Don Augustine is in his 19th year as the head men’s and women's track coach and his first year as Director of Track and Cross Country at St. Norbert in 2025-26. He also spent 17 years as the head men's and women's cross country coach. Augustine has led the Green Knights to 28 overall conference championships.
The Green Knights swept Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference titles in both the indoor and outdoor seasons under Augustine, with the women winning their 10th straight indoor and outdoor titles and the men winning their fourth straight indoor and second outdoor title in the last three years.
The Green Knights sent four individuals to the NCAA Division III Championships, with Aiden Anderson, Jacob Klitzke, Ezra Schermacher and Eden Maranell qualifying for the indoor championships, while Anderson, Klitzke and Maranell qualified for the outdoor championships in May. Anderson swept the pole vault with two national championships in two months, while Schermacher was named a first team All-American in the heptathlon after placing third at the indoor championships. Klitzke and Maranell were named second team All-Americans at the indoor championships, placing 15th in the shot put and 12th in the triple jump respectively.
Under Augustine in 2023-24, Mitch Van Vooren and Peyton Panka qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships, with Van Vooren finishing fourth in the 400-meter hurdles and earning an All-American honor.
St. Norbert captured three Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference championships under Augustine's supervision in 2022-23: women's indoor and outdoor track and field and men's indoor track and field. Lauren Rottier and Sydney Spaeth also earned All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship.
Augustine led St. Norbert to a terrific inaugural season in the NACC in 2021-22. The Green Knights captured five NACC titles between cross country and track and field. The St. Norbert women swept their three championships, while the men won both indoor and outdoor track and field titles. The men's indoor track and field championship was St. Norbert's first-ever at the conference level.
St. Norbert’s women’s cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field teams completed a rare triple crown in 2016-17, with all three squads winning Midwest Conference (MWC) championships. The Green Knights then became the first program in MWC history to repeat the trifecta when they accomplished the same in 2017-18 and 2018-19.
Augustine led the Green Knights to a banner season in 2015, with the men's and women's squads both capturing the MWC outdoor track and field championships. It was the men's first conference championship in school history, while the women – who also won the MWC indoor title – won their first league championships since 1991. St. Norbert repeated as women’s MWC indoor and outdoor champions in 2016.
Augustine mentored Emily Schudrowitz to an indoor 800-meter national title in 2010 and an outdoor 800-meter national crown in 2012, as well as Ashley Graybill during her indoor and outdoor 800-meter NCAA Division III championships in 2009. Jenny Scherer placed seventh at the 2008 NCAA Division III Cross Country Championship under his tutelage.
In 2012, the St. Norbert men’s and women’s outdoor track and field teams both placed second at the MWC meet, their best combined finish in school history to that point.
Augustine’s first men’s and women’s cross country teams at St. Norbert both placed second at the Midwest Conference Championship in October 2007. The women's cross country team captured the Midwest Conference championship in 2010.
Augustine arrived in De Pere during the summer of 2007 after being the head men’s and women’s track and field coach for four years at Westminster College, an NCAA Division III school located in New Wilmington, Pa.
During Augustine’s tenure at Westminster, the Titans qualified their first two athletes to the NCAA Division III national track and field meet.
A 2001 Westminster graduate, Augustine was a standout middle-distance runner on the track as well as a two-year starter at linebacker on the football team. Augustine earned his master’s degree from Temple University and was a graduate assistant in football for the Owls during the 2002-03 year.
Mailing Address
St. Norbert College
100 Grant Street
De Pere, WI 54115-2099
