University of Southern California: 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Scholar Team of the Year
Southern California was named the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Scholar Team of the Year. The Trojans, who maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.087, won the team title at the 2025 NCAA DI Indoor Championships in Virginia Beach, Virginia. This is the first time in program history that USC has […]
Quincy Watts, Southern California: 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Coach of the Year
Quincy Watts was named the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Coach of the Year. Watts, in his fourth year as Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Southern California, led the Trojans to a tie for the team title at the NCAA DI Outdoor Championships, scoring 41 points. […]
Quincy Watts, Southern California: 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Coach of the Year
Quincy Watts was named the 2025 NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Coach of the Year. Watts, in his fourth year as Director of Track & Field and Cross Country at Southern California, led the Trojans to the team title at the 2025 NCAA DI Indoor Championships, scoring 39 points and collecting […]
Balázs Kiss, Southern California: Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame, Class of 2024
Balázs Kiss, a name synonymous with hammer throw excellence, concluded his flawless collegiate career at Southern California with a remarkable achievement: securing his fourth consecutive NCAA DI Outdoor Track & Field Championship title in 1996. This victory not only marked him as the fourth athlete in the history of the meet to win the same […]
Angela Williams, Southern California: Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame, Class of 2024
Southern California’s Angela Williams carved out a unique niche in NCAA history with her sprinting excellence, becoming the only athlete, male or female, to clinch four consecutive 100-meter titles at the NCAA DI Championships, doing so from 1999 to 2002. Williams’s 1999 victory was groundbreaking, marking her as the first female freshman and the first […]
Mel Patton, Southern California: Collegiate Athlete Hall of Fame, Class of 2022
Mel Patton had an inauspicious initial NCAA Championships – taking seventh in the 100 as a freshman – but he never lost an NCAA final in his final three years. His collection of five NCAA Outdoor 100 or 200 titles is second only to the six of fellow inductee Ralph Metcalfe. He twice equaled the […]
University of Southern California: 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Scholar Team of the Year
Southern California was named the NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Scholar Team of the Year. The Women of Troy maintained a cumulative GPA of 3.3 and scored 74 points in a total team effort at the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon. This is the […]
Anna Cockrell, Southern California: 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year
Anna Cockrell was named the NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Scholar Track Athlete of the Year. Cockrell, who maintained a perfect cumulative GPA of 4.0, won both the 100H and 400H at the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Eugene, Oregon, becoming just the second athlete in […]
Quincy Watts, Southern California: 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Assistant Coach of the Year
Watts, in his eighth year at Southern California, was named the National Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year. His athletes played a major role in helping the Women of Troy win their second national title in the past three meets, scoring 31 of their 74 points. Three of his athletes reached the final of the […]
Caryl Smith Gilbert, Southern California: 2021 NCAA Division I Women’s Outdoor Track & Field National Coach Athlete of the Year
Smith Gilbert, in her eighth year at Southern California, was named the National Women’s Coach of the Year. She guided the Women of Troy to a dominant showing at the 2021 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, where they won their second national title in the past three meets with 74 points, the […]
Michael Norman, Southern California: 2018 The Bowerman (men’s award)
Michael Norman, Southern California: 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Track Athlete of the Year
Quincy Watts, Southern California: 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Outdoor Track & Field National Assistant Coach of the Year
Michael Norman, Southern California: 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Track Athlete of the Year
Quincy Watts, Southern California: 2018 NCAA Division I Men’s Indoor Track & Field National Assistant Coach of the Year
Ron Allice, USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 2013
During his 19 seasons at Southern California, Ron Allice guided the Women of Troy program to a 2001 NCAA Outdoor team championship, the pinnacle of a 19-year tenure of perennial championship contention that featured a combined 25 NCAA Championships top-10 finishes and 32 individual NCAA titles between his men’s and women’s programs. All told in […]
Vern Wolfe, USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Special Inductee
Vern Wolfe was the University of Southern California’s head track & field coach for 22 years, winning seven NCAA championships, including five outdoor titles (1963, 1965, 1967, 1968 and 1976) and two indoor crowns (1967 and 1972). Wolfe began his intercollegiate athletic career as a pole vaulter at USC in the early 1940s. His career […]
Dean Cromwell, USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Special Inductee
Nicknamed “Maker of Champions,” Dean Cromwell was the head coach at the University of Southern California for 39 years where he developed a powerhouse program that won 12 NCAA outdoor titles. Cromwell was a talented athlete himself, participating in track & field, baseball, and football at Occidental College. After graduating in 1902, Cromwell went to […]
Jim Bush, USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 1996
Jim Bush was a highly successful coach at Occidental College (1962-65) and at UCLA (1965-84). During his brief tenure at Occidental, Bush-coached teams included five national champions and one Olympian, and school records were set at all events from the 100m to the mile. UCLA’s teams won five national titles and seven Pac-10 titles under […]
Jess Mortensen, USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame Class of 1996
Jess Mortensen was an outstanding athlete and legendary coach in a variety of sports at the same school, the University of Southern California. Mortensen was a three-sport USC letterman in football, basketball, and track, and he experienced success at the highest levels in each of those sports. He won the 1929 NCAA javelin title, set […]