Men's Track and Field Head Coach - Chip Schneider

Chip Schneider

Chip Schneider enters his second year as the head men's track and field coach. Schneider will also serve as the head men's cross country coach in 2003.

During the 2003 season one school record was broken while several student-athletes earned All-America honors. John Brumund-Smith set the school record in the 400-meter hurdles and advanced to the 2003 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a time of 52.93. John Schuna earned both indoor and outdoor All-American honors in the shot put while Matt Goertz, Jordan Klein, Zach Severson and Ben Schmiege achieved All-American status on the indoor distance medley relay team.

Schneider comes to Eau Claire after spending the past year as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-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. This past spring Schneider was also the lead instructor for the UW-La Crosse High School Learn-By-Doing Track Clinic where he was the lead clinician for sprints and hurdles.

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 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 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.

In 1996 Schneider served as an assistant coach for the River Valley High School boy's and girl's track and field teams in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

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.

Updated 8/24/03