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2006-07 Cross Country and Track & Field Media Guide COACHING STAFF Cross Country/Track & Field Quick Facts Quick Facts/Table of Contents..................................1 University Information Location ....................................DeKalb, IL Founded: .................................1895 MEET THE HUSKIES Enrollment: ...............................25,208 Nickname:.................................Huskies Coaching Staff ..........................................................2 Colors: ......................................Cardinal and Black Cross Country Team ................................................4 Affiliation: ..................................NCAA Division I Conference: ..............................Mid-American Track & Field Team ...................................................5 President: .................................John G. Peters (John Carroll, 1967) Meet the Huskies ......................................................6 Director of Athletics:..................Jim Phillips (Illinois, 1990) Coaching Staff Head Coach:.............................Connie Teaberry 2006-07 REVIEW Alma Mater: ..............................Kansas State University, 1992 2006 Cross Country Review ...................................22 E-Mail [email protected] Phone .......................................815-753-0571 2006 Results and Individual Times .........................23 2007 Track and Field Recap...................................24 Assistant Coach:.......................Dave Jennings Alma Mater: ..............................Northern Iowa University, 2001 2007 Results/Top Times .........................................25 E-Mail [email protected] Phone: ......................................815-753-0836 HUSKIE HISTORY Assistant Coach:.......................Mark McConeghey Cross Country Letterwinners ..................................26 Alma Mater: ..............................Iowa State University, 1990 E-Mail [email protected] Cross Country Top Times (5K) ...............................26 Phone .......................................815-753-0836 Track & Field Records ............................................27 Team Information All-Time Track and Field Letterwinners ..................28 Cross Country Indoor/Outdoor Regional Qualifying Standards ......28 Letterwinners Returning ...........9 Letterwinners Lost ....................1 Newcomers...............................5 THIS IS NIU Track and Field Northern Illinois University ......................................30 Letterwinners Returning ...........20 DeKalb, Ill. ..............................................................32 Letterwinners Lost ....................9 Newcomers...............................14 President John G. Peters .......................................33 Director of Athletics Jim Phillips..............................34 Media Relations Jeffrey and Kimberly Yordon Center .......................35 Assistant Director (CC/Track)..... ..... Russell Houghtaling Office Phone (Direct) ....................... 815-753-1708 Huskie Athletics Points of Pride ..............................36 Director ............................................ Donna Turner Assistant Director ............................ David Brauer CREDITS Assistant Director ............................ Matt Brendich The 2006-07 Cross Country/Track & Field Media Guide was written by Assistant Director ............................ Joe Summins Seon Brown and designed by Joe Summins. Edited by Joe Summins Graduate Assistant .......................... Zach Peters and Donna Turner. Contributors Matt Stiles and Tim Bohn. Exterior cover design by Joe Summins. Interior cover design by David Brauer. Website ............................................ www.niuhuskies.com Photography by NIU Imaging Services: Scott Walstrom, Gordon Means, Office Phone .................................... 815-753-1706 Barry Stark, Keith Lowman, George Tarbay, Bob Butler, Bob Banke Office Fax ........................................ 