Rich Schneider

Biography

Schneider began his coaching career in 1984 as a cross country coach for Boscobel High School, where he coached three back-to-back individual State Champions. From 2000 to 2003 Schneider rejoined the Boscobel cross country team, assisting in the team in 3 state team champions. In 2004, Schneider was brought over to the Boscobel track and field program to be the sprints and horizontal jumps coach. As track and field coach for Boscobel, Schneider coached multiple sprint and horizontal jump athletes to state, and the only girls SWAL Conference championship in school history. In 2007, Schneider resigned his position as track & field coach to follow the UW-Platteville team and mentored under Coach Bryan Marx. In 2011, Schneider was asked to join the UW-Platteville coaching staff as the horizontal jumps coach. Since joining the UW-Platteville's Track & Field program, the Pioneers have had jumpers qualify to 5 NCAA national meets, acquiring 15 All-American titles including the 2016 indoor triple jump national champion and the 2017 outdoor long jump champion. Also under Schneider, the Pioneers have had multiple long and triple jumpers place at the WIAC Conference Championships, including 12 WIAC individual event champions, 2 WIAC Championship records, and 29 athletes placing in the Top 8. In addition, he has helped jumpers achieve 5 school records and 3 facility records. Currently, Schneider has 19 jumpers on the outdoor Top 10 All-Time List and 18 jumpers on the indoor Top 10 All-Ti