Coach Michael Miragliuolo is in his 9th season as the Head Cross Country Coach at Green Hope High School. The team has built a tradition of excellence in a relatively short amount of time, as the school is in its 11th year of existence, yet has fielded the largest cross country team in the state and one of the largest in the nation for the past 7 years. In his 8 years at the helm the Falcons have built an impressive list of accomplishments.

The men's team has an overall record (wins and losses vs. individual teams) of 675-124 and has won 7 straight Tri-7/Tri-8 Conference Titles and 4A Mideast Regional Championships in 2003, 2004 and 2007 (with runner-up finishes in 2002 and 2008). The women's team has an overall record of 659-103 during the same period, and has won 7 of the last 8 Tri-7/Tri-8 Conference Titles as well as Mideast Regional Titles in 2003, 2004 and 2008.

Coach Miragliuolo was named Tri-7/Tri-8 Boys Coach of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006, and was named Girls Coach of the Year in 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006 and 2008. Both teams compete in many of the top invitational meets in North Carolina, including the Seahawk Invitational in Wilmington, the Pirate Invitational in Greenville, the Great American Invitational in Cary and others.

Coach Miragliuolo was born in Kingstree, South Carolina but moved to Bangor, Maine where he graduated from John Bapst Memorial High School. He played varsity basketball (3 years), varsity baseball (4 years), varsity golf (1 year) and ran varsity cross country (3 years - with a 17:12 PR). He graduated from the University of Tennessee with a BA in History. After graduation he taught for 5 years at John Bapst Memorial High School where he coached the basketball, baseball and soccer teams.

Coach Miragliuolo came to Green Hope in 2001, where he teaches AP U.S. Government and Politics as well as Civics and Economics. In addition to coaching Cross Country he serves as the Head Varsity Baseball Coach.

Coach Miragliuolo lives in Cary and spends much of his summer travelling in Europe.

Coach Roger Collins is in his 5th year as an Assistant Cross Country Coach at Green Hope, where he also serves as an Assistant Track and Field Coach overseeing the middle and long distance groups. He spent 5 years in the Washington, DC area coaching Track and Field at the middle school, high school and Junior Olympic levels. He is a certified USA Track and Field Level 1 coach.

Coach Collins' boys track teams have enjoyed tremendous success over the last few years, placing 3rd at the 2009 indoor and outdoor state championships and 3rd at the 2008 indoor championships. The boys have also recorded top five finishes at the last three outdoor Mideast Regional meets.

In 2009, Green Hope crowned its first individual state champion as Zak Roshdy took home the gold in the 1600 at both the indoor and outdoor state championships. Zak teamed up with classmates Doug Black, Scott Hefner and Patrick Moakley to take the 4x800 silver medal at the 2009 outdoor state championships, running the 4th fastest time in state history. At the 2008 Nike Indoor Nationals in Landover, Maryland, Green Hope athletes attained All-American status for the first time as the 4xMile Relay team of Roshdy, Black, Hefner and Bryan Spreitzer placed 3rd. The same team came back to run the 4x1600 at the 2009 Bojangle's Apex Lions Relays, where they smashed the meet record by 20 seconds and recorded a National Top 10 performance.

The girls' program has also been successful, recording a 10th place finish at the 2008 indoor state championships and an 8th place finish at the 2006 outdoor state championships. Several girls are on the state's all-time top 25 performance list, including the 4x800 relay team of Christine Truesdale, Felicity Brower, Megan Brower and Brittany Johnson; Johnson in the 3200; and Karen Kazaglis in the Pole Vault.

Over the last four years a number of athletes have continued their running careers at the collegiate level at schools such as the University of North Carolina, NC State, Georgia Tech, the University of Wisconsin, Duke, Radford, Furman, UNC-Wilmington and Johns Hopkins.