Connie Teaberry Position: Head Coach Experience: 5th Year Alma Mater: Kansas State University, 1992

Now in her fifth season, Connie Teaberry took the reigns of the Northern Illinois women's track & field and cross country programs in 2004, and under the former Olympian's able leadership, the programs have shown steady improvement. During Teaberry's tenure as the women's head track & field coach, the Huskies have broken multiple school records, and the Huskies have boasted two MAC individual champions, nine NCAA regional qualifiers and a NCAA Championships participant.

The 2007 indoor and outdoor track seasons featured three NCAA Regional Qualifiers, a trio of third-place team finishes, at the Illinois Invitational, the Jack Shaw Invitational and the Toledo Collegiate Challenge. The Huskies also continued their assault on the NIU record books by setting six school records, and senior thrower Ashley Morrow qualified for the NCAA Championships in Sacramento, Calif.

During the 2006 season, Teaberry guided the Huskies to first-place finishes in both the indoor and outdoor Chicagoland Championships meets. The success did not stop there as NIU recorded a second-place finish at the EIU Mega Meet, and a solid third-place finish at the Toledo Triangular.

The 2006 season also saw Teaberry's charges reach unparalleled success as the Huskies set and re-set 30 school individual records and produced NIU's second MAC Champion ever in junior thrower Ashley Morrow. Three athletes advanced to the NCAA Regionals, where Morrow qualified for the NCAA Championships.

In Teaberry's inaugural season as the head coach of the women's track team, she coached Northern's first individual MAC Champion in over 25 years, and the first Huskie track & field athletes to earn All-MAC honors in Alicja Czajka and Lorene Skipper. Teaberry's Huskies dominated the field at the Chicagoland Championship on the way to a first-place finish.

Teaberry came to Northern Illinois after brief stints as an assistant women's track coach at Ohio University (2004), Arizona State University (1998-99), the University of Toledo (1995-98), and the University of Kentucky (1992-95). She displayed her ability to develop jumpers and sprinters in eight years as an assistant, as she developed eight NCAA qualifiers and two individual conference champions.

A St. Louis, Mo. native, Teaberry began her outstanding athletics career at Lutheran North High School where she won four varsity letters in both basketball and track (1984-88). At Kansas State, she developed into a world-class caliber high jumper and participate in the U.S.A./Mobil Track & Field Championships and World Championships (1993-95), two Olympic Trials (1992 & 1996), the Olympics (1996), and the World University Games (1993).

Her ascension in the world high jumping hierarchy began with three then-Big Eight Conference outdoor titles (1990-92). As a senior, Teaberry was selected the Most Valuable Female Athlete at the Big Eight indoor meet, the Kansas State Woman of the Year Award recipient, and then the NCAA Athlete of the Year.

At Kansas State, she was a six-time All-American in the high jump, placing at the NCAA indoors in 1990 and 1992, plus outdoors in 1989-92. Teaberry's 6-1.5 jump at the 1992 Big Eight meet remains the third-best outdoor high jump in school history. Ditto for her 6-2.25 effort indoors at the 1992 Big Eight Championships.

Teaberry finished second in the high jump at the 1996 Olympic Trials, ranking No. 2 nationally, and qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in Atlanta where she tied for 15th place. At the 1992 Olympic Trials, she placed 10th in the high jump.

She graduated from Kansas State with a Bachelor of Science degree in life science and pre-nursing and made the Academic Honor Roll in spring, 1992. Teaberry is married to DeMarcus Lindsey of Mobile, Ala. The couple has two children, sons Kameron, 11, and Kollan, 6.