North Central College Women's Track

Kluckhohn completed her 14th year as head womens track and field coach and assistant womens cross country coach at the College in 2015-2016. Before coming to North Central, she spent two seasons as head mens and womens track and field and cross country coach at North Park University.          Since Kluckhohn began her tenure at the College, the track and field program has produced seven national champions and 78 All-Americans and has won nine conference championships. She earned 2007, 2011 and 2014 United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Indoor Track and Field Midwest Region Coach of the Year honors, and her coaching staff has been voted CCIW Coaching Staff of the Year eight times.      Her 2011 squad swept the CCIW indoor and outdoor conference championships, becoming the first womens team in CCIW history to earn a triple crown (cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field conference titles). The team placed seventh at the 2011 Outdoor National Championships, the Cardinals highest finish at the outdoor meet since 1997. North Central swept the CCIW indoor and outdoor track & field championships in 2013 and 2014 as well.      Kluckhohn has personally coached 30 CCIW individual and relay champions, 17 All-Americans and holders of five indoor and four outdoor school records.      She is a native of Wiota, Wisconsin, and a 1994 graduate of UW-La Crosse where she earned her bachelors degree in elementary and middle level education and masters degree in special education in 2000. During this time, she was the graduate assistant coach for the UW-La Crosse womens cross country and track and field teams before becoming head cross country/track and field coach at Texas Lutheran University.      While running at UW-La Crosse, she was a seven-time Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) track champion, eight-time NCAA qualifier, four-time All-American and a national champion as part of the 4x400 relay team. Kluckhohn was also named the WIAC Scholar-Athlete for womens cross country.     We strive to assist our student-athletes in helping them become quality people and team players, Kluckhohn says. By our actions and words, we want them to understand the importance of leadership and their ability to influence those around them to make positive choices on a daily basis. This will not only help them as competitors, but also in life.      Kluckhohn served as an officer on the USTFCCCA's NCAA Division III Track & Field Executive Committee, including three years as its president. She was presented with the USTFCCCA's Jimmy Carnes Distinguished Service Award in 2015. She resides with her husband, James, and sons, Jacob, Nathaniel and Benjamin, in Warrenville.

Polhemus joined the North Central College coaching staff prior to the 2015-2016 academic year as a graduate assistant coach for the Cardinals' women's cross country and track and field programs. Polhemus arrived at North Central after completing a four-year career as a multi-event athlete for the women's track and field team at Lewis University in Romeoville. She earned NCAA Division II All-America status last spring in the 4-by-400-meter relay, helping the Flyers to a sixth-place finish at the Division II Outdoor Championships. A native of Hawthorn Woods, Illinois, Polhemus graduated from Lewis last spring with a bachelor's degree in psychology. She is pursuing a master's degree in leadership studies, with an emphasis in sports leadership, from North Central.

Throckmorton joined the North Central College coaching staff prior to the 2015-2016 academic year as a graduate assistant coach for the Cardinals' women's cross country and track and field programs. Throckmorton came to North Central from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania, where he coached throwers and jumpers. He coached athletes to three school records and two national qualifying marks during that time. Throckmorton graduated from Allegheny in 2012, earning 12 All-North Coast Athletic Conference (NCAC) awards as well as the NCAC's 2012 Indoor Sprinter/Hurdler of the Year award. He ran on the Gators' distance medley relay team which won the national title at the 2011 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship. Throckmorton owns a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Allegheny and is pursuing an MBA degree with an emphasis in management from North Central.

