Thiel College Athletics

BRANDON LITZ at a Glance

Career HIGHLIGHTS

• Coached 24 conference champions
• Mentored five NCAA national qualifiers
• Developed four NCAA Division III All-Americans
• Coached a national runner-up in the 3,000-meter steeplechase with the seventh-fastest time in NCAA Division III history
• Guided Wittenberg women to the 2022 NCAC Cross Country Championship
• Helped Wittenberg win four consecutive NCAC Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships (2022, 2023)
• Led Wittenberg women's cross country to its first national top-25 ranking in program history
• Coached 20 individual NCAC champions and helped rewrite 21 school distance records at Wittenberg

At Thiel

Brandon Litz enters his second season as Assistant Director of Track & Field / Head Cross Country Coach at Thiel in 2026-27. 

2025-26

• Hired as Assistant Director of Track & Field and Head Cross Country Coach
• Began rebuilding the Tomcat cross country program

BEFORE Thiel

Wittenberg (2019-23)

• 2022 NCAC Women's Cross Country Champions
• Four NCAC Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field team championships (2022, 2023)
• Program's first USTFCCCA national top-25 ranking (2023)
• Highest regional ranking in school history
• Coached four All-Americans
• Coached five NCAA national qualifiers
• Mentored 20 individual NCAC champions
• Helped produce 21 school records in distance events

Lynchburg (2017-19) and Franklin (2016)

Before Wittenberg, Litz coached at Lynchburg for three seasons and Franklin for one season.

• Coached two All-Americans
• Mentored two NCAA national qualifiers
• Developed four conference champions
• Coached a conference Freshman of the Year

Coaching Experience

Education

Louisville
Master of Science in Exercise Physiology

Franklin
Bachelor of Arts in Exercise Science