Robert Hansen

Biography

Robert Hansen begins his fourth season as the head coach for the cross country and track and field teams. SFA Director of Athletics Ryan Ivey announced in July 2021, the hiring of Robert Hansen as the new head coach of the Lumberjack and Ladyjack Cross Country teams. Hansen, a native of Wisconsin, comes to SFA after serving as an assistant coach at UC-Riverside for the past five seasons. Ryan Ivey announced that Hansen would be promoted to Head Coach in October of 2022. In total, Hansen’s athletes have set 5 school records, 13 All-Big West honors, 5 USA Junior National qualifiers, 9 NCAA West Regional qualifiers, 50 top-10 All-Time UCR marks and 3 Academic All-Americans. During Hansen’s career at UCR, he mentored Arman Irani who earned NCAA Preliminary National Championship berth at 5000m (13:54) and a top-3 all-time 10000m mark (29:13). Arman earned All-Big West accoladed in the 5000m as well. He also led FR Carolinh Calvert to 3 FR School Records: 10:46 3000m Steeplechase & 17:01 for 5000m and 4:28 for 1500m. Hansen led Weslie Pearce and Faith Makau to their 3rd and 4th All-Big West Cross Country honors in their respective careers during their senior seasons of Cross Country and on the track, the women’s distance group accumulated 45 points at the Big West Championship, headlined by Pearce’s 2nd straight 3000m Steeplechase Conference title, a pair of All-Big West finishes from Makau (1500m – 2nd (PR 4:19.28) 800m – 3rd(PR 2:05.85) and Emily Sanchez’s debut 10,000m which lan