Sean Graham

Running career High school Graham attended Stillwater Area High School, before which he did not have any cross country or track experience. Stillwater happened to have an extraordinary generation of middle-distance and long-distance runners at the time Graham attended. In a remarkable twist of fate, Graham's Stillwater team mate Luke Watson would run against Graham at the 2004 Olympic Trials in the 5000-meter race. Stillwater also became the only high school track team whose alumni produced more than three sub-four minute mile runners, who all happened to have been coached in high school by Stillwater's cross country and track coach Scott Christensen before he became a science teacher at the same school.

Collegiate Graham studied and ran with the College of William & Mary under coach Andy Gerard along with fellow track team mate Ed Moran, who also pursued track professionally after college. Graham graduated in 2003 as an All-American, the same year he placed sixth in the 5000 metres race at the NCAA Men's Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Post-collegiate In 2006, Graham and Bernard Lagat were selected to represent the United States at the USA vs. Great Britain vs. China track competition held in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy, where Graham placed fourth in the 3000 metres running a time of 7:46.9.

Coaching career Graham is coached the Men's distance coach at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. In addition, Graham has coached 6 individual SEC Champions from the 800 meters to the 10,000 meters, including Matt Hillenbrand to two SEC titles and was a mile and 1,500m All-American. In 2016, Graham coached Kentucky native Jacob Thomson to wins in both the SEC 5k and 10k Championships at the 2016 SEC Outdoor Championships. Thomson was the SEC Silver Medalist in the indoor 5k in 2016. He was an NCAA Championships qualifier in cross country.

Graham is currently the Head Coach at American University and is in his seventh year at the helm of the AU Cross Country and Track & Field program in the fall of 2023.