Jenna Wrieden - Cross Country Coach - University of Louisville Athletic

Jenna Wrieden

Title:
Assistant Coach/Cross Country and Distance
Email:
jenna@GoCards.com
Phone:
852-0011

Born: 10/09/1984
Coaching Responsibilities: Men and Women’s Cross Country, Distance
Education: Bachelor's degree in Kinesiology (Arizona State, '06); Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology (Appalachian State, ’08)
Year at Louisville: Fifth
Hometown: Chesapeake City, MD

ATHLETIC CAREER
• Placed 14th at the NCAA Championship in 2003
• Arizona State was runner-up at the Pac-10 Championship all four years in track & field
• Earned six Pac-10 academic awards
• Posted an All-Region finish at the NCAA Southeast Regional in 2006
• Runner-up at the 2006 Southern Conference Cross CountryChampionship
• Posted times that ranked in the top-five all-time in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000-meter and the outdoor 5,000-meter and steeplechase at Appalachian State

COACHING CAREER
2016-Present: Louisville (assistant coach)
2010-16: High Point (cross country head coach; assistant coach)
2009-10: Queens University of Charlotte (assistant coach)
2008-09: Arizona State (graduate assistant)

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

LOUISVILLE
• Helped Ivine Chemutai earn an automatic berth to the NCAA Championship with an eighth-place finish at the NCAA Southeast Regional, turning in a personal-best time of 20:18.8.
• Albert Kosgei earns second team Outdoor All-American honors in the 3000 meter steeplechase while Ivine Chemutai earned honorable mention honors in the 10,000 meters.
• Wasike earned Indoor All-American honors in the 5,000 meters. She was also the ACC Champion in the 3,000 meters and was runner-up in the 5,000 meters, earning All-ACC honors.
• Emmanual Cheboson also earned All-ACC honors as a freshman in 2018.
• Wasike earned her second consecutive All-American honor in cross country at the 2018 NCAA Championships. She was also named ACC Runner of the Year, ACC Scholar Athlete of the Year and earned first team All-ACC honors
• Helped coach Dorcas Wasike to a runner-up finish in 10,000 meters at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Championships
• Helped coach Bailey Davis to her first NCAA Championship appearance in the 5,000m, earning honorable mention All-American honors
• Led the 2016 women's cross country team to its first NCAA Championship appearance, after finishing second at the NCAA Southeast Regional
• Guided the 2017 women's cross country team a second place finish at the ACC Championships, with three Cardinals earning All-ACC honors
• Coached Edwin Kibichiy to the 2017 NCAA Steeplechase national championship
• Coached Dorcas Wasike to All-American honors at the 2017 NCAA Championships, become the first female to earn All-American honors in cross country at Louisville

HIGH POINT
• Named the Big South Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2014 and 2015
• Led the Panthers to three Big South cross country titles (2011, 2014, 2015) while mentoring 13 all-Big South cross country runners
• Coached Natalia Ocasio to her first Big South individual title in the 3000m steeplechase in 2015
• Ocasio repeated in 2016, becoming the only runner in league history to win back-to-back steeplechase titles
• Ocasio also qualified for the 2016 NCAA East Preliminary Round in the steeplechase.
• Helped guide Cozette Collin to the 1500m run in a meet record time while also garnering all-conference honors in the 5000m run.

QUEENS UNIVERSITY OF CHARLOTTE
• Helped guide the women's cross country team to its first-ever Div. II NCAA Championship appearance
• Men’s cross country team to a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Championship in 2009
• Contributed to the coaching of 10 All-American performances, including NCAA champions Tanya Zeferjahn (10,000-meter) Michael Crouch (5,000-meter)

ARIZONA STATE
• Men's and women's teams both placed fifth at the 2009 NCAA Indoor Championship
• Women placed third and the men placed eighth at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championship

ALL-AMERICANS
Louisville
Edwin Kibichiy (Cross Country, 3000m Steeplechase)
Dorcas Wasike (Cross Country, 10,000m, 5,000m)
Albert Kosgei (3000m Steeplechase)