2019 MEN’S TRACK CENTRAL COLLEGE MEDIA GUIDE Founded —1853 Enrollment — 1,200 Affiliation — Reformed Church in America President — Dr. Mark Putnam Membership — Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, National Collegiate Athletic Association, Division III Founded in 1853, Central College of Pella, Iowa, is a private, residential four-year liberal arts college known for its academic rigor and strength in global experiential learning, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math), sustainability education, athletics success and tradition, and leadership and service. Central continues to value its long- standing relationship with the Reformed Church in America that began in 1916. The college participates in NCAA Division III athletics and is a member of the Iowa Conference. Central is an active part of the Greater Des Moines region and just two minutes from Lake Red Rock, Iowa’s largest lake. Central is a member of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, Division III, and the lowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. Men compete in baseball, football, basketball, tennis, golf, wrestling, soccer, track and cross country, while women compete in tennis, golf, track, softball, volleyball, cross country, soccer and basketball. Rugby is offered at the club level. The A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex The A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex is located at the corner of Independence Street and West Fifth Street in southwest Pella. The complex includes P.H. Kuyper Gymnasium (1970), H.S. Kuyper Fieldhouse (1987), Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium (1977), the baseball and softball fields (1978), Ryerson Golf Practice Range (2005), tennis courts (1992), soc- cer field (2005) and the Ron Schipper Fitness Center (1999). The complex also includes practice and intramural softball diamonds and football fields. Golf meets are held at the Bos Landen Golf Club, two miles southwest of the campus on Highway T-15. Directory Sports Information Director Larry Happel Office (641) 628-5278 Home (641) 628-2754 Cell (641) 780-6118 Assistant Joe Flaherty Office (641) 628-5435 Cell (319) 850-7097 Office email [email protected] Central athletics Web page athletics.central.edu ATHLETICS DEPARTMENT STAFF Assistant football Ryan Maiuri–offensive Athletics director Eric Van Kley coordinator/quarterbacks Senior associate athletics director/ Alicia O’Brien Assistant football Seth Marburger–defensive line senior woman administrator Assistant football Austin Mercer--cornerbacks Associate athletics director for Mona Roozeboom Assistant football Nick Mulder–defensive business affairs coordinator/defensive line Assistant athletics director for Tim Wilkinson Assistant football Matt Paulsen–safeties event management Assistant football Kyle Pepper-tight ends Grounds/utilities/fleet Duane Houser Assistant football Jeff Sanger–inside linebackers coordinator Assistant football Austen Schueler–special teams Building and grounds manager Wes Veenstra coordinator/outside linebackers Athletics office manager Jeffy Schuring Assistant football Drew Sikkink–offensive line Equipment manager Peter Greteman Golf - Men’s Mel Blasi Head athletic trainer Frank Neu Assistant golf Tom Linton Assistant athletic trainer Shelli Green Golf - Women’s Tim Wilkinson Assistant athletic trainer Erica Guinane Soccer - Men’s Garry Laidlaw Assistant athletic trainer Matt Guinane Assistant soccer Will Foskett Assistant athletic trainer Jake Schubert Assistant soccer Greg Walter Athletic training education John Roslien Assistant soccer Zach Jensen program director Soccer - Women’s Mike Kobylinski Strength and conditioning Kyle Johnson Assistant soccer Russ Goodman coordinator Assistant soccer Kelsey Roxworthy Assistant strength and conditioning Charles Friday Softball George Wares Co-director of intramurals Amy Trageser Associate softball Alicia O’Brien Co-director of intramurals Bob Kuennen Assistant softball Gary Grimes Sports information director Larry Happel Assistant softball Keith Jones Assistant sports information director Joe Flaherty Assistant softball Marcy Roff Assistant softball John Edwards FACULTY ATHLETIC COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES Tennis - Men’s/women’s Ryun Ferrell Dr. Andrew Green, associate professor of political science Assistant tennis Peter Greteman Dr. Lori Witt, associate professor of history Track and field - Men’s/women’s Brandon Sturman John Roslien, associate professor of exercise science Associate track and field Joe Dunham Associate track and field Jim Fuller COACHING STAFF Assistant track and field Brenda Fuller Baseball Matt Schirm Assistant track and field Tyler Schiferl Assistant baseball Logan Emendorfer Assistant track and field Allan Walz Assistant baseball Eric Van Wyngarden Volleyball Jeanne