United States Air Force Academy Men's Track

Lindeman-coached Air Force teams have produced two national champions, including Callie Calhoun, who earned five titles during her career, and Dana Pounds, who collected back-to-back titles in the javelin. His teams have also garnered 57 All-America selections. Lindeman oversaw the Air Force men's cross country team during the first three years of his tenure (1989-91), guiding the Falcons to their first conference title at the 1991 Western Athletic Conference Championships. Led by two-time WAC champion, Chris Nelson, Lindeman's 1991 team went on to place second at the regional meet and 14th at the NCAA Championships. The team's second-place finish at the regional championships remains the best finish ever by an Air Force cross country team, while its placing at the national meet is the program's second-best finish since 1967. Since his arrival at the Academy, Lindeman has earned many coaching distinctions and honors. He is a 12-time conference Coach of the Year, a three-time USTFCCCA Mountain Region Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year and the 2012 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Men's Indoor Coach of the Year. He was most recently voted as the Mountain West Conference Men's Coach of the Year during the 2013 outdoor season, marking the ninth time he has claimed a MW award (indoor: 2012, 2011, 2008, 2004, 2001; outdoor: 2013, 2012, 2003, 2001). In addition to earning the 1995 WAC Indoor Coach of the Year and the 1991 WAC Cross Country Coach of the Year at Air Force, Lindeman was named the 1989 Big West Coach of the Year while at Long Beach State. His work is not limited to the boundaries of the Academy. Lindeman served as an assistant coach for the U.S. Men's Track & Field Team that participated in the 2007 World Championships in Osaka, Japan. Previously, he was the jumps, pole vault and decathlon coach for the U.S. Men's Track & Field Team at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. That team collected 19 medals - including two Gold and five Silver medals from Lindeman-coached athletes - for the squad's highest medal count since the 1992 Games in Barcelona. He also served as an advisor to the South Korean team at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul and was a scheduling manager for the 1996 Games in Atlanta. In addition to his work with the Olympic Games, Lindeman has also served as the head men's coach for the 2001 World University Games, the 1999 Pan American Games and the "North Team" at the 1993 U.S. Olympic Festival. As the chairman of the hurdle sub-committee for USATF's Men's Development Committee from 1993-2000, Lindeman coordinated video analysis of all hurdle races at USA Championships and Olympic Trials and managed a series of annual mini-camps for the elite U.S. male hurdlers at San Diego's Olympic Training Center. Lindeman has also worked on the coaching staff for the United States men's team at the 1992 World Junior Championships and the "West Team" at the 1987 U.S. Olympic Festival. Lindeman first became excited about track and field as a seventh grader at Phoenix Christian Grade School in Arizona, when his physical education teacher took his class to a collegiate track dual-meet featuring Arizona State and New Mexico. Later, the influences of his high school track coaches, according to Lindeman, "unknowingly inspired me to pursue coaching." Lindeman graduated in 1973 from Arizona State University with a bachelor's degree in physical education. He went on to complete a master's degree in exercise science from ASU in 1976. Lindeman's coaching career began in 1973, when he was an assistant coach at Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, Ariz., working with the football and track teams. From there, he became an assistant track coach at Glendale High School in Glendale, Ariz., working under Ken France, a legend in the Arizona coaching ranks. He also served as the head coach for the cross country and track teams during his five-year tenure at Glendale. Following a stint as the boys' track and cross country coach at Westwood High School in Mesa, Ariz., Lindeman moved up to the collegiate ranks, becoming an assistant track coach at Arizona State, coaching the field events for the men's team. The 1982 Sun Devil team won Arizona State's first-ever PAC-10 title in track and field. In 1982, Lindeman went to the University of Arizona as an assistant coach of the men's and women's teams, overseeing the sprints, hurdles and jumps. Both the men's and women's teams placed in the top 10 at the 1984 NCAA Championships. Lindeman credits Len Miller at Arizona State University and Dave Murray at the University of Arizona for giving him his first opportunities at the university level and teaching him about coaching collegiate athletes. For his 11 years coaching within the state of Arizona, Lindeman was inducted into the Arizona Track Coaches Association's Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2009. Lindeman left Arizona in 1984, when he was named the head coach at Long Beach State University. During his five years there, he took the men's and women's track and field teams, as well as the cross country teams, to new heights in the Big West Conference. He remained with the 49ers until his appointment at Air Force. Lindeman has a simple coaching philosophy, which is summed up in the USAFA core values - "Integrity first. Service before self. Excellence in all we do". He believes that his role as the head coach is to make sure that the program provides a framework in which the cadet-athletes can achieve excellence, not only athletically, but also academically and militarily. In addition to his coaching duties, he has been a featured speaker at coaching clinics in 25 states and four countries, while writing articles that have been published in three journals and chapters of the textbooks "Hurdles: Theory and Technique" and the "USA Track and Field Coaching Manual" (1999 edition). Lindeman has been very active on various track and field committees, as well. He served as the first chairman of the Coaches' Association Ethics Committee, and was elected as the chair of the USATF Coaches Advisory Committee in 2009, a position he still holds. He has also sat on the men's hurdle development committee during four Olympic quadrennials, holding the chairman's position from 1993-2000. In addition, he has served on the NCAA Track and Field Rules Committee, acting as the chairman for the 2000 outdoor championships and was the president of the U.S. Track and Field Coaches Association (Division I Coaches) from 2000-03. Lindeman sees his involvement with these organizations as a way to not only make a significant improvement to the sport of collegiate track and field, but to extend benefits to the development of the Air Force program. He has been married to his wife, Cindy, for the past 43 years, and they have two children and six grandchildren. Their daughter, Jennifer, and her husband, Brian Rowedder, both graduates of Arizona State, have three children: Maddison, Brock and Landon, while their son, Brian, a firefighter in Parker, Colo. and former high school state champion in the pole vault, is married to Heather Dunavint, and has twin girls, Elsie and Mira, and a son, Brogan.

