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2008 women placed 6th at the NCAA Division III Championships marking the highest finish in Trinity and SCAC history
Jenny Breuer is in her 10th season as the Tiger head men's and women's cross country coach.
Last season, Breuer led the women's team to its best-ever finish in Trinity and SCAC history. The Tigers were sixth at the NCAA Championships, despite being unranked heading into the meet. Emily Loeffler earned All-America honors, finishing 17th to lead the team.
Breuer also had two student-athletes earn NCAA Postgraduate scholarships last season. Loeffler earned the NCAA Ethnic Minority Postgraduate Scholarship, while D'Ann Arthur earned the NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
The Tiger women's team has advanced to the NCAA Division III Championships four of the past five years. Trinity placed No. 21 at the 2007 NCAA meet. The Tigers won both the 2004 and 2008 NCAA regional event, and finished second in 2006 and 2007. Trinity's men were ninth-place finishers at the 2007 regional and finished sixth the previous year.
In the 2007 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference events, senior Emily Loeffler became the first Tiger female to win the SCAC Championship. Loeffler was named SCAC Female Cross Country and Track and Field Athlete of the Year. D'Ann Arthur became the first Tiger runner to capture the regional championship, earning Regional Runner of the Year honors.
Prior to focusing her efforts solely on cross country, Coach Breuer also had a highly successful eight-season career as Trinity's head men's and women's track and field coach.
Coach Breuer was named the 2008 SCAC Track and Field Men's Coach of the Year for the third time. After the 2007 campaign, she became the first coach in the SCAC era to be named Women's Coach of the Year four times. She also led the team to seven men's and women's SCAC Championships.
Coach Breuer was also named the 2007 South Region Women's Coach of the Year - for the second consecutive time - by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.
Three men and women earned All-America honors at the 2008 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
A major highlight of Coach Breuer's career is Christyn Schumann, who won four NCAA Women's High Jump Championships. Schumann captured the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Outdoor Championships and the 2005 Indoor title.
Coach Breuer, who attended Belmont Abbey College in Charlotte, N.C., was an All-American cross country performer and a two-time Academic All-American. She later was a graduate assistant coach at the University of Tennessee before becoming the head men's and women's and cross country and track and field coach at Hanover College (IN.). Coach Breuer was also an assistant at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
She is married to Ed Breuer, and they have four kids: Molly (7),
Shannon (5), Colin (4), and Cassidy (2).
Erica Clausen is in her first year as Trinity's assistant coach in cross country and track and field.
Coach Clausen comes to the Trinity campus from Williams College (Mass.) where she held a similar position for two years. Williams is consistently ranked in the top-10 of NCAA Division III cross country and track and field.
Prior to coaching at Williams, coach Clausen was an assistant with the women's cross country program at Northwestern University. Coach Clausen is expected to earn a Master's in Sports Administration from Northwestern in December 2009.
As an undergraduate, coach Clausen was a member of the St. Olaf College (Minn.) NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships qualifying team in 2001. She also earned all-conference track and field honors in 2004, in the 10,000 meters. Coach Clausen was an academic all-conference recipient in 2001, 2002 an 2004.
She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish from St. Olaf in 2004.
Coach Clausen is USATF certified Levels I and II, in endurance training.
An avid marathon and road races runner, coach Clausen placed
third in the women's division of the 2006 New Orleans Mardi Gras
Marathon.