University of Nebraska Women's Track

Pepin is a USTFCCCA Hall of Fame member and has led the Husker programs to a combined three national team titles, 72 conference team titles, 59 individual national champions and 557 individual conference champions. Additionally, 513 first-team All-America honors have been achieved under Pepin, and 57 CoSIDA Academic All-America honors have been earned under Pepin's guidance, which dates back to 1981 for the women's program and 1984 for the men's team. Since Nebraska joined the Big Ten Conference in 2011-12, Pepin's teams have won five Big Ten championships, including a men's sweep of the indoor and outdoor titles in 2016. Individually, Huskers have captured 44 Big Ten event titles, including nine in 2016.  Pepin has been honored as the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Coach of the Year 10 times in his career, including the men's outdoor honor in 2016. He is a 27-time conference coach of the year, including five awards in the Big Ten era. He was the Big Ten men's indoor and outdoor coach of the year in 2016. Pepin was also honored as the 1995 USTCA National Indoor Track Coach of the Year, and earned NCAA District 5 Womens Coach of the Year in 1995 and 1996.   Overall, Pepins teams have dominated the indoor conference championships through the years, winning 24 of the last 37 womens titles, while the Husker men have won 19 of the last 32 meets, including back-to-back titles in 2015 and 2016. Nebraska has also fared well at the outdoor conference championships, winning 18 of the last 37 outdoor conference meets on the womens side and 10 of the last 22 mens titles, including in 2016 when the men finished off the indoor-outdoor Big Ten sweep. Only the fourth coach to guide the NU mens program since World War I, Pepin has maintained the programs stability after replacing the late Frank Sevigne in 1984. Pepins mens program has matched the womens success, capturing 19 indoor and 13 outdoor conference titles during his 36-year tenure.  The Pepin-coached Husker women won the 1982, 1983 and 1984 indoor national championships. Pepin's teams have combined for 23 top-five NCAA finishes over the last 36 years, and 59 Huskers have been crowned national champions, including Nick Percy in the discus in 2016.  Pepin guided Nebraska to an incredible 44 Big Eight indoor/outdoor titles, more than any other coach in the history of the conference. After joining the Big 12 Conference in 1997, Nebraska won a league-high 22 indoor/outdoor titles. Pepin has coached women who have earned 320 All-America awards and 18 indoor and 24 outdoor individual national championships. His male athletes have garnered 193 All-America certificates since 1984, as well as nine indoor and eight outdoor individual national titles. Among the elite athletes Pepin has coached at Nebraska are eight-time Olympic medalist, world champion and world-record holder Merlene Ottey; four-time NCAA champion Rhonda Blanford; Angela Thacker, who missed a bronze medal in the long jump by one-quarter inch at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles; 1989 NCAA outdoor triple jump champion Renita Robinson; 1991 NCAA outdoor 400-meter dash champion and Olympic bronze medalist Ximena Restrepo; three-time NCAA triple jump champion Ineta Radevica; two-time NCAA long jump champion Arturs Abolins; indoor high jump national champion, school indoor and outdoor record holder and 2008 Olympian, Dusty Jonas; 2009 indoor national champion and Big 12 indoor and outdoor long jump champion Nicholas Gordon, who also represented Jamaica at the 2009 IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany; nine-time conference champion Mara Griva and Big Ten champion and 2016 Olympic high jumper Marusa Cernjul. Known as one of the premier jumps coaches in the nation, Pepin coached former Husker Angee Henry, a 10-time All-American, to indoor and outdoor NCAA long jump titles in 1996. Under Pepins tutelage, former Husker Nicola Martial won the 1994 and 1995 NCAA outdoor triple jump titles and added the 1996 NCAA indoor triple jump crown. At the 1996 Olympic Games, Martial represented Guyana in the triple jump. Pepins top male performer prior to Abolins and Jonas was four-time All-American Petar Malesev, the 1995 NCAA indoor high jump champion. The Nebraska men completed its first indoor-outdoor conference title sweep since 2004 by winning both Big Ten Championships, successfully defending their indoor title in the process. Pepin was the Big Ten Men's Indoor and Outdoor Coach of the Year, as well as the Midwest Region Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year. The Huskers captured nine Big Ten event titles and seven All-America honors. Of the nine Big Ten champions, seven went to the Pepin-led jumpers, including Tierra Williams, who swept the Big Ten indoor and outdoor long jump and triple jump to become the first Big Ten female athlete to win all four horizontal jump titles since former Husker Mara Griva under Pepin in 2013. On the men's side, Nick Percy won the discus national title to become the 59th national champion in the Pepin era. The Husker men tied for 10th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, their best finish since 2003.    