Steve Deaton begins his first season, 2010, as a volunteer assistant with the VMI cross country programs. Deaton was a track and cross-country letterman at the University of Tennessee. He began as a walk-on, later earned a scholarship and went on to win the Southeastern Conference Championship in the 1,000-yard run indoors. He led off the school-record setting two-mile relay team that ran a time of 7:26, and was a part of several UT teams that won SEC team championships. He went to law school at the University of Richmond, and has been a prosecutor and defense attorney in Virginia.
