Men's Track and Field Head Coach - Chip
Schneider
 |
| Chip Schneider |
Chip Schneider enters his sixth
year as the head men's track and field coach and second
season as the head women’s track and field coach.
During his tenure in Eau Claire
Schneider has coached fourteen individual All-Americans,
two All-American relay teams and six individual conference
champions. Eleven school records have been broken since
Schneider has been head coach.
Schneider comes to Eau Claire after
being a graduate assistant coach at UW-La Crosse. At La
Crosse Schneider coached hurdles, long jump, triple jump
and sprints for the 2002 indoor and outdoor NCAA Division
III men's national champions. From 1995-96 and again from
1999-01 Schneider was an assistant men's and women's track
and field coach at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville
where he coached sprints, hurdles and all jumps
In the spring of 2007 Schneider
was the lead instructor for sprints at the University
of Wisconsin Learn-By-Doing Camp. Schneider was also the
lead instructor for the 2002 UW-La Crosse High School
Learn-By-Doing Track Clinic where he was the lead clinician
for sprints and hurdles. In 2001 Schneider served as an
instructor for the Madison High School Learn-By-Doing
Track Clinic. Schneider was an assistant clinician for
sprints and hurdles.
Schneider was a national champion
in the long jump and in the 400-meter hurdles while becoming
an eight-time individual All-American at UW-Platteville.
A four-time UW-Platteville track and field most valuable
athlete from 1992-95, Schneider was a three-time team
captain from 1993-95 and earned Wisconsin State University
Conference (WSUC) Academic All-Conference honors in 1994
and 1995. Schneider was named the UW-Platteville Student
Athlete of the Year in 1994 and the conference track athlete
of the meet for the 2004 Conference Outdoor Championships.
Outside of coaching Schneider served
as a middle school and high school physical education/health
instructor for the Galena School District in Galena, Illinois
from 1999-2001.
Schneider and his wife Joanna are
the parents of one son: Drake.
Updated 10/30/07 |
