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Head
Coach Dave Nash
Phone: 712-274-5334
E-Mail: nash@morningside.edu
 Dave Nash, a 1990 graduate of Morningside, is in his fifth
year as the Mustangs' head men's and women's track & field
and cross country coach. Under his leadership the Mustangs have made consistent improvement in the GPAC Championship meets each season.
Nash was previously
the head boy's and girl's cross country coach and an assistant
track coach at Sioux City West High School.
As a collegian,
Nash was one of the most successful middle distance runners
in Morningside history. He earned All-America honors in the
800-meters as a senior. Nash still holds Mustang indoor records
in the 1500-meters (3:58.30) and mile (4:15.30) and outdoor
records in the 800-meters (1:51.03) and 1500-meters (3:57.50).
Nash is also part of school-record holding relay teams in
the outdoor 4x800-meters (7:44.32) and the indoor 4x800-meters
(7:50.64).
Nash is a highly
successful amateur runner at the national level and was named
2003 Master's Male Athlete of the Year by USA Track &
Field (USATF). He was the 2005 USATF outdoor national champion in the 1500-meters and 800-meters in the 35 to 39-year-old division and broke the age group record in the 800-meters with a time of 1:54.91. Nash was the 2006 Sioux City Relays champion in the 800-meters by running a time of 1:52.85 at the age of 38.
Nash has eight years
of experience as an assistant track coach at Morningside and
has also been an assistant track coach at the University of
South Dakota and Sioux City West and Wilton High Schools in
Iowa.
As head cross country
coach at Sioux City West, Nash's boy's teams consistently
won city and conference championships and qualified for the
state meet at the team or individual levels.
The Iowa High School
Athletic Association presented Nash with the Bernie Saggau
Coaching Award for sportsmanship, citizenship, and integrity
in 2000.
Nash holds a master's
degree from the University of South Dakota.
Nash's assistant
coaches are:
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Kari
Bull |
Kari Bull,
a 2003 Morningside graduate and a four-year letterwinner for
the Mustang women's track & field team.
She is Morningside's
school record holder in the indoor 200-meter hurdles with
a time of 31.86 seconds set on Feb. 8, 2003.
Bull, a native of
Elkhorn, Neb., is also the Director of Morningside's Annual Fund.
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Andre
McWell |
Andre McWell,
a former football All-American and track standout at the University
of Sioux Falls, who works with jumpers and sprinters.
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Terry
Koebernick |
Terry Koebernick, a long-time track & field coach at South Sioux City (Neb.) High School, who works with hurdlers and high jumpers.
Koebernick was the head coach at South Sioux City for 25 years, where he coached Anne Shadle, who went on to compete for the Univeristy of Nebraska and became one of the nation's premier female runners.
He was previously the head coach at Lincoln Central High School in Gruver, Iowa, where he coached a state championship girl's shuttle hurdle relay team.
Dan Schmitt brings 20 years of previous coaching experience at the collegiate and high school levels. Most recently he was a track & field, football, and basketball coach for 12 years in the Sioux City School District. He served as the head boy's track & field coach at North High School for seven years. Before moving to Sioux City he was a football and track coach at Paulding Community High School in Georgia for one year and an assistant football and strength and conditioning coach at Augustana College in South Dakota for six years.
Stan Simpson, who coached Lawton-Bronson High School's boy's track & field team to a state championship in 1991, who works with hurdlers, weight throwers, and middle distance runners. Simpson coached Lawton-Bronson to 10 Maple Valley Conference championships in his 16 seasons as head coach. He received a state coach of the year award in 1991 and a regional coach of the year award in 1995. Simpson set a school record in the high hurdles during his prep career at Ogden High School in Iowa and was a four-year letterwinnner in track and football at Wayne State College.
Lynn Olesen, who will work with the Mustangs' pole vaulters. Olesen was a NCAA Division II indoor All-American in the pole vault in 1995 and 1996 when he competed for South Dakota State University, where he still holds the school's indoor record at 16-6 3/4. Olesen was a two-time NCAA Academic All-American. He was the 1992 South Dakota Class A state champion in the pole vault as a prep at Arlington High School.
Kevin Vanderlinden, who will work with the Mustangs' middle distance and distance runners. Vanderlinden is an avid middle distance runner who has countless Iowa Games medals to his credit.
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