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Sambini has reported on the Bison Board that NDSU Head Track & Field Coach, Don Larson, will be inducted into the Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame on April 26! Lars is a Madison SD native and an All-American intermediate hurdler for SDSU under Coach Jay Dirksen, 1971-1975.
Congrats to Lars...great guy in the Jackrabbit tradition and well deserving of the honor. Don was inducted into SDSU's Hall of Fame a few years ago.
Link to the Bison Board: http://www400.pair.com/bisonvil/cgi-...num=1175738375
Link to the Drake Relays site generally: http://www.drakerelays.org/
Can't get the press release from the Drake Relays site to link so I'm printing selected portions below (since it's a press release intended for dissemination, no copyright problem
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Saturday, March 31, 2007
Henry, Larson To Join Drake Relays Coaches Hall Of Fame
2007 DRAKE RELAYS RELEASE #4
DES MOINES, IOWA – James Henry, who is in his 23rd year as head coach of the women's cross country and track and field programs at the University of Michigan, and Don Larson, who is in his 28th year as head men’s track and field coach at North Dakota State, will be inducted into the Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame during a Thursday, April 26 reception at the Drake Knapp Center. The Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame, which was established in 1977 with six charter members, now has 75 inductees.
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Larson has guided North Dakota State to seven relay titles and two individual titles at the Drake Relays.
In the program’s first year at the Division I level in 2005, Larson guided North Dakota State to a dominating performance at the Division I independent championships in Davis, Calif., by winning eight individual titles and two relays. The Bison repeated as team champions in 2006, despite losing more than a dozen seniors from the year before.
In his first 25 years, all at the NCAA Division II level, the Bison captured 36 total North Central Conference titles including a conference-record string of 13 consecutive outdoor titles (1987-99) and 20 of the last 22 outdoor crowns.
He coached a total of 193 NCAA Division II All-America performances including four individual competitors who have won 11 national championships, headed by seven-time NCAA Division II national champion and 1991 Drake Relays 10,000 meter champion Doug Hanson.
Larson’s indoor track & field success includes 14 NCC titles and seven runner-up finishes. North Dakota State’s outdoor squad, captured the NCC crown 21 times. As the head cross country coach, he also coached nine cross-country athletes to 13 NCAA Division II All-America awards.
While competing for conference rival South Dakota State (1971-76), Larson captured two All-America awards and seven NCC championships in track and field.
He set three league records and still holds a share of the retired 600-yard indoor mark of 1:11.90 set in 1975. He was a two-time All-American in the 400 hurdles in 1972 and 1975. The 53-year-old Larson, a native of Madison, S.D., holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education from South Dakota State in 1976 and a master’s degree in physical education from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. He coached at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., prior to joining the Bison.
Congrats to Lars...great guy in the Jackrabbit tradition and well deserving of the honor. Don was inducted into SDSU's Hall of Fame a few years ago.
Link to the Bison Board: http://www400.pair.com/bisonvil/cgi-...num=1175738375
Link to the Drake Relays site generally: http://www.drakerelays.org/
Can't get the press release from the Drake Relays site to link so I'm printing selected portions below (since it's a press release intended for dissemination, no copyright problem
)Saturday, March 31, 2007
Henry, Larson To Join Drake Relays Coaches Hall Of Fame
2007 DRAKE RELAYS RELEASE #4
DES MOINES, IOWA – James Henry, who is in his 23rd year as head coach of the women's cross country and track and field programs at the University of Michigan, and Don Larson, who is in his 28th year as head men’s track and field coach at North Dakota State, will be inducted into the Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame during a Thursday, April 26 reception at the Drake Knapp Center. The Drake Relays Coaches Hall of Fame, which was established in 1977 with six charter members, now has 75 inductees.
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Larson has guided North Dakota State to seven relay titles and two individual titles at the Drake Relays.
In the program’s first year at the Division I level in 2005, Larson guided North Dakota State to a dominating performance at the Division I independent championships in Davis, Calif., by winning eight individual titles and two relays. The Bison repeated as team champions in 2006, despite losing more than a dozen seniors from the year before.
In his first 25 years, all at the NCAA Division II level, the Bison captured 36 total North Central Conference titles including a conference-record string of 13 consecutive outdoor titles (1987-99) and 20 of the last 22 outdoor crowns.
He coached a total of 193 NCAA Division II All-America performances including four individual competitors who have won 11 national championships, headed by seven-time NCAA Division II national champion and 1991 Drake Relays 10,000 meter champion Doug Hanson.
Larson’s indoor track & field success includes 14 NCC titles and seven runner-up finishes. North Dakota State’s outdoor squad, captured the NCC crown 21 times. As the head cross country coach, he also coached nine cross-country athletes to 13 NCAA Division II All-America awards.
While competing for conference rival South Dakota State (1971-76), Larson captured two All-America awards and seven NCC championships in track and field.
He set three league records and still holds a share of the retired 600-yard indoor mark of 1:11.90 set in 1975. He was a two-time All-American in the 400 hurdles in 1972 and 1975. The 53-year-old Larson, a native of Madison, S.D., holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education from South Dakota State in 1976 and a master’s degree in physical education from Minnesota State University-Moorhead. He coached at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minn., prior to joining the Bison.