Bio

Daniel Gerber has served as Midland University’s Head Cross Country and Track & Field Coach since 2018. He began his career at Midland as an assistant coach in 2014 before taking the reins of the program.

Since becoming head coach in 2018, Gerber has led the Warriors to 12 consecutive top 25 finishes at the NAIA national championships and 8 top 10 finishes, with 6th-place finishes in the 2022, 2024, and 2025 indoors. Overseeing 13 individual National Champions, 52 All-Americans, 37 Great Plains Athletic Conference Champions, 215 all-conference athletes, six national athletes of the year, and 76 broken school records. 

Before coming to Midland in 2014, Gerber spent two seasons as the assistant coach at College of Saint Scholastica (Minnesota) from 2012-14 where he coached 16 individual Upper Midwest Athletic Conference (UMAC) champions, 32 All-Conference selections, and saw 20 school records broken in just two seasons. Gerber helped the Saints to consecutive Men’s and Women’s UMAC Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships in 2013-14.

From 2010-12, Gerber was an assistant coach at Abilene Christian University. In his first year in the spring of 2011, he helped guide the Wildcats to their 13th Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division II National Championship. ACU also won the Division II Outdoor Track & Field title that same year. He oversaw 14 All-Americans and three Division II National Champions while at ACU.

Gerber began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Eastern New Mexico University from 2008 to 2010. While coaching at ENMU, the team broke 14 school records, and Gerber completed his Master’s in Exercise Science.

A native of Belvidere, Illinois, Gerber competed as a sprinter for Saint Mary’s University from 2004-07 and broke eight school records during his collegiate career. Gerber graduated from SMU in 2007 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations.

Outside of Athletics, Danial and his wife Kate have a daughter, Isla, and a dog, Nala.