My favorite track 📸 ever…
We have spent many hours on the field after a 4x4 at National meets. 7 National titles and 6 All-American performances later, able to share one more moment this year!
Not a coincidence that Ted’s last race was a National Meet 4x4!
Thanks coach!
I know there are many reasons on why you need to pick a college, but when a recruit lets us know that DIII isn’t competitive…no wonder us coaches get a little feisty!
If you are a recruit or involved with a recruit…just be educated!
@D3GloryDays
🚨NATIONAL MEET ENTRIES🚨
Entries for the 2024 D3 Indoor National Championships are now live.
Here’s what it took to qualify with the last marks accepted. 20th mark for individuals and 12th time for relays.
See you in Virginia Beach!
“I am fortunate and grateful to have this opportunity at Nebraska Wesleyan University.”
Sprinters/Relays Coach Derrick McKenzie has been elevated as the Interim Head Track and Field & Cross Country Coach.
@nwutfxc
#YipYip
#PWolfNation
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A special man.
A special mentor.
A special leader and coach.
A special friend and colleague the past 8 years.
Love you, coach. Congrats on your retirement!
End of an era...
After 38 seasons as Director of Track and Field & Cross Country at Nebraska Wesleyan University, Ted Bulling has announced his retirement from coaching.
@nwutfxc
#YipYip
#PWolfNation
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I truly am speechless! When someone says “fast guys” … this is what they look like!
We just ran 3:09 in the 4x4…you don’t need “big school” to run fast!
☝🏼🔥🔥SCHOOL RECORD🔥🔥☝🏼
Not a typo…3:09.79 in the 4x4 for a BRAND NEW SCHOOL RECORD!
Dickinson👉47.41
Anderson👉47.34
Conner👉47.31
Lenners👉47.30
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
That’s a wrap on the indoor season!
Bella Hogue picked up her 8th career All-American honor spanning from the 60-100-200-400-4x4!
The men finished 14th in the 🇺🇸higher than any ARC school!
Etherton got up his 2nd career AA while Mackowski was the national runner up in the HJ!
Three things…
1 - I’ve heard recruits tell me DIII isn’t fast enough in the NCAA…this is just the conference meet…
2 - Garrett just skipped the 1:49’s!
3 - Congrats to 🧌 Gary for breaking this record!
🥈All-Conference🥈
☝🏼🔥SCHOOL RECORD🔥☝🏼
Garrett Lenners runs 1:48.69 to break the school record held by Blake Henning (1:49.23) in 2004!
Also THREE guys going 1:48 at the conference championship…YEESH!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
So proud of Gabby Thomas!
This sport is never easy and to place in the top 10 in the ARC 2️⃣ years in a row is a job well done 👍👊🏾👏.
Bigger things ahead in the month of November!
Great celebration for the NWU track team. Shout out to my better half for his dedication to the sport for well over 40 years. Also-Cheers to the other coaches and their spouses for their unwavering support of the athletes.
@nwutfxc
Blessed to train on a beautiful gold Mondo track…
Blessed to be outside for practice in 11/13…
Jacked to watch our kids rip some 300s and 200s spiked up today!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Director of Athletics, Dwight Merilatt, announces the hiring of Derrick McKenzie as the next Director of Cross Country and Track & Field.
#YipYip
#PWolfNation
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Saw this picture the other day, it’s always good to have a mentor and I have had many. One of my best ones is this guy…coach Scott Etherton. Thankful he keeps me in line and never lets me take myself too seriously…he is also one of the best to ever do it. A legend in my eyes!
I will continue to beat this 🥁 and sing this 🎼 to recruits, families, and coaches…
Understand your potential and know where you fit athletically. This is not some JV or intramural sport.
These are legitimate ELITE level marks!
🚨NATIONAL MEET ENTRIES🚨
Entries for the 2023 D3 Outdoor National Championships are now live.
Here’s what it took to qualify with the last marks accepted.
With it being the week of thanks, I am thankful to be part of one of the most successful programs in the country!
Thankful to work with talented student-athletes everyday and been given the opportunity to see these performances with my own eyes!
#nwutfxc
#pwolfnation
🥈DRAKE RELAYS RUNNER UP🥈
The men’s sprint medley got second in a tight race!
Squad of Dickinson🔥Conner🔥Anderson🔥Lenners runs 3:22.09 which is also the 2nd fastest time in school history!
21.40👉21.55👉48.16👉1:50.42
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One of my favorite nights of the year…our Nationals dinner!
We like to run fast but we also enjoy every step of the way and have fun doing it!
😤Can’t wait to watch them compete this weekend😤
Enjoyed celebrating this special group of talented XC runners tonight at our annual banquet!
Talented runners, but even better people. Capped off with the signature white elephant gift exchange.