The Husker men ran away with the Big Ten Indoor title with 127 points, 41 more than runner-up Illinois. The Pepin-led jumpers combined for 42 of the 127 points, as Pepin picked up his first Big Ten Men's Indoor Coach of the Year award. He also added Midwest Region Men's Indoor Coach of the Year, as the Huskers tied for 13th at the NCAA Indoor Championships, their best indoor finish since 2009. Both the Husker men and women were runners-up at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships. Nebraska produced five first-team All-Americans and five Big Ten champions.  The Husker men made history as Pepin guided NU to a dominating win at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships. The Huskers recorded 10 conference titles, eight first-team All-America honors and 10 second-team All-America accolades. Pepin was honored by his peers following the outdoor conference championships as he was named the Big Ten Mens Outdoor Coach of the Year for guiding NU to its first mens title in the Big Ten. Pepin coached Mara Griva to a sweep of the horizontal jumps at both the indoor and outdoor conference championships, while Patrick Raedler won the indoor long jump and Janis Leitis captured the indoor triple jump title. Pepin led the men to a 15th-place finish in the team standings, and was honored by his peers nationally as the Midwest Region Mens Outdoor Coach of the Year. Pepin guided the Husker women to the Big Ten Indoor Conference team title. The Huskers recorded 11 conference titles and 11 first-team All-America honors. Pepin was honored as the Big Ten Indoor Womens Coach of the Year for guiding NU to its first conference team title as a member of the Big Ten Conference. Pepin personally coached four athletes to Big Ten titles in the jumps, including Anna Weigandt with an outdoor triple jump title, Marusa Cernjul with an outdoor high jump title, Griva in the indoor triple jump and Chris Phipps with an indoor long jump crown. Pepin coached three athletes to All-America honors and four individual Big 12 titles in the jumps. Overall, the Huskers notched 10 All-America accolades and 10 individual Big 12 titles, while Pepins womens squad earned the indoor conference title, upsetting four-time defending champion Texas A&M. Pepin was honored as the Big 12 Indoor Womens Coach of the Year and the Midwest Regional Indoor Coach of the Year for the second straight season. Pepin continued to show that he is one of the top coaches in the country, as he personally coached seven athletes to nine All-America honors and four individual Big 12 titles in the jumps. The Huskers totaled 15 All-America awards and seven individual Big 12 titles, while Pepins men repeated as team champioins at the conference outdoor meet. For the teams success, Pepin was named Midwest Regional Indoor Womens Coach of the Year, Midwest Regional Outdoor Mens Coach of the Year and was honored as Big 12 Mens Outdoor Coach of the Year for the second straight season. The men's team title earned the Huskers their 22nd Big 12 title - the most for any program in the conference - and it marked the first time in conference history that a mens program had repeated at the outdoor meet.  Pepin passed Frank Sevigne as the longest-tenured head coach in the history of the Nebraska program. The historic milestones continued as the mens team captured the Big 12 outdoor team title, marking the programs 100th conference title. The Husker men also showed they were a force at the national level, placing in the top 20 at both the indoor and outdoor championships. Nicholas Gordon led the way for the mens team at the NCAA Indoor Championships with a national title in the long jump, as the team tied for fifth, marking the Huskers highest finish since 2005. At the end of the season Pepin was named Big 12 Mens Outdoor Coach of the Year and the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Mens Outdoor Coach of the Year. Of the seven NCAA All-America honors brought home by Huskers in 2008, three athletes were personally trained by Pepin in the jumps, including Dusty Jonas, an eight-time All-American, national champion in the high jump at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships and a member of Team USA at the 2008 Beijing Games. Overall, Pepin sent seven jumpers to the NCAA Championships. Arturs Abolins, under the tutelage of Pepin, became the first NCAA long jump champion from Nebraska, a feat Abolins accomplished at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Abolins also became the first Pepin-coached mens jumper to sweep an event at both NCAA meets in a single season. Pepins program experienced a banner year in 2005 that rivaled the success of any other in the nation. The Nebraska women swept the Big 12 Indoor and Outdoor Championships for the second time, after also achieving the feat in 2000. The women added a pair of top-10 NCAA finishes. The Husker men, who claimed their eighth Big 12 indoor title in nine years, also raced to a pair of