815-753-9540 and Connie Teaberry. Mailing Address ............................... Media Relations 209 Convocation Center The 2006-07 Cross Country/Track & Field Media Guide is designed to 1525 West Lincoln Highway provide information and historical records of Huskie cross country/track DeKalb, IL 60115 & field. Copies of this publication are available to the general public for $10. PRINTING The 2006-07 Cross Country/Track & Field Media Guide was printed by Barnaby Printing, of Sycamore, Ill. On the Cover (l-r): Seniors Jenin Robinson, Lorene Skipper, Margaret Gorski, Courtney Brown and Ashley Morrow. Morrow was a 2007 NCAA National Qualifier in the shot put. www.niuhuskies.com Northern Illinois University 2006-07 Cross Country and Track & Field Media Guide COACHING STAFF athletics career at Lutheran North High School where she won four varsity letters in both basketball and track (1984- Connie Teaberry 88). At Kansas State, she developed into a world-class Head Coach caliber high jumper and participate in the U.S.A./Mobil Track & Field Championships (1993-95), two Olympic Trials (1992 Third Season & 1996), the Olympics (1996), and the World University Games (1993 &1995). Kansas State, 1992 Her ascension in the world high jumping hierarchy began with three then-Big Eight Conference outdoor titles (1990- 92). As a senior, Teaberry was selected the Most Valuable Connie Teaberry took the reigns of both the Northern Illinois Female Athlete at the Big Eight indoor meet, the Kansas women’s track & field and the cross country programs in State Woman of the Year Award recipient, and then the 2005, and under the former Olympians able leadership, each NCAA Athlete of the Year. program has shown steady improvement. During Teaberry’s tenure as the women’s head track & field coach, the Huskies At Kansas State, she was a six-time All-American in the have broken multiple school records, and the Huskies have high jump, placing at the NCAA indoors in 1990 and 1992, boasted two MAC individual champions, nine NCAA regional plus outdoors in 1989-92. Teaberry’s 6-1.5 jump at the 1992 qualifiers and a NCAA Championships participant. Big Eight meet remains the third-best outdoor high jump in school history. Ditto for her 6-2.25 effort indoors at the 1992 The 2007 indoor and outdoor track seasons featured a trio Big Eight Championships. of third-place team finishes, at the Illinois Invitational, the Jack Shaw Invitational and the Toledo Collegiate Challenge. Teaberry finished second in the high jump at the 1996 The Huskies also continued their assault on the NIU record Olympic Trials, ranking No. 2 nationally, and qualified for books by setting six school records, and senior thrower the U.S. Olympic team in Atlanta where she tied for 15th Ashley Morrow qualified for the NCAA Championships in place. At the 1992 Olympic Trials, she placed 10th in the Sacramento, Calif. high jump. During the 2006 season, Teaberry guided the Huskies to She graduated from Kansas State with a Bachelor of first-place finishes in both the indoor and outdoor Chicagoland Science degree in life science and pre-nursing and made Championships meets. The success did not stop there as the Academic Honor Roll in spring, 1992. Teaberry is married NIU recorded a second-place finish at the EIU Mega Meet, to DeMarcus Lindsey of Mobile, Ala. The couple has two and a solid third-place finish at the Toledo Triangular. children, sons Kameron, 8, and Kollan, 4. The 2006 season also saw Teaberry’s charges reach unparalleled success as the Huskies set 22 school individual records and produced NIU’s second MAC Champion ever in junior thrower Ashley Morrow. Three athletes, including Morrow, advanced to the NCAA Regionals. In coach Teaberry’s inaugural season as the head coach of the women’s track team, she coached Northern’s first individual MAC Champion in over 25 years, and the first Huskie track & field athlete to earn First Team All-MAC honors in Alicja Czajka. Teaberry’s Huskies dominated the field at the Chicagoland Championship on the way to a first- place finish. Teaberry came to Northern Illinois after brief stints as an assistant women’s track coach at Ohio University (2004), Arizona State University (1998-99), the University of Toledo (1995-98), and the University of Kentucky (1992-95). She displayed her ability to develop jumpers and sprinters in eight years as an assistant, as she has developed eight NCAA qualifiers and two individual conference champions. A St. Louis, Mo. native, Teaberry began her outstanding Connie Teaberry is NIU’s fifth women’s head track & field coach. Northern Illinois University 2 www.niuhuskies.com 2006-07 Cross Country and Track & Field Media Guide COACHING STAFF Dave Jennings Mark McConeghey Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Sixth Season First Season Northern Iowa, 2001 Iowa State, 1990 Throwing specialist coach Dave Jennings returns for his Mark McConeghey is in his first season as assistant coach sixth year as an assistant coach for the Northern Illinois of the Northern Illinois University women’s cross country University women’s track & field squad. and track & field teams. McConeghey arrived at NIU after spending six years at Concordia (Minn.) University as the “Dave is an exceptional coach,” NIU head coach Connie head men’s and women’s track and field coach. Teaberry said. “He prides himself in getting our ladies to perform at the highest level of competition. He is a great “Coach McConeghey