Cal Poly Pomona Athletics

Lauren Reimer enters her fourth season in 2012 as an assistant coach for the Bronco track and field teams with a solid background in multi-events, jumps and javelin. She plays the important role of recruiting coordinator for the cross country and track and field programs.

Under Reimer's leadership, javelin star Lance Walkington earned All-American honors at the NCAA Division II National Championships in Turlock, Calif. In his first three attempts on the national stage,  Walkington's top throw of 61.60 meters allowed him to advance into the final. There, his second attempt flew 63.26 meters, or 207 feet and six inches. That ended as the fourth-best mark nationally on the afternoon.

"Lance ended as one of only three competitors to improve from the first round of throws to the second round," Reimer said. "He put himself in the top class of the nation and I'm proud of him."

Also qualifying for the 2011 championships under Reimer's guidance was Tramieka Thomas, who competed in the long jump and hurdles and later won the team's Most Outstanding Female Athlete award.

Through the 2009-10 season, Reimer qualified decathlete Michael Hernandez to the national championships held in Charlotte, N.C. Hernandez ranked as the fifth-best decathlon performer in Broncos' program history and received the squad's Most Outstanding Male Athlete honor that year.

In Reimer's first campaign at CPP in 2008-09, she helped Hernandez make his first appearance on the D-II national stage. After the season ended, Hernandez captured the Most Improved Male Athlete distinction.

Prior to joining the Broncos' staff, Reimer spent 2008 as an assistant coach at Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, where she coached all jumps, hurdles and running events and helped guide one of her athletes to the state finals. She also served as an assistant student coach at her alma mater Long Beach State in 2006-07 and assisted at Immaculate Heart High School in Los Angeles.

Reimer began her college career at Georgia Tech, where she won the Atlantic Coast Conference heptathlon and set a school record in 2004. During the indoor season, she was the ACC runner-up in the pentathlon while again setting a school record for points. She also finished fifth in the javelin at the 2002 ACC meet.

She completed her collegiate career at Long Beach State.

Reimer, a New Braunfels, Texas, native, was one of the nation's top scholastic performers during her senior season at New Braunfels High School. Her prep heptathlon score of 5,357 was the second-best all-time score behind only her sister Kendra and currently ranks 10th all-time. She competed in five individual events at the 2001 Texas State High School Track and Field Championships in Austin and placed in each event – 300-intermediate hurdles (2nd), shot put (5th), long jump (5th), high jump (6th) and 100 hurdles (7th).

Reimer earned her bachelor's degree in communications from Long Beach State in 2007. She resides in Corona.