Head Coach Mary Ann Schauerhamer-Nielsen ran for White Pine High School in Ely, Nevada where she won 10 state championship titles in the 4x400m, 800m, 1600m and 3200m.  As a Freshman in 1992, she set the BYU High School meet record in the small school division in the 3200m in 11:30.  She still holds all 4 records for White Pine High School ever since graduating in 1996.  She also set the state 3200m record for 3A as a Freshman and Sophomore, which still stands as the 5th fastest time in Nevada state history.   In college she ran for Southern Utah University 1996-2001 on a full-ride running scholarship where she set multiple top 10 school times.  Her Senior year, she set the 800m record, 2:11.05, and the steeple chase record, 10:33.25, which stood for over 20 years.  She qualified for and placed 21st in the 2001 USA Track Championships in the steeple chase.  Her personal bests from college include 4:33 in the 1500m, 4:48 in the mile (altitude adjusted), 10:12 in the 3000m, and 17:35 in the 5K.   After college, she was a volunteer coach for Cross Country at Utah Valley State College under Coach Jed Gibson & Utah Valley University under Coach Scott Houle, and Track at Southern Utah University under Coach Eric Houle, traveling with the teams and still competing in collegiate races.   In 2008 she was coached by BYU Women's Distance Coach Patrick Shane to attempt to qualify for the first year that the Olympics held a women's steeple chase in 2008.   She got a PR of 10:32.25 in the steeple chase at the Mt. SAC, then ran an altitude adjusted time of 10:26, at the BYU Robison Invitational (altitude adjustments aren't allowed in qualifying attempts).  She then turned her focus to road races and won the 2009 Utah Valley Marathon in 3:00:45, the 2009 Provo City Half Marathon in 1:19:51, the 2009 Salt Lake City Half Marathon in 1:20:09, the 2010 Ogden Half Marathon, the 2010 Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon, and hundreds of other road races, mostly 5Ks.  In the Salt Lake Winter Series of 2009, she won the 5K, 10K and 15K, setting a 30-34 age division record of 17:50 in the 5K and another one of 55:42 in the 15K (18:34 per 5K and a 10K PR of 37:08 en route, or 35:54 at sea level) which still stands.   In 2014 she was married and she now has 2 children who share her love of running.  If you would like to do the same workout as Mary Ann at practice, you can find her schedule here.

If you have experience running as a Division I NCAA athlete and would like to help be an assistant coach for the Gazelle Running Club, please let us know!