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Head Coach
Ron Helmer
Head Coach
Ron Helmer
Head Coach
Ron Helmer enters his 11th season as the Indiana Director and Head Coach of Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country after being named to the position on May 25, 2007.
Cross Country
The first season for the Hoosiers under Helmer produced an NCAA appearance from the men’s side. The team, which included three true freshmen, was led by junior Tim McLeod, placed 28th overall as a team after a fourth place finish at the NCAA Great Lakes Regional.
In 2008, Helmer had two of his pupils earn All- Big Ten honors, in Wendi Robinson and McLeod. Robinson later qualified for the NCAA Championships, where she earned All-America honors in 28th-place.
In 2009 the The Indiana women advanced to the NCAA Championships in cross country for the first time since 2004. The team of Wendi Robinson, Sarah Pease, Chelsea Blanchard, Helene Delone and Caitlin Engel finished 31st.
The 2010 was one of Helmer’s most successful seasons with Indiana. The men’s cross country team took seventh at NCAAs and second at Big Tens, with Andrew Poore finishing as an All-American and Bayer placing second at the Big Ten meet.
The 2011 season built off the success of the prior season, securing a runner-up finish at the Big Ten Championships and a seventh place finish at the NCAA Championships for the men’s team.
In 2012, Kelsey Duerksen qualified as an individual for the NCAA Championships with a 14th place finish at the Great Lakes Regional meet.
The 2013 cross country season was a special one for the Hoosiers as Helmer guided the team to its first Big Ten Championship since 1980. The men went on to finish eighth at the NCAA Championships, their third top-10 finish in the last four season. The women also qualified for the NCAA Championships and had their best finish since 2002.
The 2016 season was a resurgent year for the Hoosiers. The men’s team finished third at the Big Ten Championships and were snubbed from a spot in the NCAA Championships. However, Matt Schwartzer and Jason Crist both ran as individuals, the latter taking home All-American honors. Ben Veatch was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Katherine Receveur broke onto the scene, earning All-Big Ten and All-America distinctions with an 11th place finish.
Track and Field
In his first season at the helm of the Hoosiers, Helmer guided the men’s and women’s track and field teams to improvements during the indoor and outdoor seasons. The indoor portion of the year was highlighted by a Big Ten individual championship for Audrey Smoot in the 600-meter run. The indoor season culminated in a trio of Hoosiers representing the women’s team at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Helmer’s first outdoor season at IU also proved successful as Indiana had two Big Ten individual champions with Jenkins in the triple jump and Kiwan Lawson in the long jump. The success from the Big Ten Championships led to seven student-athletes from Indiana competing in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Hoosiers produced two All-Americans in Lawson and Coover.
Indiana track and field showed itself as a program on the rise in 2008-09, registering eight All-Americans across all three seasons. During the indoor season, Helmer saw Big Ten title wins from Tiffany Howard (shot put) and Jeff Coover (pole vault). Coover was named Great Lakes Region Field Athlete of the Year and went on to earn All-America honors for a fourth-place finish in the pole vault. Derek Drouin went on to finish as the NCAA runner-up in the high jump, Vera Neuenswander (sixth in the pole vault) and the team’s distance medley relay (seventh) foursome each claimed All-America honors. The outdoor slate saw the Hoosiers claim three more All-America certificates and three more Big Ten titles. Drouin (high jump), Lawson (long jump) and Rhoades (high jump) all won Big Ten crowns. Drouin was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year and went on to claim Great Lakes Region Athlete of the Year. Twenty-three Hoosiers made the trip to the Mideast Regional and seven advanced to the NCAA Championships. Neuenswander and Drouin each won the regional. At the NCAA Championships, Tiffany Howard (shot put), Pease (steeplechase) and Neuenswander (pole vault) claimed All-America honors. Neuenswander finished second in the pole vault and went on to garner ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America honors.
