WSC Track Camps - Wayne State College

WSC Track Camps

Marlon Brink
Head Coach

Marlon Brink enters his eighth year as the head men's and women's track and field coach for Wayne State College. He is also in his eighth season as the head coach for the men's and women's cross country program. Brink coached the Wildcat men's team to back-to-back indoor and outdoor track and field titles, earning NSIC Men's Track and Field Coach of the Year honors for both indoor and outdoor seasons. The WSC women's track and field team took second at the NSIC Indoor Championships and fourth at the outdoor meet and for the second straight year had an NCAA All-American as high jumper Tanna Walford captured seventh place in both national meets to earn finish her career as an NCAA All-American.

Under his tenure, WSC athletes have won 35 (17 indoor, 18 outdoor) individual NSIC championships for men and 25 more for women (12 indoor, 13 outdoor) in track and field to go with 11 All-Conference male cross country performers and six women All-Conference runners. In the past five years, Brink has helped Wayne State host several regional and conference championship events. They include the 2003 and 2006 NCAA North Central Regional Cross Country Championships, the 2004 NSIC Indoor Track and Field Championships, the 2004 NSIC Cross Country Championships and the 2006 NSIC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Wayne State College will host the 2008 Northern Sun Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships on May 9-10 at Cunningham Field.

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 a daughter, Courtney (3), and son Andrew (1) and they reside in Wayne.