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The most decorated individual student-athlete in Augsburg history, Ross Isaak earned five individual national titles, nine All-American honors and 13 MIAC individual championships in track and field. She earned NCAA Division III individual titles in the indoor 400-meter dash in 1988 and 1989, the outdoor 400-meter hurdles in 1988 and 1989, and in the outdoor 400-meter dash in 1989. Her 1989 championship time of 58.99 seconds in the 400-meter hurdles is still the NCAA Division III national meet record. She was Augsburg’s Women’s Honor Athlete in 1989. She was a medalist in the 1990 U.S. Olympics Festival and was a U.S. Olympic Trials participant in 1992. A Cum Laude graduate, she served as an assistant track and field and cross country coach and admissions counselor at Augsburg from 1991-92. From 1992-99, she served as an assistant track and field and cross country coach at Purdue University. The Boilermakers won the Big Ten track team championship in 1999, and while there, she coached an NCAA and Pan Am Games heptathlon national champion, as well as the current American record-holder in the indoor 60-meter dash. She returned to Minnesota in 1999, when she began her current work at Gustavus Adolphus College as track and field associate head coach and assistant director of admissions. She is also currently the USA Track and Field’s national coordinator for Level I coaching certification program. She and her husband, Jim, live in St. Peter, Minnesota.
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