Helmer’s third year at Indiana, the 2009-10 season, proved to be record-setting. With 13 indoor All-Americans, Helmer’s squads produced more All-America certificates than any other indoor season in IU history. The men’s team finished sixth overall at NCAA Indoors, marking the best performance by an IU team since the 2005 meet. The Hoosier women posted a 16th-place finish at the NCAA outdoor meet, while the men took 20th. Indiana finished the year with 18 All-Americans, nine Big Ten champions and three Big Ten Athlete of the Year Awards. The biggest highlight of the year for Indiana in 2010 was Derek Drouin. The sophomore won NCAA titles during the indoor and outdoor seasons in the high jump as well as being named Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year for both seasons. Drouin went on to win the Canadian National Championship as well. On the women’s side, Molly Beckwith posted a second-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 800m. Beckwith followed her NCAA performance with a tour of Europe, where she finished an 800m race in 1:59.83, a performance that merited a professional contract with Saucony. Bayer had a remarkable indoor campaign, breaking four minutes in the mile and eight minutes in the 3,000m, and then taking third at NCAAs in the 3,000m. He was joined Andrew Poore as an All-American in the 3,000m. De’Sean Turner added All-America honors in the steeplechase during the outdoor season. Junior Faith Sherrill was the Big Ten Field Athlete of the Year after smashing three IU records in the throws, two Big Ten titles and earning three All-America certificates. Sarah Pease made a name for herself in the steeplechase, taking fourth at both the NCAA Championships and the USA Championships. Ashley Rhoades earned All-America honors at the NCAA indoor meet in the high jump.
The fourth year of the Helmer era, the 2010-11 season, was a historic one for the Hoosiers program. The season included two top-10 NCAA finishes, two Big Ten runner-up finishes, 26 All-Americans, one NCAA Individual Championship and four Big Ten records. Helmer was awarded USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year honors for the Indoor season. At the season’s conclusion, five Hoosiers were honored with the distinguished Academic All-America award. Andy Bayer became the first male track athlete in school history to be honored and was joined by Chelsea Blanchard, Vera Neuenswander, Sarah Pease and Faith Sherrill. Indoors, the IU men were again runners-up behind Big Ten Champions Kind Butler (60m), Derek Drouin (High Jump) and Andrew Poore (5,000m). Faith Sherrill won the Big Ten shot put crown for the women. At NCAAs, the Hoosiers finished sixth with Drouin winning his third NCAA high jump crown with a Big Ten and Canadian national record clearance of 2.33m (7-7.75) en route to USTFCCCA Field Athlete of the Year honors. Andy Bayer highlighted nine other All-Americans for IU at the meet. Bayer took third in the 3,000m and led the Hoosiers to second in the DMR, clocking the fastest anchor leg ever recorded, splitting 3:53. Sherrill broke the all-time Big Ten record by 2 feet and 6.5 inches in the shot put with her first throw of the season, 18.00m (59-0.75). Bayer, Drouin and Sherrill each garnered Big Ten and Great Lakes Athlete of the Year honors for the indoor season. Outdoors, the women took third at Big Tens and 23rd at NCAAs and the men took fourth at Big Tens and 20th at NCAAs. Ben Hubers (1,500m), Neuenswander (pole vault), Pease (steeplechase), Sherrill (shot put) and De’Sean Turner (steeplechase) claimed Big Ten titles and 12 Hoosiers earned All-America honors. Neuenswander tied the Big Ten record in the pole vault to win at Big Tens, clearing 4.36m (14-3.5) to put the exclamation point on a 1-2 finish with teammate Kelsie Ahbe. Neuenswander and Ahbe went on to All-American finishes at NCAAs. Pease won her first Big Ten crown in the steeple, joining Turner in leading what was dubbed the “sweeplechase”, as IU had three of the top four finishers in both the men’s and women’s races at Big Tens. At NCAAs, Poore led the way, taking third in the steeplechase. It was a historic season in the 4x100m relay for the Hoosiers, as Tyler Sult, Butler, Chris Vaughn and Devin Pipkin became the first All-American relay for IU in 30 years.
