University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Athletics

A member of five national championship teams, Terri (Schwamb) Kruse enjoyed a highly celebrated career as a member of the UW-Oshkosh women's track & field program from 2004-08.

UW-Oshkosh won NCAA Division III indoor and outdoor titles during Kruse's first season at the school. The Titans then captured national indoor championships in 2005 and 2006 before winning the 2007 national outdoor championship at the Oshkosh Sports Complex.

Kruse also helped UW-Oshkosh win the 2004 WIAC outdoor championship and the 2006 league indoor title.

Individually, Kruse was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association's 2007 Division III Midwest Region Field Athlete of the Year after winning the 20-pound weight throw at both the conference and national championships. She also earned All-America honors in the 20-pound weight throw at the 2005 national indoor meet.

Outdoors, Kruse had the joy of winning national hammer throw titles at the 2007 and 2008 Division III championships hosted by UW-Oshkosh at the Oshkosh Sports Complex. Kruse acquired the first of her three All-America awards in the hammer throw at the 2005 national outdoor meet.

The Little Chute High School graduate also won hammer throw titles at the WIAC outdoor championships in 2007 and 2008.

Kruse went undefeated in the 20-pound weight throw during the 2007 indoor season and unbeaten in the hammer throw during the 2007 and 2008 outdoor campaigns. At the conclusion of her UW-Oshkosh career she held both the conference championship and school record in the hammer throw with distances of 192-4 and 198-0, respectively.

Kruse achieved all of her success by overcoming a broken arm that occurred when another athlete threw the 20-pound weight out of bounds and hit her at the 2006 WIAC Indoor Championship. Kruse was sidelined for the remainder of the 2006 season as a metal plate and seven screws were permanently inserted into her arm.

Academically, Kruse was named the USTFCCCA's Division III Track/Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2007, an Academic All-American by the College Sports Communicators of America in 2007, and the WIAC's Outdoor Track & Field Co Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2008.

Kruse, who was named to the WIAC All-Centennial Women's Track & Field Team in 2012, earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from UW-Oshkosh in 2008 and 2016 respectively.

Kruse has been a teacher at Winneconne High School since 2012. She lives in Oshkosh with her husband, Jason, and children Dexter and Lexi.