Winona State University Women's Track

Rebarchek enters his 13th season with the Warriors. Coach Rebarchek leads a program which is getting stronger and stronger each year with national qualifiers and All-Americans to show for the efforts of Rebarchek and his coaching staff. During his time at Winona State 32 different athletes have competed at the NCAA Championships claiming a total of 40 All-America honors and five individual national championships. Three of those National Champions have come in the past two seasons. In addition, 27 Warriors have received 57 All-Academic awards, including Lauren Brown who received the NCAA's prestigious Elite 88 award in 2010. In just his first season, in 2004-05, Rebarchek coached the track and field team to a sweep of the Indoor and Outdoor Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) championship meets, winning the Indoor meet by 98 points. The success of his team led to him being named the NSIC Indoor Coach of the Year. To cap off the 2004-05 season Rebarchek coached WSUs first NCAA II Track & Field All-American when Deidra Faber placed 4th in the 400 hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Warriors continue to remain among the top teams in the NSIC placing 4th or better at every outdoor championship meet since 2005, including a runner-up finish in the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The Warriors also placed second at the NSIC Indoor Championship in 2013. Rebarchek helped lead the the Warrior 4x400 meter relay to a fourth place finish at the 2015 NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships, with the team earning USTFCCCA First Team All-American honors. Rebarchek also coached the Warrior 4x400 meter relay to conference championships at both the indoor and outdoor meets in 2013, setting a conference record in the event during the indoor season. Prior to coaching at Winona State, Rebarchek was an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he coached the hurdlers. Rebarchek competed in indoor and outdoor track and field while at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he earned NCAA Division III All-America honors two times as a 110-meter high hurdler. He was also Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Champion in the 110-meter high hurdles. In 1997 Rebarchek was a member of the UWL NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor National Championship teams. Rebarchek has had previous success in the 110-meter high hurdles, winning the 1996 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletics Association Division I State Championship as a member of the Onalaska (Wisconsin) High School track and field team. Rebarchek graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. Mason lives in Winona with his wife, Ashley and children, Skyler, Lily, and Tessa. Mason Rebarchek Head Track & Field Coach/Director of Cross Country Winona State track and field head coach Mason Rebarchek enters his 13th season with the Warriors. Coach Rebarchek leads a program which is getting stronger and stronger each year with national qualifiers and All-Americans to show for the efforts of Rebarchek and his coaching staff. During his time at Winona State 32 different athletes have competed at the NCAA Championships claiming a total of 40 All-America honors and five individual national championships. Three of those National Champions have come in the past two seasons. In addition, 27 Warriors have received 57 All-Academic awards, including Lauren Brown who received the NCAA's prestigious Elite 88 award in 2010. In just his first season, in 2004-05, Rebarchek coached the track and field team to a sweep of the Indoor and Outdoor Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) championship meets, winning the Indoor meet by 98 points. The success of his team led to him being named the NSIC Indoor Coach of the Year. To cap off the 2004-05 season Rebarchek coached WSUs first NCAA II Track & Field All-American when Deidra Faber placed 4th in the 400 hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Warriors continue to remain among the top teams in the NSIC placing 4th or better at every outdoor championship meet since 2005, including a runner-up finish in the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The Warriors also placed second at the NSIC Indoor Championship in 2013. Rebarchek helped lead the the Warrior 4x400 meter relay to a fourth place finish at the 2015 NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships, with the team earning USTFCCCA First Team All-American honors. Rebarchek also coached the Warrior 4x400 meter relay to conference championships at both the indoor and outdoor meets in 2013, setting a conference record in the event during the indoor season. Prior to coaching at Winona State, Rebarchek was an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he coached the hurdlers. Rebarchek competed in indoor and outdoor track and field while at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he earned NCAA Division III All-America honors two times as a 110-meter high hurdler. He was also Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Champion in the 110-meter high hurdles. In 1997 Rebarchek was a member of the UWL NCAA Division III Indoor and Outdoor National Championship teams. Rebarchek has had previous success in the 110-meter high hurdles, winning the 1996 Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletics Association Division I State Championship as a member of the Onalaska (Wisconsin) High School track and field team. Rebarchek graduated from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse in 2000 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance. Mason lives in Winona with his wife, Ashley and children, Skyler, Lily, and Tessa.