The 2011-12 season was the fifth under Helmer’s guidance, and it proved to be one of the greatest ever for the men’s program. The men’s team won the Big Ten Indoor title behind excellent weekends from Andy Bayer and Kind Butler. IU’s team championships was the first conference title in 20 years. Bayer won the Big Ten mile and 3,000m crowns, while Butler won the 200 and Darius King won the high jump. The Hoosiers went on to send 11 to the NCAA Indoor meet, with all 11 coming back All-Americans. The team finished sixth at the national meet, scoring 25 points, including second place finishes in the distance medley relay and from King in the high jump. The 2012 outdoor season saw the Hoosiers take third in the Big Ten, getting individual titles from Bayer in the 1,500m, Zach Mayhew in the 10,000m and Derek Drouin in the high jump. Bayer would go on to lead 14 NCAA qualifiers by winning the 1,500m NCAA title en route to 11 Hoosiers earning All-America honors. Bayer’s title is the eighth by a Helmer pupil, and the fourth since Helmer arrived at IU. Bayer and Chelsea Blanchard earned Academic All-America honors for the second consecutive season. Drouin was the NCAA runner-up. That summer, Drouin qualified for the London Olympics, where he tied for third place to win a bronze medal for Canada. Drouin was awarded for Athletics Canada’s performance of the year and as the field athlete of the year.
The 2013-14 season was successful for the Hoosiers with four Big Ten Championships and nine All-America honors. The IU men’s distance medley relay team earned All-America honors for the sixth straight year, with a third-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Senior Kyla Buckley won Big Ten Championship titles in the shot put in the indoor and outdoor season. Fellow senior Kelsie Ahbe won the Big Ten Indoor Championship in the pole vault and went on to earn All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a school record jump of 4.40m to finish in second-place.
The 2015-16 season was a bit of a rebuilding project for the coaching staff. The indoor season produced two Big Ten Champions in Daniel Kuhn (600m run) and Sydney Clute (pole vault). Three Hoosiers qualified for the NCAA Championships, all earning Second-Team All-America honors. Clute backed up her indoor title by winning Big Ten gold at the outdoor championships with a mark of 4.42m (14-6), breaking the school and meet record. She would go on to finished fourth at the NCAA Championships. Laura Schroeder and Nakel McClinton finished first and second in the hammer throw at the Big Tens.
The Hoosiers won the 2016-17 Men’s Indoor Big Ten Championships on the strength of a well-balanced effort. Men’s event winners included Kuhn (600m), the distance medley relay, Eric Bethea (triple jump), Treyton Harris (long jump) and Willie Morrison (shot put). Katherine Receveur won the 5k with a school record mark of 15:28.99. The men’s DMR team of Joe Murphy, Markevious Roach, Daniel Kuhn and Kyle Mau finished fifth at the NCAA Championships. Kuhn finished sixth individually in the 800m and Receveur was also sixth in the 3k. In the outdoor season, Sydney Clute nabbed her third Big Ten Championship in the pole vault. He also mentored All-Americans Katherine Receveur and Jason Crist.
Before Indiana
Prior to coming to IU, Helmer served as the director and head coach at Georgetown University for eight years. He was promoted to director in July 1999 after serving as associate head coach with the Hoyas for seven seasons and assistant coach the five years prior. During his tenure, 120 of his student-athletes earned a total of 342 All-America recognitions, including 41 student-athletes receiving 96 certificates since becoming director in 1999. In addition, 219 student-athletes captured BIG EAST individual titles, including 67 after he became director. At the NCAA Championships, he guided 27 athletes or relay teams to a top-three finish, highlighted by four national champions – Joline Staeheli (mile, 1996), Miesha Marzell (1500m, 1996) and two distance medley relay champions (1997, 1999).
He saw his teams earn 22 top-10 finishes in NCAA Championship action, including a streak of 15 straight at the cross country championships that ended in 2003. Among the top-10 finishes were seven top-four trophy finishes, including a third at the 1998 NCAA Indoor Championships and a fourth-place finish at the 2002 NCAA Cross Country Championships. Helmer led Hoya teams to the Championship of America relay titles at the Penn Relays, the latest being the 2004 men’s 4x800m squad with a time of 7:13.75, the seventh-fastest time in collegiate history. He was part of 37 BIG EAST Championship teams and his student-athletes were honored 11 times as the Robert A. Duffey Scholar-Athlete award winner, given to the student-athlete who best embodies academic and athletic excellence.
