Grant Fisher

Fisher began running after joining his middle school cross country team in the spring of his seventh grade year. He entered the soccer and cross country teams as a freshman in high school, where he made varsity for both. Fisher qualified for the state cross country event in 2011 and finished 28th with a timing of 16:14. He recorded a 4:30.23 in the 1600-meter run to qualify for the state meet in the spring of 2012.

He set personal records in the spring of 2013 in the 1500-meter run at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Athletics, the mile run at the New Balance Outdoor Nationals competition, the 3000-meter run at the USATF World Youth Trials, and the 3200-meter run at the Michigan State Meet. He had a personal best of 15:02 to win the Foot Locker Midwest Regional in the fall of his junior year in 2013.

At the World Junior Championships in the spring of his junior year in 2014, Fisher ran a personal best of 1:55.76 in the 800 meters and 3:49.62 in the 1500 meters. He tied Matthew Maton’s time of 3:59.38 in the spring of 2015 to become the seventh high school athlete to run the mile in under four minutes. On November 16, 2014, Fisher made a commitment to compete at the Stanford University. Fisher won the 3000 meters on February 13, 2016, at Seattle, with a personal best of 7:50.06 during the indoor winter 2015–16 season.

Fisher claimed the 5000-meter race at the 2017 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships and  became the first American underclassman to win the NCAA championship in 28 years. He finished third in the 5000m at the 2018 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, trailing Stanford Cardinal men’s track and field colleague and 2018 5000m champion Sean McGorty. Fisher came in second in the NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships in 2018, guiding the Stanford Cardinals to a fifth-place team finish. Fisher was named a USTFCCCA NCAA Division I All-America 12 times.

Fisher began his 2021 season with a 3000m personal best of 7:37.21, placing behind teammate Marc Scott. On February 20, 2021, at the TEN invitational meet in Los Angeles, California, he set a new 10000m personal best of 27:11.29. Fisher triumphed in the men’s 5000-meter race on March 6, 2021, at the Sound Running Invite in Southern California. His personal best time of 13:02.53 was the 13th fastest time ever ran by an American. Fisher made his first Olympic team after placing second in the 10,000 meter race during the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Fisher’s race took place on the first day of competition, June 18, and he ran with a timing of 27:54.29.

Fisher came in second in the 5000m at the trials on June 27 in 13:27.01, after 2016 Olympic silver medalist Paul Chelimo. He finished fifth overall and the fastest American in the 10,000m event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in a timing of 27:46.39. Once again competing on the track, he ran the 5000 meters in 13:08.40 to place ninth. On February 12, 2022, at the Boston University David Hemery Valentine Invitational, Fisher established a new American indoor record in the 5000m with a time of 12:53.73, shattering Galen Rupp’s previous American record of 13:01.26.

Jerry Schumacher is an American track and field and cross country coach who specialises in distance running at the University of Oregon. He has worked with Olympic silver medalist and former American women’s 10k record holder Shalane Flanagan, former Canadian 10k record holder Simon Bairu, former American men’s 10k record holder Chris Solinsky, and others. Schumacher focused in the 1500m during his collegiate years at the University of Wisconsin, when he became an All-American and established a personal best of 3:39.

After a brief post-collegiate running career, Schumacher soon made the switch to coaching and accepted a position as an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina. He is currently the head coach of the Bowerman Track Club, a running organisation with roots in Portland, Oregon, with a history of producing 28 Olympians. The University of Oregon announced in July 2022 that Schumacher has been appointed head cross country and track and field coach in place of Robert Johnson.

Grant Fisher was born to Dan and Sonia Fisher on April 22, 1997. Hailey and Mark are his two siblings. His grandfather competed in the Pac-8, and his father competed in the Pac-10. In seventh grade, he joined his middle school cross country team and began running. His interests include hiking, computer programming, and sleeping. He went to Stanford University and earned an electrical engineering degree there. Aside from that, he was interested in the interaction of humans and technology and in product design, mechanical efficiency, sustainable energy generation processes, and ergonomics.