Jenny Breuer has been the Tiger men’s and women’s head cross country coach since 1999.

Coach Breuer led the Tiger women to a sixth-place national finish at the 2008 NCAA Division III Championships. It marked the best-ever performance by a Tiger cross country team at nationals. Trinity’s women have advanced to the NCAA national championships four times in the last five years as a team.

Caitlin Masse placed eighth at the 2009 NCAA Women’s Championship, the highest finish in history by a Trinity student-athlete, and earned All-America honors. In 2007, Emily Loeffler became the first Tiger runner to be named the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Female Cross Country Female Athlete of the Year. She became Trinity’s first-ever cross country All-American.

Coach Breuer was named the South/Southeast Region Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2004 and 2008 by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).

Prior to focusing on cross country, Coach Breuer had a highly successful eight-year career as Trinity’s head men’s and women’s track and field coach. Coach Breuer led the Tigers to four women’s (2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007) and three men’s (2003, 2007, and 2008) SCAC Championships. She was named conference coach of the year during the championship periods (seven times).

A major highlight of Coach Breuer’s track and field coaching career was Christyn Schumann, who won four NCAA Women’s Outdoor and Indoor High Jump National Championships. Jerheme Urban, now a wide receiver of the NFL’s Kansas City Chiefs, was elected SCAC Male Track and Field Athlete of the Year four times.

For her efforts, Coach Breuer was named the 2007 South Region Women’s Coach of the Year – for the second consecutive time – by the USTFCCCA.
Coach Breuer, who attended Belmont Abbey College (N.C.), was an All-American cross country athlete and a two-time Academic All-American. She later was a graduate assistant coach at the University of Tennessee, before becoming the head track and field coach at Hanover College (Ind.).

Coach Breuer resides in San Antonio with her husband, Ed, and four children: three daughters, Molly, Shannon, Cassidy; and one son, Colin.

Derick Lawrence has been the Tigers assistant cross country and track and field coach since 2010.

Coach Lawrence came to the Trinity campus from his alma mater, DePauw University in Greencastle, Ind., where he was a graduate assistant coach for two years.

Coach Lawrence coached student-athletes to two cross country and six track and field NCAA All-American performances as well as one cross country and seven track and field SCAC champions. Coach Lawrence served as an instructor for the Spring 2010 Mini-Marathon Training class in the Department of Kinesiology at DePauw. 

Prior to his tenure at DePauw, Coach Lawrence was a volunteer assistant coach with the Indiana State University men’s cross country and track and field teams. The Sycamores finished as high as third in the Missouri Valley Conference Cross Country Championships. Coach Lawrence was also a media relations intern, where he produced news releases. He received a Master of Arts in recreation and sport management from the Terre Haute school in 2010.

Coach Lawrence earned the Bachelor of Arts in kinesiology (emphasis in exercise science) from DePauw in 2007.  As a student-athlete, Coach Lawrence competed on the Tigers cross country team from 2003 to 2006, and track and field from 2004 to 2007. Coach Lawrence received All-SCAC Cross Country recognition in 2006. He graduated with the fifth-best all-time DePauw performance in the 10,000 meters, during the 2007 campaign.

Coach Lawrence holds a Level 1 Coaching Education Certificate from USA Track and Field.