Seattle Pacific University Men's Cross Country

Lerum is heading into his 12th year in charge of the SPU track program. In 2015, for the sixth time in school history, and all under his leadership, the Falcon women pulled an indoor-outdoor GNAC team title sweep. They followed that up with a second straight outdoor title in 2016. A few weeks after the season ended, Lerum was named the 2016 GNAC women's outdoor Coach of the Year, as well as the USTFCCCA West Region women's outdoor Coach of the Year. The GNAC award was his seventh. He has swept the women's indoor and outdoor honors five times: 2007, 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2015. He also has six West Region women's indoor Coach of the Year awards and five outdoor honors, thereby giving him 25 conference and region honors altogether between the winter and spring seasons. Of Seattle Pacifics 10 conference indoor team championships, Lerum has been the man in charge for eight of those. During the 2016 outdoor season, 12 Falcon women posted a total of 17 NCAA provisional qualifying marks (15 individual times / distances plus both the 4x100 and 4x400 relays). Of those qualifiers, Jahzelle Ambus (400), Lynelle Decker (800, 1500), Geneva Lehnert (high jump), Maliea Luquin (100 hurdles) and Jalen Tims (400 hurdles) made it to nationals, with Decker making All-American in both of her races. Indoors in 2016, Lerum's Falcons hit nine NCAA qualifying standards, and ultimately came up big at nationals in Pittsburg, Kan. Decker raced to a silver medal in the 800, and the 4x400 relay team of Tims, Decker, Cheryl Hong, and Ambus bagged a bronze. In addition, the 4,000-meter distance medley relay of Decker, Ambus, Chynna Phan, and Anna Patti gained All-American status by finishing fifth. Ambus and Tims also ran in the 400 meters, and Lehnert got there in the high jump. Lerum stepped up to the Falcons coaching helm in October 2005, taking over from Jack Hoyt. He worked as an assistant to Hoyt in 2000, and again in 2003. In between, he spent two years as an assistant coach at Trinity College, an NCAA Division III school in Hartford, Conn. While Lerum has coached numerous athletes with impressive accomplishments at SPU, he has quite an impressive athletic background of his own. As an athlete at Pacific Lutheran University in nearby Tacoma, Lerum made his mark in two sports. On the football field, he set and still owns the school career records for receptions and receiving yards. On the track, Lerum has the Lutes record in the 400 meters and is among the school's top 10 in the decathlon, 110 hurdles, long jump, 100 meters, and javelin. He was an All-American in the decathlon, finishing third at the NAIA nationals in 1996 and second in '97 and '98. He didnt stop there. After college, Lerum was on the San Francisco 49ers roster for the 1998 and 1999 preseason, and played with the Amsterdam Admirals in NFL Europe. In 2003 and again in 2004, he served as the head coach of the Oslo Vikings football program in Norway. Lerum is a graduate of Franklin Pierce High School in Parkland, south of Tacoma. He has a bachelors degree in history from PLU and a masters in history from Trinity. He and wife Yvonne and son Lucas live in Seattle.

Smith, who started out as a sprinter, became a heptathlete, and now has competed in four marathons, is in her fourth year on the Falcons coaching staff, coming aboard in August 2013.The graduate of Idaho State University spent the previous four years before joining the Falcons as a coach at the University of Washington one year as a multi-events assistant  for track, and the past three as a strength and conditioning coach. She now works primarily with SPU's sprinters, During the 2015-16 school year, the Falcon women won a bronze medal in the 4x400 relay at the NCAA Division II indoor meet, sent two women to the open 400 at indoor nationals and one for the 400 at outdoor nationals. New school records were set in the women's indoor and outdoor 400, the indoor 200, and the indoor 4x400 relay. Smith starred in the heptathlon at Idaho State, placing second at the Big Sky Conference meet in 2007 by tallying 5,085 points. She also was a member of the victorious 4x100 relay team, and scored in the 100, 200, 100 hurdles, and javelin as the Bengals won the team championship for the first time in school history. She was All-Big Sky six times in two years at the school, and was a USTFCCCA All-Academic pick as a senior, finishing her master's degree in health education. In the winter of 2016, Smith was named the West Region Women's Indoor Track Assistant Coach of the Year by the USTFCCCA. A native of Pima, Ariz., Smith has been in the Seattle area since 2008. She is married to Raul Sheen, a UW assistant coach for sprints, hurdles, and relays.  

Reed is beginning his fifth year as a collegiate coach and his fourth year as an assistant at Seattle Pacific, joining the staff in December 2013.   The native of Klamath Falls in southern Oregon is a 2011 graduate of Western Oregon University, majoring in economics.   On the cross country course, he was a two-time All-Great Northwest Athletic Conference selection, finishing seventh as a junior in 2009 and third as a senior in 2010. He also was a two-time NCAA qualifier, earning All-American recognition in 2009.   On the track, Reed raced to a pair of All-GNAC honors, taking third in the 5,000 meters as a freshman in 2008, then placing third in the 1,500 as a senior in 2011. He also was fourth in the 5K as a junior and senior. Indoors, he won the 2011 GNAC mile title and anchored the Wolves' distance medley relay to All-American status later that season. Reed finished his WOU career with five school records: the mile, 5000, and DMR indoors, along with the 5000 and 10,000 outdoors. He ran in five NCAA championship meets (twice in cross country and outdoor track, and once in indoor track).   He became an assistant coach at Western Oregon in 2011 prior to joining the Falcons. He was named the West Region Women's Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year in 2015 by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. He also is the director of the Falcon Running Camp.