At the outset of his ninth year at Concordia, Martin Gonzalez has been at his programs' post longer than any other coach on the athletics staff.

Gonzalez coaches the cross country and the track and field programs on the men's and women's side.

In his eight years at Concordia, Gonzalez has garnered Coach of the Year recognition a total of 15 times, most recently earning honors as the 2008 GSAC Track and Field Coach of the Year.

Overall, Gonzalez has coached four individual champions and 83 individual All-Americans, including nine in a 2007 indoor track and field season. 

Gonzalez' men's and women's cross country programs both won GSAC titles in 2005 and 2006, and the men's team captured a GSAC title in 2007 en route to an 11th-place finish at the national meet.

Concordia won its first-ever national title in 2000, Gonzalez' first year, with a first-place finish in women's cross country, It marked the first time that a West-Coast NAIA school had won a national crown in the first 20 years of the national championship history.

In 2005 and 2006, Gonzalez led the cross country programs to a Combined Men's and Women's National Title, as the men's teams finished in second place both years and the women's finished fifth and third place, respectively.

In track and field, Gonzalez' teams have twice finished as high as eighth place on the national stage, as his men's team finished eighth in the 2007 NAIA Men's Outdoor Track and Field Championship. The women also earned a No. 8 finish in the 2005 NAIA Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship.

Gonzalez, 38, a graduate of Anaheim's Magnolia High School, earned his bachelor's from Adams State (Colo.) in 1996, where he served as an assistant coach as both an undergraduate and a graduate student. Gonzalez also holds a master's in health, which he earned at Adams State in 1998.

Gonzalez and his wife, Norma, live in Garden Grove and have two children, Alexis (12), and Martin Jesus (5).

Len Blutreich starts his 12th year as an assistant coach for Concordia's track & field teams in 2009. Blutreich serves as the coach of the Eagle throwers, instructing athletes in the shot put, discus and javelin. 

In his time with the Eagles, Blutreich has coached 19 All-Americans, including 18 NAIA honorees and one USA Junior All-American (Paul Castaneda, 2005). Blutreich guided Castaneda, a nine-time all-American, to both the indoor and outdoor NAIA national championships in shot put in 2007. 

Blutreich's athletes hold each of the school's existing records in throwing.

Blutreich was a member of the US National Track & Field team in 1965, representing the USA at the Maccabiah Games in Israel. He competed at Cal State LA and post-collegiately for the Southern California Striders track club.

He received his bachelor's in Government from Cal State Los Angeles in 1961. He has since coached at the prep, collegiate and elite levels. He coached his son, Brian Blutreich, who was a CIF Champion in the shot put and discus and a 1992 olympian in Barcelona.

Jose Hernandez begins his fourth season as assistant coach for the track and field teams at Concordia.

In his first three seasons at Concordia, Hernandez has coached three NAIA All-Americans and his athletes have broken 37 school records.

In six years as an assistant at Adams State (Colo.), Hernandez guided three individual national champions in track & field as well as 42 All-American sprinters and hurdlers in his six-year stint.

He was also a jumpers coach at Strake Jesuit College Prep High School for one season, guiding the state champions in both the high jump and triple jump.

Hernandez spent his career as an athlete at Rice University (Texas) where he was an NCAA Div.I qualifier in the 4x400m relay. Hernandez also competed in the World Junior Track & Field Championships in 1988 and earned four gold medals at the Central American and Caribbean Junior Games in the 200m and 400m.

Hernandez earned his bachelor's in Human Performance and Health Science at Rice in 1994 and went on to earn his master's in Health Physical Education and Recreation from Adams State in 1998.

Hernandez and his son, Daven Jose Tjaarda-Hernandez (11), live in Irvine.