Monmouth Men & Women Look To Extend Track Title Streaks In Galesburg
The 86th edition of the Midwest Conference’s oldest competition will unfold on Friday and Saturday, May 9-10 when Knox College hosts the 2008 Midwest Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships on its campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The first MWC men’s outdoor track & field championships were contested in 1921 and the event has run every season since, minus war exceptions in 1944 and 1945. Monmouth remains the standard in the conference, as the Fighting Scot men and women have combined to win 21 of the 26 track titles contested since 1995. Roger Haynes’ (right) Monmouth men boast the past two NCAA National Champion pole vaulters in 2008 after senior Peter Sprecher won the event at the 2007 outdoor meet and senior Jonny Henkins topped the field at the 2008 indoor nationals.
St. Norbert College athletics director Tim Bald has announced the hiring of Don Augustine as head men’s and women’s track & field coach. Augustine arrives in De Pere after being the head men’s and women’s track & field coach for four years at Westminster College, an NCAA Division III school located in New Wilmington, Pa.
During Augustine’s tenure at Westminster, the Titans qualified their first two athletes to the NCAA Division III national track & field meet. A 2001 Westminster graduate, Augustine was a standout middle-distance runner on the track as well as a two-year starter at linebacker on the football team. Augustine earned his master’s degree from Temple University and was a graduate assistant in football for the Owls during the 2002-2003 school year.
Knox Announces Duo Will Lead Track & Field Programs
Patrick Irwin (right) and Dan Zierfuss (left) were named co-head track & field coaches at Knox on June 18. Irwin was also named the head cross country coach, while Zierfuss will assist the Prairie Fire football team.
Irwin is familiar with Knox after serving as an assistant coach with the Prairie Fire cross country and track & field teams last season. He also was the assistant girl’s track coach at Solon ( Iowa) High School in the spring of 2006. A four-year letter winner at Cornell College ( Iowa) in cross country and track & field, Irwin will primarily work with the distance runners. The Monmouth, Illinois, native earned a degree in Secondary Education and Physical Education from Cornell in 2006.
Zierfuss, who will primarily focus on coaching the throwing events, was a graduate assistant coach at Carroll last season, where he coached the school record-holders in both the men’s and women’s hammer throw. In 2005-06, Zierfuss served as an assistant football and assistant track and field coach at Beloit.
Zierfuss, who earned his degree in Psychology from Beloit in 2005, was a captain for both the football and track & field teams as an undergraduate. He was an MWC Academic All-Conference selection from 2002-05.
In addition, Knox assistant football coach Cory Bonstead will also assist the track and field teams in the spring, focusing on the jumping events.
competition will unfold on Friday and Saturday, May 9-10 when Knox College hosts the 2008 Midwest Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championships on its campus in Galesburg, Illinois. The first MWC men’s outdoor track & field championships were contested in 1921 and the event has run every season since, minus war exceptions in 1944 and 1945. Monmouth remains the standard in the conference, as the Fighting Scot men and women have combined to win 21 of the 26 track titles contested since 1995. Roger Haynes’ 
announced the hiring of Don Augustine as head men’s and women’s track & field coach. Augustine arrives in De Pere after being the head men’s and women’s track & field coach for four years at Westminster College, an NCAA Division III school located in New Wilmington, Pa. 
head track & field coaches at Knox on June 18. Irwin was also named the head cross country coach, while Zierfuss will assist the Prairie Fire football team. 
the Prairie Fire cross country and track & field teams last season. He also was the assistant girl’s track coach at Solon ( Iowa) High School in the spring of 2006. A four-year letter winner at Cornell College ( Iowa) in cross country and track & field, Irwin will primarily work with the distance runners. The Monmouth, Illinois, native earned a degree in Secondary Education and Physical Education from Cornell in 2006.