top-20 team placings at the NCAA Championships. Individually, Nebraska athletes brought home four NCAA event titles for the third straight year, including titles by Anne Shadle in the mile and 1,500 meters. Equally impressive were the 18 All-America honors collected by NU athletes, including five runner-up finishes. Pepins jumpers combined for five of those awards, including a silver-medal performance by Jonas, then a freshman, in the high jump at the NCAA indoor meet. Jonas later claimed the U.S. Junior and Pan American Games titles following the outdoor season. Nebraskas 2005 season capped a remarkable three-year run that saw the program earn five top-five NCAA team finishes and 13 individual national titles. At the turn of the century, both Husker teams swept the indoor and outdoor titles, which gave Nebraska its fourth sweep through the conference championships. Although the Huskers fell short of being the first team in league history to sweep the mens and womens indoor and outdoor titles in back-to-back seasons (2000 and 2001), NU came closer to accomplishing the feat than any other school by claiming two of the four titles in 2001.  Before coaching at Nebraska, Pepin served as the womens head coach at Kansas in 1976. Pepin also spent nine seasons at Kansas as an assistant to Bob Timmons. During his stint with the Jayhawks, Pepins jumpers established Big Eight bests in every event and earned numerous Big Eight medals, All-America honors and Olympian status. With Pepins guidance, Kansas became the first school in the country to have three men jump over 7-2 in the high jump in the same season. Before joining the Jayhawk program, he coached in the prep ranks in Missouri, and watched his teams capture several conference titles. A native of Pittsburg, Kan., Pepin graduated from Pittsburg High School and Pittsburg State University. He received his masters degree from Kansas in 1974. He is married to the former Jean Ann Frank of Pittsburg, and they have three daughters, Heidi, Lisa and Michelle, and five grandchildren, Carter, Blue, Landon, Millie and Scout.

Martins Nebraska recruiting classes have combined to win three Big Ten Conference team titles and 24 Big 12 Conference team titles, as well as 208 individual titles. The Huskers have also been a powerhouse at the national meet, as they have produced 28 national champions, 250 All-Americans and seven top-five team finishes behind Martins recruiting efforts. Martins work ethic to bring in top-notch talent has not gone unnoticed on the national scene, as the Huskers 2000 and 2006 mens and womens recruiting classes were ranked in the nations top 10 by Track and Field News. The 2008 class was ranked No. 10, and most recently the 2014 womens recruiting class was also ranked No. 10. Since Martin started recruiting for the Huskers in 1997, he has been instrumental in personally bringing in athletes who have earned 11 All-America honors and 10 individual conference titles. In total, Martin has been the lead recruiter or played a key role in bringing in 20 student-athletes who have combined for 56 All-America honors, in addition to many others who competed at a championship-caliber level at conference meets. One of his noteworthy recruits - Nicholas Gordon of Kingston, Jamaica - picked the Huskers over Florida State and Arkansas. In his career, Gordon won a national title, earned three first-team All-America honors, won two Big 12 titles and made a trip to the IAAF World Championships. Gordon was also honored as the 2010-11 Nebraska Male Student-Athlete of the Year. Martin also played a critical role in recruiting Chad Wright (six-time All-American and 2012 NCAA discus champion) and recently all-conference runners as freshmen Mara Weekes and Ellie Grooters in 2011. Martin also helped attract 10-time All-American Mara Griva, six-time All-American Carl Myerscough and four-time All-Americans Levi Gipson and Melissa Price to NU. Although Martin has proven to have one of the best eyes for talent in the nation, he has also been impressive as an individual coach once student-athletes arrive on campus. Martins NU sprinters, hurdlers and relays have combined for 16 All-America honors, 12 individual conference championships and one NCAA title, placing NU athletes among college track and fields elite during that time. Martins sprinters and relay teams combined for three runner-up finishes at the Big Ten Indoor Championships in 2014 and one third-place finish. Chantal Duncan placed second in the 400 meters, and Shawnice Williams was second in the 600 meters, while Grooters took third in the 600 meters. The 4x400 relay team (Duncan, Grooters, Williams, Weekes) took second to garner second-team All-Big Ten honors as well. As an assistant with the Husker sprints, hurdles and relays in 2012, Martin helped coach the mens 4x100 meter relay team to a berth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In addition, his efforts guided the womens indoor distance medley relay team to a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Bellevue, Neb., native Lukas Hulett excelled under Martin, earning