Assistant Coach Lisa Rollefstad
Contact Lisa Rollefstad: rollefsl@ferris.edu
Men's & Women's Cross Country and Track
Lisa Rollefstad begins her fourth season as assistant men's and women's track and field/cross country coach at Ferris State in 2005-06 after being appointed to her current position by head coach Jeff Kavalunas.
Rollefstad, who previously worked as a graduate assistant coach at NCAA Division II-member Bemidji (Minn.) State University during the 2001-02 athletics season under head coach Craig Hougen, serves as Ferris’ field events coordinator along with coordinating the track and field program’s conditioning and weight training areas.
A certified USA Track and Field coach, Rollefstad helped lead Bemidji State to a third-place men’s finish and a fifth-place women’s ranking at the 2002 Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) Outdoor Track and Field Championships (May 10-11) in Duluth, Minn. The Beavers also placed second in men’s indoor track and field, fifth in women’s cross country and sixth in women’s indoor track and field at their respective conference championship meets last season.
Prior to Bemidji State, Rollefstad was the girls basketball head coach and assistant track and field coach in 2000-01 at Lakota (N.D.) High School. From 1998-2000, she assisted with the track and field programs at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, N.D. While with the NCAA-II North Central Conference (NCC) institution, Rollefstad coached the sprints, hurdles, pole vault and relay events.
Rollefstad was a two-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-America track and field performer in the sprinting events at the University of Mary in Bismarck, N.D., where she competed in track and field from 1994-97. She graduated from Mary in 1998 with a bachelor’s degree in physical education and obtained her master’s degree in sports studies at Bemidji State in 2002.
As a prepster, Rollefstad claimed North Dakota’s 1992 100-meter state championship and was a three-time athlete-of-the-year at Cavalier (N.D.) High School. The four-time state track and field meet qualifier garnered volleyball and track team Most Valuable Player Award recognition as a senior. Rollefstad also was a two-time Best Defensive Player Award winner for the Tornadoes’ girls basketball team.
A 1993 Cavalier High School graduate, Rollefstad is the daughter of Kermit and Ruth Rollefstad.
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