Jon Evenson enters his 14th season with the NSU track and field teams in 2025-26, working primarily with the throwers.
Evenson has made multiple trips to the NCAA DII national meet and come home with 11 All-American awards; Yvonne Freeze twice in the discus (’12, ’13), who also owns the school record in that event, Breann Jackson twice in the weight throw (’15, ’16), and Tanner Berg in the weight, shot put, and hammer (2019-22).
He has also coached eight conference champions in the javelin; 2-time NSIC champion Alex Webster who, qualified for the NCAA DII national meet in 2014 and owns the current school record, 2016 graduate Devin Olson, who also owns two individual NSIC titles in the javelin, David Murphy, who took home his first conference title in 2016, Michaela Schlecht who earned the honor as a senior in 2017, Monte Meyerink who brought home top honors in 2018, Rachel Guthmiller in 2022, and most recently Carson Barnett in the spring of 2024 and 2025.
Murphy capped off a great year of performances by Evenson’s throwing crew in 2016, as he had two other javelin throwers join him on the men’s podium at the NSIC Championships, along with two women ranked in the top four of the final NSIC season standings. In addition to the javelin, Breann Jackson added two All-NSIC performances (runner-up in the indoor weight throw and outdoor shot put), an All-American award in the indoor weight throw, and her first national meet appearance in the hammer throw to her resume.
A Lisbon N.D. native, Evenson was a 3-time All-State performer in the discus and javelin. He then threw collegiately at Northern State. During his four years throwing for the Wolves, Evenson racked up three individual conference titles and two NCAA DII national provisional qualifying marks in the javelin. He was also a conference place winner in the discus and the shot put for the Wolves. Evenson resides in Aberdeen with his wife Erin.