In January 2006, Helmer was the recipient of the Coaches Achievement Program award presented by Oppenheimer Funds, Inc. The Coaches Achievement Program honors coaches at select BIG EAST member institutions for excellence in coaching, mentoring and community service.
Helmer came to Georgetown from Woodbridge High School in Virginia, where he served as head coach for four years. Prior to that, he was the head coach at Virginia High School in Bristol, Va., for eight years. He was named Virginia Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1980 and 1983, along with being selected as the Virginia Girls’ Track Coach of the Year in 1981. Topping off the honors, Helmer was selected as the Boys’ Cross Country Coach of the Decade in Virginia. During his career, Helmer’s teams won 45 district, 35 regional and 10 state championships. Individually, he produced nine high school All-Americans and 13 Foot Locker National Cross Country qualifiers.
Personal
Helmer is a graduate of Southwestern College located in Winfield, Kan., where he received a bachelor of arts degree in math. In October 2004, he was inducted into the Southwestern College Athletic Hall of Fame. He continued his education at East Tennessee State University, where he earned his master’s degree in physical education, with a focus in biomechanics and human kinetics.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
ALL-AMERICANS – 438
NATIONAL CHAMPIONS – 8
NATIONAL ATHLETES OF THE YEAR – 1
NCAA TOP-10 TEAMS – 28
BIG TEN CHAMPIONS – 41
BIG TEN ATHLETES OF THE YEAR – 9
BIG TEN FRESHMEN OF THE YEAR – 3
BIG TEN COACH OF THE YEAR – 3
GREAT LAKES ATHLETES OF THE YEAR – 12
GREAT LAKES COACH OF THE YEAR – 2
BIG EAST CHAMPIONS – 213
BIG EAST TEAM CHAMPIONSHIPS – 15
ACADEMIC ALL-AMERICANS – 9
COACHES
Ed Beathea
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Ed Beathea
ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH
Ed Beathea begins his fourth season at Indiana as Associate Head Coach. Beathea will work primarily with sprints, hurdles and relays.
Beathea’s third season at Indiana, the 2016-17 season, saw him mentor a trio of All-Americans. Markevious Roach and Taylor Williams both nabbed All-America honors in the Distance Medley Relay during the Indoor season. Freshman William Session secured Honorable-Mention All-America accolades in the 110m hurdles.
Prior to returning to Indiana University, Beathea spent seven seasons at Ohio State University. Beathea spent six seasons as an assistant coach before taking over the head coaching job in 2013. In his six years as an assistant in Columbus he earned the 2010 and 2011 Great Lakes Assistant Coach of the Year. Beathea was in charge of the sprinters and hurdlers, as well as athletes competing in the horizontal jumps. He mentored Buckeye athletes in his event areas to 10 individual Big Ten titles while also building the Buckeye 4×400-meter relay team into a Midwestern juggernaut that won five Big Ten titles in a row from 2008-2010 and qualified for multiple NCAA championship appearances.
In his first full season as head coach of the program, Beathea led the Buckeyes to a 21st-place finish at the 2013 NCAA outdoor championships, their best finish since 2004. Under his guidance OSU sent 11 student-athletes to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, which was the most for the team in over 15 years.
Before Ohio State, coach Beathea spent 10 seasons as an assistant coach at IU. In his decade with the Hoosiers he coached 32 Big Ten sprint and hurdle champions, 28 All-Americans and two NCAA runner-ups. He gained national attention for his work with sprinters David Neville – a bronze medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games – and Rachelle (Boone) Smith, the 2006 USA outdoor champion in the 200-meter dash, while also building his reputation as an excellent relay coach. Under his leadership, the women’s sprint relay squad made conference history by becoming the first Big Ten relay team to win the league title and earn All-America recognition for four consecutive years (2001-05).
