University of Cincinnati Women's Cross Country

Wineberg coaches the Bearcats 400 meters, multi-events and high jump. // COACHING EXPERIENCE Wineberg joined the UC coaching staff in Fall 2006 as an assistant coach where he strictly worked with the mens and womens sprint groups. In Fall 2015, he was promoted to associate head coach with coaching responsibilities for the 400, multi events and high jump. Over his nine seasons at Cincinnati, he has coached athletes to 30 school records, 33 all-conference performances, 11 conference individual and relay titles, 33 NCAA First Round bids, 10 NCAA Championship bids and five All-America honors. Wineberg also served as a coach and training partner for his wife, Mary Wineberg, for seven years. During her professional career, she was one of the Worlds top 400-meter runners and won Olympic Gold at the 2008 Beijing Olympics in the 4x400-meter relay. Mary ranked as high as eighth in the World in the 400-meter dash during her career. // 400M DEVELOPMENT Winebergs tutelage in the 400 has done wonders for the Bearcats, most recently with Kenya Woodall, who has become one of the nations top 400 runners. In 2015, Woodall qualified for the NCAA Championships and the USA Senior Nationals. She also broke her own school records during the indoor (53.73) and outdoor (51.78) seasons. On the mens side, he coached Antione Drakeford to All-America honors in 2009 while also grabbing conference titles in 2008 and 2010. Drakeford still holds UCs school records in the indoor (46.59) and outdoor (45.83) 400. In 2014, Wineberg led Darnell Gilbert to an indoor conference title and a runner-up finish outdoors. Wineberg has also had success in the 4x400-meter relay with his squads holding the womens indoor and outdoor school records and the mens outdoor record. // MULTI-EVENT DEVELOPMENT Competing in the multi-events was Winebergs specialty, so coaching it has become second nature to him. Jasmine Cotton has arguably been Winebergs most successful project becoming a three-time All-Conference performer and a two-time All-American from 2008-12. More recently, he helped Alex Bloom reach the USA Junior Nationals in the decathlon in 2015 and led Kaitlyn Good to a runner-up finish in the heptathlon at the American Athletic Conference Outdoor Championships. // HIGH JUMP DEVELOPMENT Winebergs leadership in high jump has been incredible over for UC standouts Erika Hurd and Loretta Blaut. Hurd set the bar for this group the this season by earning the indoor and outdoor conference titles, two All-America honors and qualifying for the USA Senior Nationals for the indoor and outdoor season. Blaut followed suit by earning a runner-up finish at outdoor conference and qualifying for the USA Junior Nationals in 2015. Altogether, Wineberg had three high jumpers on both the mens and womens side place at conference. // TRACK & FIELD CAREER Wineberg was a two-time conference champion in the decathlon at UC and an All-American in 2004. He holds the school record in the decathlon, with a score of 7,584. Wineberg graduated from UC in 2004 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He was also honored as the Legion of Excellence Award winner for graduating with the highest senior GPA of the team in 2004. Post collegiately, Wineberg competed at the national level for two seasons and placed as high as fifth at the indoor U.S. National Meet in the heptathlon. In Fall 2015, Wineberg was inducted into the Greater Cincinnati Hall of Fame. // PERSONAL LIFE Wineberg is married to former UC 400-meter standout and 2008 Olympic gold medalist Mary Wineberg. The couple has two daughters, Brooklyn and Olivia.