Cole enters his third year working to elevate the distance group as the head cross country coach and assistant track and field coach at the United States Air Force Academy. Four distance runners combined to earn seven All-American honors for the Falcons during the 2015-16 academic year. Hannah Everson (22nd) and Kyle Eller (28th) both earned All-American honors in cross country, marking the first time since 1967 that USAFA had multiple Division I cross country honorees. Everson, Patrick Corona, and Matt Dorsey also earned All-American honors during the indoor and outdoor track and field seasons. Cole guided the men's cross country team to its first Mountain West team championship since 2003, while the women's third-place finish was the best MW team finish for any women's sport in Academy history. Cole, who was named the 2015 MW Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year, saw his distance group also contribute to the men's track and field program sweeping the indoor and outdoor conference titles, marking the first time in USAFA history that the program has won the MW Triple Crown. Individually, Everson had a remarkable senior year, becoming the first female distance runner from any service academy to earn Division I Cross Country All-America honors. She also finished seventh at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 5000-meter run, before perhaps her best individual race -- a third-place finish in the 10,000-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, where she was the top American finisher in the race. Everson, the 2015 Mountain Region cross country champion, set USAFA records on the track for the indoor 3000-meter run (9:18.68a), indoor 5000-meter run (15:53.64) and outdoor 10,000-meter run (32:47.25), while earning USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year awards in cross country (2015) and indoor track (2016) -- the first such awards in program history. Corona had an equally accomplished year. An NCAA cross country qualifier and Mountain West champion in the 3000-meter run, Corona earned Second-Team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships (ninth in the 3000-meter run) and First-Team honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (eighth in the 5000-meter run). He set four school records (indoor mile: 3:59.77a, indoor 3000-meter run: 7:50.60, outdoor mile: 4:00.51, outdoor 5000-meter run: 13:31.66), anchored Air Force to its first distance medley relay win at the Drake Relays, and represented Team USA at the NACAC U23 Championships, winning the 5000-meter run in San Salvador. For his overall excellence in all three seasons, Corona was selected as the Mountain West Male Athlete of the Year for all sports the first recipient of that award for any cadet in Air Force Academy history. Dorsey earned All-America honors during the outdoor track season, being named to the second-team for a 14th-place finish in the 1500-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Dorsey became the fastest 1500-meter runner in USAFA history last season, setting the school record at 3:41.30, while also running 4:00.30 for the full mile during the indoor season. During the fall, the mens cross country team reached a season-high NCAA ranking of 21st on Nov 3 the programs highest ranking since 2005. Corona (second) and Eller (third) earned first-team All-MW honors, while Dan Caddigan (10th) and Dorsey (13th) received second-team All-MW designation. Eller and Corona also received All-Region honors by finishing third and fourth, respectively, at the NCAA Mountain Regional. In addition to winning the womens 6K at the NCAA Mountain Regional, Everson finished third at the conference meet, setting an Academy record for the best individual finish and the third first-team All-MW award of her career. Carina Gillespie joined Everson on the All-Region team, following a 21st-place finish. For the year, the USAFA distance group had nine new Academy records, 28 new event group top-10 marks, and 16 new class records, in addition to receiving 32 academic all-conference honors and 12 Mountain West Scholar-Athlete awards. During his first season with the Falcons, Cole coached Zach Perkins to a national runner-up finish in the 1500-meter run at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. He saw Everson win the 10,000-meter run at the West Preliminary Meet and the women's distance team score 30 of Air Force's 33 points at the Mountain West Indoor Championships. The men added 44 points at the MW Outdoor Championships -- a total that was more than any other distance group in the conference -- and collected Mountain West titles in the two longest races (Corona: 5000-meter run, Eller: 10,000-meter run), following Championship Meet Record-performances in both. Cole also saw the men's cross country team break in the top-30 of the NCAA rankings on Nov. 4 (29th). Backed by a runner-up finish from Corona and a seventh-place finish from Riley Coates, the men finished second at the 2014 MW Cross Country Championships. Prior to joining the staff at the Air Force Academy, Cole spent seven years at Arizona State University, where he served as the women's cross country/distance coach from 2011-2014 and as the men's and women's assistant cross country/distance coach from 2007-2011. While the Sun Devil women's distance coach, Cole coached the 2014 NCAA Outdoor 1500-meter champion and saw his runners account for seven NCAA All-America honors. His 2011 squad qualified for the NCAA Cross Country Championships and his women's teams posted a perfect 1000-rating for the Academic Progress Rate all three years he was the head coach. During his first four years as an assistant coach at ASU, Cole was a part of two NCAA track and field team championships and five NCAA top-four team performances. Cole also handled many logistical responsibilities for the program and served as the home meet director for the Sun Angel Track Classic. While an assistant at Arizona State, Cole founded the Sun Elite Track Club, a post-collegiate group that recorded eight Team USA qualifying performances, including podium finishes at the 2011 U.S. National Indoor Championships (third in the 3000-meter run) and at the 2011 U.S. Cross Country Championships (10th). Cole began his coaching career in 2006 at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan. In his one year with the Timberwolves, the distance group broke 13 school records and Cole helped a pair of runners qualify for the NCAA Division II National Championships, including the school's first men's cross country qualifier and the first women's track and field distance finalist. As a student-athlete, Cole competed for four years at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and one year at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich. A native of Sanford, Mich., Cole graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006 with a bachelor's degree in philosophy.