Coach Beathea spent two years at Northern Arizona University before to his arrival at Indiana, assisting with the sprinters, horizontal jumpers and men’s and women’s cross country squads. His time in Flagstaff came on the heels of a successful collegiate career at Ball State, where he holds school records in the 400-meter dash (indoor) and 4×400-meter relay.
Beathea graduated with a bachelor’s degree from BSU in 1992 and earned his master’s in sports administration while serving as a graduate assistant for the Cardinals in 1994.
A native of Elkhart, Ind., Ed and his wife, Kim, have two daughters, Sarah and Abby
Mike Erb
ASSISTANT COACH
Mike Erb
ASSISTANT COACH
Mike Erb begins enters his fourth season with the Hoosiers and will coach the jumps and women’s multi event groups.
Erb’s group of jumpers really came into form in this season’s Big Ten Championships. The men’s jumpers were huge in aiding the Hoosiers to a team championship. Eric Bethea took home the Big Ten Championship in the triple jump, while Treyton Harris jump 7.71m to secure first in the long jump. Harris would later team up with Paul Galas to go 2-3 in the high jump. Bethea went on to earn Second-Team All-America honors in the triple jump at the NCAA Championships as a sophomore. Bethea came back strong in the outdoor campaign, notching Honorable-Mention All-America honors.
Coach Erb was named the Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year for the Great Lakes Region according to the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association following the 2017 indoor season.
Erb spent the last year as the head coach at the University of New Orleans and is no stranger to the Big Ten, having spent five seasons (2008-13) as a member of the Illinois women’s track and field staff as an assistant coach, working primarily with field events. The last two seasons, Erb handled coaching duties associated with the men’s high jump, pole vault, javelin and multi-events.
During his tenure at Illinois, Erb coached 10 student-athletes to All-American performances, six to Big Ten individual championships and had nine student-athletes post school-records. In addition, the Illini won the Big Ten women’s indoor team title in 2013. Also in a five-year span, a total of 54 student-athletes coached by Erb have scored points at the league championship events.
Erb arrived at Illinois after successful coaching stints at Marquette and the University of Redlands. He spent the 2008 season as an assistant coach at Marquette, where he was responsible for coaching the men’s and women’s long and triple jumpers as well as the multi-event athletes.
The position at New Orleans is the second head coaching stint for Erb, who served as the head men’s and women’s cross country and track and field coach at the University of Redlands in California from 2002 through 2007.
In his time at Redlands, Erb guided the men’s track and field program from a last place conference finish to consecutive top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships in 2006 and 2007. With the Bulldogs, Erb coached four NCAA champions, eight All-Americans, 20 NCAA Championships qualifiers and 152 All-Conference performers. He also coached Corey White, who went on to the Pan American Junior Championships, where he placed second with a throw of 228-10.
Erb received his undergraduate degree in environmental science in 1998 from Allegheny College in Pennsylvania, where he was a decathlete and jumper from 1994-98, earning two conference titles in the triple jump. He also received his Master of Arts in Higher Education Administration from Redlands in 2005.
Erb is certified as a USATF Level II coach in the jumps and throws and is a USATF Level I instructor.
Cory Martin
ASSISTANT COACH
Cory Martin
ASSISTANT COACH
Cory Martin enters his fourth season as an assistant with the IU track and field program. Martin works with the throws group.
Willie Morrison had a tremendous sophomore season under the guidance of Martin. On his second throw of the 2016-17 season he broke the school record in the shot put. Morrison would go on to win the Big Ten Championship in the event and earned Second-Team honors at the NCAA Championships. Morrison also topped the outdoor school record in the shot put at the NCAA East Preliminary round. Morrison, again, earned Second-Team All-America honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
In the 2015-16 season he mentored Laura Schroeder and Nakel McClinton. McClinton finished third at the Big Ten Championships and earned Second-Team All-America honors in the weight throw. In the outdoor season, Schroeder and McClinton went 1-2 at the Big Ten Championships in the hammer throw. Willie Morrison finished fourth at the Big Ten in the shot put. McClinton went on to earn All-America honors with a seventh place finish at the outdoor NCAA Championships. Morrison earned Second-Team honors in his freshman campaign.
