Craig McVey joined the SHC athletics family as the first head coach of the Badger men's and women's outdoor track & field programs in the summer of 2012 and took over the reins of the Cross Country programs in 2013. McVey came to Spring Hill after enjoying 15 years as the associate head track & field coach at the University at Albany where he was part of 28 America East Conference (AEC) championships and three Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America (IC4A) titles.

In 2018, McVey directed his women's Cross Country team to a Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) title in its first season of NCAA D2 postseason eligibility as well as an appearance at the NCAA D2 South Regional Championships. His men's program finished 4th in conference, but qualified two runners for the Regional Championships.

In his first two years at SHC, McVey developed two individual participants in the NAIA National Championship Meet with Jordan Travis earning a spot in the men's 800-meter run and Corinne Missi earning NAIA All-America status in the women's Triple Jump. Away from the field in 2014, Travis was voted a Capital One Academic All-District student-athlete and Robert Treuting earned NAIA Scholar Athlete status.

A few of McVey's SHC career highlights include:

• 2018, 2019, 2021 - three consecutive SIAC Women's XC championships
• 2018, 2019, 2021 - three consecutive SIAC Women's XC Coach of the Year awards
• 23 SIAC All-Conference XC Team members  2024, "23, '22, '21, '19, '18     
• 48 SIAC All-Conference Team members in Women's & Men's Outdoor Track & Field ('25, '24, '23, '22, '19)                                                                                                                      (No conference competition '20, '21)
• 2022 Women's XC earns third place in SIAC conference championship
• 2021 Men's XC earns third place in SIAC conference championship
• 2025, 2024, 2023 - USTFCCCA NCAA DII All-Academic Team Honors for Women's Track and Field
• 2025 USTFCCCA NCAA DII All-Academic Team Honors for Men's Track and Field
• 2025 - CSC  Academic All-District Team, NCAA Division II - Abigail Remick, Tiana Smith, Quincy Curley,                                                                                                                                                      Kobe King,Grant Nastasi, Zachary Thomas
• 2024 - CSC  Academic All-District Team, NCAA Division II - Abigail Remick, Quincy Curley, Grant Nastasi, Zachary Thomas
• 2024 - SIAC All Conference Academic Team - First Team -  3 individuals
• 2024 - SIAC All Conference - ALL ACADEMIC TEAM (top women's team GPA - 3.70) Women's Track and Field
• 2022 - USTFCCCA NCAA DII All-Academic Team Honors for Women's and Men's XC
• 2023 - CSC  Academic All-District Team, NCAA Division II - Olivia Freeman, Maddie Holland, Abby Remick
• 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022  Student-athletes named to the SIAC All Conference-Academic Team for XC or Track and Field (4 -2025,                                                      7 - 2024, 5 - 2023, 2 - 2022 - XC)
• 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022  42 student-athletes named to the SIAC COMMISSIONER'S ALL ACADEMIC TEAM - XC (7 - 2025, 6 - 2024,                                                9 - 2023, 20 - 2022)
• 2024, 2023, 2022  70 student-athletes named to the SIAC COMMISSIONER'S ALL ACADEMIC TEAM - Track and Field (15 - 2025,                                                  11 - 2024, 18 - 2023, 26 - 2022)
• 2024 - SIAC OUTDOOR TRACK AND FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS - Men's Outstanding Field Performer
• 2022 - CoSIDA  Academic All-District 5 Team, NCAA Division II - Mary Shelton
• 2022  Women's Track and Field earns 3rd place in SIAC Outdoor Track and Field Championship
• 2021 - Mary Shelton, USTFCCCA NCAA DII Women's Individual All-Academic Team - XC
• 2021 - USTFCCCA NCAA DII All-Academic Team Honors for Women's XC
• 2021 Elite 14 Women’s Cross Country Honoree, Mary Shelton (SIAC-best academic record women's XC)
• 2021  16 team members (Track/XC) named NCAA DII Athletic Directors Assoc. Academic Award Winners - 3.5 GPA
• 2021  3 student-athletes named to the SIAC All Conference-Academic Team for XC or Track and Field
• 2021  21 student-athletes named to the 20-21SIAC COMMISSIONER'S ALL ACADEMIC TEAM- XC
• 2021  38 student-athletes named to the 20-21SIAC COMMISSIONER'S ALL ACADEMIC TEAM- Track and Field
• 2019 - Men's XC earns SIAC Runner-Up
• 2019 - USTFCCCA NCAA DII All-Academic Team Honors for Women's XC
• 2019 - Meghan Sullivan, USTFCCCA NCAA DII Women's Individual All-Academic Team
• 2019-20 - SIAC Commissioner's All-Academic Team members - 20 XC individuals; 36 Track & Field individuals
• 2019-20 - CoSIDA Academic All-America, 1st Team, NCAA Division II - Athina Amanor - Pre-Med 
• 2019-20 - CoSIDA  Academic All-District 5 Team, NCAA Division II - David Toups & Ryan Slaymaker
• 2016 - Mat Root - Kansas Relays Men's Collegiate Javelin Championship

