Azusa Pacific University Men's Track

Grey, who helped Azusa Pacific capture its first-ever NAIA women's cross country crown in 2008, has been instrumental in helping the Cougars quickly rebuild its championship tradition into title contention as an NCAA Division II program. Under his watch, he's led the men to three of the top four finishes in the program's 50-year history, and likewise the women have also posted three of their four best national performances. Grey was named the 2008 NAIA Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year after the Cougar women captured the 2008 NAIA national championship, their first-ever title, and that same year the Cougar men posted their best team finish as NAIA national runner-up. Known as an outstanding recruiter, Grey is even better as a teacher and coach. In 11 seasons leading the Cougar distance teams he has already coached 21 cross country All-Americans. Included in the mix are Azusa Pacific's first-ever NAIA individual champions, Aron Rono (NAIA men's champion in 2007 and 2008) and Jaime Canterbury (NAIA women's champion in 2007), as well as the program's first-ever NCAA Division II All-Americans (Staci Foster, Eileen Stressling). In track & field he has coached 35 All-Americans and four national champions, including Rono, the only person in track & field history to win collegiate championships in the 1500-, 5000-, and 10,000-meters in the same meet (2008 NAIA outdoors).  Grey came to Azusa Pacific in summer of 2004 as a graduate assistant coach, and the following year he took over a very sound and strong Cougar distance program. In his debut season as a head coach, he led the Cougar men to a fifth-place showing in the NAIA. The following year, his Cougars came in third in the NAIA men's championship meet for their best finish ever while the Cougar women returned to the top ten with a ninth-place finish. In 2007, the Cougar women continued to improve with a sixth-place effort, followed by the national championship performance in 2008. The men's runner-up finish in 2008 was the program's best-ever. A fifth-place 2009 finish for the women was followed by a sixth-place effort in 2010. Grey put together an outstanding 4-year distance running career at NAIA-member Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Mich. He was a 2-time qualifier for the NAIA cross country championship meet, earning All-American recognition during his 2003 senior season when he also clocked a school-record 24.58 8K. He was also a two-time all-region and three-time all-conference honoree. In track & field, Grey was a six-time qualifier for the NAIA championship meet and was a two-time All-Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference honoree. He posted career bests of 31:22 (10,000 meters), 14:51 (5000 meters) and 8:46 (3000 meters). A native of Penfield, Ill., near Champaign, Grey graduated from Cornerstone in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in business/sports management. In 2007 he earned a master's degree in education from Azusa Pacific. Grey and his wife, Victoria, reside in Glendora. GREY AT AZUSA PACIFIC WOMEN'S TRACK & FIELD Conference National National Individual Year School Finish Indoor Outdoor All-Americans Champions 2013 Azusa Pacific 2nd 2nd* 1st* 15* 14* 2014 Azusa Pacific 3rd 5th* 2nd* 11* 9* 2015 Azusa Pacific -- 9th 6th 4 3 CROSS COUNTRY Conf/Reg National Conf/Reg National All-Americans Year School Finish (W) Finish (W) Finish (M) Finish (M) (M)/(W) 2005 Azusa Pacific 3rd/5th 18th 2nd/2nd 5th 0/1 2006 Azusa Pacific 4th/2nd 9th 3rd/3rd 3rd 1/1 2007 Azusa Pacific 1st/1st 6th 2nd/2nd 14th 1/2 2008 Azusa Pacific 1st/-- 1st 1st/-- 2nd 3/4 2009 Azusa Pacific 1st/-- 5th 3rd/-- -- 1/2 2010 Azusa Pacific 2nd/-- 6th 2nd/-- 21st 2/3 2011 Azusa Pacific 1st/-- 2nd 6th/-- -- 1/3 2012 Azusa Pacific 1st/-- 1st* 4th/-- 6th* 0/2* 2013 Azusa Pacific 1st/-- 2nd* 3rd/-- 1st* 3/4* 2014 Azusa Pacific 2nd/9th -- 3rd/9th -- 0/1^ 2015 Azusa Pacific 2nd/11th -- 3rd/7th -- 0/1^

Reid is now rebuilding the Cougars into a championship-caliber program at the Division II level. Reid inherited a track & field dynasty when he took over the program in 1996, but he's put his own stamp on the program's success, leading the Cougars to 14 of the program's 26 national titles. Now the longest-tenured Azusa Pacific head coach with 20 seasons under his belt, Reid has guided the Cougars to eight NAIA indoor championships and four NAIA outdoor titles since taking over the winningest program in NAIA history back in 1996. Azusa Pacific swept the NAIA indoor and outdoor national championships in 2008 and 2009, the first men's track & field championship sweep in successive seasons since the early 1970s. Capping his numerous accolades from the program's