Colorado School of Mines Men's Track

Siemers was named the USTFCCCA NCAA Division II Assistant Coach of the Year for both the indoor and outdoor season for his work with the distance athletes. In the fall of 2015, Siemers lead the Mines mens cross country program the first National Championship in school history. The Orediggers got All-American performances from Marty Andrie (18th), Nathanael Williams (21st), Dan Mahoney (22nd) and Grant Colligan (33rd). Along with Seth Topper, Josh Hoskinson and Logan Winfield, Siemers Orediggers upended three-team defending champion and RMAC rival Adams State by 27 points (100-to-127) to claim the first team national title in school history in any sport. For his efforts, Siemers was named the USTFCCCA 2015 NCAA Divsion II Men's Cross Country National Coach of the Year. The 2015 season also saw Ann Miller of the womens program earn All-American honors as the mens and womens team claimed each claimed victory at the Colorado College Invitational, and a top-five finish in every meet they entered. At both the RMAC and South Central Region Championships, the men placed second and the women third. Mines remained one of the countrys powerhouse programs in 2014 under Siemers, combining for two team trophies, eight top-three results and a pair of top-10 scores at the Division II championships for the second time in three seasons. Following wins at the Colorado College Invitational and FHSU Tiger Open, the men produced runner-up at the conference and regional races and timed fourth place at the national meet the squads sixth straight top-five and 10th consecutive top-10 championship finish. The women, runners-up at the CC Invite, gained momentum across the three postseason events, achieving fifth out of 15 at RMACs, third among 18 at regionals and 10th of 32 at the NCAA finale. In 2012, Siemers guided the Orediggers to arguably their best season in program archives as both teams advanced to the national championships for the first time since 2005. With a program-record five runners inside the top-36 All-American threshold, the men claimed runner-up out of 32 teams, while the women obtained their third top-10 in 10 seasons in eighth. The men, who spent the entirety of the regular season ranked in the nation's top-four including a four-week stint at No. 2 finished no lower than third at any meet, capturing the team title at the Woody Greeno/Nebraska Invitational and second place at both the Oklahoma State Cowboy Jamboree and RMAC Championships. Named the 2012 CaptainU Division II Men's Cross Country College Coach of the Year, Siemers saw the women rank inside the top-25 in all seven regular season ballots, highlighted by a season-high No. 13 in the final poll. The Orediggers had three fourth-place team finishes and took sixth at the Cowboy Jamboree behind a trio of Division I schools. In his three seasons at the helm, Siemers has coached 12 All-Americans, three Academic All-Americans and two Brechler Award-winning womens teams as owners of the conference's highest GPA. Prior to being named interim head coach in 2012, he was an assistant with the Mines cross country programs for two seasons, helping the men place fourth at the NCAA championships in 2010 and fifth in 2011. During the 2011-12 academic year, the men's cross country and track and field programs finished fourth in the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division II Program of the Year standings. Mines ranked eighth in the award classification in 2010-11 and 2012-13 and seventh in 2013-14. A 2004 graduate of Western State with a bachelor's degree in business administration, Siemers was a three-time cross country All-American during his collegiate career and a member of two national championship teams with the Mountaineers (2001-02). Siemers was three-time all-state selection and Foot Locker All-American in 1997 as a prep runner for Fenton High School in Bensenville, Illinois. He twice earned all-state honors in track and field. A two-time Olympic trials qualifier, Siemers broke the 18-year old Colorado state marathon record in 2011 with a time of 2:18.48 at the Rock n Roll Denver Marathon. He and his wife, Paige, reside in Littleton.