While at UAlbany, McVey most recently worked with distance runners and pole-vaulters where he mentored AEC champions and All-Conference steeplechasers Ricardo Estremera, Ethan Clary, Laura Cummings and Jenn Pierson. Estremera and Cummings, both school record holders, advanced multiple times to the NCAA East Preliminary Round. In the 2008-09 season, he coached two individual conference champions and seven All-Conference recipients including two student-athletes who combined to earn three All-America honors. At the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Meet, Estremera became UAlbany's first All-American in a distance event.

Under McVey's tutelage, Luke Schoen established pole-vaulting records on the men's side for three straight seasons, clearing 17-feet, 9-inches indoors and 17-6.50 outdoors. Schoen became McVey's first UAlbany student-athlete to claim All-America honors after placing fifth at the 2008 NCAA Championships before accomplishing the same feat at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets in 2009 and the NCAA Outdoor meet in 2011. Vault records for the women's team were also consistently re-written during McVey's watch with Celine Cauderlier becoming UAlbany's first women's AEC champion in the event in 2010.

McVey, who also served as the head coach of the UAlbany men's and women's cross country teams, saw his men's squad win the AEC title in 2011 followed by a runner-up finish in the prestigious IC4A Cross Country Championships - Championship Division (I)  3 weeks later. His women's teams won back-to-back ECAC University Division (I) Championship titles in 2010 and 2011. His runners claimed 39 All-East XC Honors as two men (IC4A) and one woman (ECAC) claimed individual University Division (I) Championships.

Previously the men's and women's cross country coach at the College of Saint Rose (N.Y.) during the 1996-97 season, his women's team won the New York Collegiate Athletic Conference (NYCAC) Cross Country Championship as the men's team finished as the conference runner-up with Golden Knight runners claiming both individual conference titles.

McVey began his collegiate coaching career in cross country and track & field at Kansas State in 1983. His athletes captured 18 Big Eight Conference titles and ranked as the top NCAA combined men's and women's program. He became the head men's and women's cross country and track coach at Hartwick College (N.Y.) in 1988 where his teams eclipsed 83 school records while producing 22 New York Collegiate individual champions during his tenure.

Prior to his recent duties, McVey also coached UAlbany's long, triple and high jumpers to conference and All-East honors while also actively coaching every track and field event during his career. A native of Manhattan, Kan., McVey has been named Regional Coach of the Year on four occasions. He has also served as the Director/Head Coach of the USA East Track and Field Team that competed in the United States and Canada. In addition, he served as a games committee member for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships for three years and was President of the NYSWCAA Track & Field Governing Committee.

McVey earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Kansas State University. As an undergraduate student, McVey was a member of two Big Eight Conference indoor track & field championship teams and a Big Eight cross country championship team.

He and his wife, Bette, have four children: Luke, Kirsten, Maggie and Tyler.