Three finalists -- Laura Harmon, Nick Maas, Amelia Maher -- have been selected for the University of Minnesota Duluth head women's cross country and track and field head coach position. All three were on campus recently for interviews.

Harmon currently is the head women's cross country and track and field coach at Sierra College in Rocklin, Calif. She helped resurrect those programs in 2016 after a seven-year hiatus and since that time has directed the Wolverines to a pair of berths in the California State Junior College Championships. Her collegiate coaching resume also includes stints at Sacramento State University (head men's and women's cross country and assistant track and field coach; 2015-16), Texas Christian University (Head men's and women's cross country and assistant track and field coach; 2014-15), Oregon State University (assistant women's cross country and track and field coach; 2011-2014).

Maas has coached at the NCAA Division I, II, and III and NAIA levels during the past 14 seasons. Since December 2016, he has served as the head men's and women's cross country and assistant track and field coach at Western Illinois University. Prior to joining the Leatherneck staff, Maas spent five seasons (2011-15) at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colo., where he assisted the Roadrunner sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers from August 2011 to July 2013 before becoming the head coach of the track and field and cross country programs in July 2013. Maas was also the head cross country and assistant track and field coach at his alma mater, Buena Vista University, for three years (2007-10) and over that stretch the Beaver men posted a fifth-place finish NCAA III national indoor finish (2009) and an eighth-place outdoor championship finish (2009). Maas launched his collegiate coaching career in 2004 as a graduate assistant with the University of Northern Iowa cross country and track and field teams and then moved on to take over as the head cross country and track and field coach at Mount Marty College in Yankton, S.D. (2006-07).

Maher was a four-year track and field letterwinner at UMD and after graduating in 2015 embarked on a two-year graduate assistant coaching assignment with the University of Mary track and field program. From August 2017-May 2018, Maher was an officer with Conference Carolinas, a NCAA II circuit headquartered in High Point, N.C., and during that time was also a volunteer assistant track and field coach at High Point University. Since July 2018, Maher has served as the director of external operations and administration for the (NCAA II) South Atlantic Conference.

UMD is expected to hire its new women's head cross country and track and field coach in the coming weeks.