Former Windom, MN high school sprinting standout Heather Van Norman, who won the Class A 100, 200 and 400m every year from 1985 through 1988, is moving her family to Tennessee. [photo courtesy of University of Tennessee.]
Van Norman, an LSU graduate who was a six-time All-American, ran for the Minnesota Gophers her freshman year before transferring to LSU.
She just announced she will be leaving her position as head men's and women's track and cross country coach at Tulane in New Orleans to become the assistant coach for women's sprints and hurdles at the University of Tennessee. (Read the announcement at nola.com.)
Van Norman was the first staff hire for J.J. Clark, Tennessee's Director of Track & Field and Cross Country.
Van Norman had been at Tulane since 2002. Previously she had coached at Georgia Tech and Rice University in Houston.
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