All-America honors indoors and outdoors in the 400 meters as a sophomore in 2008. As a freshman in 2007, Hulett earned indoor All-America honors in the 400 meters and was a member of the All-America indoor 4x400-meter relay team along with fellow freshmen Scott Wims and Dan Christensen and senior Nate Probasco. Hulett then carried his success to the outdoor season, qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 400 meters. In 2007, Wims went on to post a seventh-place finish in the 200 meters at the outdoor championships for his second All-America finish. He and Hulett were two of five Martin-coached Huskers to qualify for the 2007 NCAA Championships. Under Martins supervision, Wims went on to win the 200-meter crown at both the U.S. Junior Championships and the Pan Am Junior Championships, while also finishing third in the 100 at both competitions. Additionally, NU freshman Dax Danns competed for his native Guyana at the Pan Am meet, finishing third in the 200. The top hurdler in NU womens history, Priscilla Lopes-Schliep concluded her outstanding career in 2006 under Martins watch. An eight-time All-American and five-time Big 12 champion, Lopes-Schliep was the national runner-up in both indoor and outdoor high hurdle events for the fourth and fifth consecutive national competitions during her final season as a Husker. She served the role as NUs high-point scorer at both conference meets. Lopes-Schliep led the way for the Husker womens team in 2005 with two more silver-medal finishes in the 60- and 100-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships just one season after claiming her first national title in the 60-meter hurdles as a freshman. Martin also tutored former Husker and 2004 Olympian Nenad Loncar, who won a conference title in the 60-meter hurdles as a senior in 2005. NUs sprint and hurdle relays have also benefitted from Martins presence. The 4x100-meter relay team of Arturs Abolins, Oliver Williams Jr., Nate Probasco and Dusty Stamer won the Big 12 outdoor title for the second straight year in 2005, the first time in Nebraska history that the men had won the event in consecutive seasons. In 2007, NUs 4x400 relay team of Wims, Christensen, Probasco and Hulett finished third at the Big 12 indoor meet and went on to qualify for the national outdoor competition. While Martins athletes have excelled on the collegiate level, they have also participated on the world stage. His latest success was Lopes-Schliep, who earned the bronze medal for Canada in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, China. The medal was the first medal for Canada in track and field since Donovan Bailey in 1996. Lopes-Schliep then continued her success in 2009 as the took silver at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany. Lopes and Loncar each represented their home nations in the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Greece, while Lopes-Schliep followed with a berth in the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland. She reached the semifinals of the 100-meter hurdles at the competition. In 2004, the North Platte, Neb., native coached Lopes-Schliep to her first national championship in the indoor 60-meter hurdles, as well as two other All-America honors in the 60-meter dash and outdoor 100-meter hurdles. His 4x100-meter relay team of Shelldon Simpson, Oliver Williams Jr., Probasco and Stamer also earned All-America status by placing eighth at the NCAA outdoor meet. A former sprinter/jumper for the Huskers from 1990 to 1993, Martin was an undergraduate coach for Nebraska in 1994 and was a graduate administrative assistant for Nebraska in 1995 and 1996. As an undergraduate coach, Martin helped Gary Pepin coach Nicola Martial to an NCAA outdoor title and a runner-up finish at the 1994 NCAA Indoor Championships. During that same time, he also helped coach Angee Henry to All-America honors as a freshman and a U.S. Junior National championship in the long jump. Martin, who graduated from Nebraska with a degree in business administration in May 1994, completed his masters degree in athletic administration in August 1999. His father, Doug Martin, was the former head track and field coach at North Platte High School for 23 years, and was on the Husker staff as a volunteer coach. Martin is married to the former Michelle Delka of Lincoln. The couple has two daughters, Jocelyn and Reese, and a son, Elijah.  

Earl has earned certification from the Track and Field Academy in meet and program management. Prior to her promotion as director of operations, Earl served as an operations and recruiting assistant with the track and field team. She assisted in the daily operations of the track and field program, recruiting and team travel. Earl earned her bachelor's degree in exercise science and fitness programming at Liberty University, where she also competed in track and field. She then moved on to get her master's degree in exercise science with concentrations in biomechanics and exercise physiology at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Earl resides in Lincoln with her husband Kurt.

