Vince Anderson
Legendary Sprint, Hurdle, and Relay Coach

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

Vince Anderson is a distinguished track and field coach with an impressive legacy, having been a part of 11 NCAA titles, including 9 outdoor and 2 indoor championships. His exceptional coaching career has seen him guide 33 NCAA champions and mentor 12 Olympians.

Anderson’s expertise extends to preparing athletes for the world stage, with 20 of his protégés competing in World Championships. Among his notable athletes are Bryce Deadmon, the US champion in the 400m in 2023; Muna Lee, the US champion in the 100m in 2008; and Justin Gatlin, an NCAA champion in the 100m and 200m in 2001 and 2002. Additionally, Phyllis Francis clinched the World Championship in the 400m in 2017, and Jessica Beard won the NCAA championship in the 400m in 2012. Shamier Little also stands out as a 3-time NCAA champion in the 400m hurdles from 2014 to 2016.

Under Anderson’s guidance, teams have excelled in relay events as well. His athletes have achieved 6 NCAA championships in the 4×100 relay and won the NCAA championship in the 4×400 relay in 2011.

Coach Vince Anderson’s track record of developing champions and Olympians highlights his expertise and dedication to the sport, making him a highly respected figure in track and field coaching.

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

Andreas Behm
ALTIS Sprints & Hurdles Coach and Vice President of Performance

With close to two decades of coaching experience, Coach Behm has helped athletes compete at 4 Olympics and 8 World Championships. Producing 3 individual medals, including one Olympic Champion. He guided Aries Merritt to the 110 Hurdle World Record that has stood since 2012. Coach Behm was previously an Assistant Track & Field Coach for the Sprints and Hurdles at Texas A&M University

Maria Creech
Assistant T&F Coach - Jumps and Recruiting Coordinator
Colorado State University

Maria Creech joined the Rams for the 2021-22 season assisting with the jumps group and transitioned to a full-time position at the conclusion of the season.  

In her first year with the Rams, she helped assistant coach Ryan Baily with the mentoring of the jump groups and the combined athletes, including Lexie Keller who earned All-American status in the indoor and outdoor seasons. In her second season on staff, she took over coaching the horizontal jumps.
 
Last season (‘23-‘24) Creech took over as the head Jumps/multis Coach. She coached 6 athletes to top 3 finishes at the MWC Indoor Championships. She coached 5 athletes to top 3 finishes at MWC Outdoor Championships. Qualifying 4 jumpers to the NCAA West Regional Qualifying Rounds, including Hari Brogan in the HJ, placing 36th overall and Jo-Anna Pinnock in the TJ, placing 22nd overall.  She had a 100% PR rate amongst the athletes she coached during the 23-24 indoor and outdoor season.

Creech's coaching experience ranges from several Colorado high schools, the club level and one other collegiate stop - Fort Lewis College. 

Prior to CSU, Creech was an assistant coach at Poudre High School aiding the entire jumps section. She coached Rhys Travis who won two state titles at the 2021 CHSAA 5A meet in the high jump and triple jump. Travis was a 6-foot high jumper and 40-foot triple jumper that Creech helped coach to reach PRs of 6'7'' and 47', respectively. Additionally, she coached Jayden Luna, a five-foot high jumper, to a 5-foot-6 personal record and runner-up finish at the 2021 CHSAA 5A State meet. At PHS, Creech also served as the strength and conditioning coach and the assistant volleyball coach. 

Before PHS, Creech was the head track and field coach at Bayfield HS where she worked closely with current Ram Jordan Lanning, At BHS, Lanning was a three-event high school state champion. Since, Lanning finds herself on eight top-20 lists at Colorado State. 

Her first collegiate coaching experience came at Fort Lewis College in 2018, operating as the assistant coach for jumps and sprints. In her first season with the Skyhawks, 11 of her competing female student-athletes qualified for the RMAC Conference Championships. 

