New Orleans, La. - The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse women's track & field earned a pair of regional awards selected the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA), the organization announced Thursday. 

Junior Madison Habberstad of Rochester, Minn. (Century) was named the USTFCCCA North Region Field Athlete of the Year for National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III while assistant coach Katie Wagner was voted the USTFCCCA North Region Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year. Wagner also earned the 2026 USTFCCCA North Region Indoor Award. 

Habberstad earned the 2026 USTFCCCA Outdoor North Region Field Athlete of the Year after winning the NCAA Division III title in the pole vault with a school record mark of 13-7 1/4. She broke her own school record of 13-5 ¼ set earlier this season. Habberstad became the first student-athlete in UWL history to capture the NCAA Division III championship in the pole vault. It was her second career All-America honor in the outdoor pole vault after placing fifth in 2025.

She finished second in the pole vault (12-10 ¼) at the 2026 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships. 

Habberstad is the second athlete in school history to be voted the USTFCCCA Outdoor Region Field Athlete of the Year, joining Caitlin Schetter in 2008 (Midwest Region) and Skye Digman in 2023 (North Region).

Wagner helped lead UWL to its 14th straight WIAC Championship and league record 40th title in school history this season. The Eagles earned the WIAC Outdoor Coaching Staff of the Year Award for the seventh straight season under head coach Nickolas Davis.

The Eagles captured this year's outdoor conference title with 362.0 team points. The 362.0 points are second in conference history after UWL scored 363.5 in 2023. UWL won eight individual and two relay titles at this year's conference championships while recording points in all 21 events. The Eagles earned at least 10 points in 17 events.

Wagner, in her 16th season as an assistant coach at UWL, oversees the Eagles' sprints, hurdles and relays. Her student-athletes accounted for 95.0 of UWL's points at the 2026 WIAC Championships. The Eagles swept the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays with Julie Yang, Anika Reiland, Makenna Zak and Anna Plautz winning the 4x100 (45.89) and Plautz, Macy Reybrock, Zoe Lain and Andie Otto the 4x400 (meet record 3:42.89).

The Eagles had five of the top-seven finishers in the 400-meter dash at the league championships with Plautz winning the title (meet record 54.83). Four of the top-eight finishers in the 100-meter dash and three of the top-eight in the 200-meter dash represented UWL. Otto captured the 400-meter hurdles crown (1:00.23) with two of the top-eight finishers from UWL. The Eagles recorded five of the top-seven finishes in the 100-meter hurdles.

Wagner's student-athletes accounted for 30 of UWL's 53 points as it won its fifth (1983, 1984, 2015, 2023, 2026) NCAA Division III Championship in school history. The Eagles earned 25 All-America honors.

UWL swept the 4x100 and 4x400-meter relays at this year's national meet. Yang, Reiland, Zak and Plautz took the 4x100 title (45.57), the fifth (2013-14, 2024-26) in school history. Plautz, Reybrock, Lain and Otto captured the 4x400 (school and facility record 3:40.69). It was the fourth (1997, 2013-14, 2026) relay title in school history.

Plautz earned All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 400-meter dash while Otto garnered All-America accolades after a fifth-place finish in the 400-meter hurdles. Plautz set a school record (54.28) in the 400-meter dash earlier this season. 

This marks her second straight year being selected the USTFCCCA North Region Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year. Wagner was named the 2014 and 2021 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year. Wagner has been named the USTFCCCA Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year six times in her career, including three times in the North Region (2023, 2025-26) and three in the Midwest Region (2010, 2014-25). 

Each of the 10 regions – East, Great Lakes, Metro, Mid-Atlantic, Mideast, Midwest, Niagara, North, South and West – honored both genders' top track and field athletes as well as the top men's and women's head and assistant coaches.

Award winners are determined by a vote of USTFCCCA member coaches. Only those individuals from USTFCCCA member programs are eligible for awards.

The USTFCCCA National Awards will be announced Tuesday, June 2.