About me
Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Brian Cashdollar will enter his 26th year at Manchester University in 2024-25.
Since arriving in North Manchester in 1999, Coach Cashdollar has played an instrumental role in developing the Spartan cross country and track & field programs into consistent conference title contenders.
Under Cashdollar’s guidance, the Manchester University cross country programs have won a combined 18 Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference championships. The men claimed five straight HCAC titles from 2009-2013 and won their most recent conference championship in 2023. The women earned four straight titles from 2009-2012 and won their most recent conference championship in the fall of 2022. Overall, Coach Cashdollar has guided the men to eight HCAC titles and the women to 10 HCAC titles. Four teams have qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships during Cashdollar’s tenure (2009, 2011-13). Additionally, seven individuals have qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships.
Coach Cashdollar was named the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Region Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2011 and has garnered a total of 28 HCAC Coach of the Year awards. He has coached 41 all-region athletes in cross country, including 15 conference MVPs and eight conference Freshman of the Year. During Cashdollar's tenure, 176 total Spartans have garnered All-HCAC or Honorable Mention All-HCAC honors in cross country.
At the helm of the track and field programs, Cashdollar has led the Spartans to a combined 10 HCAC titles. In 2022, both the Manchester men and women swept both the indoor and outdoor HCAC titles; the men's titles were the first in program history. The women swept track titles for the first time since 2016 and completed the "HCAC Triple Crown" of winning a cross country, indoor, and outdoor championship during the same academic year. Overall, the Coach Cashdollar has guided the women's program to five outdoor titles and two indoor titles. The men have finished in the top three at the HCAC Championships 18 times during Cashdollar’s tenure. Six teams have qualified for the NCAA Division III National Championships under Cashdollar’s guidance (Men Indoor, 2009; Men Outdoor, 2009-10; Women Indoor, 2014-15; Women Outdoor, 2010, 2015).
Cashdollar’s track programs have produced 32 all-region athletes, including 2010 Great Lakes Region Field Athlete of the Year John Kimmel, who was also a three-time All-American and National Champion. In 2014, Bridgette Rowe was named the HCAC Female Athlete of the Year. Both Kimmel and Rowe were inducted in the Manchester Athletics Hall of Fame in 2021. Additionally, Coach Cashdollar has mentored 35 HCAC MVPs, 192 HCAC event champions, 223 All-HCAC athletes and his program was named the “NCAA Program of the Year” in 2010. Cashdollar has produced 20 USTFCCCA Academic All-American teams and 42 athletes have garnered USTFCCCA Academic All-American honors.
Brian has both a Level 1 Certification and Strength and Condition Certification from the USTFCCCA.
A four-year letter winner and two-time captain for the track and field team at Ball State University, Cashdollar graduated with a bachelor's degree in sports administration in 1999. He went on to receive his master's degree in school administration from Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW) in 2002.
Brian and his wife, Kim, reside in North Manchester with their daughters, Kambree and Ayla.