Czipri Assistant baseball Tyler Willis Assistant volleyball Amy Trageser Basketball - Men’s Craig Douma Assistant volleyball Libby Foster Assistant basketball Obinna Agomo Assistant volleyball Molly Steffens Assistant basketball Kent Henderson Assistant volleyball Tara Kohlhaas Basketball - Women’s Joe Steinkamp Wrestling Eric Van Kley Assistant basketball Amy Briggs Assistant wrestling Daniel Page Assistant basketball Austin Hellbusch Assistant wrestling Matt Diehl Cross country - Men’s/women’s Joe Dunham Assistant wrestling Bob Kuennen Assistant cross country Brandon Sturman Football Jeff McMartin Assistant football Jeff Bollard--running backs Assistant football Logan Emendorfer--wide receivers Assistant football Eric Jones–offensive line II HEAD COACH DIRECTORY (All phone numbers are 641 area code) Name Sport Email Office phone Blasi, Mel Men’s golf [email protected] 628-7694 Czipri, Jeanne Volleyball [email protected] 628-5139 Douma, Craig Men’s basketball [email protected] 628-5225 Dunham, Joe Men’s and women’s cross country [email protected] 628-7603 Kobylinski, Mike Women’s soccer [email protected] 628-5224 Laidlaw, Garry Men’s soccer [email protected] 628-5789 McMartin, Jeff Football [email protected] 628-7609 Schirm, Matt Baseball [email protected] 628-5396 Steinkamp, Joe Women’s basketball [email protected] 628-7652 Sturman, Brandon Men’s and women’s track and field [email protected] 628-5591 Ferrell, Ryun Men’s and women’s tennis [email protected] 628-5194 Van Kley, Eric Athletics director, wrestling [email protected] 628-5422 Wares, George Softball [email protected] 628-5195 Wilkinson, Tim Women’s golf [email protected] 628-5439 Fax number Athletics department (641) 628-5356 Press box numbers Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium (641) 628-5288 A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex softball press box (641) 628-5222 III Men’s track and field 2018-19 schedule Indoor Date Opponent Location Dec. 1-2 Happy Holidays Multi-Event Crete, Neb. Dec. 8 Dutch Holiday Preview Pella Jan. 19 Dutch Athletics Classic Pella Jan. 25 Prairie Wolf Invitational Lincoln, Neb. Feb. 1-2 Wartburg Select Waverly Feb. 8-9 David Hemery Inv. Boston, Mass. Feb. 9 Darren Young Classic Grinnell Feb. 16 Wartburg Invitational Waverly Feb. 22 American Rivers Championships Waverly March 1-2 Wartburg Qualifier Waverly March 2 Pointer Final Qualifier Stevens Point, Wis. March 8-9 NCAA Division III Championships Boston, Mass. Outdoor Date Opponent Location March 29-30 Washington University Inv. St. Louis, Mo. March 30 Viking Olympics Rock Island, Ill. April 5-6 Dutch Invitational Pella April 12-13 Jim Duncan Invitational Des Moines April 17-20 Kansas Relays Lawrence, Kan. April 19-20 Bryan Clay Invitational Azusa, Calif. April 19 Simpson/Nebraska Wesleyan Lincoln, Neb. April 24-27 Drake Relays Des Moines April 25-26 Kip Janvrin Open Indianola May 4 Fighting Scot Invitational Monmouth, Ill. May 9-11 American Rivers Championships Cedar Rapids May 15-16 Gregory Invitational Naperville, Ill. May 16 Augustana Twilight Qualifier Rock Island, Ill. May 23-25 NCAA Division III Championships Geneva, Ohio MEN’S TRACK AND FIELD QUICK FACTS 2018 Iowa Conference indoor finish: 2nd 2018 Iowa Conference outdoor finish: 1st 2018 NCAA Division III indoor finish: tie, 37th 2018 NCAA Division III outdoor finish: tie, 12th 2018 NCAA Div. III indoor qualifiers: 2 - Will Daniels (hepathlon, high jump); Ryan Kruse (hepathlon) 2018 NCAA Div. III outdoor qualifiers: 3 - Will Daniels (decathlon); Mark Fairley (3,000-meter steeplechase); Ryan Kruse (javelin) Letterwinners lost/returning: 25/22 Returning all-conference performers: 6 (Will Daniels, Nathan Fitzgerald, Tanner Johnson, Preston Kizer, Kyle Pape, Mitchell Yaw) Returning NCAA qualifiers: 1 - Will Daniels Captains: Will Daniels, Kyle Pape, Mitchell Yaw Iowa Conference championships (most recent): 23 (2018, outdoor) All-time NCAA Divsion III top-10 team finishes (most recent): 11 (2016, outdoor, t-6th place) Individual national champions: 17 All-Americans: 101 IV Men’s track and field Brandon Sturman Head coach Brandon Sturman was named Central’s men’s and women’s track and field coach prior to the 2018-19 year. In two seasons as head coach at Aurora University (Ill.), Sturman piloted the Spartans to five indoor and outdoor men’s and women’s Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference titles. In 2017, his athletes won a pair of individual NCAA Division III titles with one national second-place finish. Aurora tied for sixth in the Division III men’s indoor team standings and finished 12th in the nation in the outdoor meet while the Aurora women placed 13th outdoors. A Brookeville, Maryland native, Sturman was a two-year football team captain at Valparaiso University (Ind.) where he played middle linebacker for the 2003 Pioneer Football League champs and