Chadron State College Athletics

2022-23: Seth Mischke joins CSC for his inaugural season as the head coach of the Eagles track & field teams.

Throughout his career as a head coach, he has seen a total of 57 individuals ascend to All-America success.

Mischke spent the past 11 seasons in a similar role, with the addition of assistant cross country duties. at Black Hills State University. At BHSU, Mischke led the Yellow Jackets in their transition to NCAA Division II, and into one of the strongest conference for track and field and cross country.

Mischke oversaw the first-ever NCAA National Champions at BHSU, in Jonah Theisen in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and Madison McLaughlin in the shot put. He also guided the women’s track & field team to a second place finish in the 2016 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field Championship, which at that point was the highest finish of any team at Black Hills State since joining the RMAC.

While he was there, the BHSU program produced 40 All-America student-athletes among 54 national qualifiers and broke school records 65 times.

He has coached 18 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Champions and more than 100 All-RMAC honorees.

Before BHSU, he held the head track and field and cross country posts for 12 years at St. Cloud State. Mischke was twice named the conference coach of the year with the Huskies, after his men’s teams finished fourth at the indoor North Central Conference championships in 2005 and runner-up at the Northern Sun Conference meet in 2011.
 
At St. Cloud, his program produced one national champ, 17 All-America winners, and 21 conference champions.

Mischke is a 1997 graduate of the University of Minnesota, where he was a Big Ten Conference runner-up in the indoor pole vault and finished third in the outdoor decathlon. He achieved personal bests of 17-3 in the pole vault and 7,026 points in the decathlon.
 
He and his wife Colleen, have three children: Brooklyn, Tanner and Micah. Colleen was an administrator with the BHSU athletic department for 11 years and a stand-out heptathlete and high jumper at the University of Nebraska.