Taylor University Men's Track

Neville retired from the professional circuit in March of 2014, wrapping up a tremendous running career that included winning gold and bronze medals for the United States in Beijing during the 2008 Summer Olympics. Neville, a Merrillville, Indiana, native and Indiana University graduate, claimed gold and set an Olympic record in the 4x400-meter relay for the United States in the 2008 Olympics, while also notching a bronze medal by 0.04 seconds with a dive across the finish line in the 400-meter dash. The Olympic medals highlighted an outstanding professional career for Neville, who also won the gold medal in the 400-meter dash at the 2008 Indoor USA Championships, took bronze in the same event at the 2008 Olympic Trials and also earned bronze at the 2006 USA Championships. Prior to his standout career on the world stage, Neville claimed six Big Ten titles and was a five-time NCAA All-American on the track with Indiana from 2004 through 2006. Neville set Hoosier program records in the 200 and 400-meter dash, the 4x400-meter relay and the distance-medley relay, along with being named the 2004 Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Despite bypassing his senior season at IU to sign a professional contract with Team Nike, Neville completed his undergraduate work and earned a degree in music education from Indiana in 2007. While continuing his training in Los Angeles with fellow world-class sprinters, Neville has worked as a personal trainer and given individual lessons to area prep athletes. Neville also served as the worship pastor and director of young adult ministries at Santa Clarita Christian Fellowship Church. Neville is a certified fitness trainer and a member of International Sports Sciences Association. Neville is married to his wife, Arial, and the couple have a newborn daughter named Acaia. The 2016-2017 year is Quinn Whites seventh season at the helm of the womens cross country program, as well as his seventh on staff with the womens track and field team. White, who was named the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Crossroads League Coach of the Year, ranks second in Taylor history with an all-time record of 454-85 at the helm of the womens cross country program and is TUs all-time winning percentage leader with a career clip of .842 entering the 2016 campaign. During Whites tenure, the Trojans have posted the 10-fastest team times and logged seven of the top-15 individual times in school history. In six seasons at the helm of the Taylor womens cross country program, White has helped the Trojans to three Crossroads League Championships and a trio of top-11 finishes at the NAIA National Championships. The program has also racked up 30 NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors, 25 All-Crossroads League awards and one NAIA All-America honor over that time. The 2015 campaign saw the Trojans post a 91-3 team clip, while winning four-of-six regular season races and storming to the programs third-straight Crossroads League Championship. Taylor rattled off five of the eight-fastest times in program history, climbed to as high as No. 4 in the nation to match its highest NAIA Top-25 ranking and placed three individuals inside the top-100 finishers at the NAIA National Championships for the third-straight year, while ending 11th as a team. The squad was equally as impressive off the course, leading the Crossroads League and posting the 15th-highest grade-point average of any team in any sport with a collective mark of 3.77. White guided Taylor to a regular season clip of 97-4 in 2014, en route to a 10th-place finish at NAIA Nationals and a second-straight Crossroads League Championship. The Trojans claimed meet victories at the Ray Bullock Invitational, Indiana Intercollegiates and Crossroads Championships, while matching the programs highest national ranking with a No. 4 mark. TU also set a program record with four individual finishers inside the top-100 at NAIA Nationals. The 2014 season followed an equally dominant breakout year in 2013 for the Trojans, as White guided TU to a regular season mark of 96-4, a Crossroads League Championship and a 10th-place showing at NAIA Nationals. Taylor set a new school-record time of 92:49 during TUs championship run at the Great Lakes Invite, climbed to a program-best NAIA No. 4 ranking and became the first Taylor team to place two runners inside the top-50 and three inside the top-100 at NAIA Nationals. In addition to his role as head coach of the womens cross country team, White has served as an assistant coach with the womens track and field program since 2011 and filled the role of interim head coach for the Trojans in 2014. White was honored as the USTFCCCA Womens Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year in 2016. During his time specializing with the distance and javelin events over the last six seasons, Whites student-athletes have piled up 15 indoor school records, 51 NAIA Indoor National Qualifiers and four NAIA Indoor All-Americans. The success has carried