Brennan led the 2007 Falcons to the most successful season ever. The women's team placed third in the WIAC outdoor championships held at UW-River Falls. The Falcons won six individual championships led by Jill Crandall who won the high jump (5-5 3/4) and the heptathlon (4,444 points) and was named the Field Athlete of the Meet.

The team's success didn't stop at the WIAC meet. Several Falcons advanced to the NCAA Championships where the UWRF women placed ninth - also the team's best finish ever at the National Meet. Brennan coached five Falcons to All-American status (Crandall, Clint Christy, Shannon Zweifel, Krista Hasselquist, Vicki Cooper). Crandall won the high jump National Championship (5-7) and was named the Women's Field Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA.

The Falcon women set six outdoor and six indoor school records. The men set three indoor and three outdoor school records.

In addition to her coaching responsibilities, she teaches in the UWRF health & human performance department. Some of the classes she teaches are exercise leadership, physical activity behavior, track coaching and individual sport.

Prior to her arrival at UW-River Falls, Brennan worked as an assistant track & field coach at Texas A&M. She coached men and women in the heptathlon, decathlon and pole vault. She had several NCAA qualifiers and coached the Big XII Conference women's pole vault champion in 2002. She also served as the camp director and the high school coaches' clinic director.

Before going to Texas A&M, she coached at the University of Iowa and at Louisiana State University as a graduate assistant. At Iowa she was responsible for the women jumpers, throwers and multi-event athletes. She also coached a women's 400-meter hurdler All-American. She also was the team's strength and conditioning coordinator. At LSU she worked in the athletic department compliance and marketing departments and with the senior women's administrator. She also assisted with ticket office and event management operations.

In 1997 Brennan was a member of the USA National tack & field team and competed in the Olympic Trials in 1996 as a heptathlete. She was a member of the 1994 and 1995 NCAA National Championship winning teams at LSU. She was a five-time All-American while competing at the University of South Dakota (1991-93).

She earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics from LSU in 1995, her master's degree in educational administration in 1996 from LSU and her Ph.D from Texas A&M in educational administration (higher education). She holds USA Track & Field Level I and Level II certification in the jumps.

Her husband's name is Bob, who works at 3M in medical microbiology. They have three children; Grace (9) and Eve (6) and Ivy (2 1/2).

Martha Brennan