Biography:
Coach Nancy started running before sports were offered for girls in high school. She ran for a track club
starting in the fall of her sophomore year of high school. She won the 880yd National Championship for Girls
14-17 after her sophomore year and then won both the 440yd and 880yd National Championship for Girls 14-
17 after her junior year. She was an alternate to the 1968 Olympic team in the 400m and an alternate for the
1972 Olympic team in the 800m. She made the US National track team in both 1969 and 1973 in the 800m
and competed in Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Nancy retired from Bowling Green State University where she taught statistics for 35 years. She was a
volunteer coach for the Women’s Track and Cross Country teams at BGSU for 9 years, working and running
with the distance runners. She was a volunteer coach for Tappan Middle school for 3 years. She started
coaching at Pioneer High School in the fall of 2010 serving as an assistant track and cross country coach for
five years. She became the head coach of both cross country and track and field in the fall of 2015.
Nancy lives with her husband, Bob, and has two daughters, Liza and Elena, who both ran for Pioneer High
School. Bob is currently the girls' cross country coach at Huron HS.
Biography:
Biography:
Biography:
Vern Kiehl joined the Pioneer HS Track and Field staff in 2018, as an assistant coach, specializing in hurdles.
Kiehl competed in hurdles and pole vault in high school and at Defiance College, in Defiance, Ohio.
He comes to Pioneer from Northwest Ohio, where his Track and Field coaching career began in the spring of 1981, as an assistant at Cardinal Stritch High School. In 1986, he became the Head Coach at Perrysburg High School, in Perrysburg, Ohio.
During his tenure at Perrysburg, he was a 9 time Northern Lakes League Coach of the Year and amassed over 300 victories.
Vern has also been a member of the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches, joining the organization in 2000. He has served OATCCC as a District Representative, Vice President and President.
In addition to his work with OATCCC, Vern has served on the Ohio High School Athletic Association Track and Field Advisory Board, as well as the OHSAA State Track and Field Games Committee and the Ohio State Track and Field Advisory Board.
In 2011, Kiehl received the OHSAA’s Sportsmanship, Ethics and Integrity Award for his unwavering commitment to good sportsmanship, high level of ethics and integrity in carrying out his responsibilities as a coach.
In 2015, Kiehl was honored to receive the OATCCC Ed Barker Award, their highest award, for his contributions to Cross Country and Track and Field in Ohio.
In addition to Track and Field, Vern has coached Cross Country, Varsity and Freshman Football, as well as Girls’ Basketball. He has also been a Track and Field official since 1990.
Vern retired from teaching at Perrysburg High School in 2013, but has continued to coach since his retirement.
He lives with his wife, Kathy in Saline.
