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Head Coach
Marlon Brink
Years at Wayne State:
Seven years
Education:
Bachelors Degree - Midland Lutheran, 1991
Masters Degree - University of South Dakota, 1999
Contact Information:
Phone: (402)375-7507
E-mail: mabrink1@wsc.edu
Marlon Brink enters his seventh year as the head men's and
women's track and field coach for Wayne State College. He
is also in his seventh season as the head coach for the men's
and women's cross country program.
Brink coached the Wildcat men's indoor and outdoor track
teams to first place finishes during the 2006 season at the
NSIC Championships. The WSC women placed second and fourth
at the indoor and outdoor championships respectively. He had
three NCAA National qualifiers in the indoor season and four
in the outdoor season. Katie Wilson finished fifth at the
NCAA National Indoor Championships, which earned her NCAA
Division II All-American honors for the first time in school
history. Brink was named the NSIC Men's Track Coach of the
Year for guiding the Wildcats to team titles in the indoor
and outdoor seasons and he was selected a finalist for the
Omaha World Herald's Midlands Men's College Coach of the Year.
Brink guided the Wildcat women's indoor and outdoor track
teams to second place finishes during the 2005 season at the
NSIC Championships, the highest finishes for the Wayne State
women since joining the Northern Sun Conference. The WSC men
placed fourth at both indoor and outdoor championships. He
had two NCAA National qualifiers in both the indoor and outdoor
seasons, marking the first time that WSC had two athletes
qualify for the NCAA National Championships.
Brink spent six years at Mount Marty College in Yankton,
S.D. He spent his last five years at Mount Marty as the head
coach of the men's and women's cross country and track and
field programs. He was an assistant coach with the Lancers
during the 1994-95 season.
Brink was named the 2004 NSIC Indoor Men's Track Coach of
the Year after leading the Wildcats to a second place finish
by scoring 125 points. He has helped WSC land several premier
regional and conference meets in the past several years. Wayne
State hosted the 2003 NCAA Division II North Central Regional
Cross Country Championships, the 2004 NSIC Indoor Track and
Field Championships and the 2004 NSIC Cross Country Championships,
the 2006 NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships and
will host the 2006 NCAA Division II North Central Regional
Cross Country Championships on November 4 at the Wayne Country
Club. Brink has coached a total of 60 individual
track and field conference champions at Wayne State (35 men
and 25 women).
Brink was instrumental in building successful programs at
Mount Marty. He took over the programs in their third year
of existence and quickly turned them into one of the top teams
in the South Dakota Intercollegiate Conference. He has coached
34 SDIC individual conference champions, 16 NAIA Scholar-Athlete
award winners and 9 NAIA All-Americans. In addition, 72 school
records have been set or broken during Brink's tenure.
The Lancer women's track team placed 20th at the NAIA Outdoor
National Championships. On the men's side, the cross country
team placed second at the 1995 SDIC Championships, while the
indoor track and field team finished second at the SDIC Championships
in 1998.
Brink, a native of Atkinson, Neb., began his coaching career
as an assistant coach at South Dakota State University. He
spent two years with the Jackrabbits.
A 1991 graduate of Midland Lutheran College, Brink was a
standout cross country and track and field performer for the
Warriors. He qualified for the 1990 NAIA National Cross Country
Championships, and he was a two-time national qualifier in
the marathon. In 1991, Brink placed 12th at the NAIA Outdoor
National Championships. In addition, Brink earned three NAIA
Scholar-Athlete awards.
Marlon and his wife Jeanne are the parents of a daughter,
Courtney (1 1/2), and newborn son Andrew (June 29, 2006) and
they reside in Wayne.
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