Christina (Regan) Butt is in her first year as the first Saint Michael's men's and women's outdoor track full-time assistant coach in 2026-27, supported through an NCAA Division II Coaching Enhancement Grant. Butt oversees student-athletes competing in hurdles, jumps and sprints events.
Butt was a volunteer assistant coach for the first-year Purple Knight outdoor track teams last spring, guiding the hurdlers. She helped mentor Maggie Crawford '29 to a seventh-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles at the Northeast 10 Conference Championship.
Since 2023, Butt has been a Burlington (Vt.) Youth Track & Field assistant coach in the sprints, jumps, hurdles and throws disciplines, drawing upon a successful college career. She was Needham (Mass.) Track Club coach and co-director between 1996 and 2002 before focusing on a marketing career, including a stint at Boston's WGBH-TV.
A multi-event specialist, Butt won three New England Championships for Boston College, in the 2001 and 2003 heptathlon (outdoor) and 2003 pentathlon (indoor). The Needham, Mass., native set the school's outdoor records for heptathlon and high jump in 2003, and still ranks among the program's top five in both events. Butt earned the team leadership award in 2001 and was named a captain as a senior in 2003, when she landed a College Sports Communicators Academic All-District first team nod. She was a four-time Athletic Director's Award for Academic Achievement honoree and a three-time BIG EAST Conference Academic All-Star.
After completing a bachelor of arts degree in communications at Boston College in 2003, Butt finished a master of arts degree in mass communication from the University of Florida in 2005. During her one year as a member of the track program (2003-04), she helped the Gators win the Southeastern Conference (SEC) indoor championship, when she took fourth with a personal-best pentathlon performance and earned an NCAA Championship provisional qualifying mark. Florida won the NCAA East Regional outdoor crown and was NCAA Division I Championship runner-up during indoors and fifth at the outdoor NCAA Championship.
The NCAA Division II Coaching Enhancement Grant is designed to provide financial assistance to the division's member schools that are committed to enhancing underrepresented groups in newly-created assistant coaching positions for any NCAA-sponsored sport. The NCAA also provides professional development funding to recipients during each of the first three years of the grant.
