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Track and Field
Coaching Staff
Richard Alsup
Men's Head Coach
Office: (660) 562-1327
E-mail: ralsup@nwmissouri.edu
Richard Alsup begins his 23rd season as the head coach of the Bearcat men's track and field program. He completed his 31st season as the general of the men's cross country team.
Alsup was the first coach in Northwest history to capture a regional championship in any sport after winning the Great Lakes Cross Country title in 1998. He's been named MIAA Track and Field Coach of the Year five times, most recently in 2006, and was the MIAA's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 1997.
Alsup earned an MIAA championship with his 1992 indoor track and field team. Alsup-led track and field teams have placed in the top three 21 times in 44 conference championship meets.
Alsup has coached five national champions, including four-time national champion Clint Prange, who won three discus titles and one shot put championship from 2002-06. Prange is also one of five Academic All-Americans trained by Alsup.
Originally from Tarkio, Mo., Alsup received his bachelor's degree in secondary education from Northwest Missouri State in 1973. In between, he was the head football and track and field coach at Farnam High School in Nebraska. He was hired as head cross country coach in 1977 and serve as an assistant track and field coach before becoming head coach in 1986.
Alsup and his wife, Mary Beth, have two grown children, Damon and Leigh, and three grandchildren: Jessi, Matthew and Dawson.
Scott Lorek
Women's Head Coach
Office: (660) 562-1303
E-mail: slorek@nwmissouri.edu
Northwest head women's track and field coach Scott Lorek is in his third season with the Bearcats.
Before coming to Northwest, he spent the past five years as head men's and women's track and field coach at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo. Hje led Western State to a second-place finish at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships in 2002 and a third-place finish in 2004. His men's team was in the top five in NCAA Division II for his last three seasons. Lorek was named Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Women's Indoor and Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2001, also winning the RMAC Indoor championship that season.
Prior to his time at Western State, Lorek was the head men's and women's track and field/cross country coach at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio for two seasons. He was an assistant coach at Butler University for one season in 1996-97.
Lorek was the head women's track and field/cross country coach at the University of Idaho for 11 years. He coached Idaho athletes to school records in 23 or 33 events and coached NCAA qualifiers in cross country and four track and field events. Lorek also served as an assistant at Idaho for two seasons and was a graduate assistant at the University of Illinois.
The former Butler University 10,000-meter record holder, Lorek competed in the USA World Cross Country Trials and USA National Championships. He took fifth-place at the Hungarian National Championships in the 10,000-meter run.
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