Matt Ingebritsen (pronounced Ing-a-brit-sin) is in his third season as associate head coach of Utah State’s track & field teams. Ingebritsen, who also serves as the throwers coach, is in his 20th season overall with the Aggies.
Under Ingebritsen, USU’s throwers have combined for seven All-America honors, 23 conference titles and 113 all-conference accolades. Overall, eight of the 12 school records in throwing events are held by athletes coached by Ingebritsen.
During the 2024-2025 track and field campaign, Ingebritsen helped coach Utah State throwers to four All-MW honors and 10 marks that rank in the school’s all-time top 10. Nate Franz earned MW silver medals in the discus and indoor shot put, Walker Deede earned silver in the javelin and Joseph Turner claimed bronze in the discus, with all three earning berths to the NCAA West First Rounds based on their throws at the MW Outdoor Championships.
In 2023-24, Aggie throwers combined for four All-MW selections. Gavin Beierle (shot put, discus), Deede (javelin), Djamilliah Paepke-Chile (javelin) and Turner (discus) all qualified for the NCAA West First Rounds. Aggie throwers combined for five marks in the top 10 of USU’s record book during the indoor and outdoor seasons.
Ingebritsen formerly served as USU’s director of track & field and cross country for five seasons.
During the 2022 cross country season, Utah State's men's team made its fourth-ever trip to the NCAA Championships, where the Aggies beat five ranked teams and placed 26th with 618 points. Additionally, Camren Todd was the recipient of the Elite 90 Award for the 2022 NCAA Division I Men’s Cross Country Championships, the second Elite 90 Award of his career.
Two members of the women's cross country team also competed at the NCAA Championships in Ana Weaver and Mica Rivera, who placed 53rd and 201st, respectively. Yonas Mogos led the Aggie men as the 85th runner to cross the finish line.
Prior to the NCAA Championships, Mogos earned all-region honors as he placed 23rd at the NCAA Mountain Region Championships, while Weaver, Todd, and Darren Harman earned second team All-MW accolades at the MW Cross Country Championships.
In the outdoor season, 15 Utah State athletes, including three throwers, qualified for the 2023 NCAA West Preliminary Championships, where Rivera placed 23rd in the 5,000 meters with a school-record time of 16:07.73 and Brennan Benson broke the school record in the 1,500 meters with a time of 3:40.96.
Brennan Benson and Logan Hammer won individual titles in the 800 meters and the pole vault, respectively, at the MW Outdoor Championships, the Aggies' first individual titles since 2019. The Utah State men took fifth place with 73 points, while the women finished eighth with 50.5 points.
Utah State's performance at the MW Indoor Championships was headlined by the relay teams. The women's and men's DMR teams and the men's 4x400 relay team all claimed podium finishes and All-MW honors.
The Aggie distance runners set five school records – two on the men's side and three on the women's side – during the 2023 outdoor track & field season. Furthermore, 16 student-athletes garnered U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic accolades.
Utah State athletes received 107 Academic All-MW honors across the cross country and track & field rosters. Additionally, a total of 75 athletes were named MW Scholar-Athletes on the year.
During the 2021-22 season, USU continued a strong run of success across indoor and outdoor track & field, in addition to cross country. In the 2021 cross country season, the Aggie women recorded one of their best seasons in program history, advancing to the NCAA Championships for only the second time in program history as the Aggies finished 28th. The men's cross country team narrowly missed their third-consecutive appearance at the national championships, placing eighth at the Mountain Region Championships.
The Aggie women tied for their best-ever finish at the MW Indoor Championships as they took sixth place with 38.50 points. Meanwhile, the men finished third in the conference with 73 points. Devin Pancake set the school record in the indoor mile at the David Hemery Valentine Invitational in Boston, Massachusetts, finishing with a time of 4:00.36. All told, the Aggies set seven marks during the indoor season ranking in the top three all-time in program history.
Utah State's success continued into the outdoor season as the Aggies sent 11 athletes to the NCAA West Preliminary Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas. Rivera posted the top performance for USU as she placed 14th in the 10,000 meters with a time of 34:09.64, the second-best time in the event in school history. Mark Crandall and Connor Weaver recorded the best finishes on the men's side as the duo each placed 24th in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and the 10,000 meters, respectively.