Burroughs also will continue to work with the mens distance and middle distance runners on the track following the cross country season. In the three years at Cincinnati, Burroughs men have fared well in cross country, capturing the Queen City Invitational team title in 2015 and a pair of Top 10 showings at the All-Ohio Championships. On the conference level, the men finished as runners-up in the American Athletic meet in both 2013 and 2014 and added a fifth-place finish in 2015. Individually, Burroughs has guided four men to all-conference accolades (Top 15 at the conference meet), including Toby Loveridge in 2015, who finished seventh overall in the 8,000m race. Other men that have earned the honor included 2013 recipients Evan Baum (sixth), Kevin Fink (13th) and Oliver Book (14th) and Fink (fifth) once again in 2014. On the track, Burroughs athletes have accounted for 40 marks that rank in the programs all-time Top 10 individual times and eight more on the relay charts. In 2016 alone, he fielded four relays outdoor (three school records) and two relays indoor (two second-ranked marks) that all now rank among the Top 5 all-time in program history. Individually, Vanessa Robinson twice broke the schools freshman record in the 3,000m steeplechase, clocking a time of 11:07.05 to finish 10th in the conference meet and qualify to the USATF Junior Championships. Several men also fared well on the conference level in 2016, including Dan Huben, who raced to a third-place finish in the 3,000m steeplechase to earn all-conference accolades and six team points. A pair of his teammates, Fink and Greg Sanders, both scored in the Top 8 in the 10,000m run at the American Championships, placing fifth and eighth, respectively. Several other runners also made the finals in their respective distance events, just missing out on Top 8 placements. Burroughs comes to UC after a three-year stint at North Texas. During his time with the Mean Green, he saw a complete transformation of their distance programs. He coached six All-Conference performers in cross country: Patrick Strong (2010), Sara Dietz (2010, 2011), Ingrid Mollenkopf (2010, 2011), Jo Adams (2012), and Troy Taylor (2012).In 2011, Burroughs was named the Sun Belt Conference Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year. The success in cross county spilled onto the track for North Texas. Burroughs coached multiple athletes to a number of school records: Sara Dietz broke a 31 year old record in the indoor 800m and 3000m, Ingrid Mollenkopf rewrote her own school record in the 10,000m, Josephine Adams broke Dietz's 3000m and took down two 1980 records in the indoor mile & outdoor 1500m, Charlotte Wilson chopped 30 seconds off the 3000m steeplechase record, and Matt Russ to rewrote the oldest North Texas indoor school record from 1974 in the 800m.Point contributions from the distance events was a key factor when the North Texas women's program won back-to-back Sun Belt Outdoor Conference Championships in 2012 and 2013. Prior to North Texas, Burroughs spent two years in the same position at Abilene Christian University, where he collected two Lone Star Conference Championships, a South Central Regional Championship and a fourth-place finish at the NCAA championship meet in men's cross country. He was named the 2008 South Central Regional Coach of the Year by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association as well as the Lone Star Conference Men's Coach of the Year in 2008 and '09. In 2010, Burroughs coached Amos Sang to first place finishes in both the 5,000 and 10,000 meter runs at the NCAA Championships as well as leading Sang and Cleophas Tanui to first and second place finishes, respectively, in the 10,000 meter run at the prestigious Penn Relays in 2009.  Before joining the ACU staff, Burroughs was the assistant cross country coach and an assistant track and field coach at Iona College (N.Y.) for three seasons. Burroughs helped lead the Gaels to unprecedented success from 2005-07 as he was part of a program that posted three straight top-four finishes at the NCAA Division I national cross country championship meet, 4th in 2005, 3rd in 2006, and NCAA National Runner-ups in 2007. While at Iona, Burroughs helped coach the Gaels to three straight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) titles and helped the women's program to its third straight MAAC title. Additional coaching stops include Manhattan College and Boston University. Burroughs, who earned his bachelor's degree in Exercise Physiology in 2000 from the University of Buffalo, competed as a top member for their programs. Burroughs remained at Buffalo for graduate work, earning his Master of Science in Human Performance in 2002.

Kranz had five All-Conference performers, two conference champions, four NCAA First Round competitors, three NCAA Championship qualifiers and three All-Americans. Before coming to UC, Kranz worked at Murray State University as an assistant coach to the jumpers and multi-event athletes. Prior to his experience at Murray State, he was a volunteer assistant at his alma mater the University of Northern Iowa where he worked primarily with the pole vaulters. Kranz is a USTFCCCA Multi-Event Specialist, USATF Emerging Elite-Jumps participant, and USA Track & Field Level I Coach. // POLE VAULT DEVELOPMENT Kranz made an immediate impact on UC’s pole vault group as he aided then freshman Adrian Valles earn All-America honors during the indoor and outdoor season along with qualifying for the 2015 IAAF World Championships in Beijing, China, by clearing 18’ 6.5” (5.65m). Valles also set the Bearcats’ indoor and outdoor school records and won the indoor and outdoor conference titles. // HORIZONTAL JUMPS DEVELOPMENT The Illinois native also succeeded in the horizontal jumps in his first season at UC. During the 2015 season, freshman Rebecka Abrahamsson achieved All-American status in the triple jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Abrahamsson was the highest finisher out of all American Athletic Conference competitors and the second highest freshman finisher in the competition. On the men’s side, Sergio Acera Villanueva and Tariq Sanders earn All-Conference honors in the long jump finishing second and third. // TRACK & FIELD CAREER Kranz graduated from UNI with a degree in English Education. As a student-athlete, he competed most notably in the pole vault with a career best of 17’ 7” (5.36m). During his four seasons, he competed at the NCAA Championships three times. He also garnered three Missouri Valley Conference titles in pole vault and earned six all-conference finishes.

