WSC Track Camps
Coaching Staff

Rich Canole
Graduate Assistant Track and Field Coach - Sprint/Jumps

Rich Canole is in his second season as a graduate assistant track and field coach at Wayne State College, working with the jumpers and sprinters.  Canole is a USATF Level 1 certified coach and brings over 20 years of experience to the Wildcat program and has coached student-athletes to 30 All-American honors at the collegiate level, including Nicole Brungardt, Erin Klein, Christina King and Paige Pollard at Wayne State during the 2011 indoor season.  

Prior to arriving at Wayne State, Canole served as head coach at Colby Community College in Kansas from 2007-08.  He was the head track and field/cross country coach for the Legends Track and Field Club in Tucson, Arizona from 2004-07 and before worked three seasons at Pima Community College in Arizona. 

Canole also has experience at the NCAA Division II level, working as an assistant coach at Ferris State University in Michigan from 1998-2000 and was a volunteer assistant coach at Saginaw Valley State in Michigan from 1996-97.  Canole is a graduate of Saginaw Valley State in Michigan in 1989 with a degree in mechanical engineering and achieved his master's degree from Michigan State University in biomechanics in 1996.

Brett Suckstorf
Graduate Assistant Track and Field Coach/Throws

Brett Suckstorf in is his second season as throws coach and first season as Graduate Assistant with the Wildcat Track and Field program. The Pierce, Nebraska native began his collegiate career with the Wildcats and competed two seasons (2007-08), setting new school records in the weight throw and hammer throw.  

Suckstorf coached three NCAA National qualifiers in the 2010-11 season.  Ross Bunchek was an indoor All-American placing sixth in the 35 pound weight throw while also earning outdoor All-American honors in the hammer throw with a sixth place finish.  Freshman Carly Fehringer of Wayne was also a national outdoor qualifier in the women's shot put. 

Suckstorf won Northern Sun Conference championships in the hammer throw (181-1) and discus (150-7) at the 2008 NSIC Outdoor Championships and was an NCAA Division II national qualifier in the hammer throw in the 2008 outdoor season.  He then transferred to Nebraska and competed for the Huskers for two seasons.  Suckstorf earned All-Big 12 honors as a junior in 2009 in the hammer throw with a fifth place finish (193-2).  In the 2010 indoor season, Suckstorf earned a second place finish in the weight throw at 66-7 to help Nebraska to a second place team finish.  He closed out his Husker career in the 2010 outdoor season with a second place finish in the hammer throw, a personal best mark of 203-8 to help Nebraska win a second straight Big 12 Outdoor title.