Clyde Hart
Legendary 400 Meter Coach, USA Track & Field Coaches Hall of Fame

Clyde Hart served as Baylor’s head coach from 1963-2005.

His career numbers are legendary: 39 national champions, 566 All-Americans, and nine Olympic athletes who have combined for 17 medals (including 13 golds). Hart has coached 10 world record performances (9 relay, 1 individual). Coaching such track legends as Michael Johnson, Jeremy Wariner, and Sanya Richards-
Ross. 

Over the years, his success training 400-meter athletes has earned Baylor the nickname “Quarter Mile U.” Hart’s men’s 4×400-meter relay teams have earned outdoor All-America status in 26 of the last 29 years and captured 20 NCAA titles combined in indoors and outdoors.

He’s earned virtually every coaching honor one could imagine, from serving on the U.S. Olympic team staff to winning multiple National Coach of the Year honors.

He’s a member of the USA Track & Field Coaches Association Hall of Fame, the Texas Sports Hall of Fame, the Arkansas Sports Hall of Fame, and the Baylor Athletic Hall of Fame, and Baylor’s new track and field facility (opened in 2015) is named the Clyde Hart Track and Field Stadium in his honor.

Boo Schexnayder
Master Coach USA Track & Field, LSU Assistant Track & Field Coach

Irving “Boo” Schexnayder has coached track and field for 39 years. He returned to the LSU Track and Field staff in 2018 being named Strength coach for the Tigers. He previously served with LSU from 1995 – 2007, coaching jumpers, vaulters, and the combined events. He returned to the Tiger staff in 2017 in an interim capacity as throws coach before shifting into his current role.

Schexnayder has been the mastermind behind 19 NCAA champions and over 70 All Americans in his collegiate coaching career, and is one of the most successful field event coaches in NCAA history.  He was a part of 12 NCAA championship teams during his first tenure at LSU, tutoring past Tiger greats like Derrick Prentice, Suzette Lee, Levar Anderson, Russ Buller, Marcus Thomas, Walter Davis, Keisha Spencer, Hareldau Argyle, Gretchen Francois, Lejuan Simon, Nicole Toney, Monique Freeman, Claston Bernard, Megan Akre, Daniel Trosclair, Bianca Rockett, and John Moffitt. He coached Spencer to the Honda Award as the nation’s top female Track and Field athlete in 2000, and coached Davis to SEC Athlete of the Year honors in 2002. He became one of only a handful of coaches who have coached a 1-2-3 sweep in a national championship meet when the Tiger triple jumpers captured the top three spots on the podium, leading the Tiger men to the 2004 NCAA indoor title.

His collegiate coaching career began with successful stints at Blinn College and Louisiana-Lafayette. At Blinn he was a part of two Juco national titles, and as a member of the Cajun staff coached several All Americans, including NCAA triple jump champion Ndabe Mdhlongwha.

He has also been a force on the international scene, having coached triple jumper Walter Davis to world indoor and outdoor championships, and long jumper John Moffitt to silver in the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He has coached 11 Olympians, and has served on coaching staffs for Team USA to the 2003 Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo, the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing, and was the Jumps Coach for Team USA at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. His return to the Tiger staff in 2017 was highlighted as he coached current Tiger Jake Norris to a World Championship in the U-20 Hammer throw.

Noted as an educator and a mentor to hundreds of coaches, Schexnayder been involved in coaching education for 30 years. He served as chair of the Coaching Education committee for USATF, and in 2009 created the Track and Field Academy, the educational branch of the USTFCCCA, directing it through 2017. He continues to teach and lecture in the U.S. and abroad on the topics of speed and power development, training design, motor learning, and rehabilitation, and has authored many articles and publications on these topics. In addition to his Level 1, 2, and 3 certifications, He holds the prestigious Master Coach designation from USATF.

He has coached 18 Olympians and 7 Olympic/World Championship medalists. He has served on coaching staffs for Team USA to the 2003 Pan Am Games in Santo Domingo, the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing, and was the Jumps Coach for Team USA at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Coach Schexnayder has mentored hundreds of coaches and was actually my instructor when I got my Level II Jumps certification from USATF.

