Hiram College

Graber begins his third season at Hiram in 2025-26 after coaching stints at Webster University, Cuyahoga Community College and Centre College. He serves as the head coach for both the men's and women's cross country teams, as well as the head coach for both the men's and women's track & field teams (indoor and outdoor).

In 2024-25, the Terriers set 25 different program records under Graber, which included an All-American performance from Gavin Dunn in the indoor long jump and all-conference performances from Dunn (indoor long jump), Karalyn Rutkowski (indoor high jump), Sam Volpe (discus), Addison Disman (javelin) and DeAco Curry (800-meter run). 

In his first season with the Terriers, which marked the first Hiram cross country season since 2014 and first track & field season since 2009, Graber helped lead Jarvis Thompson to All-NCAC honors in the triple jump (indoor). He also spearheaded Makyndree Smith (hurdles), Trezure Bates (hurdles, sprints, pole vault), Sam Volpe (throws), Tucker Marmash (sprints/jumps), Marciano McCowan (throws) and Thompson (jumps) to school records throughout the indoor and outdoor seasons.

While at Webster, Graber's men's cross country teams had their highest conference meet finish in program history, while the women won three consecutive St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and had the individual SLIAC Champion in both 2015 and 2019. 

On the track and field side, in addition to setting record roster numbers for men and women, school records were set in almost all events in Graber's eight years and it culminated with the women's program earning its first-ever SLIAC Outdoor Championship in 2018 and then having the women's team repeat as SLIAC Champions in 2019 and the women's indoor team earning the inaugural SLIAC Indoor Championship in 2020.

Shortly after leaving Webster to move closer to family in Northeast Ohio, Graber restarted the women’s cross country and track and field programs at Cuyahoga Community College. 

Graber served as an assistant coach for both cross country and track and field at Centre from 2008-2013. In addition to managing recruitment for both sports, Graber specifically supervised the training for middle distance, hurdles, and pole vault events for track.   

During Graber's tenure as assistant coach, Centre won men's track and field conference championships in 2011 and 2012, and won cross country championships for men in 2008 and 2012, and women in 2011 and 2012.

The 2011 Centre men's cross country had the highest team grade point average of any NCAA III team in the nation.  Also in 2011, Graber was named the USTFCCCA South/Southeast Regional Men's Assistant Track and Field Coach of the Year.

Graber graduated from Heidelberg University, where he was a two-time Academic All-American in cross country, three-time member of the Academic All-OAC, and a member of the 2005 Great Lakes All-Regional Team in cross country.  He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 2006. He completed his Master of Theological Studies at Emory (Ga.) University in 2008. 

Graber and his wife, Jillian, have a son, James (9), and a daughter, Lillian (6), along with a cat, Gatsby, and a dog, Wordsworth.