San Antonio - Erica Clausen has been hired as Trinity's assistant coach in cross country and track and field.

Coach Clausen comes to the Trinity campus from Williams College (Mass.) where she held a similar position for two years. Williams is consistently ranked in the top-10 of NCAA Division III cross country and track and field.

Prior to coaching at Williams, coach Clausen was an assistant with the women's cross country program at Northwestern University. Coach Clausen is expected to earn a Master's in Sports Administration from Northwestern in December 2009.

As an undergraduate, coach Clausen was a member of the St. Olaf College (Minn.) NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships qualifying team in 2001. She also earned all-conference track and field honors in 2004, in the 10,000 meters. Coach Clausen was an academic all-conference recipient in 2001, 2002 an 2004.

She earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Spanish from St. Olaf in 2004.

Coach Clausen is USATF certified Levels I and II, in endurance training.

An avid marathon and road races runner, coach Clausen placed third in the women's division of the 2006 New Orleans Mardi Gras Marathon.