Emily Lawrence will be in her third season as Earlham's head men's and women's track and field coach in 2021-22, after guiding the Quakers to remarkable levels of success in an abbreviated 2019-20 track season.
Under Lawrence's guidance, Earlham captured three individual event championships at the 2020 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Indoor Track & Field Championships and recorded 12 all-conference performances. First-year Madison Huelskamp was named the HCAC Co-Women's Indoor Freshman of the Year after winning the long jump with a leap of 5.09m. In addition, Earlham junior Noah Scherf competed for the United States in the T13 5,000m run at the 2019 World Para Athletics Championships, held in November 2019 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Lawrence, who coached nine NCAA Division III track & field national qualifiers and 16 conference individual champions as an assistant coach, came to Earlham from Albion College in Michigan where she served as the Britons' assistant track & field coach since 2015. She will also serve as an assistant coach with the Earlham men’s and women’s cross country teams.
During the 2019 indoor track and field season, Lawrence guided freshman thrower ShaQuoria Thompson to a school record in the shot put and a national qualifying mark of 13.61m. During the outdoor track and field season, Lawrence guided sophomore Kejuan Frazier to a national qualifying performance of 16.32m in the shot put. Frazier placed 12th at the 2019 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships. During the 2018 and 2019 track and field seasons, Coach Lawrence guided four All-Great Lakes Region athletes. Under Lawrence’s guidance, Andrew Strzelecki set the indoor school record in the weight throw in 2018. Alyssa Wright set the outdoor school record in the hammer throw (2015) and indoor school record in the weight throw (2016). Lawrence has coached four MIAA track and field champions in the indoor and outdoor seasons. Kejuan Frazier, as a freshman, became a two-time conference champion in the indoor and outdoor shot put in 2018. Lawrence guided Rayshawn Robinson and Andrew Strzelecki to back-to-back conference championships in the javelin in 2017 and 2018.
Prior to her time at Albion, Emily served as an assistant coach and head strength & conditioning coach at the University of Texas at Tyler from 2010 to 2014, earning 2013 USTFCCCA Men’s South/Southeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year honors for her work with the UT-Tyler throwers.
Lawrence helped guide throwers Buck Thompson and Ed Palencia to the 2013 NCAA Track and Field Championships in the discus, shot put, and javelin. That same year, Thompson was named the 2013 Men’s South/Southeast Regional Field Athlete of the Year. Lawrence’s throwers garnered All-American awards in the javelin with a sixth-place finish and school record throw of 65.10m at the 2013 national meet. In the 2012 season, Lawrence’s throwers qualified for the NCAA Championships in the discus and shot put. Lawrence’s thrower finished with All-American awards in the discus, for a fifth-place finish at the national meet, and with new school records in the shot put at 16.51 meters, discus at 53.43 meters, and hammer at 56.02 meters. Lawrence has also coached a 2014 national qualifier in the women’s 100 meters, finishing as the top freshman in the country with a new school record time of 12.08 seconds.
Lawrence helped guide Texas-Tyler to both men’s and women’s first-ever American Southwest Conference titles, where the men won back to back titles in 2013 and 2014, and the women won their first ever conference title in 2014. Collectively, Lawrence helped coach 76 new school records, 17 all-conference performances, 12 academic all-conference performances, and 16 ASC champions in various events.
A 2010 graduate of the University of Dayton, and former heptathlete, Lawrence finished in third place and with all-conference honors in the heptathlon at the 2009 and 2010 Atlantic-10 Outdoor Championships. For Dayton, Lawrence holds the third best all-time mark in the heptathlon, and the fourth best mark in the javelin.
Lawrence obtained her master's degree in kinesiology at UT-Tyler in 2012. She holds certifications in strength and conditioning with a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (NSCA CSCS), and USTFCCCA Multi-Event specialist certifications.
ATHLETE HONORS
- Two NCAA DIII All-Americans (2012 discus, 2013 javelin)
- Nine NCAA DIII Track and Field National Qualifiers (2012-discus, 2012-shot put, 2013-javelin, 2014-100 meters, 2016-pentathlon, 2016-heptathlon, 2018-high jump, 2019-indoor shot put, 2019-outdoor shot put)
- One South/Southeast Regional Assistant Coach of the Year award- 2013
- One South/Southeast Regional Field Event Athlete of the Year award- 2013
- Two Men’s American Southwest Conference titles (2013, 2014)
- One Women’s American Southwest Conference title (2014)
- 12 Academic All-Conference
- 76 school records
- 17 All-Conference performances
- 16 ASC individual champions
ALL-TIME BESTS OF ATHLETES
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Event
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Men
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Women
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100m
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10.81
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12.08
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200m
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22.28
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25.79
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400m
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50.22
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59.13
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800m
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1:52.37
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2:27.44
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100H
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15.35
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15.78
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400H
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54.74
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1:10.70
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4x100m relay
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42.67
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48.53
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4x400m relay
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3:24.14
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4:10.71
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Long Jump
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6.78m (22’2”)
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5.12m (16’7”)
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Triple Jump
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13.57m (44’5”)
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10.91m (35’7”)
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High Jump
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2.11m (6’11”)
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1.53m (5’0”)
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Pole Vault
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3.65m (11’9”)
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2.59m (8’4”)
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Discus
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53.43m (175’2”)
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38.48m (126’2”)
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Shot Put
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16.51m (54’1”)
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13.61m (44’ 8”)
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Javelin
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65.10m (213’5”)
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35.61m (116’8”)
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Hammer
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56.02 m (183’7”)
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45.65m (149’7”)
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Updated: August 2, 2021
