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2013 Convention Update: Sprints/Hurdles/Relay Symposiums
By Kyle Terwillegar, USTFCCCA October 27, 2013   

2013 Convention Update: Sprints/Hurdles/Relay Symposiums

NEW ORLEANS – The 2013 USTFCCCA Convention will serve as an opportunity for sprints, hurdles and relay coaches to attend Symposium presentations from some of the nation’s premier coaches.

As with the other Symposium disciplines – endurance, jumps and throws – eight prominent sprints, hurdles and relay coaches will give hour-long presentations on specific aspects of their areas of expertise, available to all attendees registered for the convention.

  • Fresh off a team co-national championship during the 2013 outdoor season, Vince Anderson has been at Texas A&M for nine seasons and has been a collegiate coach for 28 years overall. During his time at Texas A&M he has been an assistant coach on seven national championship teams between men and women and coached  All-American athletes in every sprint, hurdle and relay discipline, as well as the long jump.

 

  • Tommy Badon is a former coach at the University of Louisiana Lafayette (ULL) where he helped lead the Ragin’ Cajuns to 14 Indoor and Outdoor Conference Championships. During his time at ULL, Badon coached over 20 NCAA All-Americans including Hollis Conway, the world’s No. 1 ranked high jumper in the early 1990s and still the United States record holder in the indoor high jump.

 

  • Clyde Hart is currently the Director of Track & Field at Baylor and 400 meters coach, having built such a legacy in the open 400 and the 4×400 relay that the program has earned the moniker "Quarter-Miler U." Since taking over the Baylor program in 1963, Hart has guided his long sprinters to 34 national titles, including 20 national relay crowns, and more than 500 All-America accolades.  He has served as either the collegiate or personal coach for Olympic gold medalists in six straight Olympics dating back to 1996, with at least two golds in each of the past five.

 

  • Throughout his nine-year tenure at Texas Tech, Dion Miller has emerged as one of the top sprints and hurdles coach in the country producing four national champions two Olympic Medalists and over 100 All-Americans. Texas Tech has emerged as one of the top hurdle programs in the nation, as the Red Raiders have had 25 All-Americans in the hurdles events (60mH, 100mH, 110mH, and 400mH) since 2005.

 

  • Calvin Robinson just finished his first season as an assistant coach at Louisiana Tech following successful tenures at Miami (Fla.) and UTEP. He has guided athletes to the past two Olympic games in 2008 and 2012, and he has coached more than 20 All-Americans and more than 50 all-conference student-athletes.

 

  • Charles Ryan guided Academy of Art to a sweep of the NCAA Division II Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field Championships during the 2012-13 academic year. Specializing in sprints and hurdles, Ryan guided four hurdlers — including champion and DII record-holder Vashti Thomas — to the NCAA Division II Outdoor championships 100 hurdles finals. ART U also placed four hurdlers in the final of the 60 hurdles at the NCAA Division II Indoor championships.

 

  • Most noted for the 12 years he spent as a member of the track & field coaching staff at LSU, Boo Schexnayder, is regarded as one of the world’s premier field event coaches, he was the guiding hand behind 19 NCAA Champions during his collegiate coaching career. He was a key component of 12 NCAA Championship teams and a pair of JUCO National titles, as well as developing a host of conference champions and All-Americans. Schexnayder currently serves as the Chair of the USTFCCCA Track & Field Academy Advisory Board and has been instrumental in the development of the curriculum and instruction of the TFA since its inception in late 2010.

 

  • In nine seasons since Dennis Shaver has taken over as the head coach of the LSU track & field program, the program has captured 23 top-five team finishes at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships. The women’s team finished third indoors and fourth outdoors behind six-time national 200 meters champion and 2012 The Bowerman Winner Kimberlyn Duncan. Prior to 2004 he served as an assistant at LSU, when he was a part of a combined 12 national championships.

Convention-goers can attend one-hour presentations from these coaches beginning Monday, December 16, at 1 p.m., 2:15 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. Presentations will continue Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. and 9:45 a.m.; and Wednesday at 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. The full schedule is available here.
Registration for the 2013 USTFCCCA Convention is now open.

This is the latest in a weekly series that each Monday morning will highlight different aspects of the 2013 USTFCCCA Convention and feature a unique facet of the convention experience.