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Co-Head Coach · Heather Leverington
Details: Email: hleverin@lhup.edu; Phone: 570-484-2635

Heather Leverington Co-Head Coach Emporia State University '02/ University of South Dakota '04 Fifth season

Heather Leverington enters her fifth season as co-head coach for track & field.

She shares the head coach role with Aaron Russell, who was elevated from assistant to head coach in charge of the track events.

During the 2009-10 season, Leverington and Russell were named Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Men’s Indoor Track and Field Head Coaches of the Year. Leverington and Russell led the Bald Eagles to the 2010 Indoor Conference Title. On the year, The Haven men set three school records to go along with a number of top-three all-time performances. Lock Haven also had five men who hit NCAA DII qualifying times to go along with the men’s distance medley relay, which hit a qualifying time. Five members of the Lock Haven University men’s track & field team have earned a spot on the 2009 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division II Men’s All-Academic Track & Field Team. The Lock Haven University women’s track & field team was named a 2009 U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Track & Field team.

The 2008/2009 season was another very successful season under the guidance of Co-Head Coach Heather Leverington.  The Bald Eagles finished second at the 2009 PSAC Indoor Track and Field Championships and the Lady Eagles took home a solid third place finish.  At the championships there were a total of nine individual champions for both the men and the women.  At the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships Lock Haven secured nine All Americans, which is the most in school history at one championship.  Outdoors both teams continued their success with both the men and the women bringing home a third place finish.  The Bald and Lady Eagle teams also had six individual champions and six NCAA Championship qualifiers. 

In 2007-08 she helped the Men's Indoor team win a PSAC Championship.  Also, in the spring the men's and women's teams both finished second in the PSAC. 

In 2007, along with Coach Russell, she was voted PSAC Men’s Coaches of the Year.  The track & field team won the PSAC outdoor championship and had two athletes achieve All-American status.

Leverington spent two seasons as the assistant coach for the Emporia State University track program from 2004-2006.

In her two year stint, she coached the Hornets to 13 All-MIAA honors, 5 All-American honors and 16 national qualifiers.

Under her tutiledge, Eric Hoffman set the ESU record for the men’s weight throw in 2005. In 2006, Andy Volgelsberg set the school record in the javelin with an impressive 245-feet-3 throw and earned a National Championship honor. 

Leverington also spent two years at the University of South Dakota as a graduate assistant in charge of throwers and assisted in the multi-events. She had eight NCAA Division II All-Americans and 24 provisional qualifiers at USD including the 2004 National Champion in the heptathlon. The coyotes set school records in the Women’s indoor shot put, Men’s and Women’s weight and hammer throw.

Arguably the greatest female shot putter in Division II history, Leverington was an Olympic Trials participant in 2000, finishing ninth overall. She has tallied five national championships and a runner-up finish to her credit. Her mark of 54-feet-2.75 broke Kathy Devine’s 1978 ESU record and is the second best shot put in Division II history. Leverington was a nine-time MIAA champion, seven-time All-American and twice named ESU Student-Athlete of the Year.