New Orleans, La. - University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's track & field head coach Pat Healy, men's track & field head coach Josh Buchholtz, assistant men's track & field assistant coach Derek Stanley and senior student-athlete Isaac Vazquez of Arcadia (H.S.) have earned United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Midwest Region Outdoor honors, the organization announced Friday.

Healy has been named the 2013 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year after leading UW-L to the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) title May 3-4. He was selected the WIAC Coach of the Year as the Eagles outscored runner-up UW-Oshkosh, 246.5 to 165.5. Healy led UW-L to its second consecutive outdoor conference crown after securing four individual titles and two relay first-place finishes.

Across the three sprint events and two relays, UW-L scored 74 team points. Nationally, Healy's sprinters hold multiple top-20 rankings, including two athletes at 100-meters, four in the 200, and three at 400. The Eagles' 4x400 and 4x100 relay teams are also ranked first and second, respectively.

The Eagles are currently ranked first in the most recent USTFCCCA team rankings and first in the team dual meet rankings.

In his 22nd season as UW-L's head coach, Healy has been named the WIAC Outdoor Coach of the Year eight times. The Eagles have won six of the last seven outdoor conference titles. UW-L has won 15 outdoor and 13 indoor league crowns under Healy. He has been named the WIAC Indoor Coach of the Year 10 times in his career.

Buchholtz was selected the 2013 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year after leading UW-L to its 23rd consecutive league title. The Eagles won this year's title with 223.0 points as they captured four individual crowns and had one relay first-place finish during the two-day conference meet. It was UW-L's league-leading 49th outdoor championship in school history. Buchholtz, in his fifth year at UW-L, has been selected the WIAC Outdoor Coach of the Year for five consecutive seasons.

He was named the 2013 USTFCCCA National Indoor Men's Division III Coach of the Year and USTFCCCA Midwest Region Indoor Coach of the Year. Buchholtz guided UW-L to its 16th National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Indoor Championship March 9 in Naperville, Illinois. The 16 national crowns are the most in NCAA Division III history. The Eagles scored 74 team points to capture this year's title, defeating runner-up UW-Oshkosh by 34 points. The 74 team points were the most in NCAA III history since UW-L won the national title in 2006 with 78 points.

UW-L claimed three national event titles and earned 18 All-America honors at this year's national championships. 

Buchholtz has been selected the WIAC Men's Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year four times in his career, including the last three seasons. UW-L won its 12th straight indoor league title in February.

UW-L is ranked first in the Midwest region and first in the nation by the USTFCCCA during the current outdoor season.

Stanley has been named the 2013 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Men's Assistant Coach of the Year. The Eagles' distance coach, Stanley helped UW-L secure its outdoor conference title in May with 75 of its 223 total points. He has five athletes ranked in the national top-20, including a fourth-ranked 800-meter runner Sean Royer and fifth-ranked 5,000-meter runner David Stilin. Stanley is in his second year as an assistant coach for the women's and men's track & field squads.

He completed his first year as the Eagles' women's and men's cross country head coach in 2012. The women's squad placed second at the 2012 WIAC Championships and 25th at the NCAA Division III Championships while the men's team won the 2012 conference title and placed fourth at the national meet.

Vazquez has been selected the 2013 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Men's Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. He captured the WIAC title in the long jump and placed second in the triple jump as UW-L won its 23rd straight outdoor crown. Vazquez is the Division III leader in the long jump and currently ranks second in the triple jump.

He was named the 2013 USTFCCCA National Men's Indoor Field Athlete of the Year and 2013 USTFCCCA Men's Midwest Region Field Athlete of the Year. Vazquez earned a pair of All-America honors at the 2013 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships March 8-9 at North Central College (Ill.). He captured the national title in the triple jump (51-3 1/2) while finishing second in the long jump (24-1 1/2) to earn 18 points for UW-L as the Eagles won their 16th indoor title in school history. 

His mark of 51-3 1/2 in the triple jump ranks as the fourth-best performance in NCAA III history. The mark also set a UW-L record, breaking the mark of 51-1 3/4 by Bill Schroeder set in 1993. Vazquez became the first UW-L student-athlete to win the indoor triple jump since Ajamu Olaniyan (formerly Dean Cash) in 1991. 

Along with his triple jump title and second-place finish in the long jump in 2013, Vazquez ended his career with seven NCAA Division III Indoor All-America honors. He earned four awards in the triple jump, finishing first in 2013; eighth in 2010 and third in 2011 and 2012. Vazquez picked up three career long jump honors, placing second this season and third in 2011 and 2012. 

Vazquez also has six career outdoor All-America honors. He won the national title in the triple jump in 2011 while placing third in the 2012 and sixth in 2010. Vazquez captured the outdoor long jump crown in 2012 while finishing fifth in 2011 and seventh in 2010.

He was voted the 2013 WIAC Indoor Field Performer of the Meet for the third straight season, the first individual in conference history to accomplish the feat, after setting meet records in winning the long jump (24-11) and triple jump (50-9 1/2) titles at the league championships. Vazquez became the second individual in conference history to capture three straight indoor long jump titles, joining UW-L's Bill Patza (1980-82). Vazquez won his second consecutive indoor triple jump crown this season. 

Vazquez earned the 2011 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Indoor Field Athlete of the Year Award after winning the long jump and placing second in the triple jump at the WIAC Championships.

UW-L's women's and men's teams return to action Thursday, May 23 hosting the NCAA Division III Championships at Roger Harring Stadium at Veterans Memorial Field Sports Complex.