Harris took over in 2012 for Jay Dirksen, who retired after 28 seasons as Nebraskas distance coach and head cross country coach. Harris helped guide Anna Peer to a breakout season as a sophomore in 2015. Peer ran a personal-best 34:10.58 in the 10,000 meters to win the Mt. SAC Relays and move to No. 3 all-time in NU outdoor history. Peer also cracked the all-time outdoor top 10 in the 3,000 meters, winning the Musco Twilight title in 9:40.18. She also moved to No. 10 in the 5,000 meters with a time of 16:35.34 at the Pac-12 vs. Big Ten Invitational. Peer was the 3,000-meter winner at back-to-back indoor meets at the adidas Classic and Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational, giving her four event titles in 2015. Peer showed well at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a fourth-place finish in the 10,000 meters. Shawnice Williams closed out her Husker career with a runner-up finish in the 800 meters at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships and a third-place 600-meter finish at the indoor meet. For the men, freshman Moujtaba Mohammed posted a fourth-place finish in the 600 meters at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and ran an 800-meter personal-best 1:50.49 at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships. In 2014, Harris coached London Hawk, who registered a third-place finish in the 600 meters at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. Hawk was also part of the second-best distance medley relay run in school history (9:32.85) at the Alex Wilson Invitational. Under Harris, the Husker mens distance medley team finished fifth at the Big Ten indoor meet with a time of 9:48.16. Harris coached Trevor Vidlak to a fourth-place finish in the mile run at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. Freshman Jacob Holtmeier took eighth in the 800-meter run at the indoor meet as well. Additionally, Harris led Anna Peer as she finished 14th in the Big Ten Cross Country Championship to earn second-team All-Big Ten honors. At the Alex Wilson Invitational, the Husker mens DMR team posted a 9:32.85, the second-best oversized mark in school history. It came one season after the 2013 DMR squad set a school record for an oversized track with a time of 9:31.71 at the Alex Wilson Invitational, better than any DMR run in school history. Harris also guided the Huskers to more success in 2013, leading the distance and middle distance squads. He coached 800-meter specialist Shawnice Williams and 3,000-meter steeplechase specialist Jessica Furlan to honorable-mention All-America awards at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Furlan finished second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the 2013 Big Ten Outdoor Championships, earning All-Big Ten honors. She posted a personal-best time of 9:58.52 in the event at the Mt. SAC Relays to cement her spot at No. 2 on the all-time list at Nebraska. Furlan also won the indoor 3,000 meters title at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and notched a pair of top-five finishes in the mile and 5,000 meters. Williams finished second in the 600 meters at the 2013 Big Ten Indoor Championships. She advanced to the 2013 NCAA Championships with a personal-best time of 2:05.26 in the 800 meters at the preliminary round in Austin, Texas. In 2012, Harris coached the womens indoor distance medley relay team to a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Boise, Idaho, posting a record time of 11:09.83 for first-team All-America honors. Harris also guided Ashley Miller to a stellar senior season, earning second-team All-America honors in the 1,500 meters at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championship as she finished with a personal-best time in the event. Miller also earned three conference titles in 2012, finishing first in the outdoor 800 meters, the outdoor 1,500 meters and the indoor 3,000 meters. She also etched her name into the Husker record books with her time of 9:17.28 in the indoor 3,000 meters, setting a school record. In addition, she won the 1,500 meters and broke the meet record at the Drake Relays in 2012. Later in the summer of 2012, Miller represented Nebraska at the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., where she competed in the semifinals in the 800 meters and 1,500 meters. Harris has strong ties to Nebraska, as he coached NUs middle distance runners and the mens sprinters and hurdlers for seven years before becoming the head cross country and track and field coach at Emporia State in 1992. In his first stint at Nebraska, Harris coached many student-athletes to records that still stand including the womens outdoor 800 meters (Sharon Powell), the mens outdoor 400 meters (Ken Waller), the 1,000 meters (Dieudonne Kwizera), the 400-meter hurdles (Mark Jackson) and the 4x400-meter relay. As the Hornets head coach for 19 years, Harris was named MIAA Coach of the Year 11 times and brought Emporia State to the top of the Division II ranks, as the mens squad finished fourth at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in 2011. One of the most respected coaches in the track and field community, Harris was the first non-Division I president in the history of the USTFCCCA. The leadership and direction of Harris was essential in bringing the NCAA Outdoor Championships to the Flint Hills in 1995, 1999 and again in 2006. Emporia State won 10 MIAA team championships under Harris and had 20 runner-up finishes. In 1999 he became only the third coach to lead both the mens and womens teams to MIAA outdoor titles in the same season. The ESU women earned the schools first top-four finish nationally with a fourth-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Emporia in 1999. It was the second of three national championship meets at Witten Track/Welch Stadium held under Harris leadership. Harris has served in numerous leadership roles within the USTFCCCA and has earned two prestigious awards. He was named the 2001 USTCA Womens NCAA Division II National Outdoor Coach of the Year and was most recently awarded the Jimmy Carnes Distinguished Service Award by the USTFCCCA. He is the former Division II Executive Council Chairman and was the first non-Division I President of the USTFCCCA, serving in that role from 2005-06 and leading the association through its reorganization in 2005. Harris received his bachelors degree in physical education/social science and a masters degree in athletic administration from Truman State, formerly Northeast Missouri State University. At TSU, he was a four-year letterman in cross country and track and field and captained the track team for two years. After college, Harris joined the elite section of the St. Louis Track Club sponsored by adidas. From 1979 to 1981 he ran seven marathons with a personal-best of 2:19.54 in New Orleans. At the 1979 Boston Marathon, he qualified for the 1980 U.S. Olympic Trials with a time of 2:20.46. Harris retired from competitive road racing in 1981 to concentrate fully on coaching. Harris is married to the former Kathy Bechhold, and the couple have two sons, John-David and Jared.

