Northwest Bearcats

Koschel rejoins Northwest head cross country and track and field coach Scott Lorek after competing for Lorek at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo. Koschel was a four-year member of the Mountaineers' track and field team and combined for 12 All-Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference honors in high hurdles, pole vault, high jump, long jump and heptathlon.

A native of Denver, Koschel makes the move to Northwest after spending the 2007-08 academic season as a graduate assistant track and field coach at Western Illinois University. Prior to that, she spent one year as a volunteer coach at Western State followed by one season at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.