Narayanan '97/M '05 completed his 16th year as head women's cross country coach and assistant women's track and field coach at North Central College in 2015-2016. He has coached four All-American cross country runners (Molly Morrison 04, Jessica Griffin 07, Amber Druien 07, Amanda Laesch '10) in addition to two-time national champion Amber Druien '07, who won both the 800 and 1,500 meters at the 2006 NCAA III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The 2006 cross country team finished 13th in its first-ever nationals appearance and won the CCIW Cross Country Championship. Druien was the individual CCIW champ, and Narayanan earned CCIW and United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Midwest Region Coach of the Year. North Central also won the CCIW Championship in 2009, qualifying both Amanda Laesch '10 and Lauren Hooks '13 for the national championships while repeating as CCIW Champions in 2010 with Laesch closing out the season as an All-American at the national meet. During the 2011 outdoor track & field season, Narayanan was honored as the USTFCCCA Midwest Region and National Assistant Coach of the Year after his distance and mid-distance crew recorded eight provisional qualifying marks and scored 60 of the team's 236 points at the CCIW Championships. The Cardinals made their second appearance at the Division III Cross Country Championships as a team in 2012, placing 16th overall, after winning a third straight CCIW title and placing fourth at the Midwest Regional Championships. Narayanan and his staff earned CCIW Coaching Staff of the Year honors after five North Central runners earned All-CCIW status. The Cardinals' 2014 team returned to the top of the podium at the CCIW Championships, placing five runners among the top nine finishers, and again placed fourth in the Midwest Region before making North Central's third trip to the national championships, placing 20th. Megan Costanzo '16 went on to earn All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the 2015 Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. In 2015, North Central won its sixth conference title under Narayanan's direction and placed seventh at the regional championships. Costanzo qualified as an individual for national-championship competition and claimed All-America honors in track and field twice (indoor 5,000, outdoor 10,000). Narayanan earned his bachelor of arts in business management from North Central in 1997 and completed his master's degree in leadership in 2005. He began coaching for the men's team as a student assistant and then took over the role of coaching the freshmen and serving as the meet director for the men's cross country team. Narayanan was a member of the coaching staff that won the 1998 and 2000 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field national championships, as well as the 1997, 1998 and 1999 NCAA Division III cross country national championships. He also helped coordinate all facets of the 2000 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at North Central. Narayanan and his wife, Amy '01, and children, Josiah, Daithan, Kaelyn and Elijah, live in Warrenville.

Narayanan '97/M '05 completed his 16th year as head women's cross country coach and assistant women's track and field coach at North Central College in 2015-2016. He has coached four All-American cross country runners (Molly Morrison 04, Jessica Griffin 07, Amber Druien 07, Amanda Laesch '10) in addition to two-time national champion Amber Druien '07, who won both the 800 and 1,500 meters at the 2006 NCAA III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. The 2006 cross country team finished 13th in its first-ever nationals appearance and won the CCIW Cross Country Championship. Druien was the individual CCIW champ, and Narayanan earned CCIW and United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Midwest Region Coach of the Year. North Central also won the CCIW Championship in 2009, qualifying both Amanda Laesch '10 and Lauren Hooks '13 for the national championships while repeating as CCIW Champions in 2010 with Laesch closing out the season as an All-American at the national meet. During the 2011 outdoor track & field season, Narayanan was honored as the USTFCCCA Midwest Region and National Assistant Coach of the Year after his distance and mid-distance crew recorded eight provisional qualifying marks and scored 60 of the team's 236 points at the CCIW Championships. The Cardinals made their second appearance at the Division III Cross Country Championships as a team in 2012, placing 16th overall, after winning a third straight CCIW title and placing fourth at the Midwest Regional Championships. Narayanan and his staff earned CCIW Coaching Staff of the Year honors after five North Central runners earned All-CCIW status. The Cardinals' 2014 team returned to the top of the podium at the CCIW Championships, placing five runners among the top nine finishers, and again placed fourth in the Midwest Region before making North Central's third trip to the national championships, placing 20th. Megan Costanzo '16 went on to earn All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the 2015 Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships. In 2015, North Central won its sixth conference title under Narayanan's direction and placed seventh at the regional championships. Costanzo qualified as an individual for national-championship competition and claimed All-America honors in track and field twice (indoor 5,000, outdoor 10,000). Narayanan earned his bachelor of arts in business management from North Central in 1997 and completed his master's degree in leadership in 2005. He began coaching for the men's team as a student assistant and then took over the role of coaching the freshmen and serving as the meet director for the men's cross country team. Narayanan was a member of the coaching staff that won the 1998 and 2000 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field national championships, as well as the 1997, 1998 and 1999 NCAA Division III cross country national championships. He also helped coordinate all facets of the 2000 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships held at North Central. Narayanan and his wife, Amy '01, and children, Josiah, Daithan, Kaelyn and Elijah, live in Warrenville.

