Augie Track Camps

Head Coach Tracy Hellman

Tracy Hellman is in his 10th season season as the head men's and women's cross country coach and eighth as the head men's and women's track and field coach at Augustana in 2010-11.

Hellman owns a laundry list of accolades as the head man of Augustana cross country.  In 2009, Hellman was named Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Coach of the Year for the second time en route to leading both the Viking men's and women's teams to conference titles.  For the men, it was their first championship, while the women captured their third consecutive conference crown (including 2007's North Central Conference championship).  On the nationals scene, the Augustana men finished 10th, while the women were 13th.
Hellman led the Augustana women’s cross country team to the school's first NSIC title in 2008, earning conference Coach of the Year honors. After a runner-up finish in region competition, Hellman and the Vikings ran to a fifth-place national finish--the highest in school history.

Success has hardly been confined to the women's cross country program. In 2006, the men finished 21st at the National Championships.  Augustana's 10th place national finish in 2009 was its best since 1999.

Some of his success this year was coaching 11 men’s and women’s cross country athletes who earned All-NSIC honors. He then finished the year by leading two track athletes to top 20 finishes at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships.

Hellman has coached 52 all-conference performers and 18 All-American as cross-country/track coach. In his previous five years with the track and field program, he coached 29 national provisional qualifiers and 22 athletes who rank among the school’s top 10 in their respective events. In addition, 24 school records have been set in his tenure.

Team success has also followed Hellman. At the 2006 NCC Indoor Track and Field Championships, Hellman was named the NCC Indoor Coach of the Year after leading the Vikings to a third-place finish, the team’s best-ever showing at the indoor meet.

Before coming to Augustana, Hellman was an assistant track and cross country coach at Humboldt State University, in Arcata Calif. While at Humboldt State, the men’s team won the Pac-West Conference cross country meet title twice and finished 11th place in the 1998 Division II National Cross Country Championships.

As an athlete, Hellman was the top finisher from the SDIC Conference at the 1997 NAIA National Cross Country Championships, where he placed 33rd out of 364 competitors. Hellman was the 1997 Outdoor 5000 meter SDIC Conference champion and also participated in the 1995 and 1997 National Marathon Championships. He has placed well in numerous marathons including a 19th place finish in the 2001 Twin Cities Marathon. He has a personal best time of 2:30:55.