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Abdier Marrero
Head Coach
2007 - Present



Coach Marrero has coached the Stars since 2007, and has coached Four Boys City Championship Teams, Five Individual City Champions, One MRAC Conference Championship Girls Team, Four MRAC Conference Championship Boys Teams, 75 All-MRAC Performances, Seven Individual MRAC XC Champions, Eleven MRAC Individual Runner Up Performances,  28 All-District Performances (Individual State Qualifiers), Two Individual District Champions, Two Team District Championship Boys Teams, Four State Qualifying Boys Teams and Five All-State Cross Country Performances, Two Top-5 Boys Team Finish, and One State Championship Boys Team as well as one Individual State Champion, along with one Individual 3rd Team All-Region Performance at Nike Heartland Regionals.  Coach Marrero was named At-Large Boys Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2019 by IATC.

In that time, the Stars have seen 131 Academic All-Conference Runners as well as 13 Academic All-State Runners.  21 Stars have made their way onto Collegiate Cross Country Programs.  Stars have been sighted in the NJCAA, the NAIA's Great Plains Athletic Conference, NCAA D-II's Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference, as well as NCAA D-I's Summit League, Big East and Big XII Conferences!

One Star, Abbabiya Simbassa, now competes professionally for Nike, placed 15th in the 2016 Houston Half-Marathon in 63:28, qualifying for the US Olympic Trials in the Marathon, and finished 19th at the 2016 Olympic Trials 5000 meters in 13:53.  He also placed 12th overall at the 2016 USATF Cross Country Championships, and finished 4th in the 2017 USATF Championships at 5000 meters and 6th at the 2017 and 2018 US 10 Mile Road Championships, and finished 2nd in 2019.  Biya also won the 2017 and 2019 NACAC Cross Country Championships (8k).


Coach Marrero began his Track running career at Sioux City West High School in 1996.  He received his first Varsity Letter in Track in 1997 while attending Montclair High School in California.  He returned to Sioux City West where he competed in Cross Country for the first time under Coach David Nash, and graduated from Sioux City West High School in 1999.  He continued his running at Morningside College in the NCAA Division II North Central Conference, garnering All-NCC Honors during the 2002 Indoor Track and Field Season. Coach Marrero enlisted into the US Army Reserves and served from September of 2000 to June of 2018, holding the rank of Sergeant First Class, and has two deployments under Operation Iraqi Freedom.  Coach Marrero obtained his Bachelor's Degree from Morningside College, Master's Degree from Buena Vista University and currently works as a Professional School Counselor at Sioux City North High School.  

Coach Marrero holds his Coaching Authorization from the Iowa Department of Education, and holds certification from the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and is USA Track and Field Level I Certified.



Assistant Coaches 

Coaching Family Tree

Coach Allison Higgins

         2019
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Coach Jasmine Glasgo
          2018

Coach Shawn Olorundami    
           2013, 2017

Coach Melanie Arnold
           2015 - 2016

Coach Tunisia May
           2014 - 2016

Coach Laura Staab 
           2011 - 2012

Coach Tom Roberts
           2007 - 2010              
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