Case Western Reserve University Men's Cross Country

Berton was named the Assistant Cross Country Coach at Case Western Reserve University prior to the start of the 2015 season. Berton is no stranger to the program, having spent the previous year as a volunteer assistant, working with both the cross country team and distance runners on the track and field team at Case Western Reserve. Berton graduated from Ohio Northern University in 2014, where he was a four-year member of both the cross country and track and field teams.  He was a three-time All-Ohio Athletic Conference honoree for cross country, finishing in the top-seven in 15 of his 25 career races, and recording a career-best time of 25:19.  Berton was also a three-time All-OAC honoree for track and field. In addition to his work with the cross country team, Berton is also workings towards earning his Master's Degree in Accounting at Case Western Reserve. 

Lanese has coached a total of 12 NCAA All-Americans in cross country and track. She guided Esther Erb, 2008 NCAA Champion in the womens 10,000-meter run, and has led multiple distance runners and relay teams to school record-breaking performances. In addition, four of Laneses cross country runners have received NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships, and one was a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year award in addition to receiving the Fullbright Scholarship in Vienna, Australia. During her career, Lanese has earned a multitude of coach of the year awards. She has been tabbed Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Coach of the Year seven times (most recently in 2013), USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year once (2006) and head of the UAA Womens Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year twice (2006 and 2008). Under Laneses tutelage, CWRU cross country has also been represented at the NCAA Championship Meet in each season since 2006. That streak includes five consecutive qualifying years for the womens team from 2006-2010. During that stretch, the Spartan women finished in the top 10 twice, including 2007, when the team finished sixth in the nation the highest national finish for any Spartan athletic team in school history. In 2008, both the mens and womens squads ran at the NCAA Championship, marking the first time that the two competed concurrently at that meet. Lanese first came to CWRU in 1990 when she was named the head women's cross country coach and assistant track & field coach. She left the university briefly in 1993 to pursue a position in sports medicine, but she quickly returned to the coaching ranks as womens cross country and track & field head coach at Cleveland State University from 1994-96. Lanese moved on to serve in the same capacity at John Carroll University from 1996-2001. In addition to coaching, Lanese is a member of the Behavior Health Committee and Womens Leadership Council at the university level. She currently serves as President on a national level for the USTFCCCA for Division III Cross Country, and she has held the positions of President of the Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches and Vice President of the USTFCCCA. Lanese, a 2010 graduate of the NCAA Womens Coaches Academy, also attended the USTFCCCA Women's Coaching Summit held in San Antonio, Texas in December of 2011. A graduate of Ohio University, Lanese was a scholarship athlete who competed in middle-distance and distance events. She was a member of a Bobcat track team that won two consecutive Mid-American Conference Championships (1983-84) and the All-Ohio Cross Country Championship in 1982. Individually, Lanese finished 11th and 14th, respectively, at the MAC Championship and was a member of the record-setting 3,200-meter relay and distance medley relay teams. During her senior year, Lanese was named captain of both the track and cross country teams. She was voted the team's most improved runner in 1985 and also set an indoor record in the 1,500-meter run. Lanese received her Bachelor of Science in Foods and Nutrition from Ohio University and both her certification in athletic training and her graduate studies in exercise science from Cleveland State. Lanese resides in Cleveland Heights and has two children, Evan and Kasey. Evan is a student at CWRU.