Bio

Daniel Gerber has served as Midland University’s Head Cross Country and Track & Field Coach since 2018. He began his career at Midland as an assistant coach in 2014 before taking the reins of the program.

Gerber has seen several of his athletes break multiple school records during his time as a coach at Midland. Gerber has coached seven Warriors teams to top 25 finishes at the NAIA national championships, with a 7th place finish in the 2020 indoor, 2021 indoor, and 2021 outdoor seasons, and a 6th-place finish at the 2022 indoor championship.

Prior to coming to Midland in 2014, Gerber spent two seasons as the assistant coach at College of Saint Scholastica (Minnesota) from 2012-14 where he coached 16 individual Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) champions, 32 All-Conference selections, and saw 20 school records broken in just two seasons. Gerber helped the Saints to consecutive Men’s and Women’s UMAC Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 2013-14.

From 2010-12, Gerber was an assistant coach at Abilene Christian University. In his first year in the spring of 2011, he helped guide the Wildcats to their 13th Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II National Championship. ACU also won the Division II Outdoor Track & Field title that same year. He oversaw 13 All-Americans and three Division II National Champions while at ACU.

Gerber began his coaching career at Eastern New Mexico University as a graduate assistant from 2008-2010. While coaching at ENMU, the Greyhounds broke 14 school records. He completed his Master’s in Exercise Science in 2010.

A native of Belvidere, Illinois, Gerber competed as a sprinter for Saint Mary’s University from 2004-07 and broke seven school records during his collegiate career. Gerber graduated from SMU in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations.