University of Texas at Dallas Athletics

After spending one season as a volunteer coach with the Comet cross country program, Danielle Kcholi was named the first full-time head cross country coach at UT Dallas in July 2018. She then started the Comet's men's and women's track & field programs for the 2020-21 academic year.

In her first season as full-time cross country coach, Kcholi led the UTD men's cross country team to its first-ever American Southwest Conference title in 2018 and was named the ASC's Men's Coach of the Year. Her men's team repeated as league champions in 2019 and claimed a third straight title in 2020, earning Kcholi her second and third straight ASC Men's Coach of the Year honor. She guided the Comets to their fourth league title in 2023 was part of the Coaching Staff of the Year. The women's squad finished in third place at the ASC meet in her debut season and improved to a second-place in year two and three. She has mentored 26 All-ASC performers on the men's side, including individual medalist Graeme Maclean in 2022, and 13 such honorees on the women's team in her seven seasons with the cross country program.

In her lone season as a volunteer coach with the Comets, she helped the UTD women to a second straight ASC championship.

Since starting the track & field program in 2020-21, the Comets men have finished seventh, third and fourth place in the American Southwest Conference Championship, while the women placed seventh each of the first two seasons and moved up to sixth place in 2023 and fifth in 2024. The Comet men have claimed 17 individual titles at the ASC Championship, with the women winning two. In 2022, Trent Sakakini was the Outstanding Track Athlete and High Point Athlete at the meet. Kcholi has also coached one Academic All-American. The Comets' first NCAA Division III Championship qualifier came in 2024 when Zach Sell competed in the 400-meter hurdles.

Prior to joining the UTD staff, Kcholi was the head coach for men's and women's cross country at NCAA Division II Eastern New Mexico. Taking over as interim head coach in 2012, Kcholi took over the reins of both programs in 2014 and led both the ENMU men and women to runner-up finishes in the competitive Lone Star Conference during her tenure. In her first season as full-time coach, she mentored the Greyhounds to a second-place finish at the LSC championships while guiding the Zias to a third-place finish. Her Zias then collected a runner-up finish at the conference meet in 2015, the program's best-ever performance at the event. One year later, the ENMU matched that performance with a second-straight second-place finish.

Before her stint at ENMU, Kcholi spent one season as an assistant coach at Concordia Texas, a fellow member of the ASC.

Kcholi was a student-athlete at ENMU before taking over as coach of the program. A member of the LSC Commissioner's Honor Roll, she was twice honored with the ENMU Cross Country Leadership Award and served as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee. She earned her bachelor's degree in communications from ENMU in 2011 and went on to earn a master's degree in physical education in 2013.
 

Season	School	Conference	Men's XC Place	Women's XC Place	Men's T&F Place (I/O)	Women's T&F Place (I/O)
2012-13	ENMU	LSC		5th
2013-14	ENMU	LSC		4th
2014-15	ENMU	LSC	2nd	3rd	7th/7th	6th/6th
2015-16	ENMU	LSC		2nd	5th/6th	6th/6th
2016-17	ENMU	LSC	4th	2nd	5th/5th	5th/5th
2018-19	UTD	ASC	1st	3rd
2019-20	UTD	ASC	1st	2nd
2020-21	UTD	ASC	1st	2nd	7th	7th
2021-22	UTD	ASC	2nd	3rd	3rd	7th
2022-23	UTD	ASC	2nd	4th	4th	6th
2023-24	UTD	ASC	1st	4th	3rd	5th
2024-25	UTD	Independent