Nicholas Lara is the head Cross Country & assistant Track & Field coach at Metropolitan State University in Denver Colorado. As an athlete Nick was a seven-time national champion and 13-time All-American at powerhouse Adams State.

As a student-athlete, Lara's seven national titles included five individual crowns at 800 meters. He won three indoor 800 titles (2006 through 2008) and was a member of the 2006 and 2007 distance medley relay championship teams. He won outdoor titles at 800 meters in both 2005 and 2006.

Lara is a member of the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association Hall of Fame, the RMAC All-Centennial team and is a member of Adams State's Athletic Hall of Fame.

He was named the National Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in the 2007 by the coaches' association, and he was the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in both 2007 and 2008. He is a 12-time RMAC champion.

After completing his athletic career at Adams State, Lara joined the coaching staff and helped the Grizzlies to national championships in both men's and women's cross country as well as men's indoor track & field.

Lara then joined the Division II Southern Connecticut State program. He was named the 2011 Division II East Region Assistant Coach of the Year, and helped the Owls place third at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships.

He relocated to Denver and then built the Johnson & Wales men's and women's track & field programs from scratch for the 2014-15 academic year as the program's first head coach. He had 16 athletes qualify for the NAIA National Championships in his three-year tenure.

In 2017, he co-founded Defiance Health, for which he is also the executive director. Defiance Health is a comprehensive medical, fitness and nutrition consulting company, which also actively coaches post-collegiate track & field athletes.
He graduated from Adams State with a bachelor's degree in human performance and physical education and later earned a master's degree in healthcare administration from Adams State in 2015.

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