University of Michigan Women's Track & Field

Women's Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (2023) Women's Great Lakes Region Track and Field Coach of the Year (2023) Great Lakes Region Indoor Assista...

Allison Boevers is in her fifth season as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in 2025-26, working primarily with the Wolverine throwers. Boevers by the Numbers • Has coached or assisted in coaching student-athletes to a combined 19 NCAA All-America honors, including four at Michigan • Has coached or assisted in coaching eight conference champions • Has coached or assisted in coaching eight school record-holders, including four at Michigan At Michigan • In 2025 Elizabeth Tapper had a breakout sophomore season, setting the indoor and outdoor shot put program records and advancing to the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. She finished third at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, setting the program record (18.26m) for the fifth straight meet, before finishing 12th (16.90m) at the NCAA Indoor Championships for Second Team All-America honors. Tapper took silver at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, setting the program record (17.65m) for the second time. Tapper finished fourth at the NCAA East First Round (17.28m) and 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (16.97m) for Second Team All-America honors. Emma Yungeberg had another successful season, setting the program record and finishing fourth in the javelin throw (53.08m). She nearly topped the record at the NCAA East First Round with a mark of 52.97m, advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and finishing 17th (50.88m) for Honorable Mention All-America honors. Freshmen Abigail Russell and J

Avery Evenson-Milarch is in her third year as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in the 2024-25 season, working with the Women’s Distance runners. In her second season, she helped coach Samantha Saenz to a pair of top-eight finishes at the Big Ten Indoor Championships (3,000m, 9:21.62; 5,000m, 16:15.28) and Sam Tran to a top-eight finish in the mile (4:39.77) and a third-place finish in the 3,000-meter run with a personal best time of 9:19.06. Penelopea Gordon finished second in the 800-meter run (2:05.34) while Cassie Kearney finished fourth with a personal best 2:06.16. The DMR team earned a second-place finish at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. In the outdoor season, Saenz finished fourth in the 10,000-meter run (33:3584) to qualify for the NCAA East Preliminary where she finished 17th with a personal best 33:24.48 for the No. 4 mark on the program performers list. Gordon finished fifth in the 1,500-meter run (4:17.85) and Sam Hastie finished eighth in the 800-meter run (2:08.32), while Saenz and Tilly Simpson both made the podium in the 5,000-meter run at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships. Hastie, Gordon, and Kearney all advanced to the NCAA East Preliminary Round in the 1,500-meter run, with Hastie's 27th place finish leading the trio. In her first season on the coaching staff, Evenson-Milarch helped coach a women's team that swept the Big Ten Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Aurora Rynda won the 800-meter Big Ten Indoor Title, adva

Colin Boevers enters his fourth season as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in 2024-25, working primarily with the Wolverine throwers. Boevers by the Numbers • Has coached or assisted in coaching student-athletes to a combined 27 NCAA All-America honors, including 11 at Michigan • Has coached or assisted in coaching eight conference champions, including one at Michigan • Has coached or assisted in coaching eight school record-holders, including four at Michigan At Michigan • In 2025 Elizabeth Tapper had a breakout sophomore season, setting the indoor and outdoor shot put program records and advancing to the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. She finished third at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, setting the program record (18.26m) for the fifth straight meet, before finishing 12th (16.90m) at the NCAA Indoor Championships for Second Team All-America honors. Tapper took silver at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, setting the program record (17.65m) for the second time. Tapper finished fourth at the NCAA East First Round (17.28m) and 14th at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (16.97m) for Second Team All-America honors. Emma Yungeberg had another successful season, setting the program record and finishing fourth in the javelin throw (53.08m). She nearly topped the record at the NCAA East First Round with a mark of 52.97m, advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and finishing 17th (50.88m) for Honorable Mention All-America honors. Fresh

