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11/20/2011 McKenna Ready To Compete At NCAA Cross Country Championships MondaySenior Is One Of Three Athletes From The Western Athletic Conference To Go To Nationals 11/13/2011 McKenna Earns An At-Large Selection To 2011 NCAA Division I Cross Country ChampionshipsSenior Is One Of Five Aggies To Compete At Nationals Since 2000 11/11/2011 Utah State Cross Country To Compete At NCAA Mountain Region Championships SaturdayAggie Men Ranked No. 39 In The Nation, Fourth In Mountain Region 11/02/2011 Utah State Men's Cross Country Receiving Votes In USTFCCCA's Top-30 Coaches PollAggie Men Won Their Sixth WAC Cross Country Championship In Seven Years 11/02/2011 Utah State Men's Cross Country Receiving Votes In USTFCCCA's Top-30 Coaches PollAggie Men Won Their Sixth WAC Cross Country Championship In Seven Years Gregg Gensel is in his 30th year of coaching track & field and cross country at Utah State. He is in his 24th season as head coach of the men's program and his 19th year at the helm of the women's team. Prior to being named head coach in 1988, the 54-year-old Gensel was an assistant coach for five years and a graduate assistant coach for one year. As an assistant, he worked with all field events and with the sprinters. Currently Gensel works specifically with cross country, distance athletes and high jumpers along with his head coaching responsibilities. During his tenure at Utah State, Gensel has coached the Aggies to 33 conference championships in both men's and women's cross country and track & field, including the men winning the 2011 Indoor Track WAC Championship where they were co-champions with Boise State as well as the outright 2011 Outdoor Track WAC Championships. The Aggie men also won the 2009-2010 Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track WAC Championships. It also includes the men and women winning the 2006 and 2008 WAC Cross Country Championships and the men winning the 2007 and 2009 WAC Outdoor Championship and the 2008 WAC Indoor Championship. The Aggie women have won eight track titles over the last 19 seasons while the men have won 15 track titles over that same period. Gensel has coached 208 conference individual champions and 33 All-Americans. In the 1998-99 school year, Gensel guided both the men's and women's track teams to Big West Conference Championships along with a first-ever women's crown in cross country. Gensel has been named the Conference Coach of the Year 29 times during his career including the coach of the year honors in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation after the men's team won the indoor title in 1993. Athletes to earn NCAA All-America status under Gensel include: LaDonna Antoine (400), Shane Bingham (1,500, mile), Mark Calvin (pole vault), Craig Carter (hammer throw, 35-pound weight), Shae Bair (pole vault), Sonia Grabowska (pole vault), John Kelly (javelin), Corey Murdock (400 outdoor hurdles, 400 indoor hurdles), James Parker (hammer throw, 35-pound weight, discus), Lance White (pole vault), Dave Hoffman (high jump), Brett Guyman (400 outdoor hurdles), Jane Durfey (400 hurdles), Krista Larson (hammer throw), Jennifer Twitchell (mile), John Strang (heptathlon), Clint Silcock (high jump), and Trever Ball (cross country). A native of Long Beach, Calif., Gensel attended Utah State and was a middle-distance runner for the Aggies, finishing sixth in the 1,500-meters at the Pacific Coast Athletic Association Championships in 1981 (now the Big West Conference). Gensel earned a bachelor's degree in health in 1981 and earned a master's in physical education with an emphasis in sport psychology in 1988, both from USU. He has been certified as a Level II coach by USA Track & Field, the national track and field governing body, and is also a Level I certified instructor. He and his wife, Kaye, have four children: Chelsey, Janaea, Morgan and Britton. AS MEN'S HEAD COACH: * WAC Indoor Track Coach of the Year: (2008, 2010, 2011) * WAC Indoor Champions: (2008, 2010, 2011) * WAC Outdoor Track Coach of the Year: (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) * WAC Outdoor Champions: (2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) * WAC Cross Country Coach of the Year: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) * WAC Cross Country Champions: (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009) * Big West Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year: (1992, 1993, 1994, 2002) * Big West Conference Cross Country Champions: (1992, 1993, 1994, 2002) * Mountain Pacific Sports Federations Champions: (1993) * Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Indoor Track Coach of the Year: (1993) * Big West Conference Outdoor Track Coach of the Year: (1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003) * Big West Conference Outdoor Track Champions: (1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2003) * 143 Individual Conference Champions * 301 Academic all-Conference selections |
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