Winder completed his 22nd year as the pole vault coach for the North Central College men's and women's track and field programs in 2014-15. Winder has coached North Central's vaulters to 14 individual national championships:  Megan Rossi 07 (2005 and 2007 indoor), Brian DeLoriea 05 (2005 outdoor), Jake Winder '10 (2009 and 2010 indoor and 2010 outdoor),  Rachel Secrest '10 (2009 indoor and outdoor), Peter Geraghty '13 (2011  and 2012 outdoor), Josh Winder '13 (2012 indoor and 2013 outdoor) and Luke Winder '18 (2015 indoor and outdoor). He has also mentored national qualifiers Leah Ruggirello 07, Michael Bina 08, Allison Worley '08, Adam Hahne 10, Carolyn Kalafut '10, Steven Stack '10, John Wood '12, Thomas Stacey '13,  Frank Wleklinski '13, Elizabeth Composto '15, Brooke Patterson '15 and Spencer LaHaye '17. Coach Winder's athletes have garnered a total of 71 NCAA Division III All-America certificates and 52 individual College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Championships. He has had eight vaulters qualify for the USA Junior National Championships, six who have qualified for the USA Track & Field (USATF) Indoor National Championships and four who have qualified for the USATF Outdoor National Championships. Coach Winder has twice been recognized as a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Assistant Coach of the Year twice (following the 2010 indoor and 2012 outdoor seasons), and has been named the USTFCCCA's Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year three times (2010 and 2011 indoor, 2012 outdoor) since the awards were instituted in 2010. As a collegian, Winder was a junior college indoor and outdoor All-American and two-time NCAA Division II qualifier at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, from which he graduated in 1983. A graduate of Woodlawn High School, he was the 1979 Illinois High School Association Class A pole vault champion. Winder lives in Joliet and teaches eighth grade at Madison Junior High School in Naperville. He and his wife, Margo, have three sons, Jake, Josh and Luke. Tim Winder Assistant Track and Field Coach Tim Winder completed his 22nd year as the pole vault coach for the North Central College men's and women's track and field programs in 2014-15. Winder has coached North Central's vaulters to 14 individual national championships:  Megan Rossi 07 (2005 and 2007 indoor), Brian DeLoriea 05 (2005 outdoor), Jake Winder '10 (2009 and 2010 indoor and 2010 outdoor),  Rachel Secrest '10 (2009 indoor and outdoor), Peter Geraghty '13 (2011  and 2012 outdoor), Josh Winder '13 (2012 indoor and 2013 outdoor) and Luke Winder '18 (2015 indoor and outdoor). He has also mentored national qualifiers Leah Ruggirello 07, Michael Bina 08, Allison Worley '08, Adam Hahne 10, Carolyn Kalafut '10, Steven Stack '10, John Wood '12, Thomas Stacey '13,  Frank Wleklinski '13, Elizabeth Composto '15, Brooke Patterson '15 and Spencer LaHaye '17. Coach Winder's athletes have garnered a total of 71 NCAA Division III All-America certificates and 52 individual College Conference of Illinois & Wisconsin (CCIW) Championships. He has had eight vaulters qualify for the USA Junior National Championships, six who have qualified for the USA Track & Field (USATF) Indoor National Championships and four who have qualified for the USATF Outdoor National Championships. Coach Winder has twice been recognized as a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Assistant Coach of the Year twice (following the 2010 indoor and 2012 outdoor seasons), and has been named the USTFCCCA's Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year three times (2010 and 2011 indoor, 2012 outdoor) since the awards were instituted in 2010. As a collegian, Winder was a junior college indoor and outdoor All-American and two-time NCAA Division II qualifier at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, from which he graduated in 1983. A graduate of Woodlawn High School, he was the 1979 Illinois High School Association Class A pole vault champion. Winder lives in Joliet and teaches eighth grade at Madison Junior High School in Naperville. He and his wife, Margo, have three sons, Jake, Josh and Luke.