COACHING STAFF

JUSTIN KINSETH | HEAD COACH

Justin Kinseth is entering his fifth season as head coach of the UW-Oshkosh women's and men's track & field teams.

Kinseth’s women’s program has produced three NCAA Division III outdoor individual champions, seven Division III indoor All-Americans, seven outdoor All-Americans, 29 Division III All-Midwest Region indoor performances, 14 All-Midwest Region outdoor efforts, 10 WIAC indoor individual champions and eight WIAC outdoor individual champions.

Last season Kinseth and the Titans placed seventh at the Division III Outdoor Championship after finishing fourth at the conference meet. The Titans' 31 points at the outdoor championship were their most since scoring 63 during a runner-up showing at the 2014 national meet. UW-Oshkosh's fourth-place performance at the WIAC Outdoor Championship was its best since taking second in 2016. The national and league indoor meets were both canceled due to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Sydney Thompson, the 2021 WIAC Women's Field Athlete of the Year, and Alexandria Demco both secured a pair of individual conference titles for the Titans. Thompson went on to win the discus and shot put championships at the national meet to account for 20 of the squad's 31 points.

Kinseth, the 2020 NCAA Division III Men’s Indoor Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, helped the UW-Oshkosh women’s team to a third-place finish at the WIAC Indoor Championship in 2020. The Titans claimed three event champions at the conference indoor meet and a trio of All-Midwest Region awards before the Division III Championship was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, which also forced the cancellation of the entire outdoor portion of the UW-Oshkosh 2020 schedule.

During the 2018-19 campaign, Kinseth’s women’s squad placed 23rd at the Division III Outdoor Championship and 27th at the national indoor meet. UW-Oshkosh’s Lauren Wrensch won the Division III outdoor long jump title to become the second Titan to win the event and first since 1989. The Titans also had a pair of indoor All-Americans and five total WIAC individual event wins, including four by Wrensch, as UW-Oshkosh finished fourth at the league indoor championship and fifth at the conference outdoor meet.

In his first season with the UW-Oshkosh women's track & field team, Kinseth guided the Titans to a 50th-place finish at the Division III Indoor Championship and a 59th-place result at the national outdoor meet. Kinseth and the Titans also placed third at the WIAC Indoor Championship and sixth at the league's outdoor meet. Kinseth helped two Titans reach All-America status, including Cheyenne Moore, who became the program’s third recipient of the NCAA Division III Midwest Region Women’s Track Athlete of the Year award.

Kinseth came to UW-Oshkosh from Benedictine University (Ill.), where he served as an assistant coach, recruiting coordinator, and director of strength and conditioning for the men’s and women’s track & field teams.

After joining Benedictine University in 2015, Kinseth helped coach the men's track & field team to Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference indoor and outdoor titles in both 2016 and 2017.

In his two-plus years at Benedictine University, Kinseth coached and developed more than 20 NCAA Division III postseason qualifiers, including several All-Americans. Kinseth also coordinated recruiting efforts that saw more than 40 new student-athletes enroll at Benedictine University each year.

With Kinseth’s assistance, the Benedictine University men’s team achieved its first top-25 ranking from the USTFCCCA. The squad was ranked 77th in 2015 before ascending to third in the national poll in 2017.

Kinseth was named the 2017 USTFCCCA Men’s NCAA Division III Assistant Coach of the Year following both the indoor and outdoor national championships. He was also selected the 2017 Men’s NCAA Division III Midwest Region Indoor and Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year.

During 2017, Kinseth helped Benedictine University place fourth at the Division III men’s outdoor championship. He coached student-athletes to titles in the triple jump and the 400-meter relay while tutoring the national runner-up in the long jump.

Prior to his tenure at Benedictine University, Kinseth was an assistant track & field and cross country coach at Cardinal Stritch University for two years. His recruiting helped bring in 30 student-athletes to the men’s team while helping double the women's roster in just one season.

Kinseth competed in both football and track & field for Wartburg College (Iowa), playing wide receiver for the Knights in 2009, when the football team won the American Rivers Conference championship and advanced to the NCAA Division III semifinals. Kinseth was a four-year letterwinner as a member of the Wartburg College track & field team, helping the Knights win the 2012 ARC indoor and 2013 ARC outdoor titles while competing in the javelin and the multi-events.

Kinseth earned his bachelor’s and master's degree from Wartburg College and Cardinal Stritch University, respectively.

EAMON MCKENNA | ASSISTANT COACH

Eamon McKenna enters his 12th year with the UW-Oshkosh track & field programs, including his ninth straight in an assistant role in 2022-23. McKenna also entered his eighth year as head coach of the UW-Oshkosh women’s cross country team and 11th season as the head coach for men's cross country.

McKenna was named 2022 NCAA Division III North Region Women's Indoor Track & Field Assistant Coach of the Year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association.

McKenna was the Titan men's track & field head coach from 2013-15 and an assistant for the program since 2016 as well assisting the women's track & field team since 2012.

