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Lenoir-Rhyne University Athletics

Kevin Patterson

Kevin Paterson

  • Title
    Head Men's and Women's Cross Country and Track and Field Coach
  • Email
    kevin.paterson@lr.edu
  • Phone
    (828) 328-7140
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  • Enters his fourth season as the Lenoir-Rhyne Cross Country and Track and Field Head Coach
  • Named Lenoir-Rhyne Head Coach in June of 2019
  • Coached Alexis Brown to the first individual National Championship and broke the indoor record of the 200m dash
  • Named South Atlantic Conference Outdoor Women's Track and Field Coach of the Year in 2022
  • Led Jacob Wadsworth to an Indoor All-American honors and seven athletes earned All-American status in outdoor season in 2021
  • Set a program record with nine All-Americans at the NCAA Championships in 2022 
  • Led women’s cross country to a third-place finish in the conference meet and the men to a fourth-place spot in 2019
  • Led the women's outdoor program to second SAC Championship in program history in 2022
  • 2016 and 2017 USTFCCCA Midwest Regional Coach of the Year at Benedictine University
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  • Coached Janet Kwambai and Caroline Hillard to First Team All-Conference honors in Cross Country while Kylie Dahlberg earned Second Team All-League accolades
  • Kwambai would go on to become the second All-American in cross country history in 2022
  • Coached a program-record nine athletes to All-American status in track and field in the 2021-22 season
  • Josh Adkins was named CoSIDA First Team Academic All-American in 2020
  • Jocelyn Lowe was awarded the SAC Elite 20 for Indoor Track and Field
  • 31 Indoor Track and Field athletes earned All-Region selections
  • Over the past two years, coached over 20 All-Americans in track and field
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  • Earned five Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference Indoor and Outdoor Coach of the Year awards and won eight NACC Championships including four indoor, three outdoor and one cross country at Benedictine
  • In 2018, his men’s team completed the triple crown by winning conference championships in cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field
  • Coached four NCAA National Champions and four NCAA National Runners Up, 22 All-Americans and 46 All-Region performers
  • Men’s program was ranked as high as third in the nation in Indoor Track and Field and fourth in Outdoor
  • Also coached at Calumet College of St. Joseph from 2012-15 where he was 2014 CCAC Coach of the Year and led his program to break 36 school records
  • Held Assistant Coaching positions at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Bacone College and Indiana Tech
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  • Native of Hobart, Indiana and earned his degree in management in 2009 from Calumet College of St. Joseph as well as his masters of science in 2014
  • Compete as a track and field student-athlete and set eight program records while being a two-time team captain
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