Jacob Pettinga is in his third year as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in the 2025-26 season, primarily working with the men’s distance runners after serving as a volunteer assistant coach for two seasons. Pettinga by the Numbers Empty heading Has helped coached 27 All-Americans between cross country and track and field Help led 12 cross country athletes to All-Region awards Has helped produce eight Big Ten track and field champions AT MICHIGAN In 2025, the men's distance squad captured a pair of medals at the Big Ten Indoor and Outdoor Championships, with Trent McFarland taking first in the mile run (4:03.56) and Caleb Jarema finishing second in the 3,000-meter steeplechase (8:42.53). McFarland set the mile run Big Ten Indoor Championships meet record with a 3:59.29 in the preliminary round, breaking the previous record of 4:00.56 set by Kevin Sullivan in 1998, and ran four sub-four-minute miles in the indoor season. McFarland also set the program’s indoor 800-meter run record (1:47.22), while the 4x800m relay team of Camden Law, McFarland, Henry Johnson, and Brendan Herger broke a 39-year-old record and shaved more than three seconds off the previous standard with a time of 7:24.65 to finish second at the Penn Relays. Herger and McFarland represented Michigan distance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, both advancing to the finals in the 1,500-meter run and placing ninth (3:47.88) and 11th (3:47.94), respectively. Herger was the lone f

Jenni Ashcroft enters her ninth year with U-M for the 2025-26 season, serving as an assistant coach overseeing the jumping events and combined events for both genders through the 2021-22 academic year and taking on an associate head coach role beginning with the 2022-23 season. Ashcroft by the Numbers • Has coached or assisted in coaching four NCAA Champions • Has coached or assisted in coaching 50 All-Americans, including eleven at Michigan • Has coached or assisted in coaching 17 conference champions, including four at Michigan AT MICHIGAN • In the 2025 season, she coached graduate transfer John McNeil to a third-place finish in the high jump with a personal best mark of 2.16m at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. At the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, graduate student Clare McNamara had an incredible performance in the heptathlon, setting six personal-best marks, including coming in at No. 3 on the program performers list in the heptathlon (5,698 points) and No. 2 in the javelin throw (51.54m), to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. At the NCAAs, she finished 20th and earned Honorable Mention All-America honors. • In the 2024 season, she coached a pair of jumpers to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Riley Ammenhauser (triple jump) and Jake Wall (long jump). Ammenhauser earned an 18th place finish (12.90m) and Wall earned a 23rd place finish (7.09m). Ammenhauser also set the outdoor triple jump record of 13.06m. Tianhao Wei advanced to the NCAA East Preliminary Round,

Maxwell Heng joined the University of Michigan Cross Country/Track and Field program as the Director of Operations in August 2024. Heng previously served as the On-Campus Recruiting Coordinator and Volunteer Assistant Coach, working with the horizontal jumps, at Nebraska. He graduated from Nebraska in 2021 with degrees in english and sports communications.

Shean Conlon joined the University of Michigan men's and women's track and field staff for the 2024-25 season after a previous stint with the Wolverines from...

Steven Rajewsky enters his 12th season as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in the 2024-25 season, overseeing the Wolverine sprinters and hurdlers. Rajewsky by the Numbers • Has coached two World Championships finalists • Has coached one NCAA champion (Savannah Sutherland, 400H, 2023 & 2025) • Has coached 61 Michigan student-athletes to NCAA All-America honors • Has coached 33 Big Ten Champions • Has coached student-athletes to 36 broken Michigan program records and six Big Ten records • Has coached student-athletes to two top-10 NCAA All-Time marks (Savannah Sutherland, 400H, 52.46, No. 1; Josh Zeller, 110H, 13.19, No. 7) • Has coached his athletes to 124 all-conference honors, including 29 at Michigan • Has helped student-athletes advance to the NCAA Championships on 31 occasions at Michigan • Has been a member of 18 conference title-winning teams as an athlete and coach AT MICHIGAN • In 2025, Savannah Sutherland and Aasia Laurencin had podium finishes at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and NCAA Indoor Championships. Laurencin finished second in the 60-meter hurdles at Big Tens, setting the St. Lucia national record (7.97), and finishing sixth at NCAAs (8.09). Sutherland picked up the 400-meter dash conference title for the second straight year (51.74) before a personal-best fourth-place finish (51.23) at NCAAs to set the program and Canadian national record. Earlier in the season, Sutherland also set the program’s 200-meter dash record