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04/25/2012
Vozarova gets Robison Invitational off to quick start.
02/18/2012
Klaudia Rokossa led off the day with a victory in the pole vault.
E-mail Associate Head Coach Burke Bockman
Burke Bockman enters his seventh season with the University of Utah women's track and field program, and his third season as associate head coach. He will oversee the sprinters and hurdlers in addition to assisting the jumpers.
Since beginning his coaching tenure at Utah in 2005, the hurdlers, sprinters and jumpers have broken nine indoor school records. In addition, his athletes have broken eight outdoor school records.
In 2011, Bockman coached sophomore Angela Kaplar to school-record hurdles perfmances in both indoor and outdoor track. Kaplar posted an indoor record time of 8.56 in the 60m hurdles. During the 2011 outdoor season, Kaplar broke her previous 100m hurdles school-record time of 13.90 with a new record time of 13.71 at the Mountain West Conferenc Championships.
Bockman also oversaw the development of junior Brianna LeRoy in the multi events. In 2011, LeRoy posted a school-record heptathlon performance of 5,090 points in her second-place finish at Drake Relays. Under Bockman's watch, LeRoy set the fifth-best long jump mark in school history with a 19-8.25.
In 2010, Bockman coached the 4x400 relay comprised of three freshmen to post a new school record time of 3:45.35 for third overall at the Mountain West Conference Indoor Championships.
Under Bockman's direction Chelsea Shapard won the 400m hurdles for the third consecutive year at the 2009 MWC Outdoor Championships. Shapard went on to qualify and compete at the USA Track and Field Outdoor Championships that season, finishing 21st overall with a time of 58.89 seconds in the first round.
Shapard joined Chelsey Kaplar, Ashley Patterson, and Whitney Wellington in the 4x400m relay at the 2010 outdoor conference championships. The relay earned all-conference honors for the second consecutive year after breaking their own school record with a regional qualifying time of 3:38.96. Their previous time was 3:43.93, which they set at the 2008 MWC Outdoor Championships.
In the 2008 season, Bockman coached the first ever Utah indoor sprint relay team to earn All-MWC all-conference honors (Shapard, Patterson, Kaplar, Wellington). Bockman was a key component in training Shapard as she defended her MWC title in the 400-meter hurdles at the outdoor conference championship. Shapard went on to place 15th-overall in the semifinals of the 2008 NCAA Track and Field Championships.
Bockman coached two national qualifiers in 2007, guiding Amanda Feigt and Shapard to the national meet in the 400-meter hurdles. The Utes also shined in the 100-meter hurdles as both Feigt and Jen Cutrer made it all the way to the conference finals. Feigt went on to win the conference heptathlon title in 2007, and also qualified for the NCAA Championships in the event.
In 2006, Bockman worked on improving a very young sprint group for Utah. The Utes saw great success in the 400-meter hurdles with both Jen Fresquese and Feigt qualifying for the 2006 NCAA West Regional Championships. Feigt eventually went on to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the hurdles.
Prior to Utah, Bockman spent two years as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse where he helped the Eagles win back-to-back national indoor titles in 2004-05 and the outdoor championship in 2004. The Eagle sprinters and hurdlers flourished, including Derek Toshner (Division III 400m hurdle national champion, Division III Athlete of the Meet in 2004, and 2004 Olympic trials qualifier.)
Bockman also had the privilege of assisting with the training of Andrew Rock as he became the school's first Olympian and won the gold medal in Athens, Greece, as a member of the 4x400-meter relay team. After working with Bockman during the 2005 season, the Olympian went on to receive a silver medal at the World Outdoor Championships in the open 400-meter. Rock also went on to claim gold as a member of USA's 4x400-meter relay team.
In addition to working with Rock in 2005, Bockman saw all five of his UW-La Crosse hurdlers tally national-qualifying marks during the outdoor season. He ended up with four national qualifiers and two All-Americans.
Bockman was a three-time conference champion and a 13-time all-conference honoree at the University of Northern Iowa. He was an NCAA Division I qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles and 4x400-meter relay his senior year. Bockman also qualified at the USA Championships from 2003-2006.
He graduated from Northern Iowa with a degree in business management in 2003 and received his masters from Wisconsin-La Crosse in sports administration in 2005. A native of Decorah, Iowa, Bockman resides in Salt Lake City.
