Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame
Brant Tolsma
- Induction:
- 2025
Head Coach Cross Country/Track & Field: 1986-2020
The longest-tenured and arguably most successful head coach in Liberty Athletics history, Brant Tolsma entered the Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame after a storied 34-year coaching career (1986-2020).
Tolsma guided his teams to 116 conference titles, including 98 Big South Conference titles, seven Mason-Dixon Conference titles, six ASUN Conference crowns, three IC4A titles and two ECAC crowns.
Tolsma led Liberty to eight consecutive Big South men's Triple Crowns. The Flames swept every conference men's cross country, men's indoor track & field and men's outdoor track & field title between fall 2006 and spring 2014.
Tolsma, a 77-time conference Coach of the Year award winner, coached six NCAA Division I individual national champions, 61 NCAA Division I All-Americans, nine NCAA Division II All-American and 13 CoSIDA Academic All-America® honorees.
Sam Chelanga’s national title in the men’s outdoor 5K helped Liberty tie for 12th place in the final men’s team standings at the 2011 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, marking the highest NCAA Division I team finish in Liberty and Big South history at the time.
During his coaching tenure, Tolsma also released a book entitled “The Surrendered Christian Athlete” in 2001. Competitively, he won his age group in the World Double Decathlon Championship in both 2005 and 2010, as well as the Masters National Decathlon Championship in both 1993 and 2003.
The longest-tenured and arguably most successful head coach in Liberty Athletics history, Brant Tolsma entered the Liberty Athletics Hall of Fame after a storied 34-year coaching career (1986-2020).
Tolsma guided his teams to 116 conference titles, including 98 Big South Conference titles, seven Mason-Dixon Conference titles, six ASUN Conference crowns, three IC4A titles and two ECAC crowns.
Tolsma led Liberty to eight consecutive Big South men's Triple Crowns. The Flames swept every conference men's cross country, men's indoor track & field and men's outdoor track & field title between fall 2006 and spring 2014.
Tolsma, a 77-time conference Coach of the Year award winner, coached six NCAA Division I individual national champions, 61 NCAA Division I All-Americans, nine NCAA Division II All-American and 13 CoSIDA Academic All-America® honorees.
Sam Chelanga’s national title in the men’s outdoor 5K helped Liberty tie for 12th place in the final men’s team standings at the 2011 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, marking the highest NCAA Division I team finish in Liberty and Big South history at the time.
During his coaching tenure, Tolsma also released a book entitled “The Surrendered Christian Athlete” in 2001. Competitively, he won his age group in the World Double Decathlon Championship in both 2005 and 2010, as well as the Masters National Decathlon Championship in both 1993 and 2003.
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