Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Kendra Reimer (Claremont Mudd Scripps)

Kendra Reimer
Title: Head Coach
Phone: 909-607-7020
Email: kendra.reimer@cms.claremont.edu
Year: 3rd
College: Texas A&M
SCIAC Record: 24-4, .857
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Kendra Reimer is in her third season as track & field coach. She guided the Athenas to a share of the SCIAC title in both of her two seasons and the men's and women's squads had 15 SCIAC Champions and four All-Americans. Prior to CMS, she was an assistant at Brown University, where in only one season she had five NCAA Championship East Preliminary Round Qualifiers, two All-Ivy and thirteen Top-10 performances and one school record in the Triple Jump. Prior to Brown, she was an assistant coach at California State University, Los Angeles. While at CSULA, she coached eight All-Americans, nine CCAA Champions and 12 All-CCAA athletes. Her athletes also earned NCAA Division II West Region Athlete of the Year Awards in 2007 and 2008. In 2009, the USTFCCCA awarded Reimer the Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year for the West Region. She began her coaching career as track and field manager at California State University, Long Beach.
While a student-athlete at Texas A&M University, Reimer placed eight times in the Big 12 Conference Championships in four different events, earned All-American Honors in the heptathlon and qualified for the NCAA Midwest Regional Championship in the long jump, javelin and 100 hurdles. She competed at the 2004 Olympic Trials in the heptathlon and placed 11th. She held the national high-school record in the heptathlon (5493 pts) for nine years and was the runner-up by Track and Field News for the 1998 High School Athlete of the Year. She placed seventh at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in Annecy, France and was a Junior National Champion in 1998 and runner-up in 1999.
Reimer holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in kinesiology from Texas A&M University. She furthered her education by becoming a Certified Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Courtesy Claremont Mudd Schripps

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