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• Men's and Women's Cross Country WAC Coach of the Year (2006)
Gregg Gensel is in his 28th year of coaching track & field, and cross country at Utah State. He is in his 21st season as head coach of the men's program and his 16th year at the helm of the women's team. Prior to being named head coach in 1988, the 52-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 25 conference championships in both men's and women's cross country and track & field, including both the men and women winning the 2006 WAC Cross Country championships and the men winning the 2007 WAC Outdoor Championshipand the 2008 WAC Indoor Championship. The Aggie women have won seven of the last 16 track titles while the men have won nine of the last 15 championships. He has coached 156 conference individual champions and 29 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 22 times during his career, including WAC Men's Cross Country each of the last three 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), Rebekah Thornley (1500), 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.
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