Stan Kerr is in his 16th season as head men's track and field/cross country coach. He coaches Eastern competitors in the sprints and hurdles.

Returning in fall 1995 as an assistant coach, Kerr took over in January 1996 as Eastern's head men's coach. He first came to Eastern as an undergraduate in the late 1970s and returned as a graduate assistant coach from 1991-1993. During his tenure at EWU, Kerr's teams have had one NCAA All-American (Kurk Kraemer in 2001), 23 individual Big Sky Conference champions and 80 Big Sky All-Conference performers.

While a member of the Spokane Community College and University of Montana track squads, Kerr ran on mile relay teams that still hold school records of 3:10.50 and 3:12.70, respectively. Kerr came to EWU in fall 1977 to finish school. He ran legs of relay teams for EWU in 1979 that set school records, including the 800-meter-sprint-medley relay (1:31.38).

Kerr received his bachelor's degree in 1980 and master's degree from Eastern in 1993. After he left Eastern in 1993, Kerr became the head men's coach at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. While at Eau Claire, he coached the NCAA Division III women's high jump champion.

He and his wife, Saralynn, have two sons, Tully (19) and Carson (14).

A Pacific Northwest native, Marcia Mecklenburg is now in her 16th season as head coach of Eastern's women's track and field and cross country programs. She coaches Eastern's throwers and multi-event athletes.

During her tenure at EWU, Mecklenburg has coached the throwers and multi-event competitors to 67 Big Sky All-Conference team honors, including 20 conference titles. She has coached two NCAA All-Americans in the javelin - Carolee Gutierrez in 2007 and Ryan Cole in 2001.

Mecklenburg took over at EWU in fall 1995 after nine seasons as an assistant at Washington State University. At WSU, she coached All-America athletes in the shot put, discus and javelin events, including the 1987 and 1988 NCAA discus champion.

Before joining the Cougar coaching staff in 1986, Mecklenburg was an assistant coach for five seasons at Montana State and also coached at Seattle Pacific. At MSU, she coached 11 all-conference athletes and a pair of national qualifiers.

Mecklenburg has extensive strength and conditioning coaching experience. She was an assistant coach for the United States at the 1997 Indoor World Championships.

Mecklenburg received her bachelor's degree from Seattle Pacific in 1979 and her master's degree from Montana State in 1991. She is a former state champion at Edmonds, Wash., High School, and competed four times in the AIAW National Championships in the shot put and discus while at SPU.

During the course of her competitive career, Mecklenburg also competed in three Olympic trials and made three U.S. teams. As a competitor in masters' competitions in the hammer throw, she set an American record for her age group at the Nike World Masters Championship in summer 1998.

Mecklenburg has a daughter, Echo (8).

Jon Hill will enter his third year as the Eastern Washington University jumps and combined-events coach. He is a USA Track and Field (USATF) level one instructor and level two-certified in long jump, sprints, hurdles and relays. Hill is a USATF certified official and has been a USA Weightlifting sport performance coach for three years.

While coaching at Eastern, Hill has led athletes to break school records nine different times, including the women’s long jump, which has been broken six times. He assisted athletes in entering into EWU’s all-time top ten 27 times. He has coached four conference champions, 16 all-conference award winners and two NCAA regional qualifiers. He helped lead the men’s and women’s teams to top finishes in school history.

Before coming to Eastern, Hill was the head track and field coach for La Salle Catholic College Preparatory, where he assisted in three new school records. He coached three state champions, 17 all-state award winners and 50 all-conference award winners. He led La Salle to its highest finish in men’s team history (third), increased fundraising budget by 315 percent and increased team size by 20 percent.

A former track athlete from Portland State University (PSU), Hill was team captain, competing in the long jump, combined-events, sprints and hurdles.

Chris Zeller enters his fifth year as EWU's head cross country coach.

In 2008, he led the men's cross country team to a best-ever third place finish at the Big Sky Conference Championships. In 2007, the women's cross country team finished fourth at the BSC Championships, which was their best finish in school history at the Division I level. He coached Paul Limpf, who finished 73rd at the 2008 NCAA Division I Cross Country Championships, and Mattie Bridgmon, who finished 64th in 2007.

Before coming to Eastern, Zeller served as head boys' cross country coach for Port Angeles High School. In his three years there, his teams finished 13th, sixth and seventh at state, and he was voted the Narrows League Coach of the Year in both 2003 and 2004.

Prior to coaching at Port Angeles, Zeller assisted at Ferndale High for one year in 2001. During that season, the FHS boys' team captured the league and district titles.

Zeller earned his bachelor's degree in history-secondary education from Western Washington University in winter 2002 and is currently working on his master's in sports administration through EWU. Zeller has his USA Track and Field Level II certification in the distance sprints and hurdles.

Zeller ran for Western Washington, and prior to that for Pat Tyson at Mead High School where he was a team captain his senior year. He and his wife, Maya, have been married for 11 years and have a one-year-old daughter named Zoey.

Eric Allison is entering his 11th year as Eastern’s pole vault coach. Since joining EWU in 2001, he has coached athletes to Big Sky All-Conference team honors every year, including qualifying five athletes for NCAA Regionals. Ever since the conception of the Regional events, Allison has qualified an athlete all but two years. He has coached two athletes to NCAA Indoor Provisional marks, including one who’s jump was the seventh best nationally in Division I at the time.

His women vaulters own two EWU school records as well as the top ten places on the women’s indoors and outdoors all-time bests lists.

In 2005 Allison coached the men vaulters to a top-three sweep at the conference championships. He has coached both EWU school record holders as well as five athletes on the indoor best list and six on the outdoor list. Allison also has his USA Track and Field Level I certification.

As a coach at the Community College of Spokane in 2004, he coached the men’s NWAACC Champion who broke the school record with a height of 16-4. Athletes coached by Allison held all school records while he coached there. In 2006 he coached two women vaulters who placed first and second at conference -- they were the only two female vaulters on the team.

As a coach at Riverside High School (WA) from 1992 to 2000, he coached three state champions and several state placers.

Allison grew up in Fresno, Calif., and attended the University of California at Irvine. While at Irvine, he reached a personal best of 15-6 in the vault and competed in the conference championships twice. Allison owns his own business in the Spokane area.