Brennan Named UCO Track Coach

9/24/2009 6:44:39 PM

EDMOND (Sept. 24) – Martha Brennan, a former NCAA Division II All-American with coaching experience on the Division I and III levels, has been named as head women's track and field coach at Central Oklahoma.

Brennan comes to UCO after a highly-successful five-year tenure as head men's and women's coach at Wisconsin-River Falls during which she led the women's team to the 2008 NCAA Division III national championship.

Brennan takes over a fledging UCO program that will begin competing this spring after an eight-year hiatus.

“We're excited to have Martha Brennan on our staff,” UCO athletic director Joe Muller said. “ She has been successful participating and coaching at the Division I, II and III levels.

“She's an accomplished track coach and is uniquely qualified to build our women's track program from the ground up. Most of all, she has done a great job developing student-athletes both athletically and academically. I think she's a great fit for UCO athletics.”

A five-time Division II All-American while competing at the University of South Dakota, Brennan finished her career at Louisiana State and helped the Tigers capture back-to-back Division I national titles in 1994 and '95.

She competed in the 1996 Olympic Trails as a heptathlete and was a member of the USA National Track & Field team in 1997 before going to the University of Iowa as an assistant coach in 1997.

Brennan moved on to Texas A&M later that year as an assistant coach and spent seven years working with the Aggies, helping the men to the 2001 Big 12 championship. She coached men and women in the heptathlon, decathlon and pole vault, coaching the 2002 Big 12 women's pole vault champion and several national qualifiers in those events.

Brennan took over at UW-River Falls in 2004 and spent the past five years there, coaching dozens of Division III All-Americans for the men and women and capping her stay with the 2008 national title. She coached two individual national champions and 23 All-Americans at UWRF (18 women, five men).

Brennan earned her undergraduate degree in mathematics from LSU in 1995, her master's degree in educational administration from LSU in 1996 and her PhD in education administration from Texas A&M in 2006.

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