A native of Durango, Colo. and a 2007 graduate of DHS, Creech competed in the high jump at Washington State University for three seasons, where she competed at the indoor and outdoor PAC-10 Championships. Her PR’s include: High Jump: 1.80m; Triple Jump: 11.60; Long Jump 5.52 and 200m: 26:77.

After school, Creech returned to her high school alma mater, Durango HS, and served as an assistant coach for track and field and volleyball, but also was the head indoor club track coach. 
 
Creech received her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Nutrition and Food Science from Colorado State University in 2014 and added a Master's in Kinesiology at Concordia University in the spring of 2020. She owns several certifications including NCSF Strength and Conditioning, ACSM Personal Trainer, First Aid/CPR, USATF Level 1, and CHSAA coaching. 

Todd Lane
Assistant Track & Field Coach at LSU

Todd Lane has been honored multiple times as Assistant Coach of the Year in the South Central Region by the USTFCCCA. Under his direction, in 2019 Juvaughn Harrison became the first individual in NCAA history to win the long jump and high jump at the same NCAA Championships. Lane also had the distinction of coaching two NCAA Champions in the same event when Rayvon Grey won the NCAA indoor long jump and Harrison captured the outdoor championship. Coach Lane has been a devoted instructor for coach’s education, presenting at clinics throughout the U.S.

Damar Forbes
Assistant Coaching Chair - Sprints/Jumps for Brown University

A two-time Olympian, six-time world championships participant, and an NCAA champion, Damar Forbes is in his third season on the Brown coaching staff in 2024-25, primarily working with the team’s sprinters and jumpers.
 
Forbes has helped coach two NCAA qualifiers/All-Americans through his first two seasons, including Zach Love (long jump) in 2023 and Jada Joseph (triple jump) in 2024. 

Forbes came to College Hill after previously serving as an assistant coach for sprints/hurdles and jumps at Loyola University New Orleans, where he coached two NAIA National Championship qualifiers. His athletes set seven school records and had nine top-five all-time school performances. He also was the Owner/Sports Performance Coach at Airborne Sports LLC, assisting in coaching U.S. and Canadian Olympic athletes, including Canadian national champion and Olympic sprinter Khamica Bingham.
 
As an athlete, Forbes twice qualified for the Olympics, competing in the long jump for Jamaica in both the 2012 Games in London and 2016 in Rio, where he was a finalist. He was a five-time Jamaican national champion, a two-time finalist at the world championships, and was a silver medalist at the 2011 CAC Games.
 
Collegiately, Forbes was one of the most decorated long jumpers in the history of the LSU track and field program. He culminated his career at LSU by capturing the NCAA Outdoor and SEC Outdoor championships in the long jump in 2013. He also won an SEC title and All-America honor that year while running the leadoff leg for the Tigers’ 4x100m relay team, helping him to be named the SEC Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. He captured six All-America and All-SEC honors during his career, and graduated No. 2 on the Tigers’ indoor (26-11 ¼) and outdoor (27-0 ¾) all-time performance lists in the long jump.
 
After his college career, Forbes was a professional track and field athlete sponsored by Nike and Puma from 2013-2021, winning 10 international competitions in nine different countries.

Ryan Banta
Head Track & Field Coach at Parkway Central High School

Coach Banta is a successful high school coach. His athletes have achieved 138 school records (FR, JV, Varsity), 8 top-five finishes at the state championships, team state title in 2022, 9 district championships, 6 district runner-up finishes, 8 conference team titles, 272 state semi-finalist (sectionals), 186 state qualifiers, 3 state records (3200, 4×800, and 100HH), 21 national ranked events, 169 All-state Medalists, 20 state champions, 22 runner-up performances, and 2 Gatorade athletes of the year all done in a single gender at Parkway Central High School. HS coach of Olympian Emily Sisson.

