Bio

Nick Schneigert completed his third season leading the University of Dallas track & field team. Schneigert is the 10th coach to lead the men's and women's track and field programs.

In his first full season, Schneigert took the Crusaders to six outdoor competitions, which included the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Championships. The men’s roster featured eight members on the squad, all athletically eligible freshmen and seven true freshmen. Dual Athlete men’s basketball player Logan Byrum competed in some of the throwing events setting a PR at conference in Shot Put. Most of the roster had long distance competitors, with Jonathan Cantu, Ryan Connor, Luke LaCour, James LaTour, and Nico Walz earning PR’s throughout the campaign. Walz was an SCAC Runner of the Week. Max Crowder did short distance events, as did Samuel McLard and he also was a thrower.

On the women's side, two distance runners in Grace Ebberwein and Megan Scott competed throughout the spring. Ebberwein earned SCAC Runner of the Week.

His first season in 2020 was limited to three competitions (one indoor, two outdoor) due to COVID-19 cancelling the spring season. Schneigert helped several student-athletes capture indoor meet school records at the Texas Tech Shootout. On the men's side, Kevin McGuirk set record marks in the 60 meter hurdles and 600 yards. Joseph Rawicki took an indoor record in the 200 meters, and the duo joined Caleb Clayton and Shivam Mishra in breaking the 4x400 meter relay at that same meet. Mary Korth captured the 600 yards indoor record on the women's side at the Texas Tech Shootout. 

Schneigert arrives to DFW after spending the past year and a half working in a position as the Program and Events Manager with Chicago Area Runners Association (CARA). Hired in spring of 2018, Schneigert was the 'Go Run Program Manager responsible for the hiring and supervision of three site coordinators. He also managed certifications of road races in the Chicago area under the CARA guidelines and coached distance runners.

Schneigert brings a wealth of coaching experience that includes: collegiate, high school, youth club, and adult levels for cross country and track and field. He has held several part time positions where he has found much success. Schneigert instructed in 2018 at Barrington High School as an assistant jumps coach where the team won the indoor conference championships and outdoor conference championships and placed ninth at the IHSA Class 3A State Championships (highest classification).

In 2017, as an assistant coach at Harper College, Schneigert helped guide the Hawks women's track and field team to a second place finish at the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) National Women's Track & Field Championships and landed the men's team in sixth. Under his tutelage, Ashley Proksa won the NJCAA Division III National Title in Long Jump and a school record.

In the years prior to that, Schneigert was involved in leading cross country to success with Rockford College and Illinois Tech, both NCAA Division III institutions, that included coaching several athletes to all-conference selections. At Illinois Tech in 2016, Schneigert also helped the track and field team break five sprints and jumps record. In two years at Rockford, Schneigert coached two All-Conference athletes and three conference honorable mention athletes. The women's cross country team garnered U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team status, and the 2012 incoming recruiting class was the program's largest in history.

Schneigert headlines his success from 2013-15 as a head men's and women's track and field coach at Triton College. After starting the program at the school, Schneigert boasted several USTFCCCA All-Americans in his tenure.

Overall, Schneigert has coached 25 USTFCCCA All-Americans, nine NJCAA All-Americans, and two Northern Athletics Conference (NAC) All-Conference athletes.

Schneigert also has given involvement with Lifetime Fitness, Ursuline College (NCAA Division II), United States Track and Field, Vikings Track Club, Geneva High School, Northern Illinois Athletics, Huskie Youth Track Club, Barrington School District 220, Naperville Yard, Chicago Area Runners Association, Dick Pond Athletics, and Geneva Running Outfitters.

Schneigert is a Military Veteran with high honors. He was with the United States Navy Reserves, serving as Naval Coordination and Guidance Support from 2006 to 2010. From 2000-2002, Schneigert was Naval Security Force. He started in the Navy from 1995 to 1999 on the USS Kitty Hawk. 

As an athlete, Schneigert competed for the All-Navy track and field team in the west coast while he was stationed on the USS Kitty Hawk in the Navy. As a sprinter/mid-distance athlete, Schneigert competed at various NCAA college meets and open meets while he was not on duty. He graduated from Streamwood High School in 1995 where he was also a versatile athlete and found success in sprints, mid-distance, and jumps.

Schneigert has competed in over 100 road races including nine marathons and one ultramarathon.

Schneigert holds several certifications that include: United States Track and Field Association Level II Coaching Certificates in Endurance, Jumps, Youth, and a Level I Basic Coaching Certificate. 

In 2019, Scheigert was selected as an associate board member for the Polish American Sports Hall of Fame.

Schneigert earned his Bachelor of Science in Radio and Television with a Minor in Public Relations in May 2004 at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale.

Schneigert is married to El Paso, Texas, native Patty and the two have a daughter, Izabella Maria, and a son, Jakob Piotr.