Erika Daligcon begins her fifth season as Seattle Pacific's head cross country coach in 2012. She took over the program in 2008, and helped the Falcons earn back-to-back fourth-place trophies at the NCAA Division II women's championships.
In 2010, Daligcon handed the reins on an interim basis to assistant coach Letiwe Patton while Daligcon was on maternity leave following the birth of daughter Jordan. Daligcon was fully back into coaching mode in time for the 2011 indoor and outdoor track and field seasons.
Last fall, Daligcon guided both Falcon teams to the NCAA West Regionals, where they exceeded expectations. The women were ranked eighth coming in, but moved up to a sixth-place finish. The men were not ranked among the top 10 and beat three ranked teams to place seventh.
Daligcon served as an assistant coach alongside the legendary Doris Heritage from 2002-07, then moved up into the head coaching spot when Heritage retired. Her 2008 women's squad won the Great Northwest Athletic Conference championship, the fourth consecutive such title for the Falcons.
Daligcon competed in distance running in both track and cross country for Seattle Pacific from 1995-97, including a scoring role for the Falcons on their 1995 cross country team which won a conference title and took 14th at the NCAA Championships.
She graduated from SPU in 1998 and later taught English and performed mission work in western Japan. Erika is married to Nate Daligcon, another alumnus who was an All-America soccer midfielder and now serves as an assistant coach for the Falcon men's program. They live in the Magnolia neighborhood of Seattle.