The Aggies also excelled in the classroom as USU athletes received 110 Academic All-MW honors across the cross country and track & field rosters. Additionally, 77 athletes were named MW Scholar-Athletes on the year.
While the 2020-21 campaign saw the cancelation of the indoor track & field season due to COVID-19 and a shortened cross country season that was moved from the fall to early 2021, the Aggies still enjoyed a wealth of success, both academically and athletically.
The men’s cross country team earned its best-ever finish at the NCAA Division I Cross Country National Championships as the 21st-ranked Aggies scored 351 points to place 11th overall, surpassing their previous best championship finish of 16th in 2019. Utah State beat 15 ranked teams, including 10 that were ranked ahead of them.
Caleb Garnica crossed the finish line in 30:31.2 to place 28th in the men’s 10K race and earn All-American status (given to the top 40 finishers). On top of that, Camren Todd was the recipient of the Elite 90 Award for the 2020 NCAA Division I Men’s Cross Country Championships.
Prior to earning All-American honors, Garnica captured the men’s 8K race at the 2020 MW Cross Country Championships. For his efforts, he was tabbed the MW Men’s Student-Athlete of the Year, to go along with earning first-team All-MW honors. Todd and Haydon Cooper also garnered first-team all-league honors, while Bridger Altice earned a second-team citation.
On the women’s side, Katie Haviland earned second-team All-MW accolades by placing eighth in the 6K race with a time of 20:22.1.
Ingebritsen coached Kyle Morris to the 2021 MW Outdoor Track & Field Championships javelin title, the only Aggie to garner a gold medal at the three-day event. Morris was one of 10 Aggies to qualify the NCAA West Preliminary Championships, including four throwers.
Eight Aggies from the men’s and women’s cross country teams and another eight from the men's and women's track and field teams were honored by the USTFCCCA for their performance both athletically and academically during the 2020-21 season. All four teams also earned collective All-Academic accolades.
In the spring of 2021, Aggie athletes earned 134 Academic All-MW honors in cross country and track and field. In addition, 75 student-athletes were named MW Scholar-Athletes.
During the 2020 campaign, which was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Josh Barclay won the shot put title with a mark of 18.11 meters (59-5.00) at the MW Indoor Championships. Morris also garnered All-MW accolades as he placed second in the shot put with a heave of 17.32 meters (56-10.00).
The men’s cross country program had a banner year in 2019. Utah State captured its first-ever Mountain West title and made its second appearance at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, where the 19th-ranked Aggies scored 428 points to place 16th overall, surpassing their previous best championship finish of 27th in 2017.
The Aggies finished ahead of five teams that entered the race ranked above them (No. 14 Wisconsin, No. 11 Washington, No. 9 Ole Miss, No. 18 Syracuse and No. 13 Middle Tennessee State).
The Aggie men earned an at-large bid to the NCAA Championships after the team finished fourth, their best-ever regional finish, and first among MW schools at the NCAA Mountain Regional Championships with 106 points. Five runners placed in the top 25 to earn all-region honors, the most ever by a USU team.
Hosting the 2019 MW Cross Country Championships, the Aggie men did not disappoint on their home course as they captured their first-ever MW title, while the Aggie women placed fifth. The men won the team title with 42 points, led by Farnsworth, who became the first Aggie to ever win a MW Championship race and earn MW Men's Student-Athlete of the Year honors. Farnsworth’s time of 21:14.2 broke the MW Championship record by 20 seconds.
Three of the top six runners in the men’s 8K were Aggies as Beattie (23:23.8) and Withers (23:24.9) finished fifth and sixth, respectively. Withers and Beattie, along with Farnsworth, earned first-team All-MW honors. Garnica was named to the All-MW second team after finishing 14th with a time of 23:40.7. Furthermore, Artie Gulden was named the MW Coach of the Year, the first Aggie coach to ever earn that honor.
Barclay, Farnsworth, and Audrey Garrett each earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for the 2019-20 season.
Utah State athletes received 95 Academic All-MW honors across the cross country and track & field rosters. Additionally, a total of 51 athletes were named MW Scholar-Athletes on the year.
The 2019 campaign was highlighted by Sindri Gudmundsson earning first-team All-American honors for the third-consecutive year in the javelin. He recorded a season-best throw of 73.92 meters (250-06) at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships to place fourth.