Member of Missouri Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (MTCCCA) Hall of Fame 2021, USTFCCCA Girl’s Coach of the Year 2022, MTCCCA Coach of the Year 2021 & 2022, Ryan is the Author of the Sprinter’s Compendium, St. Louis Suburban Conference Coach of the Year 2022 & 2023, past President of the MTCCCA, and has a Master’s in Positive Psychology from the University of Missouri. Author of the Sprinter's Compendium

Colton Razo
Head Track & Field Coach at Parkway Central High School

Colton joins Ohio State in 2023 after spending the previous year at the University of Houston working with track and field and softball. Prior to Houston, Colton served as Associate Director at Bemidji State University working men's and women's basketball, women's soccer, volleyball, and assisting with football. 

Before his time at Bemidji, Colton interned under Boo Schexnayder and served as volunteer track and field coach at the University of Wyoming, prior to which he spent time in Rapid City, SD at SD Mines as an assistant working with football, men's and women's basketball, women's volleyball, men's and women's golf, and track and field. 

Colton got his start in Columbus, OH interning under Matt Wenning after which time he served as a graduate intern at the University of Kansas working with track and field. 

Bob Thurnhoffer
Assistant Track & Field Coach - Jumps at University of Louisville

Bob Thurnhoffer was named to the Louisville track and field coaching staff as an assistant coach for jumps on July 31, 2023.
 
In his time with the Cardinals, Thurnhoffer has coached the Louisville jumpers to three USTFCCCA All-American honors, five NCAA Championships qualifications, 11 All-ACC honors, and 11 NCAA Regionals bids.

University of New Mexico - Assistant Coach
Thurnhoffer came to Louisville after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of New Mexico where he coached athletes in all speed/power events (sprints, jumps, hurdles, relays, throws). During his time at UNM, he coached 13 NCAA All-Americans, 25 Mountain West champions, 33 NCAA qualifiers, and helped set 19 new school records.

Thurnhoffer was named the 2022 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Outdoor Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year following an outdoor season that saw his athletes earn 16 All-MWC honors while earning nine gold medals at the conference championship meet. He also helped Rivaldo Leacock (men’s 400m hurdles) to second team All-American recognition, while Jovahn Williamson (men’s 400m) and the men’s 4x400m relay were tabbed as honorable mention All-Americans.

2016-21 - Loyola University Chicago - Head Coach
2014-16 - Loyola University Chicago - Assistant Coach
2010-14 - Loyola University Chicago - Graduate Assistant/Part-Time Coach

2004-09 - University of Illinois at Chicago - Assistant Coach

Athlete Honors
• 3 USTFCCCA All-Americans (2 Indoor, 1 Outdoor)
• 5 NCAA Championships Qualifications (2 Indoor, 3 Outdoor)
• 11 All-ACC Selections (9 Indoor, 2 Outdoor)

Darcy Wilson
Associate Head Coaching Chair for Throwing Events at Brown University

Darcy Wilson is in her second season as Brown's Associate Head Coaching Chair for Throwing Events for the 2024-25 season.

An experienced coach with demonstrated success at the Division I level, Wilson is no stranger to Brown or the Ivy League as she is in her second stint with the Bears, and previously spent seven years as the throws coach at Harvard. 
 
During her return campaign with the Brown throws program, she coached Chidinma Agabasi to a new school record in the weight throw (19.54m/64'1") and an Outdoor Heps placement; first place with Chris White and third place for Eddie Webb in the javelin; Sophia Gallucci in fourth and Kendra Ezeama sixth place in women's hammer; and Ezeama in third in the women's shot put.
 
While with the Crimson in her 2022-2023 campaign, Wilson’s athletes won all four Indoor Ivy League Heps throws events and five Outdoor Ivy League throws titles. During her tenure, eight program throws records were set, including two Ivy League records, which helped Harvard capture both the men’s and women’s Ivy League Outdoor Heps titles in 2023. Under Wilson’s 2023 outdoor campaign, Kenneth Ikeji and Stephanie Ratcliffe both won NCAA National Championships in the hammer throw with collegiate lead marks, making Wilson the first female coach to have athletes win both the men’s and women’s NCAA national title in the same season. Three other athletes qualified for Outdoor Nationals, with a sixth place women's discus and a men’s & women’s shot-putter for a total of three First Team All-Americans. She also coached a U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier, one world athletics qualifier in the hammer, and an Australian national record holder for women’s hammer.