During his time away from the LSU staff, Schexnayder founded and operated Schexnayder Athletic Consulting, a service providing professional development and training advice to high school, collegiate, and professional sports teams in the U.S. and abroad. He has been very active in NFL player development and combine preparations. Schexnayder also served short stints as director of the CAP Elite performance center in Baton Rouge and as director of Sports Performance for Thibodaux Regional Medical Center. In addition to his track and field experience, he has consulted and designed training programs for football, basketball, soccer, volleyball, and golf.

Records and Achievements at LSU:
1 World Champion
1 Olympic Silver Medalist
7 Olympians
10 Individual NCAA Champions have won 19 NCAA titles
57 All-Americans
17 Individual SEC Champions have won 42 SEC titles
Has coached athletes to 11 current LSU records

Dan Pfaff
ALTIS Head Coach and Director of Education, USTFCCCA Hall of Fame

Coach Dan Pfaff has coached 49 Olympians including nine medalists, 51 World Championship competitors (also nine medalists), and five world-record holders.

He has directed athletes to 57 national records across a multitude of events. He coached in 10 Olympic Games and 15 World Championships to go along with lecturing in 37 countries. He was appointed education curriculum chair for both the U.S. Track & Field Coaches Education Schools and the NACAC Caribbean Basin Project and is the lead instructor for each organization.

While coaching LSU, Pfaff served as the field events coach for 11 years ranging from the 1985 season to the 1995 campaign. During his 11-year stint in Baton Rouge, Pfaff helped LSU student-athletes garner 113 All-America honors over that span. LSU won 17 national titles (15 women and two men) during Pfaff’s tenure in
Baton Rouge in which his athletes combined to score over 450 points at the NCAA meets.

Dan has served on five Olympic Games coaching staffs in five different countries and nine World Championships staffs for six different countries. He has lectured in 27 countries and is published in over 20 countries.

He is the former Coaching Education Curriculum Chair for both the United States Track and Field Coaches Education Schools and the NACAC Caribbean Basin Project, as well as being the lead instructor for each organization at the Level I, II, and III schools. Pfaff was Inducted Into USTFCCCA Hall of Fame

Most famously, he guided Canada’s Donovan Bailey to 100m gold at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta and Greg Rutherford to long jump gold on Super Saturday at the London 2012 Games, a period during which he also worked for UK Athletics at the helm of the Lee Valley Athletics Centre.

Tony Holler
Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame, 14x Coach of the Year

Tony Holler is the track coach at Plainfield North High School in the Chicago area. In June of 2019, Tony retired from teaching chemistry after 38 years in the classroom. He has 40 years of coaching experience (football, basketball, and track).

Coach Holler has over 35 years of coaching football, basketball, and track. Presently Head Track Coach and Head Freshmen Football Coach at Plainfield North.

Tony is a Member of Illinois Track & Field Hall of Fame and Winner of 14 “Coach Of The Year” Awards.

He is the co-director of Football-Track Activation Consortium (along with Chris Korfist) and creator of the ‘Feed the Cats’ training system.

Coach Holler is a winner of 3 IHSA State Track Championships and 8 total trophies (top-3 finishes) and has coached 8 individual state track champions and 7 relay state champions.

Marc Mangiacotti
Harvard's Sprints & Hurdles Coach, USTFCCCA Assistant Coach of the Year

Marc Mangiacotti enters his 12th season as an assistant coach with the Crimson. He oversees the men’s sprinters and hurdles for Harvard.

In the 2021-22 season he was named the NCAA DI Men's Indoor Track & Field Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year. He coached the 4x400m relay (3:05.92) that broke the All Time Ivy League Record, Harvard School Record, and the IC4A Meet Record. Individuals coached by Mangiacotti also broke multiple indoor records, including Greg Lapit in the 400m (46.98), Oliver Murcko in the 300m (33.67) - this is also the Slovakian National Record -, Lance Ward in the 200m (21.23), and DeMarkes Stradford tying the record in the 60m (6.73). His 4x400m team won the Ivy League Championship and he coached Daniel Falode
who won the triple jump at the Ivy Heps Championship. In the Outdoor season he was named the NCAA DI Men's Outdoor Track & Field Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year. He coached Daniel Falode, only one of three rookies to qualify for the NCAA Championships in Eugene, OR and a 4x100m relay (40.28) that broke the School Record as well as Daniel Falode's victory in the triple jump at the Ivy
Heps.

