California State University, San Marcos Women's Track

Kuritz was named Assistant Track & Field Coach in July 2015. Kuritz will work with the multi-event student-athletes and the throwers. He had served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Cougars from 2012-14. Kuritz was an eight-time varsity letter recipient and academic All-Ivy student-athlete while competing at Brown from 1996-2000 and has worked in the track & field industry ever since. From 2003-13, Kuritz was the assistant track coach at Torrey Pines High School. In 2014, Kuritz mentored Kelly Skvarna as she set a school record in the pentathlon and heptathlon and qualified for NAIA nationals. He also tutored three-time NAIA All-American Maurice Strickland to a school record and second-place national finish in the decathlon and NAIA All-American Greg Talley in the High Jump. Since 2005, Kuritz has helped coordinate events with the LA 84 Foundation, which annually designs and presents instructive beginning-level, intermediate-level and advanced-level classes in track &field for over 500 high school track coaches. Coach Jake is a USATF Level 2 certified coach who believes that being a dedicated student-athlete helps build a foundation for personal and professional success throughout life.  When he is not coaching track and field, Coach Jake enjoys coach his two boys in soccer, volunteering, and spending time with his friends and family.    

Williams was one of the top hurdlers of the 1970s and has been coaching locally ever since.  In his 17th season with CSUSM in 2016, Williams helped the relay squads make a big impression at the CCAA Championships. The womens 4x400m relay of Cristen Lane, Charlotte Kuzminsky, Elizabeth Buckle and Lauren Wyckoff posted the second-fastest time during the prelims. Also guided the 4x400m relay squad of Wyckoff, Kuzminsky, Buckle and Danielle Tildahlto victory at the Aztec Invitational. Under his tutelage, seven student-athletes achieved CCAA Championship qualifiers and 22 Cougars established personal-bests in various events. In his debut season for SDSU in 1969, Williams set the 400-meter hurdles school record and placed second at the NCAA Division I Championships with a time of 49.3 seconds, .1 seconds off the American record.  He graduated from SDSU in 1970 following a third place finish at the National Championships, ending his Aztec career as a two-time conference champion and two-time NCAA All-American. Williams continued his career professionally, ranking in the top-10 in the world in the 400-meter hurdles from 1969 through 1977.  He won the AAU Indoor National Championship in the 600-meter dash in 1973 and 1974, and he competed as a member of four USA national teams. Williams coaching career began in 1971 at Lincoln High School.  From there he made stops at San Diego Mesa College, UCSD, and finally the newly-created program at Cal State San Marcos in 1998.  Williams has served as the Assistant Track & Field Coach for the Cougars since Athletics at CSUSM was founded, working with Head Coach Steve Scott to build CSUSM Track & Field into one of the top programs in the NAIA. Wes graduated from SDSU in 1970 with a degree Physical Education with a U.S. History minor.  He has three children and three grandchildren, and he and his wife Debbie live in University City.

Scott came to Cal State San Marcos in 1999, and has spent the last fourteen years distinguishing himself as a coach much the same way he did as a runner. As a collegiate runner at U.C. Irvine, Scott won the Division II 1,500-meter championship between 1975 and 1977. He won the 1,500-meter Olympic trials in 1980, but the U.S. team boycotted the games in Moscow. In 1981, he set the American record for the mile (3:48.68) and 1,500-meter (3:31.96). He bettered his mile record to 3:47.69 the following year, setting a mark that stood for over 25 years. Scott won the silver medal in the 1,500-meter at the IAAF World Outdoor Championships in 1983 and competed in the 1984 and 1988 Olympics. Over the course of his career, Scott was the national outdoor 1,500-meter champion six times. He has run the mile in under four minutes a world-record 136 times. Following his track career, Scott became an assistant coach at Azusa Pacific University in 1993. His leadership helped the team to a third place national finish in his first year. Since coming to Cal State San Marcos in 1999, Scott has achieved remarkable success. As the architect of the Universitys track & field and cross-country teams, Scott has built them from the ground-up over the last decade into perennial contenders in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). He has brought hundreds of CSUSM athletes to NAIA Nationals, coached 31 cross country All-Americans and 108 track and field All-Americans. He has been honored 10 times as the A.I.I. Cross Country Coach of the Year and three times as NAIA Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year.              

Tracy Thompson was originally named Assistant Track & Field Coach at Cal State San Marcos in July 2015. After a brief hiatus, he returned for his second stint with the program in July 2021.   A native of San Diego and a graduate of Morse High School, Thompson currently works with all field event athletes, including jumpers and throwers.   In 2025, Thompson coached Kalathan Laiwa-McKay to a sixth-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Division II Outdoor Championships—making him CSUSM’s first male NCAA Division II All-American in track & field. Thompson has guided five athletes to USTFCCCA All-West Region honors: Jordyn Brooks – Long Jump Lilly McGraw – Pole Vault Devin Yarbrough – Long Jump (2x honoree) Kalathan Laiwa-McKay – Shot Put (2x honoree) Antonio Riggins – Triple Jump Over his tenure, Thompson has coached 22 athletes to top-3 finishes at the CCAA Championships, with five athletes winning conference titles in the shot put, pole vault, long jump, and heptathlon.   In his second season with the Cougars (2016), Thompson worked primarily with jumpers and throwers. That year, he coached Frederik Jahr to an All-CCAA honor in the high jump—marking CSUSM’s first-ever All-CCAA selection in track & field. Jahr won two events and placed runner-up in two others under Thompson’s guidance. Thompson also helped 11 athletes qualify for the CCAA Championships, with nine achieving personal bests.   Thompson originally joined Steve Scott’s staff as a volunteer in 2015, where he quickly made an impact. That year, he helped eight student-athletes achieve lifetime personal bests and guided Melissa Olmos to a new school record in the high jump and qualifications for the NAIA Indoor and Outdoor National Championships.   Before joining CSUSM, Thompson spent six seasons at University City High School in San Diego, where he helped lead the team to the 2010 CIF San Diego Division I Championship. During his time there, he mentored six individual CIF champions, several of whom broke long-standing school records.