Gudmundsson became Utah State’s first three-time first-team All-American in one event since former U.S. Olympian James Parker in 2001 (hammer). Gudmundsson, who placed sixth in 2017 and third in 2018 at the Outdoor Finals, was ranked 12th nationally heading into the NCAA Outdoor Finals.
Gudmundsson earned his spot in the finals by placing first at the NCAA West Preliminary Championships with a heave of 73.68 meters (241-8). Prior to that, he claimed his third-straight javelin title and the fourth-straight overall for the Aggies at the MW Outdoor Championships.
Distance runner Cierra Simmons-Mecham placed 20th in the semifinals of the 3,000-meter steeplechase at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Austin, Texas. The native of Soda Springs, Idaho, crossed the finish line in 10:23.90 to earn honorable mention All-American honors.
A trio of Utah State student-athletes earned 2018-19 Google Cloud Academic All-District Track & Field/Cross Country honors, as selected by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA). On the women’s side, Kashley Carter and Tylee Skinner were tabbed to the first and second teams, respectively, while Stokton Smith earned first-team accolades on the men’s side. Carter was also named an Academic All-American.
USU athletes received 90 Academic All-MW honors across the cross country and track & field rosters. Additionally, 46 athletes were named MW Scholar-Athletes on the year.
The 2018 season saw the Aggies tie Penn State for 18th place (15 points) in the men’s team standings at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Finals. It marked the sixth time in program history that Utah State finished in the top-20 at a national meet. It also proved to be USU’s best team showing since it also tied for 18th in 2001.
Simmons-Mecham scored one point for Utah State’s women’s team at the 2018 NCAA Outdoor Finals by placing eighth and earning first-team All-American honors in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with a school-record time of 9:49.33.
After a school-record 22 Aggies qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Championships during the 2018 campaign, six advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Finals, where Spencer Fehlberg (3,000-meter steeplechase) and Clay Lambourne (800 meters) both earned second-team All-American honors, while Brenn Flint (shot put) was an honorable mention All-American.
Gudmundsson was named the USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week after breaking his own school record in the javelin with his first throw of the season (80.49 meters/264-1) at that meet. He was also tabbed the Mountain Region Men’s Field Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA.
The quartet of Lambourne, Maggard, Jordan Beutler and Brady Martin garnered first-team All-American honors by placing fifth in the DMR with a school-record time of 9:32.31 at the 2018 NCAA Indoor Championships. Maggard also earned first-team All-American honors by placing fifth in the 3,000 meters, while Lambourne captured second-team All-American honors in the 800 meters.
Overall, the men’s team ended the NCAA Indoor Finals with eight points to place 29th, the best team finish since 1977, when Utah State took 21st.
On the women’s side in 2018, Ingebritsen coached Brenn Flint to a pair of shot put titles at the MW Indoor and Outdoor Championships. She then went on to earn honorable mention All-American honors in the event at the NCAA Outdoor Finals, recording a throw of 13.72 meters (45-0.25).
Flint became the first female thrower under Ingebritsen to garner a pair of All-American honors, also earning honorable mention accolades in 2017. Maci Bingham earned second-team accolades in the hammer after placing 15th with a throw of 60.44 meters (198-3) at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Finals, while Krista Larson remains the only female to earn first-team honors under Ingebritsen, doing so in 2009 in the hammer as she placed ninth with a throw of 58.21 meters (194-03).
During the 2017-18 campaign, USU athletes received 70 Academic All-MW honors across the cross country and track & field rosters. Additionally, a total of 45 athletes were named MW Scholar-Athletes on the year.
Under Ingebritsen’s guidance, Devin Wright earned the Mountain West’s highest honor, as he was named the 2017 MW Scholar-Athlete of the Year, becoming the first Aggie to win the prestigious award. The accolade is bestowed upon one male and one female in the conference that best exemplify the term “student-athlete” by achieving excellence in academics, athletics and community involvement. Wright was also named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America second team and was one of nine USU track & field athletes to earn USTFCCCA All-Academic honors.
Ingebritsen, who competed for five years at Boise State in the discus, shot put, weight and hammer throws, graduated with a bachelor’s degree in social science in 2003. In 2006, he received a master’s of education degree in health, physical education and recreation from Utah State.
He is married to Abbey Ingebritsen, who was also a thrower at Boise State and earned a pair of first-team All-American honors.