Darren Brungardt

Coach Brungardt, the faculty sponsor of the Colorado Mountain College Timberline Campus Running Club, would like to welcome runners to the 2018 Nike Colorado Mountain College Cross Country Camp!

Coach Brungardt is a mathematics faculty member at the CMC campus in Leadville, CO. As much as he loves his career as a math professor, he loves coaching just as much. In 2012, he earned his Master’s degree in Coaching from Adams State University in Alamosa, CO. Brungardt coaches CMC’s running club in trail and snowshoe races from two miles to 100 miles. He has coached professionally, collegiately, and at the high school level (rugby fitness coordinator, cross country coach, and everything except pole vault and hurdles in track and field). While earning his Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in mathematics from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, Coach Brungardt ran Division 1 track for the Bears. He competed in the 5,000 and 10,000 meters, earned three varsity letters, and was an academic athlete all four years. His postcollegiate running career has taken him all over the country competing in trail, road, and snowshoe races.

Coach Brungardt loves his family above everything else. His wife and daughter live with him in Leadville. When not teaching or coaching, Brungardt loves to hike, snowshoe race, travel, read, listen to loud music, and play board games. He cannot wait to take you trail running on his favorite trails, teach you some of the great things he and the camp staff have learned over the years, and let you experience everything the beautiful City of Leadville has to offer you at 10,000+ feet above sea level!