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Men’s Cross Country > Coaching Staff
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Dr. Ted Bulling
Director of Track and Field/Cross Country

E-mail:
tab@nebrwesleyan.edu

Dr. Ted Bulling is in his 19th season as the Nebraska Wesleyan men’s cross country coach and his 14th 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 57 conference team titles.

In cross country, Bulling has led the men to GPAC crowns in eight of the last nine seasons, while the NWU women have won or shared six of the last eight. Nebraska Wesleyan’s men have qualified as a team for the NCAA Cross Country Championships 11 years in a row, while the women have made it in 10 of the last 12 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.

In 2007, Bulling helped both the NWU teams sweet the team titles at the GPAC Championships. He was named the GPAC Cross Country Coach-of-the-Year. The NWU men then won the NCAA Central Regional and Bulling was honored as the Central Region Coach-of-the-Year. The NWU women finished as the runner-up as both teams qualified for the NCAA III National Championshihps. The NWU men finished 14th while the women finished 16th in 2007.

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
Ann Ringlein
Assistant Coach


Ann Ringlein, one of the most recognizable names in Lincoln’s running community, is in her 14th 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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