Cappos joined the Husker staff as the teams throws coach in the fall of 2014 and has had more than 100 athletes qualify for the NCAA Championships (preliminary round and finals) in his 20-plus years of collegiate coaching. He has coached more than 50 athletes to conference championships and All-America honors in the shot put, discus, javelin, hammer, weight throw, long jump, high jump, heptathlon and decathlon. Cappos made his mark on the program in his first year with the Huskers in 2015. He guided Sarah Firestone to the Big Ten Outdoor javelin title with a school-record throw of 184-3 (56.15m). He also led Will Lohman and Nick Percy to second-team All-America honors in the hammer throw and discus, respectively. Firestone also qualified for nationals in the javelin, as did Lohman in the shot put. Both finished 17th, just missing second-team honors. Lohman broke his own hammer throw school record twice in the outdoor season, topping out at 216-2 (65.89m). The freshman Percy moved into second all-time with his PR throw of 207-8 (63.31m). A native of Ventnor, England, Percy was named the UK's top freshman athlete competing in the NCAA in 2015.  Before coming to Nebraska, Cappos spent 18 seasons at the University of Iowa as an assistant coach and director of field events. While at Iowa, his athletes tied or broke Big Ten records in the hammer throw, javelin and long jump. The 2011 Iowa mens team won the Big Ten Championship with heavy contributions from athletes Cappos recruited and coached. His athletes qualified for the NCAA Championships 15 years in a row and were named All-Big Ten 18 years in a row by either winning or placing second at the Big Ten Championships. Cappos has coached more men to 60-foot throws in the shot put and 190-foot throws in the discus than any other coach in Big Ten history. His athletes rewrote the records at Iowa, including eight of the top-10 all-time shot-putters, nine of the top-10 all-time discus throwers and all 10 of the top javelin, hammer and weight throwers in Hawkeye history. Before coaching at Iowa, Cappos was an assistant coach at Western Michigan University. He trained seven All-Americans during his tenure, and Western Michigan won the MAC and CCC team titles both seasons. Cappos started his coaching career at West Salem High School in Wisconsin. Cappos is one of a handful of USATF Level III certified coaches in the throwing events and is a USATF Level II certified coach in the jumps and a certified instructor for USATF. Cappos coached with Team USA at the 2011 Pan American Junior Championships, leading athletes to 10 gold medals. Cappos also earned Regional Throws Coach of Year from USTFCCCA in 2007. Several of Cappos former athletes have represented their countries in various international competitions, including the Olympic Games and World Championships. Cappos was a professional track and field athlete while teaching and coaching. He competed all over the globe and at several major international meets, including the Pan American Games, World University Games and the Commonwealth Games for Canada. During his athletic career at Indiana University, Cappos won the Big Ten Championship in the shot put in 1990 and 1991 and was a three-time All-American. He earned his bachelors degree in kinesiology with a minor in social science. He and his wife, Jennifer, have a son, Sam, and a daughter, Amelia.