era of NAIA dominance, Reid was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 2014. Reid, who served as legendary track coach Terry Franson's assistant since 1989, wasted no time putting his identity on Azusa Pacific track & field when he took over for the retiring Franson in 1996. In his first-ever head coaching assignment on any level, Reid was given control and before the third month of his 1996 rookie season, he led Azusa Pacific to its first-ever NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championship, quite a feat for a program that frustratingly finished second in 8 previous indoor championship meets. For his efforts, he was named NAIA Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year. Two months later, he took a short-handed Cougar team to a second place finish at the NAIA Outdoor Championships. Under Reid, the Cougars posted top-10 finishes in all 17 NAIA Indoor Championship meets, including a run of seven indoor national championships in nine years between 2002 and 2010. While winning four consecutive indoor titles (2007-10), Azusa Pacific also claimed outdoor national championships in 2008 and 2009 for a run of five national championships in a row during a three-year stretch. In the 47 years the NAIA has held the indoor championship meet in addition to the annual outdoor national championship, no other school has been able to duplicate the Cougars' five-meet consecutive-championship streak. While he continued Azusa Pacific's strong presence in field events, over the course of time Reid has redirected the program's focus toward one that relies on jumps and multi-event athletes. By the time his full signature was on the Cougar track & field, Reid had his own dominant program. He led the Cougars to the Golden State Athletic Conference championship 12 of the past 14 years, including a conference-record 11 consecutive titles from 1999 to 2009. An average of 11 Cougar athletes per year have garnered All-American status, and Azusa Pacific has produced an individual national champion in 16 of his 17 seasons at the helm. In fact, the Cougars have enjoyed multiple individual national championship performances 11 times. Individually, Reid has been recognized by his peers for his excellent work, being named NAIA Indoor Coach of the Year in 1996 and a pair of four-year stretches from 2001 through 2004 and again from 2007 through 2010. He has also been named the NAIA Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2001, 2002, 2008, and 2009. Regarded for his expertise in the multi-events, Reid has coached Bryan Clay, Tage Peterson, David Pope, Jordan Hudgens, and David Pichler, five of the nation's top young decathletes over the past decade. Clay, the reigning Olympic decathlon champion after claiming the gold medal in 2008 in Beijing, also won the silver medal at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and was the 2005 world champion in the decathlon. Additionally, Reid is the coordinator of the California Invitational and Mt. SAC Relays Multi-Events meets. He has served on numerous national committees, including the games committee of the NAIA indoor and outdoor championship meets, of which he co-chaired the games committee for the 2004 NAIA Outdoor Championships Meet. He has served as outdoor championship meet referee for 4 years, and he served as the NAIA Track & Field Coaches Association president from 2006 to 2008. Reid has received four Team USA track and field coaching assignments, serving twice as an assistant coach on Team USA's delegation to the Thorpe Cup in 2003 and 2014, and in 2005 and 2015 he was a head coach of Team USA's Thorpe Cup combined events team. As a student-athlete and a member of two Azusa Pacific NAIA championship squads, competing in both the intermediate and high hurdles on the 1986 and 1988 teams. Reid posted career-bests of 53.81 in the intermediates and 14.79 in the highs. Reid also was a two-year letterman on the Cougar football team, starting as a defensive back for the nationally-ranked 1985 and 1986 teams that went a combined 12-3-3. Reid, who also worked three years for Jostens, Inc., graduated from Azusa Pacific in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in marketing. In 2001 he earned his master's degree in education from Azusa Pacific. Before coming to Azusa Pacific, Reid competed at Yuba College in Marysville, Calif., and prepped at Carson City (Nev.) High School, from which he graduated in 1983. His younger sister Kim Reid-Schmidt and brother Jim both competed on the Cougar track & field team during the 1990s. Kevin, 49, and his wife Stacey, a 1992 Azusa Pacific alum, live in Pomona, Calif. They have two sons, Jonathan (20), who is a pitcher on the Azusa Pacific baseball team, and Zachary (15).

