Dave Frank is in his 15th year at Central Catholic after spending 11 years teaching math and coaching at St. Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif. Since 2005, Frank has been at the helm of the boys cross country program, which claimed its fifth state championship under his supervision this past fall. Frank coached the Rams to three straight state titles from 2005-2007 and again in 2009. His teams have also captured the Mt. Hood Conference title every season he has been at the helm. Overall, Frank has produced three individual state cross country champions and 14 first-team all-state runners. Frank is in his second year serving as an assistant coach in the track program, after serving as head coach of the program from 2001-2011 (Frank was the head boys coach, only, in 2007 and 2008). The Rams placed in the top 10 at the big school state meet seven times under Frank. He coached eight, individual state champions, including 2012 Olympic Silver Medalist Galen Rupp. Rupp was state champion in the 3,000 meters in both 2003 and 2004 and the 1,500 in 2004. At St. Francis, Frank was the assistant boys cross country coach from 1990-1999 and the head boys track coach from 1993-2000. He worked with many CCS section champions and helped the school to the 1998 California State Division III Cross Country title. Frank attended and graduated from Gladstone High School, where he won five state titles in both track and cross country. He then went on to attend Stanford University, where he set the former school record for the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a time of 8 minutes and 38 seconds. He was also a three-time Olympic Trials qualifier in the steeplechase and marathon. Frank was also the team captain of the 1990 Hood-to-Coast champions, Black Flag. Frank earned a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford in Economics in 1984 and a Masters in Education in 1985. He and his wife, Karen, live in Northeast Portland and have a son, Jackson, a 2016 Central Catholic graduate.