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Jerry Schumacher

Jerry Schumacher

Jerry Schumacher is the head coach of the Bowerman Track Club’s professional team and one of the most accomplished distance running coaches in the world. Since becoming a full-time Nike professional coach in 2008, 19 of his athletes have made Olympic or World Championship track teams and 5 have set American Records. All told, his athletes have racked up 20 US Championships in track, added 8 more in Cross Country, and collected 5 medals at global track championships. In the span of a year, Jerry coached Shalane Flanagan to a win at the New York City Marathon and Shelby Houlihan to multiple Diamond League victories at 1,500 meters, demonstrating the breadth of his coaching acumen. In 2017 he was named the USATF Coach of the Year.

Though he is now best known as a coach of professional track athletes and marathoners, Jerry’s coaching career began by building Cross Country teams on the college level. Born and raised in Wisconsin, Jerry was an All-American at the University of Wisconsin and returned to his alma mater as the head Cross Country coach in 1998. Over the next 9 years his teams won 5 trophies at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, including the National Championship in 2005. He coached Simon Bairu to back to back National Championships in cross country and developed numerous other All-Americans. Jerry’s passion for distance running remains unmatched and there are few things he loves more than talking about the sport- preferably while clicking off 6-minute miles around the Nike Campus.

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