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Dr. Ted Bulling is in his 18th season as the
Nebraska Wesleyan men’s cross country coach and his
13th as the head coach for the women. He also coaches the
NWU track and field teams in his role as Director of Track
& Field/Cross Country. Over the years, his teams have
won a combined total of 55 conference team titles.
In cross country, Bulling has led the men to GPAC crowns in
seven of the last eight seasons, while the NWU women have
won or shared five of the last seven. Nebraska Wesleyan’s
men have qualified as a team for the NCAA Cross Country Championships
10 years in a row, while the women have made it in nine of
the last 11 seasons. Bulling’s cross country coaching
career includes Gary Wasserman’s individual national
title at the NCAA Championships in 1992, as well as a third-place NCAA
men’s team finish in 2001 and fourth-place NCAA men’s
team finishes in both 2002 and 2005.
Last season, the NWU men and women swept the team titles at
the GPAC Championships and earned top-five finishes at the
NCAA Central Regional. Both qualified for the 2006 NCAA Cross
Country Championships, where the men placed 22nd and the women
finished 23rd.
A six-time national coach of the year, Bulling has also helped
Nebraska Wesleyan’s track and field program build a
national reputation. The NWU men’s track and field teams
have placed in the top four nationally in seven of the last
10 NCAA meets, and the 2005 men’s outdoor team finished
No. 1 in the national power rankings. In 2000, Bulling became
the only coach in history to receive both the NAIA and NCAA
Men’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year awards.
A 1980 Nebraska Wesleyan graduate with a bachelor’s
degree in psychology, Bulling enjoyed an outstanding athletic
career. He held the school’s discus record for 10 years
and was also a three-year starter on the football team’s
defensive line.
Bulling received his doctoral degree in educational psychology
from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1993. In addition
to his coaching duties at NWU, Bulling is also an adjunct
professor of education. Bulling and his wife, Denise, have
two children, Emily and Elliott.
Bulling
reaches conference title milestone (10/31/05)
 Ann Ringlein
Assistant Coach
Ann Ringlein, one of the most recognizable
names in Lincoln’s running community, is in her 13th
season as an assistant coach for the NWU cross country teams.
“Ann is an integral part of our program,”
stated head coach Dr. Ted Bulling. “Not only does she
bring a great deal of coaching experience to our teams, but
even more importantly, she exhibits the kind of character
and integrity that we want our student-athletes exposed to.”
In 2000, Ringlein received the prestigious
Ambassador Award from the Girls & Women in Sports &
Fitness Committee for Lincoln and Lancaster County for being
an outstanding female role model and for her dedication and
drive to excel in athletics.
A native of Red Cloud, Neb., Ringlein has
been running competitively in the Midwest for more than 20
years. In 1990, she won the Kansas City Marathon and was the
champion in the 1991 Lincoln Half-Marathon. In 1999, Ringlein
finished second in the USA Master Cross Country Winter Championships
in Orlando, Fla., and she won the masters 20K Dam to Dam in
Des Moines, Iowa in 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Ringlein
has also been the masters champion at the Drake Relays in
the five-mile race, Grandma’s Marathon in Duluth, Minn.,
the Havelock 10K in Lincoln and the Lincoln Corporate 8K Run.
During her career, Ringlein has made coaching
stops at St. Paul (Neb.) High School and Lincoln Northeast
High School. She was also an assistant coach at Lincoln Pius
X for the 1994-95 school year. Ringlein and her husband, Ray,
have two daughters and two grandchildren. |
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