{"id":230465,"date":"2021-07-22T14:59:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230465"},"modified":"2021-07-22T14:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T19:59:18","slug":"andrew-raske-new-head-coach-jimmies-track-field","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=230465","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Raske new Head Coach, Jimmies Track & Field"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Jamestown\u00a0 (UJ<\/a>)\u00a0 The University of Jamestown has announced Andrew Raske as the next coach for the Jimmie men\u2019s and women\u2019s track and field program.<\/p>\n

Raske comes to UJ after serving as head coach at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark.<\/p>\n

The Glencoe, Minn., native attended Glencoe-Silver Lake High School and competed as a decathlete and graduated from Concordia College in Moorhead in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cAndrew is the right leader at the right time for Jimmie track and field,\u201d said University of Jamestown Director of Athletics Sean Johnson.\u00a0 \u201cHis leadership style, commitment to the development of student-athletes, ability to coach multiple events, knowledge of strength and conditioning and his experience in administering top-flight track and field competitions is a perfect fit for where our track and field program is and the incredible future that lays ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n

The University of Jamestown will open Charlotte and Gordon Hansen Stadium this fall and host the Al Cassell Relays in the spring, an event Raske competed in as an undergraduate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t be more excited to lead the track & field programs at the University of Jamestown,\u201d said Raske.\u00a0\u201cThe new outdoor facility and updated indoor track are a huge show of support by the University and the Jamestown community. \u00a0Dr. Peterson, Sean Johnson and the rest of the staff have been very welcoming, and I can\u2019t wait to get to work making Jimmie track & field a dominant force in the GPAC.\u201d<\/p>\n

Raske has an impressive background, serving as head coach at Hendrix for the past four seasons after serving as an assistant the previous four years.<\/p>\n

During his time at Hendrix, he coached six NCAA Division III\u00a0All-Americans, 11 national qualifiers, 27 individual conference champions, 87 all-conference performers, 27 all-region performers, and set 45 school records. He also served as strength and conditioning coach for many of the of the Hendrix teams.<\/p>\n

He was a graduate assistant coach from 2011-2013 at Minnesota State.\u00a0He coached five NCAA Division II All-Americans, three conference champions and was part of a staff that won four conference titles, finished 5th<\/sup>\u00a0at the 2013 NCAA Division II\u00a0men\u2019s indoor national championships and hosted the 2012 NCAA Division II\u00a0Indoor National Championships and both the 2012 and 2013 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference Indoor Championships.<\/p>\n

Raske serves as lead field event technician for Eagle Eye Digital Video out of St. Paul, Minn., and recently worked the 2021 USA Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jamestown\u00a0 (UJ)\u00a0 The University of Jamestown has announced Andrew Raske as the next coach for the Jimmie men\u2019s and women\u2019s track and field program. Raske comes to UJ after serving as head coach at Hendrix College in Conway, Ark. The Glencoe, Minn., native attended Glencoe-Silver Lake High School and competed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230465"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230468,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230465\/revisions\/230468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/230467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}