NC State’s Laurie Henes , the one coach at school historical past to guide a workforce to 2 NCAA titles, shall be elevated to the position of Director of Monitor & Discipline and Cross Nation starting in 2023-24, Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan introduced at the moment. She’s going to now lead and direct the storied males’s and ladies’s Wolfpack observe and area packages, whereas persevering with her position as head coach of ladies’s cross nation.
Corridor of Fame coach Rollie Geiger , who recruited and coached Henes as a pupil and has mentored her all through her teaching profession, will proceed to function the Senior Affiliate Director and the Head Coach for Males’s Cross Nation.
“Laurie is an elite coach, an elite recruiter and an elite chief,” mentioned Director of Athletics Boo Corrigan. “In different phrases, she’s a star. Her ardour for the game, our student-athletes and our College is actually exceptional, and I am enthusiastic about this new expanded position for her.”
The 2021 and 2022 USTFCCCA Nationwide Coach of the Yr, Henes has led the Wolfpack girls’s cross nation squad since 2006. Along with successful back-to-back nationwide titles in 2021 and 2022, the Wolfpack has garnered eight ACC girls’s cross nation championships below her tutelage. She has been named the NCAA Southeast Area Coach of the Yr and ACC Coach of the Yr eight instances and has coached 23 cross nation All-People, 56 All-ACC performers and three ACC Rookies of the Yr.
As girls’s observe and area coach, Henes has mentored 31 All-People, 9 ACC particular person champions and 61 All-ACC performers.
Two Wolfpack student-athletes have gained particular person nationwide titles below Henes’ steering: her daughter Elly (5,000-meter out of doors, 2021), Katelyn Tuohy (5,000-meter indoor 2023; 3,000-meter indoor 2023; cross nation 2022; 5,000-meter out of doors 2022).
Along with successful on the course, Henes has maintained the large tutorial custom that Geiger established many years in the past with the cross nation program. Since taking up the top teaching position in 2006, Henes’ athletes have earned 33 All-ACC Tutorial honors and 19 USTFCCCA All-Tutorial particular person awards.
“Laurie is an distinctive coach and mentor to all of the athletes in this system,” mentioned Geiger. “Her dedication over time has been crucial to the workforce’s success, and her skillset is countless. NC State is house for the Henes household. The division could be very lucky to have Laurie main the Pack and our groups.”
As a student-athlete at NC State from 1988-92, Henes earned All-America honors in cross nation as a junior and senior, and was an All-ACC performer for 4 straight years. She gained the ACC girls’s cross nation championship as a senior, completed fourth on the NCAA Championships and was a finalist for the Honda Sports activities Award for cross nation.
On the observe, Henes gained the NCAA 5,000-meter nationwide title on the 1991 out of doors championships. She set faculty and convention information whereas successful the indoor 5,000-meter on the ACC Championships in 1991 and completed third on the NCAA indoor meet.
As an NC State graduate pupil, Henes’ fifth-place end on the USATF Nationals earned her a spot on the US observe and area workforce within the 10,000-meter for the 1993 World College Video games. She completed the season with a No. 6 nationwide rating in that occasion. Through the summer season of 1995, she was a member of the USA Nationwide Group that competed within the World Championships in Gothenberg, Sweden. In 1996, she was a finalist on the U.S. Olympic Trials at 10,000-meters.
Along with her excellent athletic achievements, Henes excelled academically, incomes the ACC’s Marie James Scholarship and an NCAA postgraduate scholarship. She gained the H.C. Kennett Award as NC State’s excellent feminine athlete for the 1990-91 and 1991-92 faculty years.
Henes joined Geiger’s teaching employees in 1992 as a graduate assistant and have become a full-time assistant coach two years later. She was promoted to affiliate head coach in 1998. In her 15 years as an assistant coach, the ladies’s program flourished, successful 9 convention championships and capturing three top-10 nationwide finishes, together with a second-place end in 2001. NC State girls earned All-America honors 10 instances and introduced house the person ACC championship twice in that span.
She is married to Bob Henes, a former Wolfpack All-American in cross nation and observe. They’ve two daughters, Elly and Jordan.