6/18/08

One of the most successful coaches at the University of Wisconsin is running away.

Jerry Schumacher, the Badger men's cross country and track distance coach, is leaving the program to take a position with Nike coaching elite distance runners in Portland, Ore.

The position was created especially for Schumacher, who will take with him a stable of current professional runners he is now coaching in Madison - most of them ex-Badgers.