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Head
Coach Rick Clark
Rick Clark
returns for his 13th season as head coach of the track and field
teams in 2007. Clark has coached his team members to 95 NAIA national
events and 17 All-American performances. He also trained a two-time
national champion hurdler during his time at Goshen.
Before coming to Goshen, Clark coached for 20 years at Goshen High School, where
he had a 95-26 record and coached 17 state finalists. He works primarily with
distance and middle distance runners.
Clark is a 1975 Goshen College Graduate, earning his master's degree in education
from Indiana University-South Bend in 1979. He also teaches sociology and psychology
in the social studies department at Goshen High School.
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Assistant
Coach Clint Borntrager
Clint Borntrager
begins his seventh season as an assistant track and field coach
in 2007. Borntrager, a 2000 Goshen graduate, was a four-year letterwinner
for the Maple Leafs track & field teams and currently holds school
records in the 35-pound weight, discus, hammer throw and both the
indoor and outdoor shot put. Borntrager qualified for the 2000
NAIA Outdoor Nationals in both the shot put and hammer throw. He
also qualified for both the NAIA Indoor and Outdoor National meet
in 1999 and was also named as a NAIA All-American Scholar Athlete
in both 1999 and 2000. Borntrager will work with the throwers.
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Assistant
Coach Graham Clark
Graham Clark
begins his eighth season as an assistant track coach for Goshen
College. Clark was a four-year letterwinner in track at Anderson
University, including earning NCAA All-American honors. Clark is
a member of the team that holds the Anderson school record in
the 4 X 400 relay event. Clark will work primarily with jumpers
and sprinters on the Goshen squad.
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Assistant
Coach John Place
A decathlete while at Northern Iowa University, Place begins his
sixth season at Goshen as an assistant track coach. Place’s
experiences at the NCAA Division I level offer a wealth of competitive
and coaching knowledge to the staff. Place will work with vaulters
and hurdlers this year.
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Assistant
Coach Doug Yoder
Doug Yoder begins his fourth season as assistant track coach at
Goshen College. Named the head cross country coach at
Goshen College in the summer of 2004, Yoder will deal primarily
with distance and mid-distance runners.
Yoder brings 25 years of work in coaching track and cross country at Goshen
High School to the program, as Yoder was an assistant boys’ track coach
from 1979-1990 and was the head girls’ track coach for the Redskins from
1991-2003. Yoder added girls’ head cross country responsibilities in
1992, a position he kept until this fall. Yoder also directed the Goshen Relays
track meet for six years and assisted in the process for seven years, while
producing eight straight winning seasons in girls’ cross country and
qualifying his team for regional and semi-state competition for the last six
years. He has also had at least one all-state academic performer on his team
for the last eight years.
Yoder graduated from Goshen College in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree
in art. He completed his master’s degree in art from Ball State University
in 1984. Yoder has two sons currently playing on the Goshen College men’s
soccer team — junior Kyle and freshman Adam — and lives with his
wife, Vicki, in Goshen.
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