Fulkerson graduated in 2011 with a degree in communication from Azusa Pacific, where he competed on the track and field team for three conference championship teams and was a two-time recipient of the Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athlete award. He also played one season of football his freshman year. At Christian High School (El Cajon), Fulkerson was an all-league and CIF finals qualifier in the 110 and 300 hurdles, and he was a team captain in football. Fulkerson currently resides in Azusa.

Blomquist ran collegiately at UC Santa Barbara, where she was a two-time Big West champion in the steeplechase and two-time conference 5,000-meter runner-up in track & field while earning all-conference in cross country three of her four years. Following her collegiate career, she joined the coaching staff at UC Santa Barbara for three years. In 2010, she helped guide the Gaucho women's cross country team to the Big West title while the men claimed second place in conference. Named the Big West Cross Country Athlete of the Year her senior season, Blomquist was a part of three conference championship teams in cross country. She helped lead the Gauchos to a ninth-place national finish in 2006 and 17th place in 2007, and in track & field, she was a two-time NCAA Division I nationals qualifier in steeplechase. Blomquist continues to train and run post-collegiately, registering one of the United States' top-25 steeplechase times of 2012 by clocking a 9:59.29 in June at the Portland Track Festival. She easily bested the provisional "B" qualifying standard for the 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials, but she barely missed the cut to compete in the trials. A native of Huntington Beach, Blomquist graduated from UC Santa Barbara in 2008 with a degree in mathematics and a minor in exercise and health science. She is married to Dave Blomquist, who is Azusa Pacific's men's soccer head coach, and they reside in Glendora.

Barnett was a key athlete who led the Cougars to the first of a record-setting 23 NAIA men's track & field championships. Twenty years later, as a head coach, he led Azusa Pacific to its first-ever NAIA women's track & field national championship which opened a run of seven women's national titles over the next decade. In 2012, he took the unique step of becoming the program's first-ever director of track & field as Azusa Pacific began its transition to NCAA Division II membership. As a director, Barnett is responsible for a Cougar track & field program which has claimed 30 NAIA titles, including 13 national championships since he took over the women's track & field program in 2000. His responsibilities include oversight of the track & field budget and scholarships, application of NCAA regulations, and shaping the overall philosophy, vision, and mission of Azusa Pacific track & field. He will also continue to coach the men's and women's throwers of Cougar track & field. In 13 years at the helm of the Cougar women's track & field program, Barnett quickly built a dynasty, much like the one he started for the Cougar men during his collegiate competitive days. As a coach, Barnett led Azusa Pacific to seven NAIA national championships - four outdoor and three indoor - over the past 10 years. He is the only coach in NAIA history to lead his team to back-to-back sweeps of the indoor and outdoor titles, a feat the Cougars accomplished in 2003 and 2004. In the midst of guiding Azusa Pacific's women's track & field program to unprecedented heights, Barnett was also a key member of the coaching staff that helped Bryan Clay claim the title of "World's Greatest Athlete" with his gold-medal performance in the decathlon at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Barnett coaches the throws and writes his annual weight program for Clay, who also claimed the silver medal at the 2004 Summer Games in Athens. An even-keeled, good-natured man at heart, Barnett appeals to all types of personalities and is quite popular with his athletes. He is organized and pays attention to detail. And as can be expected by his success, both as an athlete and coach, he is competitive, striving for the best of himself and his athletes. Not surprisingly, he has been named the NAIA Coach of the Year seven times, including last year after he led his Cougars to the 2012 NAIA indoor national championship. As his storied international career began to wind down in the late 1990s, Barnett returned to his alma mater in 1999 as a throws coach. After one season as an assistant coach, he became the head coach in 2000. Within two years he had Azusa Pacific post its best-ever showings in women's track & field with a pair of national runner-up finishes at the 2002 NAIA indoor and outdoor track & field championship meets. The following year, in 2003, he became only the sixth coach in NAIA history to lead his squad to a sweep of the NAIA women's indoor and outdoor national championships. In 2004, he became the first coach ever of a team to sweep NAIA indoor and outdoor crowns in successive years as the Cougars ran away from the field to win both national championships. After registering top-ten finishes at each of the next five national championship meets - three indoor and two outdoor competitions from 2005 to 2007, Barnett and the Cougars returned to the