Jack Young

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Events: 60m, 100m, 4x100m, 200m

PR’s: 100m PR: 10.94s

200m PR: 21.78s

Year: Freshman

Hometown: Cold Spring, MN

High School: ROCORI High School

Personal:

My proudest moment was making it to the state meet all four years of high school and getting 3rd in state in the 4x200m my Senior year.

I am majoring in Computer Science. My personal goal is to have a great programming job lined up before I graduate. To start off my career, I hope to work for a large, successful technology company as any kind of programmer. Later on in my career, I would like to explore other options as a computer programmer. These other options may be positions like a software or hardware engineer, website designer, game developer, etc. My main reason for seeing myself in these positions are because of my fascination with technology; I want to be involved with the newest technological advancements and discoveries.

I chose to come to St. John's because I grew up in the area, as my hometown of Cold Spring is only a 15 minute drive from St. John's. Since I was so close by, I used to come to a lot of Johnnie Football games with my family as a young kid. At those games, I always looked up to the tall college kids and dreamed of being amongst them one day (dream come true, I guess). Also, I have two siblings that currently attend CSB/SJU and both of my parents work on the CSB and SJU campuses, so being able to remain close to my family was a no brainer for me.

Seriously, every day is one of the funniest moments while being on the team. I can confidently say that we probably have the most fun-to-be-around men’s track team in the whole MIAC. Not only are all the guys on the team fun and overall great people, they are also hardworking and know the perfect balance between working hard and having fun while at practice.

Q & A:

Q: Which coach would you pick to live on a deserted island with and why?

A: Easily Jeremy. That guy is an animal and I could definitely rely on him to find food, make shelter, and keep me alive.

Q: If you were in the coliseum and were challenged to fight wiener dogs, what is the highest number of wiener dogs you could defeat?

A: None, I like wiener dogs.

Q: Would you rather be the world's greatest racquetball player or have $20 right now?

A: $20 right now. Nobody would even be care if I was the world's greatest racquetball player, but I could buy something with $20.

Jeremy Karger-Gatzow

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Karger-Gatzow is in his fourth season as the Johnnies' head track and field coach in 2019. He was named the MIAC Outdoor Track & Field Men's Coach of the Year in 2016 following his first season as the Johnnies finished second at both the indoor and outdoor conference meets. Ryan Bugler '17 won SJU's fifth individual national championship outdoors in the steeplechase in 2016 and finished fourth in the event in 2017. 

He replaced Tim Miles, who announced his retirement as head track and field coach following the 2015 season after 36 seasons at SJU. Karger-Gatzow served as head track and field coach, for both the men and women’s programs, at the University of Minnesota-Morris for 11 seasons from 2005-15. He also served as head coach of the women’s cross country team from 2004-15 and founded the men’s cross country program at Morris in 2007. 

A 2000 graduate of Hamline, Karger-Gatzow was a four-year sprinter on the Pipers’ track and field team. He was a seven-time Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) coach of the year at Minnesota-Morris and sent 13 student-athletes to the national meet during his tenure, in which six earned NCAA Division III All-America honors. Over 200 Cougars received Academic All-UMAC honors and over 250 earned All-UMAC distinction. Karger-Gatzow built Morris’ co-ed track and field roster from 12 in his first season to over 50 in 2015. In addition to coaching duties, Karger-Gatzow taught various courses in the sport studies and athletic departments.

Karger-Gatzow served as an assistant track and field coach at Bryant University in Rhode Island for two seasons from 2000-02 before leaving to enroll in graduate school at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was a teaching assistant in various anatomy and kinesiology courses there and completed his master’s degree in movement sciences in 2005.

A native of Glenwood, Minn., Karger-Gatzow was a 1996 graduate of Minnewaska Area High School. He and his wife, Erica, have two children.