Completed Event: Track and Field at 44 Farms Team Invite on April 11, 2025 ,
Final
Track and Field
44 Farms Team Invite
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Iowa State University Athletics
Track and Field
Gochenour-Brondyke, Alex
Alex Gochenour-Brondyke
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- agb@iastate.edu
Alex Gochenour-Brondyke closed her second season as an assistant track and field coach after being elevated from a volunteer coach in January 2024. Gochenour-Brondyke works with sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and multi-event athletes.
The coach helped bring ISU sprinting to the national spotlight as Mikey McClain became the first Cyclone man to advance to nationals in the 200m since 1928. McClain broke the outdoor 200m record that stood since 1995, and came .001 second off the Big 12 title. Gochenour-Brondyke also coached Alec Carr to qualify for NCAA West Prelims in the 400m hurdles. Under her and Kurtis Brondyke's leadership, Rachel Joseph brought home First Team All-America in the indoor and outdoor 400m. Joseph wrapped 2025 with three All-America honors, two Big 12 titles, USTFCCCA Indoor & Outdoor Regional Track AOTY and Iowa State Female AOTY.
The 2024 season saw many breakthroughs for the group Gochenour-Brondyke oversees as Sydney Willits took the NCAA title in the indoor long jump, while Willits and Joseph qualified for U.S. Olympic Trials. Willits moved onto the long jump final while Joseph, a sophomore, came up on spot short of advancing to the 400m final after hitting the Olympic Standard in both the first round (50.92) and semifinals (50.74). Joseph became the first ISU woman to qualify for nationals in the indoor 400m and would go on to qualify for outdoor nationals.
Also in 2024, Cyclones Gochenour-Brondyke helps lead totaled 25 additions to the all-time performance list including school records by Joseph in the indoor 400m, outdoor 400m, outdoor 200m and Willits in the pentathlon and indoor long jump.
Gochenour-Brondyke came to Iowa State following two seasons with the University of Central Missouri as a graduate assistant. Here she worked primarily with hurdlers and jumpers, helping lead nine to NCAA National Championships.
As a multi-event athlete competing for Arkansas, Gochenour-Brondyke became a six-time All-American throughout the pentathlon and heptathlon. She owns a heptathlon PR of 6,027 points to rank second in Arkansas history and pentathlon PR of 4,430. Gochenour-Brondyke spent her freshman season at LSU, going down as the eighth-ranked pentathlete and 10th-ranked heptathlete in program history.
Gochenour-Brondyke also competed in the 2016 US Olympic Trials, finishing 13th in the heptathlon putting up 5,794 points. At the 2017 USA National Championships, Gochenour-Brondyke took fourth in the heptathlon with 6,129 points.
Gochenour-Brondyke earned her bachelor’s degree from Arkansas and her master’s from the University of Central Missouri. The All-American hails from Missouri Valley, Iowa. She is married to assistant coach Kurtis Brondyke.
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