top of the podium with a near-perfect performance to claim the 2007 NAIA outdoor national title. Following a pair of gut-wrenching runner-up finishes to the same school (Wayland Baptist) by identical one-point margins at the indoor championships in back-to-back seasons in 2008 and 2009, Azusa Pacific flipped the script with a one-point win for the 2010 NAIA outdoor crown. Last year, the Cougars claimed the program's seventh NAIA women's national championship by by claiming the NAIA indoor title by the slimmest of margins. Azusa Pacific athletes won six of the eight events in which they competed on the final day to unseat two-time defending indoor champion Oklahoma Baptist by just a half-point: 108 to 107.5. When the Cougars notched a third-place finish at the 2012 NAIA outdoor championship, it ran the program's streak of top-five finishes to 11 consecutive national meets. While he is an extraordinary throws coach (between the Cougar men and women he has coached 20 All-American throwers), Barnett's success has come from a balanced attack. Overall, he has averaged more than 10 All-American athletes per year during his 13 seasons as head coach of Azusa Pacific's women's track & field program, with at least one Cougar athlete claiming an individual national title in each of his 13 years. One of the most celebrated athletes in Azusa Pacific history, Barnett was a five-time NAIA champion. He is the first and still the only four-time NAIA javelin champion, winning the event as a 1980 freshman and then following with three straight NAIA-record tosses over the next three years. At the 1983 NAIA championship meet, his final collegiate appearance as a Cougar, he broke his own record with a heave of 259' 11", and combined with his second-place showing in the hammer, he helped lead Azusa Pacific to its first of what would be an unprecedented and unequaled seven straight NAIA outdoor track & field championships. During that 1983 senior season, Barnett sent notice to the international community that he had Olympic-caliber ability when he recorded the fourth-best javelin throw in U.S. history with a toss of 296' 5" to win the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays title. Upon completion of his collegiate eligibility, Barnett embarked on an international javelin throwing career that he hoped would lead to the Olympics, particularly the 1984 games which were being held in his Southern California home at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. However, at the 1984 U.S. trials, Barnett finished 10th in the competition. In preparation for the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, Korea, Barnett finished fourth at the Olympic Trials and had to settle for the title of "alternate." In 1989 Barnett captured his first-ever U.S. javelin championship. He repeated the performance with another national javelin title in 1991. Yet neither crown guaranteed him a spot on the 1992 U.S. Olympic team, a berth he would have to earn on his own. In June of 1992, Barnett ended eight years of frustration and reached the pinnacle of his track & field career, all in one fell swoop, when he garnered a place on the U.S. Olympic team for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Games. He made the most of his lone appearance on the Olympic stage by throwing the javelin 258' 0" to finish seventh, which is still the highest showing by an American javelin thrower over the past 7 Olympic Summer Games. A seven-time NAIA All-American, Barnett's javelin throwing resume also includes the 1980 Pan-Am and U.S. junior championships. In 1991, he was fourth in the javelin at the World Cup in Barcelona, and he took second at the Pan-Am Games in Cuba. Before his retirement from the sport in 1996, Track & Field News ranked Barnett among the top 10 javelin throwers in the United State for 14 years, ranking him the nation's best in 1989 and again in 1991. His international competition delayed completion of his academic pursuits but in 1997 Barnett earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from Azusa Pacific. In 2001 he completed work on his master's in education, which he also earned at Azusa Pacific. Barnett also lettered three seasons on Azusa Pacific's football team (1979-81) and teamed with his older brother, Doug, to spearhead one of the finest Cougar defenses ever during the early 1980s. Doug, who went on to play five seasons in the NFL with the Rams, Redskins and Falcons, also partnered with Mike to form one of college track & field's best-ever brother combinations. Like Mike, Doug was an accomplished thrower and won five NAIA individual titles in the hammer, shot and 35-pound weight throws. In 1982, the Barnett brothers became the first Cougars ever to be nationally-ranked by Track & Field News in their respective events -- Mike in the javelin and Doug in the hammer. During his many years of competition, Mike supported himself and his family as the sole owner and operator of a wallpaper business. Mike, who teaches in Azusa Pacific's exercise & sport science department, and his wife Julie, also an Azusa Pacific alum, reside in Glendora. Their two children both graduated from Azusa Pacific, with their son Cory (28) earning a degree in communication in 2010 while their daughter Shawna (25) graduated in 2012 with a degree in graphic design.