Hendrix College Athletics

Cezar Terlea enters his fourth season as the head coach of the Hendrix Warriors Cross Country and Track and Field programs in 2024-25.

Prior to Hendrix, Terlea spent seven seasons (2015-21) as head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach at NAIA member Central Baptist (Ark.).

In 2023, Anna Cantrell was named the SAA Newcomer of the Year in Women's Cross Country.

At the 2021 AMC Men's and Women's Track and Field Championships, Terlea coached the winners in the men's 100 meters and women's 100 meter hurdles, who qualified for the NAIA National Championship.

At the conference championships in 2019, Terlea coached the winners in the men's 100, 200 and 400 meters and women's 100 and 400 meter hurdles. One male qualified for the men's 100 and 400 meters at the NAIA National Championships, while one female qualified in the 100 meter hurdles. Terlea produced the AMC's Men's Track Athlete of the Year and Newcomer of the Year.

Prior to Central Baptist, Terlea served as an assistant men's and women's track and field and cross country coach for three seasons (2011-13) at Little Rock. 

Terlea served as head men's and women's cross country coach for four seasons (2008-11) and assistant women's cross country coach in 2007 at Division II Henderson State (Ark.).

With the women's cross country team, he led the Reddies to a 15th-place finish at the Division II South Region Championship in his first season. In 2009, Terlea coached the first Henderson State runner to qualify for the Division II National Championship after she placed fifth at the South Region. 

During his tenure with the men's cross country team, Terlea coached student-athletes that were ranked in the top 10 overall for three-straight seasons.

Terlea was the head men's and women's track and field and cross country coach for six seasons (1994-99) at Scoala Nr. 164 in Romania, where he coached two national champions (men's 50 meters in 1998, women's 800 meters in 1996), four conference champions, two conference championship teams and 20 all-conference performers.

Terlea was one of the top runners in Romania in the 400 and 800 meters. He was selected for the Junior Nationals Team of Romania in the mid 1980s.

From National Academy of Sports and Physical Education in Bucharest, Romania, Terlea earned a Bachelor of Science in sports and physical education in 1995 and a Bachelor of Science in physical therapy in 1997. He earned a Master of Science in sports administration from Henderson State in 2008.

A native of Romania, Terlea has two daughters, Catalina and Roxana.