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Head Coach

Marlon Brink
Head Coach

Marlon Brink is in his 12th season as the head men's and women's track and field coach for Wayne State College entering the 2011-12 school year and has elevated the Wildcat program into one of the best in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference.

The Wildcat women's indoor team made school history in 2011, qualifying in six events with five All-American finisher at the National meet.  Nicole Brungardt was fifth in the long jump and the 60 meter dash; Christina King was sixth in the 400 meter dash and Paige Pollard was sixth in the 800 meter run.  The 4 x 400 meter relay team of Brungardt, King, Pollard and Erin Klein took eighth to give Wayne State 15 points for the meet, placing 13th nationally for the school's best ever finish at an NCAA Division II National meet. 

Under Brink the Wildcats had 31 new school records during the 2011 indoor and outdoor seasons (13 men 18 women).  The men's team had its first indoor All-American since 2001 when Ross Bunchek placed sixth in the 35 pound weight throw.  He also went on to earn All-American honors in the outdoor season with a sixth place finish in the hammer throw.

In the 2010 season, the Wildcats continued to rewrite the school record books for track and field as Brink's athletes set 15 new school records in the indoor season with eight new school marks in the outdoor campaign.  WSC had three national qualifiers in the indoor season and had three more national event qualifiers in the outdoor season. 

In 2009, Brink coached two All-Americans as Misty Rystrom finished sixth place in the high jump (5' 7 1/4"), marking the fourth straight season that the Wayne State College women's track and field team had an All-American. The WSC men's team also had an All-American during the 2009 season as Matt Schneider earned a fourth place finish in the 3,000 meter steeplechase at the 2009 NCAA Division II Men's Outdoor Nationals.  Schneider was the first NCAA men's track and field outdoor All-American since James McGown in 1998 in the 10,000 meter run. 

WSC track and field teams also excel in the classroom under Brink as the Wildcat women's squad posted a stellar 3.55 team grade point average in the 2008-09 season to rank 15th in NCAA Division II, earning the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team Award.  In 2010, seniors Jacob Mathieson and Sarah Thomsen earned the NSIC Myles Brand All-Academic with Distinction Award for posting a cumulative grade point average of 3.75 or better (Thomsen had a 4.00 GPA). 

Under his tenure, WSC athletes have won 61 (30 indoor, 31 outdoor) individual NSIC championships for men and 44 more for women (19 indoor, 25 outdoor) in track and field.  In addition to the success at the conference level, WSC tracksters have also excelled on the national level.  The Wildcats have had a total of 27 NCAA Division II national qualifiers in indoor track and field (five men, 22 women) with two male All-Americans and nine female All-Americans with another 28 national qualifiers (eight men, 20 women) in outdoor track and field with two male All-Americans and five female All-Americans, including the school's first NCAA individual national champion in May, 2008 when Katie Wilson won the women's shot put to make school history. 

In 2008, the Wayne State women's squad recorded a pair of third place finishes at the NSIC indoor and outdoor championships. At the NCAA Division II National Outdoor Championships the Wildcats scored 18 points to finish in 17th place overall.  WSC had three All-Americans with Katie Wilson posting a first place finish in the shot put to become the school's first-ever NCAA individual champion.  She also placed fourth in the discus while Kylie Herian recorded a sixth place finish in the 100 meter hurdles to round out Wayne State's All-American perfomers. 

The Wayne State men's team won three straight NSIC outdoor titles under Brink in 2006, '07 and '08 to go with a pair of indoor conference titles in 2006 and 2007. 

In recent years, Brink has helped Wayne State host several conference championship events, including the 2004 NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championships and the 2006, 2008 and 2009 NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. He has been awarded the NSIC Men's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year three times (co-2004, 2006 and 2007) and has received the NSIC Men's Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year award three times (2006, 2007 and 2008) after coaching the Wildcats to the team title in each season. 

Before coming to Wayne State College, 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 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 four children - daughter Courtney (7) and sons Andrew (5), Lance (3) and Max (1 on November 28) - and they reside in Wayne.