The 2019-20 season was filled with success for Mangiacotti and his athletes. Jovahn Williamson broke his own record in the 400m, while also winning another Ivy League Heps title in the 400m. Mangiacotti led the team to a Ivy League Heps title in the 4x400 (3:13.85), moving the group into sixth in the Harvard record
books. First-year Sam Bennett worked his way into third in the record books, as Mangiacotti helped Bennett set a career best 7.98. Mangiacotti's group contributed 64 of the team's record setting 116 at Indoor Heps. 

The 2018-19 season brought more success for athletes under Mangiacotti's tutelage. He had multiple All-Ivy League performers, including sophomore Jovahn Williamson capturing the 400m crown during both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Williamson bested teammate Rodney Agyare-May' Harvard record set
just one day earlier in the 400m dash, running 46.73 seconds at the Ivy League Outdoor Heps Championships. Both Williamson and Agyare-May were two-time All-Ivy performers in the indoor and outdoor seasons. Mangiacotti also helped the Crimson men's 4x400m squad to win both indoor and outdoor Heps, composed of Kahlil Wassell, Williamson, Agyare-May, and senior Miles Marshall.

In 2017-18, several records fell in Mangiacotti's group. Freshman  Jovahn Williamson  won the 400m at Outdoor Heps with a school-record 47.03 mark. Harvard's 4x400m relay won Outdoor Heps with a meet record 3:09.52 winning time. Earlier in the season the relay team – Rodney Agyare-May, Myles
Marshall,  Jovahn Williamson , and Matt Hurst - set a new school record at the Texas Relays (3:08.57). 
Under Mangiacotti's guidance in 2017, Harvard's Jay Hebert (110m hurdles) and  Efe Uwaifo  (triple jump) qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Meet, with Uwaifo earning All-America honors after qualifying for the national meet. Uwaifo was named Ivy Outdoor Heps Field Athlete of the Year, winning the long jump and triple jump at the meet, with personal records in both, and scoring 20 points for Harvard. 

The 2016 season saw the continued emergence of triple jumper Efe Uwaifo, who competed at the NCAA East Regionals and British Championships. Uwaifo tallied the top jump in program history during the indoor season, becoming the first Crimson student-athlete to surpass 52 feet. Additionally, 2016 saw top-10
performances in program history from Max Mondelli in the outdoor 200 meters and Jay Hebert in the 60- and 100-meter hurdles. The men's sprints and hurdles were a bright spot for Harvard in 2015 In the indoor season, Jarvis Harris ran a program-record time in the 60 meter hurdles, while freshman Malcolm Johnson adapted quickly to collegiate competition under Mangiacotti, registering the second-fastest Harvard times ever in the 60m and 200m dashes. Harris went on to qualify for the NCAA East Prelim in the 100m and
400m hurdles.

Mangiacotti helped with the success of the 2013-14 squad, as the men scored the most points at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships since 1983. In his first season with the Crimson, Mangiacotti saw the men’s sprinters/hurdles record five indoor marks and three outdoor marks that rank within the school’s all-time top 10. He also mentored Jarvis Harris ’15, who broke the Harvard records in the 60 meter hurdles and the 110 meter hurdles in the same season. Mangiacotti also helped two student-athletes garner All-Ivy League honors in 2012-13.

Mangiacotti came to Harvard after a two-year tenure at Brown. During his time in Providence, R.I., he made a big impact on the Bears sprinters, coaching five Ivy League champions that combined for nine league titles. He also coached 15 athletes that earned All-Ivy League credentials and saw his group break four
school records. 

His time at Brown came on the heels of a highly successful stint at Wheaton College. In six years working with the Lyons, Mangiacotti’s athletes won eight NCAA national championships and earned 53 All-America accolades. His athletes also set 31 school record performances in sprints, hurdles and relay events, and he was named the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCA) Division III national and regional women’s assistant coach of the year back in 2008.

Prior to coaching at Wheaton, Mangiacotti worked at the University of Houston for three years as the assistant cross country and track and field coach under the tutelage of former 100-meter dash world record holder and Cougar head coach Leroy Burrell. He was directly responsible for setting the daily workout schedule, and he also assisted with recruiting, managing meets, helping the team budget
and arranging travel plans. He also earned a master’s degree in Sport Administration at Houston.