Some odd gifts, but it’s the thought that counts!
#nwuxc
#pwolfnation
So happy for him and deserving of all that he gets!
Grateful to call him my mentor in this sport…guy retires and still just WINS!
#nwutfxc
#pwolfnation
Congrats to Ted Bulling, on receiving the Jimmy Carnes Distinguished Service Award
Jimmy Carnes Distinguished Service Award is presented to individuals who go above and beyond in their service to the Association and to the sports of XC & Track and Field. Congrats, Ted!
#nwutfxc
🫵Make 4x4 handoffs a priority🫵
I’ve heard before that 4x4 handoffs are “unimportant” … not so fast!
✅and see how much time the guys make up on exchange 1…Ben shoots out of the cannon into the turn!
One of my biggest joys every week is a speed day!
Love watching our kids spike up and run fast!
Explosive as a race 🏎️ and creating shapes like a 👨🏫!
Oh and there are some big time athletes in this group…🏆🥇
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Not only is at
@coach_frese
an amazing coach but look at these majestic pictures he took!
Two conference champions in the jav…proud athletes with their equipment…picture perfect!
Proud of
@JohnnyRutford
… a distinguished alumni, teammate, and townhouse mate!
Just a tip to all recruits out there, you don’t have to go D1 to be successful in running…to be clear Johnny…a D3 athlete is competing for a spot in the Olympics!
@PrepRunningNerd
@D3GloryDays
Wishing our very own, Johnny Rutford, Class of 2013 graduate, best of luck in Orland as he competes in his 2nd Olympic Marathon Trials this Saturday February, 3rd! Race goes off at 10am EST, 9am CT, live on Peacock! Good Luck, Johnny! We are proud of you!
#nwutfxc
#pwolfnation
His best race will be tomorrow leading off the National final in the 4x4!
PSA to all recruits out there who might believe DIII is 🐢… it took 46.93 to make the final this year … 🐇.
Thankful this job gets to take me places around the country I never get to see!
So excited for this week at the NCAA National Championship and watching our athletes compete at a high level!
For any athlete out there battling hardships…this man gives a good lesson in perseverance!
Also … you got to be some type of dog though to run low 47’s and 21’s!
This week the class of 2027 will take part in the annual tradition of "first walk" through the 1896 arch. This is a symbolic event marking the start of their NWU college journey 🐺
The event will be streamed on Facebook beginning around 5 p.m. on August 16. Join us!
This has nothing to do with
@nwutfxc
but it does show that D3 has SUPER talented individuals that choose D3 over “bigger” schools!
Same holds true in our program and in our conference! I wonder how many “bigger” schools would have enjoyed running 3:09 this year 🤔?
Took this picture today at high noon!
I respect
@coach_frese
so much…guy is always at practice making our throwers better.
No surprise he has won 🖐️ Regional Coach of the Year honors!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
One last thank you…
@MikeJaytrackxc
for getting on the mic the last two days!
With us being from “Nebraska” we don’t get to hear your voice a lot, when we do…it’s a treat. Thank you!
☝🏼🔥SCHOOL RECORD🔥☝🏼
Kyle’s time of 47.12 breaks the 400 school record held by Chris Wolf (47.18) from 2007!
It also puts him in the top 10 nationally!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Another weekend getting the opportunity to see our athletes compete at a high level at a high level facility!
Recruits…your opportunity can be next!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Bret - 17 Conference titles, 15 All-American Awards, 🤚National Titles!
Claire - 5 All-American Awards, 8 Conference Titles
Dr. Zeff - 24 years of serving and leading our athletic department!
An unbelievable hall of fame class!
#nwutfxc
#pwolfnation
🔥ᴄᴏᴍɪɴɢ ɪɴ ʜᴏᴛ🔥
Eli Etherton earns All-American honors after placing fifth in the 60m hurdles at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships 🐺
#YipYip
#PWolfNation
Coaching life puts your time at home at a minimum…so happy to finally get the chance to celebrate our little man’s birthday yesterday!
Happy 1 year of life Marcus!
🥉DRAKE RELAYS 4x8🥉
This squad ran the 6th fastest time in school history and got THIRD in a loaded field
@DrakeRelays
!
Anderson➕
Kenney➕
Coulter➕
Lenners➕
🟰7:38.71
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Unknown outside of the walls of Knight Fieldhouse…this was a LONG time comin!
🤘🏼quick notes…
✔️Onto Nationals next week
✔️YOU👏CAN👏RUN👏FAST👏ANYWHERE
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
THAT WAS 🧨🧨🧨🧨!
Then men run the 🔥FASTEST🔥 4x4 in school history on a flat 200 track!
Squads converted time to the banked track is 3:12.53!