In 2014, the time of his hire, Martin was one of the elite shot put throwers in the world, holding the No. 16 spot on the all-time world performance list (22.10m/72-6.25). Martin was the runner-up at the 2013 USA Indoor Championships and qualified for the World Outdoor Championship in Moscow.
Martin, a native of Bloomington, Ind., was a nine-time All-American at Auburn, including National Championships in 2008 in the shot put (20.35m/66-9.25) and hammer throw (74.13m/243-2.5). Martin had been a volunteer coach for Indiana for the two seasons prior to his hiring.
Jake Wiseman
Assistant coach
Jake Wiseman
Assistant coach
Jake Wiseman, who has mentored some of the top freshman pole vaulters in the nation in Vera Neuenswander in 2007, Stephanie Chin in 2008 and Kelsie Ahbe in 2010, enters his 11th season as the Hoosiers’ assistant coach for pole vault, javelin and men’s multi groups.
Wiseman, a former Indiana decathlete who was second-team All-Big Ten in 2005, has helped guide his vaulters to seven Big Ten titles and 12 All-America honors. Under Wiseman seven different athletes have qualified for a national meet.
Sydney Clute became the most distinguished women’s vaulter in Big Ten history during the 2016-17 season. Her first meet of the outdoor season saw her break the school and Big Ten Conference record with a clearance of 4.55m (14-11). She won the outdoor Big Ten Championship with ease, breaking her own Conference Championships Meet record in the process. She concluded the season by finishing fourth at the NCAA Championships, earning her third First-Team All-America distinction.
The 2015-16 season began the emergence of Sydney Clute. She won the indoor and outdoor pole vault Big Ten Championships. Her clearance of 4.42m (14-6) in the outdoor meet broke the school and conference championship record. Clute finished 10th at the Indoor NCAA Championships and earned All-America honors with a fourth place finish in the outdoor championships.
In the 2013-14 season Wiseman helped the IU women nearly sweep the top three spots at the Big Ten Indoor Championships as Kelsie Ahbe was the Big Ten Champion, Sophie Gutermuth finished runner-up and Sydney Clute finished in fourth-place. Ahbe and Clute both advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and both earned All-America honors. Ahbe jumped a school record 4.40m and finished in second-place, while Clute finished in eighth-place.
In 2011, Neuenswander and Ahbe did things that Hoosiers have never done before in the pole vault. They capped the season by finishing in a 1-2 sweep at Big Tens and then both earning All-America honors at NCAAs. Neuenswander took the Big Ten crown with a conference-record tying clearance of 4.36m (14-3.75), and Ahbe was right behind, clearing 4.26m (13-11.75). The pair then went on to finish fourth and sixth respectively at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Indoors, IU got 16 points in the women’s pole vault as Ahbe took second, Neuenswander was fourth and Chin finished sixth. All three competed at the NCAA Regional.
The 2010 campaign was more of the same for Indiana’s tradition-rich pole vault program. Coover highlighted the year with third place at the NCAA Indoor Championships and All-America honors outdoors as well. Ahbe continued a trend of successful freshmen female vaulters at Indiana with All-Big Ten honors outdoors and a trip to the NCAA Championships. The freshman also advanced to the World Jr. Championships with a second-place finish at USA’s. Derek Messmer advanced to the NCAA East Preliminary Round, as did Laura Williams.
The 2009 season was a great one for the IU pole vault program, as Wiseman’s pupils claimed All-America honors three times and brought home a Big Ten title. Coover won the Big Ten indoor crown and took fourth at NCAA’s for his second career All-America honors. His remarkably consistent indoor season garnered him Great Lakes Region Athlete of the Year honors. Neuenswander claimed All-America honors in both the indoor and outdoor seasons, finishing sixth indoors and second at the outdoor meet. She also won the NCAA Mideast Regional, clearing a then school record height of 4.31m. Wiseman helped Coover to a clearance of 5.35 meters at the Sea Ray Relays, the nation’s eighth-best mark on the year. Coover finished fourth at the regional, good for a spot at the national meet. At the NCAA Championships, Coover took seventh place and All-America honors.
