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Alexis Kauzlarich
Alexis Kauzlarich
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Alexis Kauzlarich enters her first season as part of the NIACC Track and Field coaching staff in the 2025-26 school year, specializing in sprints and hurdles.
Kauzlarich joins NIACC following a successful tenure at Iowa Central where she coached sprints and hurdles at the NJCAA Division I level.
During the 2025–26 season at Iowa Central, Kauzlarich guided two athletes to school records:
  • Musa Nkosi set the indoor 400-meter school record with a time of 46.44, and later broke the outdoor record with a 45.29.
  • Chadrak Belinda Bula Bula ran a school-record 45.74 in the indoor 300-meter hurdles.
Kauzlarich also coached Zariah Greaves to NJCAA All-American honors in the 60, 100, and 200 meters and Musa Nkosi to All-American finishes in the 200 and 400 meters, adding to her growing list of nationally recognized athletes.
In the 2024 indoor season, she coached Zion Campbell to a school record in the 60-meter dash with a time of 6.60.
During the 2024 outdoor season, Kauzlarich guided Dayvione Briggs and Abigail Frey to podium finishes in the 400-meter hurdles at the NJCAA Outdoor National Championships, placing fifth and seventh, respectively. Briggs ran a personal best of 1:01.44, and Frey clocked 1:03.06. Both athletes went on to rank sixth and eighth on Iowa Central’s All-Time Top 10 List for the event.
In her first collegiate season (2023), Kauzlarich worked primarily with mid-distance runners and long hurdlers. That year, she coached Tafari Bishop, who placed fourth in the 400-meter hurdles at the NJCAA Outdoor National Championships with a personal best of 51.82—the second-fastest time in school history.
Over the past three years at the collegiate level, Kauzlarich has coached eight NJCAA All-Americans, in addition to two high school All-Americans earlier in her coaching career.
Before entering collegiate coaching, she spent several years at Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont High School in Eddyville, Iowa, where she coached sprinters, hurdlers, and jumpers. Since 2017, she has held numerous roles in southern Iowa school districts, including:
  • Personal hurdle coach
  • Head cross country coach
  • Junior high track & field coach
  • High school basketball coach
  • High school softball coach
  • Substitute teacher
In 2021, she founded the Southern Iowa Track Club, providing youth athletes with opportunities to compete in AAU and Junior Olympic competitions throughout the state.
Kauzlarich earned her Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education: Wellness & Recreation from William Penn University in Oskaloosa, Iowa, graduating in December 2019.