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In 1976, Chris Daymont began the St. Olaf cross country team with 5 athletes. The team now consists of between 50 and 70 women each year. In her time as a coach, Daymont has mentored more than 1000 female student-athletes.

Daymont has led St. Olaf to eight conference championships in her tenure, the second-most of any MIAC school. The Oles captured five consecutive titles from 1998-2002, and had their best NCAA finish in that stretch, a fourth-place finish in 1999. Daymont has accompanied athletes to the NCAA National Championships 16 times (ranks 8th in all-time appearances), ten of those with finishes in the top ten. She has also coached over 30 different athletes to 78 All-American honors.

Voted NCAA III Central Region Coach of the Year three times, Daymont has also earned MIAC Coach of the Year honors twice. She also serves as the meet director for many major cross country and track and field events, most notably hosting the NCAA National Cross Country Championships in 2002 and 2007.

The arrival of the Minnesota state high school cross country championships on the St. Olaf campus were facilitated by Daymont. She also has made her mark as a leader in water training. She serves as a distance and middle distance clinician around the region and worked as a co-director for the 1982 AIAW track and field championships.

A graduate of the State University of New York-Cortland, Daymont went on to earn her master's from Syracuse University. Daymont had a five-year hiatus from St. Olaf (1981-86) and taught and coached at Bloomsburg (PA) State and Macalaster.

Daymont teaches in the department of physical education as an associate professor, specializing in exercise physiology. She also coaches the women's track and field team.