Dexter Track & Field is pleased to announce the hiring of new Co-head coaches for the upcoming 2022 Track & Field season for both the boys and girls programs. Nathan Lamb, and Seana Larson will take over for the former head coach Alex Heidtke, who stepped down last season after coaching for the previous five years.
Coach Lamb and Larson are the current head coaches for the Dexter boys and girls cross country teams respectively, but share duties to manage those teams as a group, and are intending on managing the Track and Field team in a similar manner.
Coach Lamb is entering his fifth year coaching in Dexter Schools. One year was spent with the Mill Creek Track & Field program, and spent the last three seasons coaching the Dexter High School Cross Country team, and the last two years with the Track and Cross Country program coaching the distance runners.
He is currently teaching 8th grade Social Studies/U.S. History at Mill Creek Middle School and when asked about coaching, he said “I am passionate about our student-athletes and strive to have a positive impact on their lives every day helping them to be dedicated students, committed athletes, and amazing teammates.”
Coach Larson began her coaching career as a volunteer coach with the Dexter Track & Field, and Cross Country programs in 2017 and 2018. She was named assistant track coach for the distance runners in 2019, and then named head girls XC coach in 2019. Larson has also spent time coaching at other schools in the area, beginning with Lincoln Middle School and then transitioned to coaching high school cross country in 2006 at Ann Arbor Huron High School, where her girls XC team to 11th, 10th and 9th place finishes at the MHSAA Div 1 State Cross Country Championships.
She was an accomplished athlete, earning 12 Div 1 All-State awards at Ann Arbor Pioneer HIgh School in track and XC, and was a NCAA DIV 1 All American and Wake Forest University. She qualified for the 2004 Olympic Marathon Trials and was named Michigan Runner of the Year in 2000.
Currently she works at OrangeTheory Fitness as a Personal Trainer and group exercise instructor. “I am excited and honored to be named Co-Head Coach along with Nate Lamb and work to make Dexter High School Track and Field one of the best programs in the state”, Larson said.
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