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Gregg Gensel is in his 29th year of coaching track & field and cross country at Utah State. He is in his 22nd season as head coach of the men's program and his 17th year at the helm of the women's team. Prior to being named head coach in 1988, the 53-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 USU, Gensel has coached the Aggies to 28 conference championships in both men's and women's cross country and track & field, including both the men and women winning the 2006 & 2008 WAC Cross Country championships and the men winning the 2007 & 2009 WAC Outdoor Championship and the 2008 WAC Indoor Championship. The Aggie women have won eight of the last 17 track titles while the men have won 10 of the last 16 championships. He has coached 177 conference individual champions and 31 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 25 times during his career, including WAC Men's Cross Country each of the last four years. He earned 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), 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) * WAC Indoor Champions (2008) * WAC Outdoor Track Coach of the Year (2007 & 2009) * WAC Outdoor Champions (2007 & 2009) * WAC Cross Country Coach of the Year (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) * WAC Cross Country Champions (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008) * 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) * 108 Individual Conference Champions * 232 Academic all-Conference selections AS WOMEN'S HEAD COACH: * WAC Cross Country Coach of the Year (2006, 2008 & 2009) * WAC Cross Country Champions (2006 & 2008) * Big West Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year (1998) * Big West Conference Cross Country Champions (1998) * Big West Conference Outdoor Track Coach of the Year (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999) * Big West Conference Outdoor Track Champions (1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999) * 55 Individual Conference Champions * 278 Academic all-Conference selections TOTALS AS A HEAD COACH: * 25-time Conference Coach of the Year * 28 Conference Championships * 177 Conference Individual Champions * 498 Academic All-Conference selections * 31 All-Americans |
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