In the summer of 2023 Wilson was selected to represent Team USA at the U20 Pan Am Games in Puerto Rico as the female throws coach.
 
Wilson recently became certified as a USATF Instructor and obtained USATF Level 3 Certification.
 
During her first stint on College Hill, Wilson spent four seasons as the Bears’ throws coach from 2012-2016 during which her athletes set two school records and had multiple athletes qualify for the NCAA Regionals.
 
Wilson also previously served five seasons as an assistant coach for throws at UMass Amherst and Keene State.

Ryan Baily
Assistant Track & Field Coach - Multi-Events, Pole Vault, Jumps at University of Georgia

Ryan Baily began coaching Georgia’s multi-event athletes, pole vaulters and jumpers in December 2023 at Georgia after serving in the same role at Colorado State. 
 
Baily made his presence felt immediately with the Bulldogs during his first year in 2024.  His corps established 10 fresh marks to Georgia’s all-time top 10 lists, including two school records, had six scoring First Team All-Americans, including a national champion, and left with a pair of Southeastern Conference individual title winners.

Baily left a strong impact at Colorado State University, helping coach multiple Rams to a combined 19 school records, 23 Mountain West individual titles, eight All-America honors and two Honorable Mention All-America honors.

Baily was the head track & field and cross country coach at Chadron State.  In his five years at Chadron State, Baily’s men’s team placed as high as ninth nationally in indoor track & field and 16th nationally in outdoor track & field.  Baily’s Chadron State teams broke 18 men’s and 22 women’s school records and featured 22 All-Americans and a Division II national champion.  His teams were also honored for their work in the classroom, as his men’s team earned the USTFCCCA’s Scholar Team of the Year award in 2011.

He was head coach at Western State (2005-09), Baily earned that same honor in 2008 (men’s indoor) and twice in 2007 (women’s outdoor, men’s outdoor).  Additionally, Baily was named the USTFCCCA North Central Regional Coach of the Year in 2008. Among the top performances by his Western State squads was its showing at the 2007 RMAC Outdoor Championships, where each of his women’s and men’s teams placed second.
 
Baily was a conference champion in the decathlon at Chadron State.  He was named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year while attaining his bachelor’s degree in education (2003) and added a master’s degree in education in 2005 from the University of the Cumberlands.  In addition, Baily holds a USA Track & Field Level I certification. 

Mark Mueller
Associate Head Track & Field Coach - Sprints at Duke

Mark Mueller is in his 12th season on the track & field staff and ninth season full time after spending the first two years as a volunteer, while earning his master’s degree at Duke. Mueller was promoted to Associate Head Coach in July of 2021.

The 2021-22 season saw the sprints unit combine to set six school records and 31 top-five program marks across the indoor and outdoor seasons under Mueller’s watch. During the indoor campaign, Mueller guided the Blue Devils’ sprints to 13 All-ACC honors, including the gold medal in the women’s 4x400m relay that helped Duke earn a share of the 2022 ACC Women’s Outdoor title. The Duke sprinters notched even more success during the outdoor season as five school records fell, 11 individuals collected All-ACC honors and nine USTFCCCA All-America honors were earned.

Mueller’s impact was especially seen in his work with graduate student Lauren Hoffman, who upended Duke’s seven-year-old Morris Williams Stadium record en route to capturing her first outdoor conference title and All-ACC First Team honors with a win in the 400m hurdles at the ACC Championships. She followed that up a few weeks later by smashing her own program record in the 400m hurdles for the fourth time in the 400m hurdles prelims (55.47) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In the final, Hoffman clocked 55.58 seconds to collect the bronze medal and USTFCCCA All-America First Team honors for the highest finish of her career at the national meet. Hoffman also earned honorable mention honors as a member of the 4x400m relay, before closing out her Duke career with a seventh-place finish at the USATF Outdoor Championships.

