Michael Stoick joined the track & field and cross country coaching staff for the 2013-14 academic year as a graduate assistant specializing in middle and long distance training.
He brings additional energy, enthusiasm, knowledge, skill, personal experience and his nutritionally healthy and active lifestyle to the program. He also puts these attributes on display as an avid athlete who enjoys working out with the athletes he coaches while encouraging them to strive for higher ideals through hard work and enthusiastic determination.
He has gained a significant amount of coaching experience at the high school level, serving as boys and girls assistant track & field coach at St. Paul Central High School (2006-13). He also has head coaching experience at Orono High School (2005 track & field) and at St. Paul Central (2007 cross country).
Over the past five years, he's grown the Central cross country program from 25 to 80 student-athletes and trained dozens of student-athletes to state and college level competition. His teams have captured 14 conference championships as well as dozens of individual champions.
He was a three-time St. Paul Conference Boys and Girls Coach of the Year (2008, 2009, 2011).
While serving as assistant track coach at Central since 2006, he has also been a Run Club and Triathlon Coach at Lifetime Fitness, has been an assistant for Central's nordic ski team and is a USA Track & Field level 1 certified coach.
A four year letter winner at the University Minnesota, Stoick was an All-Big Ten Second Team award winner and National Meet Competitor for the Golden Gophers. A team captain for Minnesota, he was USATF's Minnesota 2001 Distance Runner of the Year runner-up, a three-time USA Triathlon Midwest Duathlete of the Year (2002, 03, 04) and had the top American finish at Powerman European Championships (2004), placing eighth overall.
He earned his bachelor of nutritional science degree adn a professional 2-year coordinated registered dietician program at the University of Minnesota.
He is currently working towards a professional teacher degree at Concordia-St. Paul and has actively researched the characterization and biological viability cancer cells and primary neurons on porous 3D silica nanofibrous scaffolds. Over the summer of 2014, he completed two courses in the Concordia’s new exercise science graduate program and is currently in his final semester of a master's degree in educational technology
The St. Michael-Albertville High School graduate is also the owner and operator of M&M Painting and Repair since 1996. He resides in St. Paul's Highland Park neighborhood. He and his wife Kari have two daughters, Lexi (18) and Sasha (5) and two son, Teegan (7) and Gavin (6 mo.). As a family they enjoy the many running, biking and hiking trails along the Mississippi River.
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