Keven Syverson has coached the men's and women's middle distance and distance runners at UWRF since 2003. Keven's coaching experience also includes coaching the men's and women's distance runners at UWRF in 1995.

Syverson was named the UWRF head men's and women's cross country coach in February.

He was also an assistant with the 1995 UW-La Crosse men's cross country and 1996 men's indoor track & field teams. Syverson also assisted with the cross country team at Hastings High School in 1994. He is USATF Level I
certified.

Syverson's athletes earned championship honors in the distance medley relay at the 2006 indoor WIAC meet also earning a provisional time for the national meet. Syverson's athletes have set two UWRF records for men and have set seven school records on the women's side.

Syverson competed for the Falcon cross country and track & field teams from 1990-1994. He was a three year captain in both cross country and track & field and was the Most Valuable Runner in 1991 and 1992 with the cross country team. He was the track & field team's Most Valuable Runner in 1992. He was a two-time 4x400 meter Div. III All-American in track & field. Syverson was a five time Wisconsin State University Conference (WSUC) champion in track & field. He was also the first WSUC athlete to win all three indoor sprint distance events during his career at the conference meet (600, 800, & 1000). He also won outdoor titles in the 800 meters and 1600 meter relay. He still holds six Falcon records. Syverson was inducted into the UWRF Athletic Hall of Fame in 2005. Syverson also competed with a German running club when he was a soldier stationed in Germany in the late 1980's. He also lived in Portland, Ore., and had the opportunity to run with and meet several national caliber master's level runners.

Syverson graduated from UWRF in 1994 with a B.S. in German and received his masters of public health degree from UW-La Crosse in 1997. He is currently the Health Education Coordinator with UWRF Student Health Services. He lives in River Falls with his wife Jennifer and three children, Alaina, Jared and Erin.

In addition to his coaching responsibilities, he is the Assistant Director of Student Support Services at UW-River Falls. Some of Amie's duties include assisting with supplemental academic advising, tutoring, exposing students to cultural field trips and leadership conferences.

From 1998 to 2006 Amie was an ad hoc teacher at the University in the department of health & human performance, teaching physical education and dance classes. Since 1997 he has choreographed for the campus dance theatre program. Since 2000, he has been the advisor to the UWRF dance team. Amie runs dance clinics all over the nation and internationally in Japan.

He is the director of operations and head strength coordinator at Blue Chip Sports Academy, a multi-sport training facility located in Lakeville, Minn. He was a fitness trainer at the Minnesota Valley YMCA in Burnsville from 1997 to 2003. In addition to track & field, Amie also has trained collegiate Div. I, II & III athletes in baseball, softball, volleyball and football.

Amie received his masters of education degree in kinesiology, with an emphasis in sports management, from the University of Minnesota. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in music and a minor in dance from UW-River Falls.

Steve Stocker joins the Falcons fo the 2007-08 season and will coach sprinters.

He competed with the Falcons as an undergraduate and is a four-time NCAA All-American. He won the WIAC 400-meter hurdles title in 1993 with a record setting time of 51.45. That record still stands today.

He was the head coach of the River Falls High School boy's track & field team for 10 years. He coached both boys and girls sprinters for 11 seasons. Stocker has coached five Big Rivers Conference champion winning teams, 63 conference champions, 61 state qualifiers, and three state champions. His teams have virtually rewritten the record books holding 31 indoor and 34 outdoor school records.

Stocker is the director of the Hunt Arena and Knowles Recreation Center at UWRF.

Brenda Thiel is in her fourth year as an assistant coach with the Falcon track & field program. She coaches the throwers.

She has coached two Falcons to NCAA National meets - Steph Dura in the shot put and Jennifer Leis in the weight, hammer and discus events.

Thiel competed in track & field at the University of Minnesota from 1997-2001. She placed in the top eight in every season at Big Ten Conference meets. She competed in the weight, hammer and discus events. Her best finish was second place in the hammer in 2001.

Scott Sekelsky joins the Falcons as an assistant coach and will coach the women's 3,000, 5,000 and 10,000-meter runners.

Sekelsky is the co-women's cross country coach and helped lead the 2007 Falcons to a sixth place finish in the WIAC meet. He coached Falcon Becca Jordahl to a fourth place finish in the NCAA Div. III Nationals and All-American honors.

Sekelsky spent two seasons as an assistant coach for the Falcon cross country program. He ran cross country for UWRF from 1996-98 and was the team's captain in his senior season. He has had extensive coaching experience at various area high schools including River Falls and Baldwin-Woodville.

Sekelsky graduated from UWRF in 1999 with an undergraduate degree in health and human performance and will receive his masters in management from UWRF in the summer of 2007. He is currently the fitness and wellness director for the Baldwin Area Medical Center.