Bryson Hartzler

Biography

Hartzler enters his sixth full season as head coach of the cross country and track and field programs in 2024-25. He served as an assistant coach for five seasons before being elevated to interim head coach in the winter of 2020. After taking over the helm of the track program in December 2019, he saw his student-athletes post records in two events as well as 40 new entries into the program's top-10 indoor list. Between the 2020 indoor and 2021 outdoor seasons, the Bullets tallied 14 individual All-Centennial Conference honors. In the 2022 seasons, three others added individual all-conference accolades while 2023 brought 10 more all-conference honors and four all-region accolades. Another seven claimed all-conference honors in 2024. The cross country programs have featured three national qualifiers with Hartzler on the staff. In 2016, Ben Taber '17 qualified for the NCAA Division III Championship after a fourth-place finish at regionals, marking the best regional finish by a men's runner in 18 years. Hartzler coached a pair of NCAA participants in the fall of 2017 in Elizabeth Hilfrank '18 and Sarah Rinehart '19. Hilfrank went on to become the program's first All-American in 36 years. Prior to Gettysburg, Hartzler served as an assistant cross country and track and field coach for two seasons at Division III Bluffton University from 2012-14, working primarily with sprinters and jumpers in track. He also spent two years as an assistant track and field coach at Mifflin County Hi

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