Maxwell has been a critical element to the success of the Husker track and field program over the last two decades and was rewarded in 2015 with a selection to the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame. Maxwell was both the 2014 Indoor and Outdoor Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year, adding to the honors he received in 2005 and 2009. At Nebraska, Maxwell has coached male and female student-athletes who have earned 44 first-team All-America awards, 34 individual conference titles and three national championships. Throughout his coaching career at Nebraska, Texas, LSU and Tennessee, Maxwell has been the head coach or an assistant coach on four national championship teams, eight second-place teams and seven teams that placed third. Along with his success at the NCAA Championships, Maxwell has been a part of 93 conference championship teams. Under Maxwell's guidance, Oladapo Akinmoladun achieve first-team All-America honors in the 60-meter hurdles for the second straight year, and the 4x400-meter relay team of Levi Gipson, Tanner Townsend, Sam Bransby and Cody Rush won the Big Ten outdoor title and claimed first-team All-America honors with a third-place finish.  In 2015, Akinmoladun won a repeat Big Ten Indoor title in the 60-meter hurdles while earning first-team All-America honors. Maxwell's 4x400-meter relay team (Jake Bender, Gipson, Cody Rush, Drew Wiseman) earned runner-up honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships for the second straight year, running an indoor school-record 3:04.83.  Maxwell logged an incredible list of accomplishments in 2014, personally coaching one national champion, three first-team All-Americans and four Big Ten champions. Under Maxwells training, Miles Ukaoma capped his career with a 400-meter hurdles national championship and Big Ten championship. Ukaoma went on to represent Nigeria in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Maxwell also coached the mens 4x400 relay team to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships and sixth-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The outdoor relay team won the Big Ten title. Indoors, Akinmoladun (60-meter hurdles) and Gipson (600 meters) took home Big Ten titles under the guidance of Maxwell. In 2013, Maxwell coached Ukaoma to first-team All-America honors in the 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The mens 4x400-meter relay team earned All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Maxwell led the Huskers to two Big Ten titles in 2013, as Nebraska took home the indoor 4x400-meter crown and the outdoor 4x400-meter crown. Under Maxwells guidance in 2012, Ukaoma progressed as one of the top competitors in the mens 400-meter hurdles. He produced catapulting performances as a sophomore, earning the 2012 Big Ten 400-meter hurdles title with a personal-best time. Ukaoma went on to compete at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines, where he earned second-team All-America accolades. Maxwell guided NUs sprint and hurdle squads to prominence once again in 2011. He saw four athletes earn All-Big 12 honors in the 60-meter hurdles at the indoor conference championship. His athletes combined for four top-eight finishes in the 400 hurdles at the 2011 Big 12 Outdoor Championships, while senior Adam Dailey improved his 2008 time of 50.33 with a time of 50.11 to take fourth. In 2010, Lehann Fourie rewrote the Nebraska record books under the tutelage of Maxwell. During the indoor season, Fourie broke David Davis Jr.s 2003 record of 7.70 in the 60-meter hurdles with a time of 7.67 at the NCAA Indoor Championships on his way to earning All-America honors. During the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in Columbia, Mo., Fourie broke Willie Hibler (1997) and Kirkland Thorntons (2009) 110-meter hurdle record of 13.50 with a time of 13.44. Fourie finished the year with All-America honors in the 110 hurdles as well. The 2009 season was one of Maxwells best in recent memory, as his athletes earned three All-America awards, broke one school record, tied a school record, won a Big 12 title and earned five bids to the NCAA Championships. Maxwell had an unheard of seven hurdlers regionally qualify in the 400-meter hurdles, while another four qualified in the 110 hurdles, including Thornton, who swept the events at regionals. Following the collegiate season, Fourie represented South Africa at the World University Games in Belgrade, Serbia, where he took silver with a then-personal-best time of 13.56 in the 110-meter hurdles. For his success in 2009, Maxwell was honored as the Midwest Region Mens Sprints/Hurdles Assistant Coach of the Year for the second time in his career, after also receiving the honor in 2005. One of Maxwells latest success stories has been Thornton, who transferred to Nebraska from Eastern Illinois prior to the 2008 season and redshirted to take in a year of training under Maxwell prior to competing as a senior. Entering 2009, Thornton had personal bests of 7.83 and 14.27 in the 60- and 110-meter hurdles, respectively. By the end of the season, Thornton had dropped his times to 7.75 and 13.50, tying the school record in the 110 hurdles. Thornton earned