Championship. It was the program’s first cross country conference title since 1994. Both McKynzie King and Devina Schneider earned All-SBC First Team honors while Kendra Long and Nikki Sanchez were second team all-conference performers.
For the second straight year the men’s cross country team finished third at the conference meet. The Bobcats finished just five points back of conference champion Appalachian State. Texas State would go on to record a program best finish of fifth at the NCAA South Central Regional.
Muntefering’s tutelage led to Schneider capturing the gold in the 3000m and bronze in the mile, and Joseph Meade claiming the bronze medal in the 5000m at the SBC Indoor Championships. Meade would go on to finish runner-up in the 10,000m during the conference outdoor meet as well.
In his first season with the Bobcats, Muntefering helped the men's cross country team finish third at the Sun Belt Conference Championships, the program's highest since joining the conference. At the championships, Jose Angel Gonzalez, Joseph Meade and Joseph Pena all earned All-SBC Second Team honors. The team would go on to finish eighth at the NCAA South Central Regional, matching the program's best finish since 2005.
Under Muntefering's tutelage, Devina Schneider set a school record in the indoor mile to capture the gold medal at the SBC Championships. Schneider followed by setting TXST's records in the 1500m and 3000m steeplechase, winning a gold, silver and bronze medal at the conference outdoor championships and earning the Women's High Point Scorer with 24 points.
Muntefering comes to San Marcos after spending the last two years at South Dakota State as a graduate assistant cross country and track coach. During his time with the Jackrabbits, he coached six NCAA Division I West Preliminary qualifiers and two All-Americans in cross country. He also helped bring in 20 high school and college transfer distance runners that included the best incoming women’s class in school history.
The South Dakota native assisted in developing the training programs plans for both the men's and women's middle and long distance runners, which led the men's cross country team to its highest finish in school history (sixth) at the NCAA Midwest Regional, 42 All-Summit League performers, seven school records and six Summit League champions.
He also oversaw the planning and management of 11 home indoor collegiate and high school track meets and two home cross country events and was a counselor at the Stanford University Track and Field/Cross Country camp.
In high school, Muntefering was named South Dakota’s Gatorade 2008 Runner of the Year in cross county and 2009 Athlete of the Year in track and field. He parlayed his success to being named to the All-Big 12 Conference Indoor Track Team twice at Oklahoma.
After transferring to Colorado State, Muntefering was a two-time All-Mountain West Conference honoree in both cross county and indoor track. As a senior in 2013, he helped lead the Rams to the NCAA Cross Country Championships for the first time in nine years. He also earned the Big 12 and Mountain West Scholar Athlete honor all four years.
Muntefering graduated from Colorado State in 2014 with a bachelor’s degree in health and exercise science. He recently completed his master’s degree in sport and recreation studies from South Dakota State.