Faustin-Parker served as the Director of Track & Field Operations and Assistant Coach at her alma mater, North Carolina. Faustin-Parker has revamped the Bearcats’ sprints group in her just two short years with Nick Kowaleski and Shanice Smith serving as the top two standouts. Kowaleski ran 10.48, which ranks seventh in UC history, in the 100-meter dash and missed the NCAA Preliminary Round by one spot. He is also tied for seventh in the Bearcats’ history in the 60-meter dash. Smith ran 24.28 in the 200-meter dash during the 2014 outdoor seasons, and her time sits fourth in UC history. She also holds the fifth fastest indoor 200m time and is tied for seventh in the 60-meter dash. The former Olympian has also had success in the 4x100-meter relay with the women’s team taking third place at the conference championships in 2014 and the men finishing fourth. Both times rank Top 10 in Cincinnati history with the women’s being the third fastest and the men ninth. A total of nine Top 10 UC sprint times are held by student-athletes coached by Faustin-Parker.Faustin-Parker’s tutelage in the hurdles has done wonders for Bearcats’ superstars Bryan Cain and Je’Rica Sanders, who both qualified for the NCAA Preliminary round in 2014. Cain had clocked a 7.87 in the 60-meter hurdles for the third fastest time in UC history. He also ranks seventh in the 110-meter hurdles. Sanders sits second in Bearcats’ history in the 60-meter hurdles after running 8.36 during the 2015 season. She also ranks fourth in the 100-meter hurdles. A total of eight Top 10 UC hurdle times are held by student-athletes coached by Faustin-Parker. She also boasts an individual conference champion in Andre Anderson, who captured the 400m hurdles title in 2015 in a school-record time of 51.12. 

Seaton Bio (PDF) Susan Seaton, now in her 12th year at the helm of the University of Cincinnati track & field/cross country program (2015-16 academic year), has led the charge for a program on the rise as her current roster continues to rewrite the record books and move up in the national and regional rankings. This season also marks her first campaign as the full director of the Bearcats program after having the interim title removed on May 19, 2015. Having served as an assistant coach, head coach and now director, Seaton continues to work with the programs throwers while also overseeing all facets of the mens and womens programs. Under Seatons leadership, her program has continued to focus upon a One Team approach - valuing every member of the team and providing a family atmosphere. The One Team ideal can be seen throughout all aspects of the Bearcats program, including support for teammates as well as other UC student-athletes and their teams. // COACHING EXPERIENCE Seaton has held several different titles throughout her 11 full seasons in Cincinnati. On May 19, 2015, Seaton was named the Director of Track & Field/Cross Country for the Bearcats, having the interim tag removed from the title she was given the previous September. Prior to her eight-month stint as the interim director, Seaton served as the womens head coach for six years, first being named the interim head coach in June 2008 and then receiving the full title in May 2009. Seaton started with the Bearcats program in time for the 2004-05 season when she came aboard as a mens assistant coach. Through the entirety of her UC career, Seaton has worked and continues to work with the mens and womens throws group. Before joining the Bearcats, Seaton spent six seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin and three years as an assistant at Northern Arizona University. Seaton has a Level I and II USA Track & Field coaching education certification, and she is a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy and a member of the Alliance for Women Coaches. She also served on the NCAA Division I Track & Field/Cross Country Committee for five years, including a stints as the chair of the 2015 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships and the 2014 NCAA Cross Country Championships. In addition to her committee responsibilities, Seaton also speaks at major coaching clinics across the United States. // ATHLETE DEVELOPMENT Since joining the Bearcats in time for the 2005 season, Seaton has had a role in the successful development of many student-athletes. As an event coach, head coach and program director, Seaton and her staff have worked with 11 different Bearcats that have tallied 19 total All-America honors; 41 student-athletes that have participated in 86 events at the NCAA outdoor regional meets; and has had 23 different Bearcats collect 33 conference crowns (32 individual, 1 relay). During the 2016 indoor season, the Bearcats collected seven of those 33 conference crowns, including sweeps of the mens and womens long jump and weight throw competitions. Rebecka Abrahamsson swept both the long jump and triple jump events while Erika Hurd made it three in a row in the high jump competition and four overall (one outdoor title). Along with the womens team finishing runners-up, Annette Echikunwoke earned Female Field Performer of the Meet following