Completing her 18th season as a head coach with the Marauders in 2020-21, Schnurr enjoyed her most successful campaign to date on the trails in 2018, where the Marauders men captured the H.R. Little Trophy as the OUA champions and won U SPORTS bronze. She was named as the OUA Coach of the Year for the first time, and coached Max Turek to just the third individual title in the history of McMaster's men's cross country program.
Coaching alongside husband Pete Self throughout her tenure at McMaster, Schnurr first moved to the sidelines in 1992.
A decorated varsity athlete at McMaster, Schnurr won 28 OWIAA medals -- 18 of them gold -- and set CIAU records at both 1000m and 1500m on the track, the latter of which remains intact. She was a five-time CIAU All-Canadian, and named as the top performer at the 1988 CIAU Championships. She won the Therese Quigley Award as the Marauders Female Athlete of the Year in each of the first four seasons of its existence between 1985 and 1988 and was inducted into the McMaster Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.
Schnurr was a two-time Olympian, and competed in the 1500m event at both the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympic Games. She won silver at that same distance at the Commonwealth Games in 1994.
Since returning to McMaster as a full-time coach in 2010, Schnurr has guided Marauders to 30 medals at OUA and U SPORTS/CIS Championships, including two individual golds, and led McMaster to one team title.
2020-2021:
Not applicable. (COVID-19)
2019-20:
Cross Country:
The Marauders finished second at the 2019 OUA Men's Cross Country Championship and fifth with 165 points at the
2019 OUA Women's Cross Country Championship ... Andrew Davis and Alex Drover were names to the OUA Men's Cross Country First Team All-Stars... Max Turek and Dylan Alick were named to the Second OUA Men's Cross Country All-Stars... McMaster finished silver at Athletics Canada Cross Country Championships... Andrew Davis finished ninth at Athletics Canada Cross Country Championships and earned a spot on the Second Team All-Canadian... Andrew Davis was crowned Canada's U20 cross country champion.
Track:
Alex Drover captured silver, while Andrew Davies and Sergio Raez Villanueva raced to sixth and seventh place at the men's 3000m at OUA Championships... Caroline Forbes, Morgan McKoewn, Olivia Macaskill and Hope Harnack placed sixth in the women's 4X800m relay at OUA Championships... Ryan Korol finished fouth in the men's 1000m at OUA Championships...Ryan Korol, Gustav Finlay, Ryan Were, and David Marchant finished fourth in the men's 4x800m relay at OUA Championships... Alex Drover captured silver in the 1500m race at OUA Championships... Ryan Korol finished fifth in the men's 600m at OUA Championships... At the U-SPORTS Track and Field Championships Alex Drover placed fourth in the 3000m race, while Andrew Davis placed ninth... Alex Drover placed fifth in the 600m, while Sergio Raez Villanueva placed 11th at the U-SPORTS Track and Field Championships... The men's 4x800m relay of Gustav Finley, Sam Nusselder, David Marchant and Ryan Korol finished fifth... Caroline Forbes placed 13th in the women's 3000m and Morgan McKeown finished 14th.
2018-19:
Cross Country: The Marauders men won the fourth OUA Championship in team history, and the first in 54 years ... Max Turek became the third Marauder to win the individual title, joining Dave Lorne (1992) and Dave Knox (1964) ... Four of McMaster's five scorers were named as OUA All-Stars, with Turek and Sergio Raez Villanueva (7th) cracking the First Team and Alex Drover (8th) and Josh McGillivray (11th) being named to the Second Team ... The Marauders women finished sixth as a team at the OUA Championships ... Kristen Kuhn was the team's leading scorer in 23rd position ... Schnurr was named as the OUA Men's Coach of the Year for the first time ... The Marauders men ended a five-year run of fourth-placed finishes at the national championship by winning U SPORTS bronze ... Despite an injury before the meet, Turek finished 11th and was named as a Second Team All-Canadian ... Turek won the Ivor Wynne Award as McMaster's Male Athlete of the Year.
Track: Alex Drover and Sergio Raez Villanueva finished fourth and sixth respectively in the 3000m event at the OUA Championships ... Raez Villanueva finished sixth in the 1500m event ... Rookie Hope Harnack posted the Marauders women's top result at the OUA Championships with an 11th-placed finish in the 1000m event ... Drover posted Mac's top result at the U SPORTS Championships with a fifth-placed finish at 3000m.