Mueller was named the 2021 USTFCCCA Southeast Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year following the first ACC Outdoor Championship in program history, along with the qualification of eight women to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Selwyn Maxwell
Associate Head Track & Field Coach at UCONN

UConn Director of Cross Country and Track & Field Beth Alford-Sullivan announced the promotion of Coach Selwyn Maxwell, Jr. to the role of associate Head Track & Field Coach on September 4, 2024. Coach Maxwell has been a key member of the coaching staff at UConn for the last three years as an assistant track and field coach, working with the sprinters, hurdlers and women's multi-eventers for the Huskies. Since Coach Maxwell became a part of the coaching staff in 2021, both men's and women's track & field have won 3 BIG EAST Indoor and Outdoor Championships each, sweeping the championships from 2022-2024.  In 2024, Maxwell helped coach Mekhi Stone to a gold medal finish in the BIG EAST Championships at a time of 47.13 seconds. 

A 2016 UConn graduate, Maxwell was a two-year captain of the men's Track & Field program. He was instrumental in leading the Huskies to the 2013 Indoor and Outdoor Big East Championships, as well as the 2014 Indoor and 2015 Outdoor American Athletic Conference (AAC) Championship. While at UConn, he earned All-Big East Honors, All-AAC Honors, was the 2013 Indoor New England champion in the 60-meter hurdles, and was a four-time NCAA East Regional qualifier in the 110-meter hurdles.

Following his days competing for the Huskies, Maxwell began his coaching career as an assistant coach at Amherst College where he worked with the men's program coaching the sprints, hurdles, jumps and throws.  From there, he accepted a coaching position at MIT and was entering his fourth season in 2020-21.

During his time at MIT, he helped guide the Engineer men's and women's programs to four NEWMAC Outdoor Championships and five Division III Regional Championships.  He also coached six NCAA All-Americans and 10 NCAA qualifiers.

Maxwell holds several coaching certifications, including the USATF Level I and is a USTFCCCA Sprint / Hurdle / Relay Specialist. Maxwell also holds a USTFCCCA Strength and Conditioning license and USA Weightlifting Certification. He also holds a USTFCCCA Program Management Certification.

Niklas Arrhenius
Track & Field Assistant Coach / Men's & Women's Throws at BYU

Coached three male athletes to First Team All-America status at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships: Danny Bryant in the shot put, Cameron Bates in the javelin and Dallin Shurts in the discus. He also coached Shurts to a school record in the men's discus, Gretchen Hoekstre to a school record in the women's discus and Bryant to BYU's No. 3 program mark in the men's shot put.

Responsibilities 

Coaches the throws for the men's and women's track and field teams. 

Education 

Graduated from Bringham Young University in 2008 with a Bachelors of Science in Exercise Science with an emphasis in Fitness and Wellness Management. Completed a Masters in Exercise Sciences in 2014. 

Competed on the BYU men's track and feild team from 2003-08, then worked as a manager for the BYU track and field team from

Prior to BYU - In addition to the experience gained at BYU, Arrhenius also worked as a voluntary assistant coach for the Utah Valley University track and field. At UVU, Arrhenius assisted in coaching the throws for both the men's and women's team, and also assisted with the strength and conditioning of all the track and field athletes. He also coached two Great West Conference champions. 

Track and Field Career - Competed on the BYU men's track and field team from 2003-08. Arrhenius was the team captain from 2004-07 and was a four-time Mountain West Conference champion in the discus (2004-07), a two-time MWC champion in the shot put (2004-05), and won the NCAA championship in the discus in 2007. He also earned All-American honors three times for his performance in the discus and once in the shot put. Arrhenius also competed at the 2011 World Championships, 2010 European Championships, 2009 World Championships, 2008 Olympic Games, 2007 World Championships, 2006 European Championships and the 2000 World Junior Championships. 

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