🔋Nationals NEXT🔋
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
🚨GET RID OF D1 OR BUST MENTALITY🚨
These were the top 2023 Men’s 100m times in D3… NEW ENGLAND
If you are a HS Junior or Senior and your time is not on this list:
- get to work if D1 is all you want
- or realize where you should look instead
COMPETITION EVERYWHERE
Always good to 📽️ and view from different angles!
If you listen closely you can hear the force into the blocks, these are college hurdlers!
DYK our men’s 60H squad had the
#1
ranking all indoor season last year?
Talent ➕ coach Etherton 🟰 success!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Entries are in, the stage is set!
‼️🏆Your 2024 Prairie Wolf NCAA Indoor National Championship Qualifiers🏆‼️
🛫Lincoln ➡️ Virginia Beach🛬
March 8th-9th
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#pwolfnation
🥇CONFERENCE CHAMPION🥇
Bella Hogue wins the 60 with a SCHOOL RECORD time of 7.58 and is currently the SECOND fastest time in the country!
She was zoomin…🚣♂️🏎️🏍️!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
#PWolfNation
is celebrating National Girls and Women in Sports Day.
Erin Dwyer, assistant athletic director, is one of our many outstanding female leaders. 👏 Thank you for your dedication!
🥈ɴᴀᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ʀᴜɴɴᴇʀ-ᴜᴘ🥈
Eli Mackowski earns All-American honors after placing second in the high jump at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships 🐺
#YipYip
#PWolfNation
How I felt last night knowing what we just did at ⚫️ vs 🟡 and knowing what is coming 😎
VS
How I feel this morning knowing we won’t see the athletes again until January😕
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Three things…
1 - I’ve heard recruits tell me our division isn’t fast enough…let’s educate and do our homework!
2 - these dudes were absolute dogs today!
3 - I might have passed out during the race!
🥉All Conference🥉
Men’s 4x4 throws down a 3:12.57!! That is the 7th fastest time in school history!
Anderson🔥48.36
Christenson🔥48.56
Conner🔥47.37
Lenners🔥47.86
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Congrats to our WESPY winners from last night!
Ceremony made me realize how luck I am to coach great young and talented student-athletes!
And big shoutout to Bre Geary and Gabby Thomas who did an amazing job organizing it all!
We don’t hit the trails much with our fall 800 group. We train as sprinters!
But every now and then we throw in some good hard LT work like today.
Great work from the guys today!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
🧯SCHOOL RECORD🧯
Men’s 4x8 runs the FASTEST time in school history running 7:41.80!
Gabe Anderson👉1:55.6
Javier Kenney👉1:56.3
Mason Coulter👉1:57.9
Garrett Lenners👉1:51.70
Congrats men!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
🔥Women’s 4x4 of Geary-Hilger-Thomas-Hogue light the track up with 3:48.47! That time puts them 2nd in the country currently and 4th in school history!🔥
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#pwolfnation
On a personal note, he was my teammate and shared a 3rd floor townhouse with this guy…we had fun, but WOW are we proud of him!
Loving running after collegiate running is something we instill in our distance runners!
@D3GloryDays
Congrats to our very own
@JohnnyRutford
on qualifying for the 2024 🇺🇸 Olympic Trials in Orlando on 2/3/24!
What a race this morning! Check those splits!
@D3GloryDays
A goal of 46 in the open was set in August!
This is not an April Fools joke, 47.38 on April 1 is serious.
22.00👉33.94👉47.38 … a few splits for you casual fans out there.
Feels good to stretch those legs outside!
👏Kyle Dickinson 👏unloads with a 47.38 which is the 2nd fastest time in school history and dangerously close to a school record!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
I bet my
@NCAADIII
coaching friends and colleagues would agree 🤝 you can run fast ANYWHERE!
I encourage you to “know” before you say ❌”no”❌ to a DIII school…we can also run fast!
No better resource than right here 👉
Garrett Lenners earns the BIG Q!
He qualifies for what could be a record setting 800m final at the NCAA National Championship!
How about 6 out of the top 10 guys coming from the
@AmerRiversConf
!
#nwutf
#pwolfnation
Guys ran great today and excited for more!
I do this every now and then but just a little PSA…you don’t have to go to a “bigger” division to run fast.
Go where you can compete and feel valued!
To say we were 👶🏻 on the men’s side is an understatement…
Not only was our top 5 all freshman but so was our 6th!
Women’s team ran so strong with multiple season and career bests.
Couldn’t be happier but always striving for more!
#nwuxc
#pwolfnation
Last one of the year!
Finished up the season on a high note today!
Men finish 17th, 3 places higher than last year with a team full of freshman!
Women finish 16th as our 4 seniors close out their NWU XC careers!
#pwolfnation