Marc Bierbaum was named the 2025 NJCAA Indoor Track & Field National Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year. Bierbaum, in his seventh year coaching the Reivers’ distance runners, guided athletes to account for 69 of Iowa Western’s 114 points in winning the team title. His group was led by Juliana Sakat, who won four events – 1000, mile, 3000, 5000 – and anchored the runner-up distance medley squad in accounting for 42 points.