Coach Cleary starts her first season as the Head Track and Field Coach at Iowa Central working primarily with jumpers and the combined events athletes. Prior to taking the helm of the Tritons Track and Field program, she served as the head track & field coach/director of cross country operations for Edinboro University the past 10 years. Before that, Cleary was the assistant women’s track & field coach for two seasons.

Cleary joined Edinboro as the assistant women's track & field coach in June 2011.  The former Central Missouri All-American and national champion proved in a short time to be a huge addition to the coaching staff.  She was recognized as the 2012 USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Outdoor Track & Field Assistant Coach of the Year and the 2013 USTFCCCA Atlantic Region Indoor Track & Field Assistant Coach of the Year.
 
Her impact was evident in the additional number of athletes who competed in track & field, along with their accomplishments both athletically and academically. Under her guidance as Head Track and Field Coach Edinboro has had eight All-Americans – Tabitha Bemis, Brianne Dietrich, Ida Narbuvoll, Gabby Schultz, Corey Wefing, Stefanie Parsons, Kylie Anicic and Sam Hartmen. All told, she had 23 national qualifiers in Track and Field .

The 2021-22 season saw Cleary guide the Edinboro indoor track program to its first PSAC Championship in school history. Kylie Anicic was the PSAC Championship meet MVP and a two-time indoor All-American and Cleary earned PSAC Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year.

The Fighting Scots enjoyed just as much success in the classroom. They earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors on a yearly basis, with numerous individual competitors also recognized. In 2022-23, the Edinboro women's team was recognized thanks to its 3.57 cumulative GPA, while the men had a 3.26 cumulative GPA.  
     
In Cleary’s first year at Edinboro in 2012, she directed the Fighting Scots to 32 school records in the combined events, sprints and horizontal jumps. 

During her time as the Director of Cross Country Openertation the Fighting Scots won 12 PSAC Cross Country team titles (Women – 7 and Men – 5). The men qualified for the NCAA DII National Championships as a team every year and the women qualified as a team 8 times.   
 
A Vermillion, South Dakota native, Cleary began her coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach with the University of Central Missouri track and field team during the 2010-11 season, primarily working with heptathletes and decathletes, following an outstanding collegiate track and field career at Central Missouri.  Cleary enjoyed a career that ultimately led to her induction into the Central Missouri Athletic Hall of Fame.

She competed at Central Missouri from 2006-10, enjoying an outstanding career in track & field. Her career was highlighted by an individual national championship and three All-American honors. In 2009 she become the first ever D2 national champion in the women's pentathlon, setting a then-school record, and earned All-American honors in the heptathlon in 2007 and 2008. She was an NCAA Division II national qualifier in the heptathlon in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and in the pentathlon in 2009 and 2010.
 
During Cleary's collegiate career, she was an All-MIAA performer each season and the Jennies won four MIAA titles, while finishing third at the 2009 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships, the team's best finish in school history at the time. Cleary won individual MIAA titles in the javelin (2006), long jump (2007), heptathlon (2007, 2008) and pentathlon (2009). 
 
Cleary still ranks on UCM's Top 10 in multiple events and scored in seven different events at the MIAA Championships. As a senior, she was named the Dr. Peggy Martin Award winner as UCM's Top Female Senior Student-Athlete.

Cleary is married to Pat Cleary, and the couple are the proud parents of one daughter, Brynn Elizabeth Cleary. Coach Cleary earned her Bachelor's Degree in 2009 from Central Missouri in public relations with a minor in corporate communications, and received her Master's Degree in mass communication in May 2011.