All-America honors in the indoor 60-meter hurdles, and also in the 110-meter and 400-meter hurdles outdoors, becoming the first Husker in school history to be named an All-American in both outdoor hurdles at the same meet. Since 2004, Maxwells athletes have combined to earn 24 All-America awards. Three were crowned NCAA champions and 13 school records were broken or tied. Four of his former Husker athletes competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, with two more competing at the 2008 Games in Beijing, China. Former Husker hurdling sensation Priscilla Lopes-Schliep won the bronze in the 100-meter hurdles in Beijing for her home country of Canada. It was the first Canadian medal in track since Donovan Bailey in 1996. In 2009, Lopes-Schliep earned the silver at the IAAF World Championships in Berlin, Germany.  Dmitrijs Milkevics became the first NU mens athlete to win an outdoor national championship in a running event since 1967, winning the 2005 NCAA title in the 800 meters. Milkevics also broke the collegiate record in the indoor 600 meters at the Frank Sevigne Husker Invitational. Lopes-Schliep capped a remarkable 2004 indoor season with her first national title in the 60-meter hurdles. Lopes-Schliep claimed eight All-America honors in her three seasons training under Maxwell, while Milkevics totaled three. Both athletes concluded their careers in 2005 among NUs all-time greats, combining for seven school records and seven individual Big 12 championships. Maxwell also guided former Husker Mark Harrison to his first Big 12 title in his final opportunity in the 400-meter hurdles during his senior season in 2006, while Nenad Loncar claimed his first Big 12 title in the 60-meter hurdles during the 2005 indoor season. During the summer of 2004, Lopes-Schliep, Milkevics and Loncar each represented their countries in the Olympics. Milkevics highlighted the competition with his semifinal appearance in the 800 meters, while former Husker Egle Uljas also competed at the Games. Lopes, Milkevics and Uljas also competed at the World Championships in Helsinki, Finland, in 2005. In 2003, Maxwell coached David Davis Jr. to a conference title in the 60-meter hurdles with an indoor Big 12 meet-record time of 7.70. Davis also captured All-America honors in the 110-meter hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with his seventh-place finish. Maxwell helped develop Loncars talent in the hurdles, as Loncar took fourth place at the Big 12 indoor meet and won silver at the conference outdoor championships. Loncar also won silver in the high hurdles at the NCAA Midwest Regional and earned an automatic bid to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, where he made it to the semifinals before being eliminated. Maxwell coached the Husker mens 4x400-meter relay team at the conference indoor championships that finished third and gave Nebraska a half-point win over Texas to retain the indoor conference crown in 2003. He also saw Danny Hill and Andy Nelson take third and seventh-place finishes, respectively, in the 400-meter hurdles at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships the same season. Maxwell came to the Husker staff after successful stints at several of the nations premier track and field programs. In his career, Maxwell has coached 49 athletes who have eclipsed the 14.0 mark in the 110-meter hurdles and 11 athletes who have broken 50 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles. Before joining the Huskers in 1996, Maxwell spent four seasons coaching the sprinters, hurdlers and horizontal jumpers and helped revamp the University of Texas sprint corps. Fourteen of his Longhorn athletes earned NCAA All-America status. Prior to coaching at Texas, he was the head coach of the mens and womens programs at LSU from 1982 to 1987. Maxwell transformed the Tigers from a perennial SEC also-ran into one of the nations elite programs. At LSU, he developed 26 NCAA champions and 189 All-Americans, while leading the womens team to a national championship at the 1987 NCAA Outdoor Championships and a runner-up finish in 1985. He also guided the mens team to a fifth-place finish at the 1987 outdoor NCAAs. LSUs mens and womens teams finished first in combined NCAA scoring in 1986 and 1987. Maxwell took over the top job at LSU after a successful stint as an assistant coach at Tennessee (1970-82) under the legendary Stan Huntsman. Working with the Volunteer sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers, Maxwell coached more than 100 NCAA All-Americans, 19 NCAA champions and Olympic Gold Medalist Willie Gault. While at Tennessee, Maxwell also coached two world-record relay teams, including the mens 4x200-meter relay team that set a record time of 1:21.30 in 1976, and the mens 4x110-meter shuttle hurdle relay team that clocked a record time of 54.40 in 1981. A native of Cairo, Ga., Maxwell received his bachelors degree from Florida State and began his coaching career at Columbia (Ga.) High School. He was named Georgia Coach of the Year in 1967, leading Columbia to two state titles in four seasons before moving to the collegiate ranks. Maxwell is married to the former Kay Shoemake. He is the father of two sons, Emory and Billy.