NATCHITOCHES – During his nearly three decades at Northwestern State, head track and field coach Mike Heimerman has built quite the resume.
 
He has coached All-Americans and national champions and collected Southland Conference championship trophies.
 
Heimerman will add another bullet point to his resume Thursday when he is named the Exchange Bank and Trust Demon Great of the Game during the Demons' 7 p.m. matchup with Southland rival Southeastern.
 
The reigning Southland Conference Indoor Coach of the Year, Heimerman led the Lady Demons to the first indoor league crown in program history in February. That was part of a season in which the Demons and Lady Demons each finished in the top two of the conference in both the indoor and outdoor championships.
 
As a competitor at Northwestern State, Heimerman was the 1996 Southland Conference outdoor shot put champion. Heimerman finished eighth at the 1998 USA Championships in the shot put.
 
Heimerman has coached 13 All-American throwers, including 2011 national discus champion Trecey Rew, who also earned All-American honors as a shot putter.
 
Heimerman follows Jack Brittain Jr. (Sept. 16) and a former student-athlete whom he coached, Stephanie Sowell (Sept. 30), as 2023 honorees in the Demon Great of the Game program.
 
The Exchange Bank and Trust Demon Great of the Game program is in its second decade of honoring former Northwestern State student-athletes and staff members. Exchange Bank and Trust has been a key supporter of NSU Athletics throughout its long history as the oldest financial institution in Louisiana.