As head coach McKenna guided track & field athletes to four NCAA Division III individual titles (two indoors, two outdoors), All-America awards in 47 events (24 indoors, 23 outdoors) and Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference individual championships in 22 events (seven indoors, 15 outdoors). He also helped athletes to one NCAA Division III Indoor Field Athlete of the Year and one Indoor Track Athlete of the Year.

McKenna's men's indoor track & field team was the NCAA Division III runner-up in 2013 before finishing third at the national meet in 2014 and eighth in 2015. His outdoor teams placed third in the country in 2013, fourth in 2014 and 39th in 2015.

At the WIAC Men's Track & Field Championships, McKenna's squads finished second at both the 2013 indoor and outdoor meets as well as at the 2014 outdoor event.

At the helm of the Titan cross country programs, McKenna has guided the UW-Oshkosh women to one WIAC title and two Division III Championship appearances while helping the men's team to three NCAA appearances.

During his first season as the UW-Oshkosh women's cross country coach in 2015, McKenna earned WIAC Coach of the Year honors as the Titans secured their 16th league title and first since winning 15 straight from 1986-2000.

McKenna has guided women's runners to two All-American performances, six top-10 finishes at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional and eight runners to top-10 finishes at the WIAC Championship, including 2016 and 2017 league individual champion Cheyenne Moore.

With the men's cross country team, McKenna has coached three All-Americans, nine runners to top-10 finishes at the WIAC Championship and four runners to top-10 showings at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional. In 2012 UW-Oshkosh's John Dewitt earned his second consecutive Division III Men's Cross Country Elite 90 Award, which is presented to the student-athlete with the highest grade-point average at each of the NCAA's 90 championships.

McKenna returned to the Titans after spending the 2011-12 school year as an assistant coach in both cross country and track & field at Wisconsin Lutheran College. He also possesses coaching experience from two years (2009-10) as an assistant coach at Mount Mary University and four years (2005-08) as an assistant coach at Oconomowoc High School. McKenna began his coaching career as an assistant coach with the UW-Oshkosh men’s cross country team in 2003.

McKenna competed for the UW-Oshkosh men’s cross country team from 1999-2002 and the Titans track & field squads from 2000-04. The Titans captured conference, regional and national cross country championships in 2002 while also winning the WIAC title in 2000.

McKenna’s finest cross country season came in 2002, when he earned All-America honors with his 25th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championship. He placed seventh at the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional in 2002 and 12th in 2001.

McKenna earned three All-America citations as a participant in track & field from 2000-04. He competed indoors from 2000-02 and again in 2004 and outdoors from 2000-03. UW-Oshkosh won the WIAC indoor title in 2001 and placed second at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship in both 2001 and 2003. The Titans finished third at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship in 2003.

On the outdoor track, McKenna gained All-America citations by placing sixth in the 10,000-meter run and eighth in the 5,000-meter run at the 2003 NCAA Division III Championship. He also earned All-America status with his eighth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run at the 2002 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship. The Oconomowoc native won the 5,000-meter run at the 2003 WIAC Outdoor Championship.

McKenna earned numerous academic awards while attending UW-Oshkosh. In 2002 and 2003, the College Sports Information Directors of America voted McKenna to its Men’s Cross Country/Men’s Track and Field Academic All-America team. He was named the winner of the WIAC Men’s Cross Country Scholar-Athlete Award in 2002 and the UW-Oshkosh John Taylor Senior Scholar-Athlete Award in 2003.

McKenna received his bachelor’s degree from UW-Oshkosh in 2004. The 339th-place finisher (2:55.17) in the 2012 Boston Marathon then earned a master’s degree from UW-Milwaukee in 2008. McKenna also has taught middle school and high school Spanish classes in the Milwaukee area.

BRITTANY SYKES | ASSISTANT COACH

Brittany Sykes enters her second season as an assitant coach with the UW-Oshkosh men's and women's track & field programs in 2022-23.

Sykes, who joined Eamon McKenna as the Titans' top two assistant track & field coaches, serves as the primary throws coach for both the men's and women's programs.

Last season Sykes helped Titans throwers to one men's outdoor All-American performance and one men's outdoor All-region honor.

Sykes came to UW-Oshkosh after spending the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons as the main throws coach at UW-Whitewater. Sykes coached one national qualifier during her tenure with the Warhawks as Daustin Martin competed in the 35-pound weight throw at the 2020 NCAA Division III Indoor Championship.

A 2015 Fort Atkinson High School graduate, Sykes was a four-year track & field letterwinner for UW-Whitewater from 2016-19. She placed fifth in the javelin and eighth in the discus at the 2016 WIAC Outdoor Championship and sixth in the javelin at the 2019 league outdoor meet. Sykes also competed in the hammer throw, shot put and 20-pound weight throw for the Warhawks.

Sykes, a three-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll member, earned a pair of degrees from UW-Whitewater – a bachelor's in business management in 2019 and a master's in athletics administration in 2021.