Chin blossomed under Wiseman’s tutelage in 2008, breaking IU’s indoor and outdoor records and making it to the NCAA Championships in both seasons. Chin cleared 4.14m at the Alex Wilson Invitational to earn her spot at the NCAA Championships. When she got the chance to move outdoors, she kept the ball rolling with a clearance of 4.25m.
In 2007, Neuenswander set a new Big Ten Outdoor Championship and Nittany Lion Field record en route to the individual league title and a spot at the NCAA Mideast Regional meet. Her regional trip led her to the NCAA Championships where she finished 12th. Neuenswander also posted a successful indoor season in her rookie year. She broke the Big Ten Indoor Championship record with a vault of 4.11 meters to win silver and earn Big Ten Freshman of the Year honors. Burkholder came away with the pole vault title and a regional qualification at the Billy Hayes Invitational in 2007. His success at Billy Hayes sent him into the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, where he won the individual title for the Hoosiers. Burkholder then cleared 5.06 meters at the NCAA Mideast Regional meet to take third and earn his first-ever trip to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Prior to his coaching career, Wiseman finished runner-up at the 2005 Big Ten Championships and represented Indiana at the NCAA Championships in the decathlon. In 2004, the Corydon, Ind., native also competed in the decathlon at Big Ten’s, where he finished third, and at NCAA’s, where he came in 21st overall. Wiseman can be found in the Indiana record books with his career-best mark in the javelin (63.89-meters) ranking third, and his 7,365 points in the decathlon ranking second all-time.
Wiseman graduated in the spring of 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in continuing studies and resides in Bloomington with his wife, Stacey.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
All-Americans – 13
Big Ten Champions – 8
All-Big Ten Honorees – 13
Big Ten Freshman of the Year – 1
Great Lakes Region A.O.Y. – 1
Andrew Poore
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Andrew Poore
Assistant Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Andrew Poore enters his fourth year as an assistant coach with the Hoosiers after a successful career as a student-athlete and volunteer coach for the program. He earned six All-America honors and two Big Ten Championships during his time at IU. Poore, a 2012 Indiana University graduate, is the recruiting coordinator and works under Coach Helmer with the distance runners.
The 2016 season was a resurgent year for the Hoosiers. The men’s cross country team finished third at the Big Ten Championships and were snubbed from a spot in the NCAA Championships. However, Matt Schwartzer and Jason Crist both ran as individuals, the latter taking home All-America honors. Ben Veatch was named the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Katherine Receveur broke onto the scene, earning All-Big Ten and All-America distinctions with an 11th place finish. The Hoosiers won the 2016-17 Men’s Indoor Big Ten Championships. Distance event winners included Kuhn (600m), the distance medley relay and Katherine Receveur (5,000m) with a school record mark of 15:28.99. The men’s DMR team of Joe Murphy, Markevious Roach, Daniel Kuhn and Kyle Mau finished fifth at the NCAA Championships. Kuhn finished sixth individually in the 800m and Receveur was also sixth in the 3k. During the outdoor season Katherine Receveur finished third in the 5k at the NCAA Championships, taking First-Team All-America honors. Jason Crist closed out his senior year with Honorable-Mention All-America distinctions in the men’s 5k.
The 2015-16 season saw Daniel Kuhn (600m) win a Big Ten Championship and finish as an All-American in the outdoor season.
Andy Fry
Volunteer Assistant Coach
Andy Fry
Volunteer Assistant Coach
TRACK AND FIELD FACILITIES
Robert C. Haugh Complex
The Robert C. Haugh Track & Field Complex at E.C. “Billy” Hayes Track is regarded as one of the country’s finest outdoor facilities. In 2004, the complex received the addition of new lights suitable for televised night events. The new lights permit IU to host larger home meets, such as the 2010 Big Ten Outdoor Championships and the 2011 NCAA East Preliminary Round as well as the annual IHSAA Boys and Girls State Track and Field Championships.
