Starting the program from scratch in 2007, Bryan Harmon is now in his fifth season overall directing the Lake Erie men’s and women’s track and field teams.  In just a short period of time, Harmon has taken the Storm from a fledgling program into a regional force and national-caliber squad.

In 2010, Lake Erie had its first All-Americans in school history when sprinter Chris Burrows and hurdler Ethan Snyder finished in the top eight in their respective events at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships.  In 2010, Burrows took home two individual All-American honors during the indoor championships and three more during the outdoor season.  Isaac Snyder (indoor heptathlon) and Jamil Dudley (outdoor high jump) also garnered All-American accolades along with the outdoor 4x400-meter relay team of sophomores Burrows, the Snyders and Quinton Harley.

During the 2011 season, the Lake Erie men placed 16th at the Indoor National Championships and 14th at the Division II outdoor meet and ranked as high as 13th in the USTFCCCA Computer Poll.

Competing at the conference level for the first time, Harmon directed LEC to a 5th place finish on the men's side at both the indoor and outdoor Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) Championships.  Dudley was named the Freshman Field Athlete of the Year while Burrows was the Runner of the Year in the GLIAC outdoors. The women's squad was eighth in the indoor season and 10th in the outdoor and had its first two individual NCAA provisional qualifiers in hurdler Andrea Boyd and long jumper Colleen Bednar.   

On the season, Lake Erie picked up a total of 20 all-region honorees and over 30 all-conference performances.

In 2008, the teams competed as a full-fledged varsity sport for the first time after a year on the club level.  In addition, Harmon has directed the Storm cross country teams for the last six seasons.

The Mentor native has a strong running history, having tallied seven collegiate letters in track and cross country, as well as earning Most Improved Runner honors for the Tiffin University cross country program in 2002. He was also a part of back-to-back conference track championships his junior and senior years.

Since graduating from Tiffin with a degree in sports management, he continues to compete in the sport regularly, most recently running in this year's Boston Marathon for the second time. In his debut, he finished 260th overall and was in the top three among Ohio runners with a time of two hours, 45 minutes and 30 seconds.

Harmon is single and resides in Willoughby.

An All-American long jumper as an undergraduate, Ryan Rademacher is in his first season as a graduate assistant coach with the Storm track and field program.  He will work primarily with the horizontal jumpers.

Rademacher was a three-time Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) champion in the long jump and once in the triple jump while competing for perennial league power Grand Valley State University.  He garnered one All-American honor in the long jump and was a six-time All-GLIAC selection in the event.  He twice was all-conference in the triple jump and once in the 4x100-meter relay for a team that won six GLIAC titles and four Athletic Directors' Cups during his time there.

After graduating with a bachelor's degree in advertising and marketing in 2010, Rademacher coached the jumpers and sprinters at Calvin Christian High School. There he coached five school record setters, three conference and regional individual champions and had five state qualifiers.  The team won its first conference title in nine years and was the regional runner up.

A native of Grand Rapids, Mich., Rademacher is a member of the Boys & Girls Club of America and a Veterans Shelter volunteer.

Alex Simko is in his first year as a graduate assistant coach with the Lake Erie track and field and cross country programs. 

Most recently Simko was a graduate assistant at Frostburg State and before that was an assistant coach at Hilliard Davidson High School.  At Hilliard he helped the team to a cross country state runner-up finish in 2008.

As four-year member of the track and field and cross country teams at Otterbein College, the Mentor native twice earned All-Ohio Athletic Conference honors in track.  Simko graduated from Otterbein in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in sport management. 

All-Summitt League sprinter Ray Richardson joins the Storm track and field staff as a graduate assistant for the 2011-12 season.

Richardson earned all-conference honors in the outdoor 100- and 200-meters, along with the indoor 60-meters as a Leatherneck, picking up a total of five Summitt League honors.  The Joliet, Ill. native also recorded the third fastest time in the 60-meters in school history.

After graduating from Western Illinois in 2011 with a degree in kinesiology, Richardson served a coaching internship at the University of St. Francis before coming to LEC.

Former NCAA Division III All-American Trevor Matuszak joins the Lake Erie track and field team for his first season as a graduate assistant coach, working with the throwers. 

A standout at Defiance College, Matuszak was the national runner-up in the weight throw at the DIII indoor championships in 2008 and posted the same result in the hammer throw at the 2008 outdoor national meet.  That year he was named the Great Lakes Region Field Athlete of the Year and the Defiance Male Athlete of the Year. 

Matuszak earned his bachelor's degree from Defiance in 2008 in wellness and corporate fitness.  He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist, a USATF Level 1 coach and was invited to the 2010 USA four-man bobsled team national tryouts in the summer of 2010.