her dominating weight throw victory. Similar to the previous seasons, the women took aim at rewriting the record books in 2016 as six school records were broken, including three of the four throwing events (both weight throws and the mens shot put). Echikunwoke smashed the weight throw mark, breaking the record five different times during the season, while Macklin Tudor (SP) and Josh Province (WT) took down the mens throwing marks. All told, both programs combined to record 68 marks that ranked among the schools all-time Top 10 indoors, including 35 marks by the men and 33 from the women. The 2015 seasons saw Seatons throwers make major alterations to the schools record book. Combined between the men and women, both indoor and outdoor, her athletes reset nearly half (five total) of the schools records in a possible 12 throwing events. On the mens side, Tudor broke three throwing records, resetting the top marks in the shot put, both indoor and outdoor, as well as the discus. Frida Akerstrom also had a hand in multiple records as she took the top ranking in both the indoor and outdoor shot put while throws teammate Monica Phillips bettered the standard outdoors in the hammer. For the program as a whole, 17 total school records were reset in 2015. To cap the 2015 campaign, six All-America honors were attained, including two each from Hurd (indoor and outdoor high jump) and Adrian Valles (indoor and outdoor pole vault), a competitor in the pole vault for Spain at the 2015 IAAF World Championships. Also earning All-America accolades were Abrahamsson (outdoor triple jump) and Kenya Woodall (outdoor 400m), the first such honors for both women. Through the 2015 outdoor season, Seatons throwers have accounted for nearly 61-percent (60.8) of all marks on the schools all-time Top 10 lists. Of a possible 120 positions, the women (46) and men (27) have combined to hold 73 of UCs all-time marks both indoor and outdoor. Additionally, her throwers have collected eight total conference titles, including three of a possible four in the shot put during the 2015 season. That year, Tudor won the mens outdoor title while Akerstrom was the victor in both the indoor and outdoor competitions. Prior to her time at Cincinnati, Seaton mentored five All-Americans, 16 conference champions and nine NCAA qualifiers. She also was part of 15 conference championship team titles and 10 NCAA Top 10 teams. // ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE Off the track, Seaton has guided the womens program to new heights in the classroom, and has set a plan in motion to do the same with the mens program. In each of the last four seasons, the womens program has earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team Awards. In 2009, the cross country program garnered a program high GPA of 3.64, which ranked them 18th in the country amongst all Division I institutions. UC has also named 11 individuals to the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team for reaching the NCAA regional while also posting a GPA greater than 3.25. Most recently, the mens cross country team was honored following its 2015 season as the program with the highest GPA of all mens teams at UC as the team combined to post a 3.571 GPA. Combined for the 2015 fall semester, 62 student-athletes (33 women & 29 men) earned a 3.0 GPA or better, including 37 (18 women/19 men) that earned a 3.4 GPA or better to be named to the Deans List. On top of that, seven individuals posted a perfect 4.0 GPA for the semester to earn TopCat status. // COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT Seaton has also led the Bearcats in countless community projects around the Greater Cincinnati Area. UC has volunteered with organizations like Girls on the Run, the local veterans hospital, Operation School Bell, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital, Cincinnati Freestore Foodbank and Habitat for Humanity, as well as mentoring at various schools throughout the city of Cincinnati and surrounding areas. // PERSONAL LIFE A native of Saalfeld, Germany, Seaton earned her bachelors degree from the German College of Sports Science in 1991 and a masters in exercise science from the University of Leipzig in 1994. Seaton was a standout athlete for the East German junior track and field team and competed for her German club team SC Motor Jena from 1984-87. She has competitive experience in the javelin, discus, shot put, multi events, high jump, long jump, hurdles and cross country. Susan and her husband, Robert, reside in College Hill and have two sons, Patrick and Aidan. // COACHING POSITIONS HELD AT CINCINNATI Year Position 2004-05 - Assistant Coach Men 2005-06 - Assistant Coach Men 2006-07 - Assistant Coach Men 2007-08 - Assistant Coach Men 2008-09 - Head Coach (Interim*) Women 2009-10 - Head Coach Women 2010-11 - Head Coach Women 2011-12 - Head Coach Women 2012-13 - Head Coach Women 2013-14 - Head Coach Women 2014-15 - Director of T&F/XC (Interim^) Men & Women 2015-16 - Director of T&F/XC Men & Women * Named interim 6/26/08, with interim tag removed on 5/13/09 ^ Named interim 9/19/14, with interim tag removed on 5/19/15