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Cross Country: Coaching Staff
Related: Track & Field
Coach Terry Yee will be entering his second year as men's and women's Head Cross Country Coach for William Jewell College. Yee served as the Assistant Coach for two years prior to taking the head coaching position. Yee has also served as Head Assistant Coach for the William Jewell Track & Field team for the past three years. Before coaching at Jewell, Terry Yee spent twenty-three years as the Head Track & Field Coach at Graceland University in Lamoni, Iowa.
Yee’s career achievements include:
* 8 HAAC titles in Women's Track and helped in coaching the men in their titles
* 4 Conference Titles in Men's Cross Country
* 2 Conference Titles in Women's Cross Country
* 2 Regional Titles in Men's Cross Country
* 1 regional Title in Women's Cross Country
He has Coached 36 All-American Athletes in Cross Country and Track
and 6 National Champions and 6-runner ups.
Helped coach many Men All-American Track Athletes.
He has Coached many male and female All-American Scholar Athletes.
Some of the People he has worked with are:
Bruce Jenner
-NAIA National Decathlon Champion-All-American
-AAU/TFA National Decathlon Champion-All-American
-Texas-Kansas-Drake Relays Decathlon Champion
-Olympic Decathlon Champion-Gold Medal Winner-World Record
Dave Bahr
-NAIA National Decathlon Champion-All-American
Kathy Gillespie
-USA/TAC national JR. Heptathlon Champion
-Drake Relays Heptathlon-2nd-only high school girl against college women
-3-Time Champion and Record holder-Iowa Pentathlon
-3-time Iowa High School Champion at State Meet highest individual points scored at Iowa State Track Meet in one meet with 30pts-individual events (not relays)
-Iowa Girls Track Hall of Fame first year out of high school
-NCCA Runner up and All-American-Heptathlon
-Big 10 -Pentathlon Champion
-USA vs. Canada-4th Pentathlon
-USA Olympic Festival-Heptathlon
-USA Olympic Trials-Heptathlon-(injured)
Royal Brettrager
-NAIA National Decathlon Runner Up-All-American-Academic-All-American
-NAIA National Decathlon-6th place-All-American
-USA/TAC-7th place -National Pentathlon
Wendi Simmons
-NAIA 13-time All-American- Heptathlon,Long Jump,400m Hurdles
-NAIA National Champion-Heptathlon,Long Jump,400m Hurdles
-NAIA MVP-Outstanding Female Athlete of National Meet
-Ranked 4th in USA-Heptathlon-1993
-USA Mobil Nationals-11th (off foot surgery)
-1994-95 USA Olympic Festival-Heptathlon
-USA-1996 Olympic Trials-7th Heptathlon
-USA-2000 Olympic Trials-6th Heptathlon (140 pts off 3rd.)
Kip Janvrin
-Helped in early years and summer
-NCAA III-Decathlon Champion
-Ranked 3rd in the USA-Decathlon-1994
-Decathlon Champion PAM Games -1995
-12(?) Time Drake Relays Decathlon Champion
-USA Olympic Trials-4th Decathlon-1996
-USA Olympic Trials-3rd Decathlon-2000 and made the Olympic team
Carol West
-NAIA Nationals-Pentathlon-7th
-NAIA Nationals-Heptathlon-7th
-Drake Jim Duncan Heptathlon-2nd
-NAIA Nationals-Pentathlon-2nd
-NAIA Nationals-Heptathlon-2nd
-NAIA Nationals-ran on many relays and high jumped
Cara Warner
-High jump-4 time All-American-Academic-All-American
Kristy Feldman
-All-American-4th-Cross Country-Academic-All-American
-NAIA-National Champion-Mile
-NAIA-All-American-1500m
Many other National All-American Athletes
Melody Carroll-All-American-600m and 4 x 400m relay
Julie Thompson-All-American-600m and 4 x 400m relay
Mary Lou SanRoman-All-American- 4 x 400m relay
Carolyn Nardine-All-American-600m and 4 x 400m relay
Matt Levingston-All-American-High Jump,Pentahlon,Decathlon and Ranked #1 in
Pentathlon-Decathlon
Ryan Hartman-All-American-400m
Many others and many, many National qualifiers.
Tierney Eaton(So) -Worth Co. H.S.-State Champion High Jump (2003)-5' 6" ,
100m Hur(2004)
Halley Carlson(Jr)-Interstate 35 H.S-High Jump 2003-5' 8"
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Brian Belt, Ph.D.
Assistant Cross Country Coach |
Coach Belt returns to the Cross Country staff for his second year. A graduate of Wadsworth High School in Ohio, Belt describes himself as a life-long runner. He was a member of The Ohio State University track team for one year and has competed in both road and track races since graduating. Dr. Belt, an Emeritus Faculty of Business at UMKC, has coached and refereed soccer at numerous levels. He has a commitment to developing and retaining scholar-athletes at William Jewell College. He and his wife, Joan, reside in Liberty and have three sons.
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Tom Eisenhauer
Assistant Cross Country Coach
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Tom Eisenhauer joins the coaching staff this year after running for the Cards last year. Tom recently graduated from Jewell in 2006 with a degree in History and a minor in Coaching & Performance enhancement. He was a member of the track & field team for four years, competing in the 400m hurdles and the 4x400m relay, and the cross country team for two. Tom grew up in Manitou Springs, Colorado, but has now found a home in Liberty.
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