Chadron State College Athletics

Graesser won 18 cross-country races for the Eagles during the mid-1970s, including the Nebraska College Conference championship twice and the District 11 championship once. He won the latter race by 25 seconds.
Nicknamed “Short Wheels” by his CSC track coach, Don Holst, Graesser owned the school records of 4:21.3 in the mile and 14:21.6 in the three-mile when he concluded his career in 1975. When converted from yards to meters, his time in what became the 1500 meters stood until Joe Schultz broke it in 2007. He still owns the Eagles’ 5000-meter record of 14:52.62. He also ran the 880 in 1:57.0. That mark is the fifth best in school history when converted to 800 meters.  Graesser also ran the anchor leg on some excellent distance relay teams for the Eagles.
Graesser taught and coached track Keya Paha County High in his hometown of Springview for 14 years, winning the Class D state championship in 1989. He then was at Wausa High for 12 years and has been at Lawrence-Nelson in south-central Nebraska the past seven years. He has always been the head track coach at these schools and was the head football coach about half his tenure at Wausa.
His wife, the former Jeri Jo Blundell, is a Chadron native.