over into the outdoor seasons as well, where White has helped his student-athletes to 10 school records, 39 NAIA Outdoor National Qualifiers, 51 All-Crossroads League selections, 14 Crossroads League Individual Championships, five NAIA All-Americans and 30 NAIA Scholar-Athletes. White coached high school cross country and track for 14 years prior to taking over the TU program. During his time as a high school coach, White guided his teams to four conference championships, six district titles, and had 22 All-State athletes earn a total of 47 All-State honors. An accomplished runner in his own right, White ran four seasons of cross country and track at Taylor, earning five varsity letters with the Purple and Gold. After graduating from TU, White went on to earn a masters degree in language, literature and reading in 1996 from Ohio State University and a Ph. D. in language, literacy and culture in 2005 from OSU. White returned to Taylors Upland campus as a professor of education in the fall of 2006 and was the recipient of the Teaching Excellence and Campus Leadership Award, as well as the Excellent Educator Award in 2008. White is actively involved in his Team Victory ministry, having taken trips to the Dominican Republic in 2009 and 2010 during which his teams delivered shoes, shirts, and Bibles to impoverished youth while sharing the Gospel through running. White has also led Team Victory trips to Guatemala (2011), Nicaragua (2013) and Belize (2016). White lives in Upland with his wife, Julie ('89), and children, Haley, Keanan, and Connor and also continues to serve as a professor within TUs Education Department.

Vanderbergs first season at the helm of the cross country program brought the Trojans back into the national spotlight, with TU posting a record of 89-23 and earning votes in the NAIA Top-25 Poll for the first time since the 2009 campaign. Taylor took second at the Crossroads League Championships, while sending a pair of runners to the NAIA National Championships. The momentum continued in Vanderbergs second season, as the Trojans cracked the NAIA Top-25 Poll for the first time since 2009, spending the entire year in the national ranking and ending with an 85-13 regular season record. Along the way, Taylor climbed as high as No. 13 nationally for its best ranking since 2000 and claimed a second-straight, second-place showing at the Crossroads League Championships. The season was highlighted by the programs first trip to NAIA Nationals since 1999, where TU finished 15th overall. In his third season at the helm of the mens program, Vanderberg guided the Trojans to a 76-17 record, a third-straight top-three finish in the Crossroads League and a second-straight top-20 performance at the NAIA National Championships. The team posted the four-fastest times of the Vanderberg era and spent the entire season ranked inside the NAIA Top-25, while climbing as high as No. 9 for its highest spot in the national poll since the 2000 campaign. Vanderbergs teams have also found plenty of success in the classroom, as the 2015 squad led the NAIA with eight NAIA Scholar-Athletes, while ranking 10th in the nation with a 3.57 team grade-point average. The academic performance marked the programs third-straight year with a collective GPA over the 3.0 mark under the watch of Vanderberg. In addition to his role as head coach of the mens cross country program, Vanderberg also serves as an assistant coach for the Taylor mens track and field program, where he has focused on the distance squad since the start of the 2006-2007 campaign. During his tenure on staff with the TU mens track and field team, Vanderberg has helped Taylor student-athletes rewrite the programs indoor and outdoor record books by notching a pair of indoor records, one outdoor record and 12 current top-10 marks in outdoor distance events. The performances have led to plenty of accolades, with the distance crew tallying five NAIA All-American honors for Vanderberg. Vanderberg graduated from Taylor in 2006 with a degree in social studies education, before earning a masters degree in higher education from TU in 2013. Vanderberg excelled as a student-athlete with the Trojans as a three-time NAIA National Qualifier in both cross country and track. Vanderberg still owns top-10 marks for Taylor in the 1,500-meter, 5,000-meter and 10,000-meter runs and highlighted his standout career with a seventh-place finish and an All-American honor at the 2005 NAIA Cross Country National Championships. Prior to his days at TU, the Muskegon, Michigan, native was a two-time All-Michigan performer in cross country at Mona Shores High and earned All-Michigan and Adidas All-American accolades as part of the 4x800-meter relay team during his senior season in 2002. Along with his role as the head mens cross country coach and assistant mens track coach at TU, Vanderberg works as a Learning Specialist in the Academic Enrichment Center for Taylor University. Vanderberg is married to his wife, Amy, and the couple currently resides in Upland with their two-year old son,