Baker University Women's Track

Pitts graduated from Baker in 2006 after a successful career on the football field and on the track for the Cats. He was named an NAIA All-American wide receiver in 2005 and was a national indoor and outdoor qualifier in the high hurdles in 2006. In his first season as head coach, Pitts led Baker to two Heart championships including 2016 Men's Indoor Track & Field and 2016 Men's Outdoor Track & Field titles. He was named Heart Coach of the Year for each sport respectively. It marked the fifth-straight men's indoor track title and sixth-straight outdoor championship. He was also named 2016 U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Mens Outdoor Track & Field South Central Region Coach of the Year He spent 2014 serving on the Baker football coaching staff as the wide receivers coach and the track & field coaching staff as an assistant coach focusing on the sprints, jumps and hurdle athletes. Coach Pitts was a key contributor to the Wildcats four Heart of America Athletic Conference Championships in 2015, as they captured the mens and womens indoor track & field championship and the mens and womens outdoor track & field championships. Baker also qualified 15 athletes to the 2015 NAIA Outdoor Track & Field National Championships in Gulf Shores, Alabama in May. Before his coaching career at Baker, Pitts served as the head girls track and field coach at Warren High School in Downey, California, from 2010 to 2012 and was the assistant track and field coach at North Torrance High School in Torrance, California, from 2007 to 2010. Pitts will now primarily take over as the head track and field coach at Baker but will work alongside Tim Byers, the newly hired director of cross country and track and field. Coach Byers will oversee the cross country programs as the head coach, while also serving Coach Pitts as an assistant track and field coach.