Coach Burkholder is entering his second season as the Head Track and Field Coach and fourth season as the throws coach with the Tritons. During the 2020 season the Men won their second consecutive Indoor National Championship and the Women were National Runners-Up. Both the Men and Women’s Teams won the Region XI Indoor Championship. Burkholder was named the USTFCCCA National Men’s Coach of the Year, Midwest Region Head Men’s and Head Women’s Coach of the Year, and the ICCAC Coach of the Year during the Indoor Season. He has also been named the Women’s Assistant Coach of the year twice (2018, 2019) and Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year once (2019).

Over the last three seasons he has coached 4 National Champions, 34 All-Americans, 24 Region XI Champions, and 62 National Qualifying performances. His throwers also set a new Region XI Record in the Men’s Hammer and Women’s Weight throw and have earned Regional Athlete of Year awards seven times.

Before coming to Iowa Central Burkholder Coached at Siena Heights University. While there he helped Kasey Renshaw to a 5^th place finish at the USA Indoor National Championships in the weight throw with a mark of 70’10”. During those two years he also coached one National Champion, 12 All-Americans, 36 National Qualifiers, and 11 Conference Champions with 33 All-Conference performances. The throwers also set six new school records, two conference records, and one National record.

Burkholder earned his B.A. in Kinesiology and Psychology from Loras College, and his M.A. in Leadership: Higher Education from Siena Heights University.