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Augsburg College Athletics Staff -- Dennis Barker
Dennis Barker (Iowa State '80) has been Augsburg College's cross country coach since 1994 and the school's track and field coach since 1995. Since 1995, Barker's teams have qualified 40 entrants in the NCAA championships in cross country and track and field, with 15 earning All-American honors. Twenty-nine track and field athletes have earned Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference individual titles under his leadership. Barker has also coached nationally-ranked post-collegiate athletes as part of Team USA Minnesota, a unique distance running training program to develop American Olympic-caliber athletes. Based cooperatively at the University of Minnesota and Augsburg College, the program is one of four distance-training efforts across the nation established by USA Track & Field, the governing body for the sport in this country and Running USA, a national trade association for road races and industry representatives. A 1980 graduate of Iowa State University, Barker was captain of the Cyclones' cross country team. He competed in the NCAA cross country championships and set an ISU school record in the 10,000-meter run. Prior to attending Iowa State, Barker attended Golden Valley (Minn.) Lutheran College, where he was a junior college All-American in cross country and track, placing second in the NJCAA 10,000 meters and 10th in the NJCAA cross country national championships. He was a graduate of St. James (Minn.) HS, where he was an all-state cross country and track athlete. Barker was also an assistant men's cross country/ track and field coach at Iowa State and assistant men's and women's cross country/track and field coach at Golden Valley Lutheran College. Barker is also a certified USA Track and Field (USATF) Level II sprint and distance coach, and has authored training articles in the United States Track Coaches Association Review, Cross Country Journal, and Minnesota Running and Track magazines. Men's/Women's Cross Country/Track and Field
Head Coach -- Dennis
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