University of Northern Colorado Women's Track & Field

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Stormie Sickler officially began her role as Assistant Director of Compliance at the University of Northern Colorado on July 1, 2025. A dedicated member of the UNC Athletics Department since 2019, Sickler brings a strong background as a former coach, student-athlete, and administrator into her work supporting NCAA rules education, monitoring, and program integrity for Bear Athletics. Sickler began her career at UNC as the Assistant Cross Country and Track and Field Coach in August 2019. In recognition of her leadership, recruiting success, and athlete development, she was promoted to Associate Head Cross Country/Assistant Track and Field Coach in August 2023. During her time with the Bears, she helped multiple student-athletes qualify for NCAA regional competition, guided both men’s and women’s cross country programs to USTFCCCA All-Academic Team honors, and contributed to numerous personal and program-best performances. A native of Dickinson, North Dakota, Sickler competed in cross country and track and field at Dickinson State University from 2011 to 2016. She played a key role in helping the Bluehawks make their first-ever appearance at the NAIA Cross Country National Championships and secure their first outdoor track and field conference title in 37 years. Her personal bests included 59.55 in the 400m, 1:40.63 in the 600m, 2:17.10 in the 800m, and 19:35 in the 5K. She graduated from DSU with a bachelor’s degree in Exercise Science and Coaching. After completing her underg

building the Bear programs toward conference championships and national recognition. His impact on the program didn’t take long to see. In his first season with the cross country program, the men earned their highest-ever finish at the Big Sky Conference Championship by taking fifth place. Both the men and women continuously set new personal record times and the men ended up ranked as high as 13th in the highly competitive Mountain Region. It’s a path he cultivated toward a triumphant five-year stint at Tennessee Tech University where he took the women’s track & field program to Three conference crowns. Angel led Tennessee Tech to domination with both the indoor and outdoor Ohio Valley Conference championships in 2018 and 2019. In that time, he also produced the OVC Athlete of the Year each season and trained the school’s first-ever women’s track All-American. Angel coached TTU to 40 OVC individual titles from 2016-19 and was named the OVC Coach of the Year four times. Angel not only had success as the track and field coach but also in cross country at Tennessee Tech. He sent an individual to the NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2018 and had both the men's and women's individual OVC champion in 2016. The Golden Eagles not only excelled on the cross country course but in the classroom as well as earning NCAA top 10 percent APR progress rating awards in 2017 and 2018. Prior to Tennessee Tech, Angel was the head men's cross country and track and field head coach at Florida A&M fro