Sparks oversaw 27 USTFCCCA All-Region and 17 All-American honorees while leading the mens indoor track & field team to the first conference championship in program history during the 2015-16 school year. A grand total of 14 different school records were broken this past season. In addition to the conference championship, the men finished second at the outdoor RMAC Championships while the women placed seventh and sixth, respectfully between the indoor and outdoor season.  The mens program spent the entire indoor season ranked in the USTFCCCA national rankings as they reached as high as #3 in the nation. While during the outdoor season they were ranked 10 of the 11 weeks and reached as high as #6.  Sparks was named the RMAC Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year while he guided Triston Sisneros to RMAC Indoor & Outdoor Freshman of the Year, and RMAC Co-Athlete of the Meet honors at the outdoor championships. Sparks oversaw 25 USTFCCCA All-Region honorees, 10 RMAC Athletes of the Week and five All-Americans as well as multiple school records in his first season at the helm. The Mines men and women ranked fourth and eighth, respectively, at the conference indoor races and closed second and ninth at the outdoor championships. Sparks became the program's initial RMAC Mens Outdoor Coach of the Year recipient since the conference began conferring the honor in 1992. Under Sparks' watch, the Orediggers ranked in the mens top-25 of the USTFCCCA the last three weeks of the indoor season and were inside the top-20 all nine weeks during outdoors, reaching an all-time high of No. 5 in week four. Mines placed 14th at the NCAA meet for the second year in a row, ending two shy of the program-best score set in 2008 with a three-day, 18.00-point total. A veteran of the coaching ranks in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, Sparks came to Golden following a three-year stint as the head track and field coach at Lake Superior State University in Sault Ste Marie, Mich. There, he guided both programs to their highest national finishes in school history during the 2012 season. The Laker men finished 18th during the indoor season and 22nd during the outdoor season, while the women ranked 23rd in outdoors. The 2012 GLIAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year, Sparks coached one national champion and 12 NCAA All-Americans during his time at LSSU, including two athletes that competed at the USATF Junior National Championships in 2013.  His programs registered more than 50 new school records and won the 2013 Academic Excellence Award, which goes to the team with the highest grade point average each year at Lake Superior State. Additionally, Sparks initiated and led fundraising efforts for the LSSU track and field and cross country programs that totaled more than $80,000.  Prior to being named head coach at LSSU, Sparks was an assistant at Chadron State College in Chadron, Neb. during the 2009-10 season. He coached eight RMAC champions in the combined events, sprints, hurdles and relays as well as four qualifiers to the 2010 NCAA Division II Championships, including one eventual All-American from the quartet.  He was an assistant coach at fellow RMAC member Western State from 2007-09 where he directed six NCAA qualifiers and one All-American. He assisted in leading the men's program to a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in 2009. A native of Gunnison, Sparks was a 10-time All-American during his collegiate career at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, Calif. He claimed the 2006 NAIA 110-meter high hurdles national championship during the outdoor season and the 2007 60-meter high hurdles indoor title. He set the NAIA 60-meter high hurdles national record (since broken) and was a member of four NAIA national champion squads, of which he captained three. Sparks received his B.A. in English from Azusa Pacific in 2007 and is currently working on a master's degree in sports management from Chadron State. He and his wife, Jocelyn, reside in Arvada.

Gusbeths main focus will be with the throwers. Before coming to Mines, Gusbeth spent four seasons at Elon University (2011-14) under the same position. While with the NCAA Division I Phoenix he coached three individual Southern Conference Champions and six runner-up finishes. Gusbeths throwers re-wrote every single Elon throwing records. Prior to Elon, Gusbeth saw many fine achievements from his throwers during his two years (2009-11) at Chadron State, highlighted in 2011 by a runner-up finish by Jessica Horsley in the womens hammer throw at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships and an All-American finish by Cody Hunt in the shot put at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships. He also had his throwers rewrite five school records.   No stranger to the RMAC, Gusbeth previously coached the Western State College of Colorado throwers during the 2008-09 season. That season, the Mountaineer throwers saw great success in achieving four NCAA D-II All-American honors. He coached the 2009 NCAA D-II Discus National Champion Ashley Stevens, who also earned All-American honors in the hammer throw and indoor weight throw during the 2008-09 campaign. Gusbeth also coached Ryan Walstrom to All-American honors in the mens discus. Throughout the season, the Western State throwers rewrote school records in the womens discus, hammer and weight throw, as well as the mens discus.   Gusbeth, a former Western State track and field athlete, threw 213-feet, 8-inches in the hammer throw to set a Mountaineers record in 2006. He was an All-American in both the 35-pound weight and hammer throws, becoming the schools first All-American in those events.   A native of Torquay, Australia, Gusbeth earned his bachelors degree in mathematics from Western State College of Colorado and a masters degree in organizational management from Chadron State College. He and his wife, Tiffany, reside in Golden, Colo.