Burke Bockman - Track and Field Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Burke Bockman

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
burke.bockman@colorado.edu

ATHLETES COVERED
5 School Records 3 NCAA Participants	1 Conference Champion 2 All-America Finishes

Burke Bockman is in his fifth season as the sprints and hurdles coach at the University of Colorado.

Bockman has coached five school record performances at CU, one conference champion and a pair of All-American finishes. His athletes have combined for 66 CU Top-10 marks in 26 different events.

In his fourth season, Bockman saw huge success with a strong 400-meter crew led by Gabby Scott. Scott broke both the indoor and outdoor 400-meter records, as well as the 400 hurdle record and women's 4x400-meter indoor record. Duane McClurkin Jr. was the 2019 MPSF Conference Champion in the 200-meter dash, while Scott went on to a seventh-place finish in the 400 indoors and a national runner-up finish in the 400 hurdles.

Scott's season was one for the record books, becoming the first 400-meter runner at a national championship in more than 20 years.

During the 2017 season, Jaron Thomas clocked a sub-eight second 60-meter hurdles in the indoor season to join an elite group of Buffs. Thomas went on to the outdoor season to be CU’s leading scorer at the 2017 outdoor Pac-12 Championships by finishing fourth in the 110 hurdles and third in the 400 hurdles.

In his first year with CU, Bockman saw his athletes set multiple school records. Individually, Ana Holland set a pair of records during the outdoor season. She recorded a time of 11.61 in the 100 and ran 23.45 in the 200.

Holland, along with the women’s 4x400 relay, scored for the Buffs at the MPSF Championships during the indoor season. At the Pac-12 Championships in May, once again the women’s 4x400 relay, along with the 4x100, scored points for CU. On the men’s side, Jaron Thomas placed third in the 110-meter hurdles and was fourth in the 400-hurdles. Three of Bockman’s individual athletes, Thomas, Holland and Eileen Gehring, qualified for regionals along with the women’s 4x100 and 4x400-meter relay teams.

Bockman came to CU after one season at Saint Martin’s University where he coached the sprinters, hurdlers, middle distance, jumpers and multi-event athletes. Bockman coached SMU’s first indoor and outdoor All-American, Mikel Smith, a high jumper, who also set conference record in the indoor and outdoor high jump.

Prior to his time at SMU, Bockman worked with the women’s track and field team at the University of Utah for nine seasons (2005-14), again with the sprinters, hurdlers, middle distance, jumpers and multi-event athletes and was also the recruiting coordinator. During his time at Utah, his athletes broke 16 school records. A total of 31 athletes qualified for the NCAA Championships, including 12 400-meter hurdlers and UU’s first NCAA sprint relay. Bockman coached the Utes’ only two All-Pac-12 athletes (high jump and 800m) and mentored five Mountain West Conference Champions and 49 All-MWC performers.

The Decorah, Iowa, native 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 relay his senior year. Bockman also qualified at the USA Championships from 2003-06. He graduated from UNI in 2003 with a bachelor’s degree in business management and went on to attend graduate school at the UW-La Crosse where he earned a master’s in exercise and sport science. As a graduate assistant coach at UW-L, Bockman worked with the men’s track and field team and mentored Olympian Andrew Rock, who was a gold medalist in the 2004 games after running the semifinals of the 4x400-meter relay. UW-L won the indoor national championship in 2004 and ’05, as well as the outdoor championship in ’04. His athletes earned three national titles and six All-American awards.