Mangiacotti got his start in coaching at Bridgewater State College. He is a USA Track & Field Level I and II certified coach in sprints, hurdles, relays, jumps and combined events. As a member of the Bears’ coaching staff, he worked with the sprinters, hurdlers, middle distance and jumps groups. Mangiacotti graduated from Bridgewater State in 1998 with a dual bachelor’s degree in elementary and physical education.

Brian FitzGerald
Sprints/Relays Coach at Ventura College, former Head T&F Coach at Rio Mesa HS (36 yrs), USA Today National High School Track Coach of the Year

In his 36 years as the school’s track coach, Brian’s boys’ and girls’ teams have won 44 league titles, 5 CIF Southern Section runner-up awards, 3 CIF-SS and the girls’ State Championships, Championship in 1988. Sprints/Relays Coach at Ventura College, former Head T&F Coach at Rio Mesa HS, USA Today National HS 2016 Track Coach of the Year.

Brian has played a major role in the development of 4 outstanding Southern California female sprinters: Angela Burnham (5 state titles, twice National Female Athlete of the Year); Marion Jones (4 state titles while at Rio Mesa, National Athlete of the Year in 1991); Porchea Carroll (2nd 3rd & 4th place finishes at the
State Meet); and, most recently, Valexsia Droughn (2009 State 100 Meter Champion).

All told, Brian has coached 7 of the top 9 female sprinters in Ventura County history. He was honored as the Southern Section Girls’ High School Coach of the Year in 1994, and is currently a member of the CIF-SS and California State Advisory Committees for Track & Field.

The late 1980’s saw his organizational skills come to the forefront with the birth of the Spartan Relays and his fundraising efforts to install the first all-weather track in Ventura County at Rio Mesa.

For the past 18 years, Brian has developed curriculum and been a Lead Instructor for the innovative coaching education program offered by the LA84 Foundation, and his expertise in sprint mechanics and relays has made him a speaker in high demand throughout the country.

He was inducted into the Sunkist Indoor Invitational and Mt. SAC Relays Hall of Fame as well as Ventura College Hall of Fame, and was the Oxnard Union High School District’s Teacher of the Year in 1992.

In 2005, he was honored with the ‘Outstanding Service to High School Track & Field” award at the Arcadia Invitational, and in 2009 he received the CIF Southern Section “Champions for Character” award. In his 22nd year as Athletic Director at Rio Mesa, he is currently the longest tenured AD in the County.

Ernie Clark
NCAA Sprints/Hurdles/Jumps Coach: Northern Arizona U, 4x National Assistant Coach of the Year

Ernie Clark is in his first year as an Assistant Coach in charge of sprints and hurdles after joining the NAU Track & Field coaching staff in the fall of 2023.
 
Clark joins the team from San José State, where he was an assistant coach for two years. Prior to his time with San José State, Clark was an associate head track & field coach at Ashland for six years.
 
During his time at San José State, Clark saw success at both the conference and national level. He coached 11 Mountain West Conference Champions, with eight of those champion titles coming in the 2022-23 season. Clark also sent 11 athletes to the NCAA West Regional in his two years at San José State.
 
Clark coached his athletes to setting a total of 15 school records, nine of which were set during the 2022-23 indoor season. Clark coached Cameron Tarver to a school record in the indoor 200-meter at the Mountain West Championships, where he earned the individual title in the event with a time of 20.87.
 
While at Ashland, Clark was a four-time USTFCCCA National Assistant Coach of the Year recipient (2017-18 outdoor, 2019-20 outdoor, 2020-21 indoor, 2020-21 outdoor). The Eagles earned three NCAA 4x400-meter relay national title under Clark’s guidance, during the 2018 outdoor season, the 2021 indoor season, and the 2021 outdoor season.
 
Clark coached six USA Olympic Trials Championship qualifiers, three USTFCCCA National Athletes of the Year, and two athletes ranked in the top-10 in the world.
 
Clark graduated from Indianapolis, where he was a two-time DII national provisional qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles and was also named the Great Lakes Valley Conference Freshman of the Year.

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