2017-18:
Cross Country: McMaster's men won team silver at the OUA Championships ... Sergio Raez Villanueva (2nd), Max Turek (3rd) and Jeff Tweedle (5th) were named OUA First Team All-Stars ... The Marauders women finished fourth led by Melissa Caruso (11th) and Emily Novak (14th) ... The Marauders men finished fourth and the women seventh at the U SPORTS Championships ... Sergio Raez Villanueva was named as a Second Team All-Canadian after finishing eighth overall.
Track: Sergio Raez Villanueva wins silver in the 3000m event at the OUA Championships ... Raez Villanueva wins silver in the 3000m event at the U SPORTS Championships.
2016-17:
Cross Country: McMaster's men finished fourth and the women fifth at the OUA Championships ... Jeff Tweedle and Connor Darlington were named OUA First Team All-Stars after finishing fourth and fifth overall ... Gabriel Ghiglione was named as a Second Team All-Star after finishing 14th ... Connor Darlington finished third overall at the CIS Championships and was named as a First Team All-Canadian ... Jeff Tweedle was named as a Second Team All-Canadian after finishing 10th.
Track: Tweedle won silver in the 1500m event at the OUA Championships ... Tweedle won bronze in the 1000m event at the U SPORTS Championships.
2015-16:
Cross Country: The Marauders men won bronze at the OUA Championships with Blair Morgan (6), Connor Darlington (8) and Taylor Forbes (9) finishing inside the top 10 ... Morgan was named as an OUA Second Team All-Star ... McMaster's women won team bronze led by a 16th placed finish from Madeline McDonald ... The Marauders men finished fourth at the CIS Championships with Morgan finishing seventh overall ... Morgan was named as a Second Team All-Canadian.
Track: The McMaster men finish seventh and the women eighth at the OUA Track and Field Championships ... The Marauders 4x800m relay teams of Maddie Benjamin, Emily Nowak, Kaitlyn Pansegrau and Chelsea Mackinnon, and Nick Kondrat, Matt Napier, Jeff Tweedle and Connor Darlington both win bronze.
2014-15: Taylor Forbes won bronze in the 3000m event at the OUA Track and Field Championships ... The men's 4x800m relay team of Connor Darlington, Luke Charbonneau, Nick Kondrat and Jeff Tweedle won bronze.
2013-14: The McMaster women finished 10th at the OUA Track and Field Championships while the men finished eighth.
2012-13: Scott Hutchinson (300m) and Victoria Coates (3000m) won bronze medals at the CIS Championships ... Coates claimed the Therese Quigley Award as McMaster's top female athlete, and the Dr. Mary E. Keyes Award as the female athlete who best combined athletic and academic achievement ... The Marauders won three medals at the OUA Championships ... Scott Hutchinson claimed silver in the men's 300m event ... The men's 4x200m relay team won silver ... Victoria Coates won bronze in the 3000m race
2011-12: Lead the Marauders to their first CIS gold as head coach, coming from Lindsay Carson in the 3000m... Katie Anderson earned two silvers at the CIS Championships in the 1000m and 1500m.. At the OUA Championships, Victoria Coates won bronze in the 3000m and the women's 4x800m relay team made up of Carson, Anderson, Chelsea MacKinnon and Jill Wyman also took bronze... Anderson also won OUA gold in the 15000m and was named McMaster's Female Athlete of the Year.
2010-11: Women finished seventh and men placed ninth at OUA Championships... men's 4x200m made up of Jimmy Tat, Matt Pawelke, Scott Hutcinson and Rudy Baronette earned an OUA bronze medal.. men's 4x400m also won bronze made up of Tat, Hutchinson, Baronette and Denis Noronha... on the women's side, Sara Giovannetti won silver in the 3000m... at the CIS Championships, Victoria Coates won a silver in the 3000m.
Coaching Record (since 2010):
Cross Country (since 2015):
| Championship Results |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
| Women's Team - U SPORTS Championship |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Men's Team - U SPORTS Championship |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Women's Team - OUA Championship |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Men's Team - OUA Championship |
1 |
1 |
1 |
| Women's Individual - U SPORTS/CIS Championship |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Men's Individual - U SPORTS/CIS Championship |
0 |
0 |
1 |
| Women's Individual - OUA Championship |
0 |
0 |
0 |
| Men's Individual - OUA Championship |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Track:
| Championship Results |
Gold |
Silver |
Bronze |
| Women's Individual - U SPORTS/CIS Championships |
1 |
3 |
1 |
| Men's Individual - U SPORTS/CIS Championships |
0 |
1 |
2 |
| Women's Individual - OUA Championships |
1 |
1 |
4 |
| Men's Individual - OUA Championships |
0 |
4 |
5 |