Turgeon is in his 12th season with the Winona State track and field program for the 2015-16 academic year and has developed the Winona State throws program into one of the premier Division II throws programs in the country. In the past 10 years, he has coached an All-American in each of the six throwing events and four different individual NCAA Division II National Champions. Turgeon's throwers also hold all of Winona State's throws records and the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference record in the Discus and Weight Throw. Coach Turgeons Success Includes the following: 4 NCAA Division II National Champions 30 NCAA Division II All-Americans 22 NSIC Individual Conference Champions 2 NSIC Conference Record Holders 61 NCAA Division II National Championships Participants 24 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team members 122 NCAA II Provisional Qualifiers 1 USA Olympic Trials Participant 2 USATF Juniors Qualifier Coach Turgeons Student-Athletes continue to sustain the best WSU throwing program in school history: All of the top 10 20# weight throwers 9 of the top 10 indoor shot putters 9 of the top 10 outdoor shot putters All of the top 10 hammer throwers All of the top 10 discus throwers Top two javelin throwers in school history Turgeon's efforts have not gone unnoticed by his peers across the nation. He has been named the Central Region's Division II Women's Assistant Coach of the Year three times; 2007, 2010, and 2011. With his ability to coach and develop throwers, in 2008 Turgeon was selected to attend the Elite Coaching Camp at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California. Turgeon was selected from nominations from United States of America Track and Field Development Event Coordinators, USATF Coaches Education representatives, the National High School Senate members and by application. The camp serves to help educate coaches on how to develop athletes who will one day compete in the Olympics or World Championships. As an athlete, Turgeon competed as a thrower at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he was a two-time NCAA Division III National Champion in the discus. He was a six-time NCAA Division III All-American in the discus and the weight throw. Turgeon won four Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Championships in the discus and was a school and conference record holder in the discus. Turgeon has an undergraduate and masters degree from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Health and Physical Education and a Master of Science in Sport Administration. Coach Turgeon is also the Director of the Student-Athlete Services Department at Winona State University. The mission of Student-Athlete Services is to give student-athletes the maximum opportunity of academic achievement by providing an enriching environment. Student-Athlete Services provides quality academic support and life skills development for student-athletes. Turgeon lives in Onalaska, Wis. with his wife Abby, and children Drew, and Lola. Mike Turgeon is in his 12th season with the Winona State track and field program for the 2015-16 academic year and has developed the Winona State throws program into one of the premier Division II throws programs in the country. In the past 10 years, he has coached an All-American in each of the six throwing events and four different individual NCAA Division II National Champions. Turgeon's throwers also hold all of Winona State's throws records and the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference record in the Discus and Weight Throw.

Perkins enters his fifth season as the Winona State Womens Track and Field Jumps and Multi Event Coach. Over the course of his 26 years of collegiate coaching experience, Perkins has coached eight NCAA national champions and thirty nine All-Americans in the jumps and multi events. In his first four years at Winona State, Perkins athletes have broken school records in the Long Jump, Triple Jump and in the Heptathlon, while placing toward the top of the Northern Sun Conference. Perkins, a former two time national champion in the triple jump, began his collegiate coaching career at his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin La Crosse. As an assistant coach, Perkins helped lead the mens team to three NCAA Division III National Titles. While at Wisconsin La Crosse he recruited and coached Bill Schroeder who, after completing a standout career at Wisconsin La Crosse, went on to spend 11 years playing football in the NFL. He followed his tenure at Wisconsin La Crosse at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh where he was an assistant womens track and field coach and director of strength and conditioning for seven seasons. During that time he helped lead the Titans to seven NCAA Division III National Championships. At Wisconsin Oshkosh Perkins tutored 44 WIAC individual event champions, three USTFCCCA Division III Athletes of the Year and Wisconsin Oshkosh school record holders in the Long Jump, Triple Jump, High Jump and the Heptathlon. Perkins coached All-American and national champion Melissa Mueller who went on to set the American indoor record in the pole vault and compete for the United States at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.   Perkins holds a Bachelors degree in Physical Education and a Masters degree in Exercise Sports Science / Biomechanics from Wisconsin La Crosse. In 1999, Perkins was inducted into the Wisconsin La Crosse Athletic Hall of Fame.

Ayers is in his fourth season as head cross country coach at Winona State. Last year he guided the men to a 15th place finish at the Central Region Championships while the women finished eighth. He had one runner earn USTFCCCA All-Region honors. In 2014, Ayers helped lead the women's cross country team to the NCAA Championship for the fourth consecutive season, bringing home a 17th place finish. The Warriors also finished third in the NSIC Championship and fourth at the NCAA Central Region Championship.  Ayers helped guide the men's team to a sixth place finish at the NSIC Championship and a 14th place finish at the NCAA Central Region Championship.   Ayers also guided the Warrior womens team to the NCAA Championship during his rookie campaign, with the program advancing to the national meet for the second consecutive year. WSU finished 16th as a team at the NCAA Championship while placing fourth at the NCAA Central Region meet and third at the NSIC Championship. Ayers guided Jessica Young to All-American honors while Jordan Skelly joined Young on the all-region team. The Winona State mens cross country team improved its standing in 2013 as well, placing fifth at the NSIC Championship and 11th at the NCAA Central Region Championship. Prior to taking over as head coach, Ayers was an assistant with the cross country program during the 2012 season, helping guide the WSU womens squad to a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Division II Cross Country Championship, the highest postseason finish in program history. He also helped lead the Warrior mens team to a 16th place finish at the NCAA Central Region Championship.   Ayers has put together a long and distinguished coaching career at the high school, college and professional levels. Both Kayla Gudmundson and Young earned All-American honors for the Warriors in 2012 under Ayers guidance.   Ayers began his coaching career as the head cross country and track and field coach at Elmhurst College from 1990-93 where he transformed a program that historically struggled into a perennial conference contender. He was tabbed to begin the cross country program at Guilford College in 1993, working at the school until 1998. He moved into the professional ranks from 1998-2002, working as the Director of Track and Field for club team GVAV Rapiditas in the Netherlands. He also taught at coached at Rijksunisiteit in Groningen, winning a pair of cross country national team titles while also coaching numerous Dutch individual national champions.   Ayers returned to the United States where he became the head coach at Cotter High School in Winona from 2002-06, winning three cross country conference titles and coaching four individual state champions. He also worked as an assistant cross country coach at Saint Marys University in Winona from 2006-11 before joining the Warrior coaching staff in 2012.   Ayers ran collegiately at North Carolina where he earned a degree in Chemistry. He also holds Masters Degrees in Sports Management and Exercise Physiology from Springfield College. After college Ayers ran professionally for New Balance for seven years.