Tommie Sports - Men's Track and Field
Tim Springfield gets national award in Men's Track
June 02, 2009St. Thomas' Tim Springfield was chosen as 2009 National Assistant Coach of the Year for men's track and field. The award was announced Tuesday by the United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches' Association (USTFCCCA).
In his 12th year at St. Thomas, assistant coach Springfield led the Tommies’ middle distance crew to new 
heights in 2009. Springfield-coached student-athletes broke four school records, earned three indoor track & field All-American honors, two NCAA outdoor All-America honors, achieved seven NCAA provisional or automatic qualifying marks, and scored 93 points at the MIAC championships during the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons.
Springfield also helped UST athletes post three top-three finishes at the Drake Relays, including the conference's first relay win at Drake in 77 years (women's distance medley). He's also helped that same distance-medley quartet to NCAA indoor runner-up placings in 2008 and 2009.
He assisted women's cross country coach Joe Sweeney on the Toms' conference champion and 14th-place NCAA finisher. He helped the Tommie women take 12th in the nation indoors, and aided the UST's men's third-place NCAA finish outdoors.
Springfield was a Division I All-American cross country runner at Virginia. Springfield competed internationally for the USA junior national track team, and later in his career he set track personal bests of 3:50 for 1500 meters, 13:50 for 5000 meters, and 29:10 for 10,000 meters.
He earned a graduate degree at the University of Wisconsin, where he was an assistant coach for two NCAA champion cross country teams in five seasons with the Badgers.