Indiana also adds 3,000 temporary seats for roughly 12,000 fans in attendance for the two-day IHSAA meet. The facility has 3,200 permanent seats, with the temporary additions nearly doubling capacity. Hayes Track features a 400-meter nine-lane Polytan surface track with a 110-foot radius on curves to encourage fast times. The track features two long jump/ triple jump parallel approaches with four pits. It has eight pole vault plant boxes and four parallel pole vault runways, a pair of shot put areas, bi-directional javelin runways and outstanding sightlines for all field events. The facility was resurfaced in 2010 and certified by the IAAF. The home venue for IU track and field is the ninth track on U.S. soil to receive IAAF certification and is one of only six on a U.S. college campus. The Hoosiers claim the only IAAF certified venue in the Big Ten.
Indiana’s indoor track & field complex ranks as one of the nation’s elite and received equal generosity from its donor, the family of Harry Gladstein Fieldhouse. Prior to the 2006 indoor season, IU made a conversion to a Mondo-surfaced banked track. The 200 meter track was transported to IU via the RCA Dome in Indianapolis. The track, built by Mondo in Italy, saw its first use for the inaugural IAAF World Indoor Championships in March 1987 and then hosted the NCAA Div. I and Div. II Indoor Track and Field Championships annually through 1999.
The facility features eight sprint lanes in the infield, a pair of pole vault pits, four bi-directional jumping pits and a pair of throwing areas. The Mondo Super-X running surface identical to the track and field surface used at the 1996 Olympic Games had its first use in 1997.
The fieldhouse also played host to the prestigious Nike Indoor High School Track & Field Championship in 2000 and has hosted five (1975, 1982, 1990, 2000, 2007) Big Ten Men’s Indoor Track & Field Championships and five (1982, 1986, 1993, 2003, 2009) Big Ten Women’s Indoor Track & Field Championships.
CROSS COUNTRY FACILITIES
There will soon be a new home for Indiana University Cross Country.
That home, though, will be at a familiar location.
Indiana University Director of Intercollegiate Athletics Fred Glass announced plans today to build a new Indiana University Cross Country course. The new layout will be located in the same vicinity as the current course and will occupy a portion of the current course’s land while also extending to the northeast of the present location.
Indiana University Athletics and Cross Country representatives have worked with IU’s landscape architects and consultants to establish plans for the new layout, which is necessary due to the impending construction of Indiana University Health’s new Regional Academic Health Center along the 45/46 bypass.
“Indiana University’s Cross Country course has hosted both NCAA and Big Ten Championships and is considered one of the best in the nation,” Glass said. “We worked very hard throughout this process to make sure that is still the case. Our new course will be at a level that will continue to attract those type of events and other elite competitions.”
Ensuring that IU continues to have a cross country facility of that caliber is a goal shared by IU Cross Country Coach Ron Helmer.
“While we will all miss the old course and the history that it represents, with the change comes an opportunity to construct a course that is new and exciting on adjacent land,” Helmer said. “Plans call for 3K, 2K and 1K loops that can be configured to host races of all standard cross country distances. I am very excited at the possibilities this new course brings to our cross country teams and our ability to continue to be a cross country championship hub in the Midwest.”
Indiana University has hosted four NCAA Cross Country Championship events, including in 1992 when legendary Hoosier Bob Kennedy won his second NCAA Cross Country championship, this time on his home course. Like Helmer, Kennedy sees the change as an opportunity.
“There’s a lot of history on that course for Indiana Cross Country,” Kennedy said. “My dad ran there in the 1960s, and I ran on a slightly different layout there in the late 1980s and early 1990s. But change is not a bad thing. I see it as an opportunity to make an even better course for both athletes and fans.”
2017 MEN'S INDOOR BIG TEN CHAMPIONS
COMBINED CHAMPIONSHIPS
4 Team National Championships
51 Big Ten Team Championships
INDIVIDUAL CHAMPIONSHIPS
47 Individual National Champions
558 Individual Big Ten Championships
499 All-American Honors
15 Olympic Medalists
