UC to honor track coach Schnier
04/08/13 at 11:15am by Bill Koch

UC has announced a retirement celebration on May 11 for men’s cross country and track and field head coach, Bill Schnier, who is set to retire at the end of the 2013 outdoor season after 33 years at the school. All alumni and friends of UC are invited.

The Bill Schnier Retirement celebration will take place in UC’s Great Hall at Tangeman University Center. The reception begins at 6:15 p.m. with dinner and the program scheduled for 7 p.m. Tickets for the event are $100 per person and include complimentary parking in the College Conservatory of Music garage. All proceeds benefit UC’s cross country and track and field programs.

UC track and field and cross country teams have won 12 conference team titles and 160 individual/relay titles since Schnier arrived in 1980. Under Schnier, 25 student-athletes have earned qualification for NCAA national championships, 10 of which went on to become All-Americans. The men’s cross country indoor and outdoor track and field teams have won the All-Ohio championship eight times under Schnier. Two of Schnier’s student-athletes have gone on to win Olympic medals.

Schnier has been named conference coach of the year 15 times and was twice selected as Ohio cross country coach of the year. He was named the Conference USA coach of the decade in both cross country and track and field (1995-2005). Forty-seven of the program’s 53 school records were set during his time at UC.

He coached such notables as NBC Olympic track and field analyst Lewis Johnson and Olympic medalists David Payne and Mary Wineberg. It was also under Schnier’s watch that the UC women’s track and field and cross country programs were formed.

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