Emily Lawrence

Emily Lawrence enters her second season as volunteer assistant track and field coach at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology for the 2023-24 academic year.

Lawrence brings more than a decade of successful NCAA Division III coaching experience to Rose-Hulman. She has coached nine NCAA Division III track & field national qualifiers and 29 conference individual champions and garnered USTFCCCA Men’s South/Southeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year honors. She previously spent four years as assistant coach at University of Texas at Tyler; five years as assistant coach at Albion College in Michigan; and three years as head coach at Earlham College in the Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference before coming to Rose-Hulman.

Under Lawrence's guidance, Earlham captured three individual event championships at the 2020 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships and recorded 12 all-conference performances. First-year Madison Huelskamp was named the HCAC Co-Women's Indoor Freshman of the Year after winning the long jump with a leap of 5.09m. In addition, Earlham junior Noah Scherf competed for the United States in the T13 5,000m run at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, held in November 2019 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

During the 2019 indoor track and field season, Lawrence guided freshman thrower ShaQuoria Thompson to a school record in the shot put and a national qualifying mark of 13.61m. During the outdoor track and field season, Lawrence guided sophomore Kejuan Frazier to a national qualifying performance of 16.32m in the shot put. Frazier placed 12th at the 2019 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. During the 2018 and 2019 track and field seasons, Coach Lawrence guided four All-Great Lakes Region athletes. Under Lawrence’s guidance, Andrew Strzelecki set the indoor school record in the weight throw in 2018. Alyssa Wright set the outdoor school record in the hammer throw (2015) and indoor school record in the weight throw (2016). Lawrence has coached four MIAA track and field champions in the indoor and outdoor seasons. Kejuan Frazier, as a freshman, became a two-time conference champion in the indoor and outdoor shot put in 2018. Lawrence guided Rayshawn Robinson and Andrew Strzelecki to back-to-back conference championships in the javelin in 2017 and 2018.