Danielle Keplinger begins her second season as assistant coach of the men’s and women’s cross country/track and field programs at Bloomsburg in 2013.
Keplinger is the former head coach of cross country and assistant track and field coach at Southern Mississippi from 2008 to 2009. At Southern Miss she planned and implemented training for cross country and track distances of 800 meters and above. She also conducted the strength and conditioning programs for the team’s distance runners.
Before going to Southern Miss she spent one season as an assistant coach at Alabama-Birmingham (UAB), where she assisted with cross country and track and field, mainly working with distance runners. Her duties included travel, recruiting, overseeing travel.
Before her stint at UAB, Keplinger was an assistant coach at Georgia Southern for two seasons where she worked with distance and middle distance runners. While there, she coached four school record holders in the 1,500 meters, 3,000 meters, 3,000-meter steeple and the 6K in cross country. Additional duties included scheduling competition, travel arrangements, managing equipment and monitoring academic progress. She helped coach the women's track and field team to its first-ever Southern Conference outdoor championship in 2007.
Keplinger was a four-year letterwinner at Auburn in both cross country and track. She earned a bachelor's degree in education in 2005. She also has a master's degree from Georgia Southern in kinesiology with an emphasis in coaching.
