Grand Canyon University Men's Cross Country

Flood begins his seventh season as GCUs head mens and womens track and field coach in 2017. Flood took on the challenge of starting a track and field program at Grand Canyon in the spring of 2010 and under his guidance both programs have had a tremendous amount of success, highlighted by a mens NCAA 2012 Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championship and Division I Mens and Womens Indoor and Outdoor WAC Championships in 2016. Under Floods direction, 90 student-athletes were crowned champions in WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships since GCU transitioned to Division I in 2014, including seven-time WAC Champion, Marcus Flannigan, and three-time WAC Champion and 2016 Rio Olympian, Tarasue Barnett. In 2016, for the first time in the mens and womens programs, Flood guided the Lopes to a conference sweep for Division I WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships. During outdoors, GCUs men team finished 37 points ahead of runner-up Utah Valley while the women finished nearly 30 points ahead of the Wolverines. During indoors, the mens team finished with a 49-point lead over runner-up Utah Valley. After leading the Lopes to a mens and womens WAC Indoor and Outdoor title sweep, Flood was named the WAC Mens and Womens Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. The six-time WAC Coach of the Year led 35 student-athletes to individual WAC titles, including WAC Heptathlon champion, Pierre-Louis Ricou, and three-time 2016 WAC Champion, Barnett.   The season concluded with Barnett qualifying for Discus throw in the 2016 Rio Olympics. The sophomore from Kingston, Jamaica, finished 16th in the world at the games with best mark among all NCAA competitors. In 2015, Flood led the mens and womens team to second place finishes at the WAC Outdoor Championships that included 12 student-athletes crowned WAC Champions. During the WAC Indoor Championships, the mens team once again placed runner-up, just 20 points out of first. With 11 student-athletes crowned WAC Champions, Flood earned Womens Indoor Coach of the Year. In 2014, during the programs first transition year to the Division I level, Flood guided the Lopes to stellar performances at both the 2014 WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships. For his efforts, Flood was named the WAC Womens Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. The Grand Canyon men placed second at the indoor championships, falling to Idaho by just one point. During the WAC Outdoor Championships, the womens team turned in a second-place finish, while the GCU men finished third. The track and field programs run at the Division II level for Flood and company was highlighted by 87 All-American performances, including three individuals being crowned DII National Champions, and DII Indoor National title for the mens team. In 2013, Flood continued to build one of the top Division II track and field programs in the country. In just the programs third year, Flood led the GCU women to a third-place finish at the Division II Indoor Championships, while the mens took fourth at the Division II Outdoor Championships. In addition to their success at the national level, the Lopes swept the PacWest Outdoor Conference Championships. Flood was named the 2013 West Region Mens and Womens Coach of the Year, while overseeing 50 USTFCCCA All-Region honorees. In just its second year of existence, Flood guided the mens indoor track and field program to the Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championships where the Lopes came home with individual National Championship titles in the long jump and 60-meter dash. The womens team finished sixth at the DII Indoor Championships and best that performance with a fifth-place finish at the DII Outdoor Championships. Floods student-athletes collected 35 All-American nods in 2012 as he was named United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Mens Indoor Track and Field National Coach of the Year. Additionally, Flood was named the USTFCCCA Mens and Womens West Region Coach of the Year for the outdoor season, while also garnering the honor for the mens indoor season. As assistant track and field coach at Colorado State, he helped bring unprecedented success to the program, including the Mens Indoor Conference Championship in 2002. In four seasons, 11 Conference Championships and 32 All-Conference performances, including two-time All-American John Woods and 2002 USATF 400-meter IM hurdles runner-up Megan Addy. In 2000, CSU mens 4x100 meter relay (consisting of four former walk-on athletes) ran the eighth fastest time in the country that year (39.56). The success of these athletes should come as no surprise when considering Floods past as both a competitor and coach. He was a long and triple jumper at Arizona State from 1979-82. Before coaching at CSU, he worked with Bruce Frankie, former sprints and hurdles coach at Arizona State, and his F.A.S.T. program from 1987-1995. Together, they trained many professional, collegiate and elite high school track and field athletes. Also, during this time he built a highly successful sprints and hurdles program at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Flood is a former football and track standout from Washington High School in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1977, during his sophomore season, the Rams won the State Track and Field Championship. In the fall of 1977, Flood teamed with future NFL quarterback Mike Pagel to reach the State Football Final, losing to Tempe McClintock. In 1978 the No. 1-ranked Rams lost their only game in the State Semifinals. He was elected to the 1979 Arizona vs. Utah All-Star football team that also featured former UCLA football coach and current Pac-12 analyst Rick Neuheisel and former NFL player Pete Mandley. Floods nephew Brad Western was an outstanding baseball player for Grand Canyon from 2003-2007. Flood resides in Arcadia with his son Taylor, daughter Madison and son Cheney. Tom Flood Head Coach Follow @flashflood32 Tom Flood begins his seventh season as GCUs head mens and womens track and field coach in 2017. Flood took on the challenge of starting a track and field program at Grand Canyon in the spring of 2010 and under his guidance both programs have had a tremendous amount of success, highlighted by a mens NCAA 2012 Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championship and Division I Mens and Womens Indoor and Outdoor WAC Championships in 2016. Under Floods direction, 90 student-athletes were crowned champions in WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships since GCU transitioned to Division I in 2014, including seven-time WAC Champion, Marcus Flannigan, and three-time WAC Champion and 2016 Rio Olympian, Tarasue Barnett. In 2016, for the first time in the mens and womens programs, Flood guided the Lopes to a conference sweep for Division I WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships. During outdoors, GCUs men team finished 37 points ahead of runner-up Utah Valley while the women finished nearly 30 points ahead of the Wolverines. During indoors, the mens team finished with a 49-point lead over runner-up Utah Valley. After leading the Lopes to a mens and womens WAC Indoor and Outdoor title sweep, Flood was named the WAC Mens and Womens Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. The six-time WAC Coach of the Year led 35 student-athletes to individual WAC titles, including WAC Heptathlon champion, Pierre-Louis Ricou, and three-time 2016 WAC Champion, Barnett.   The season concluded with Barnett qualifying for Discus throw in the 2016 Rio Olympics. The sophomore from Kingston, Jamaica, finished 16th in the world at the games with best mark among all NCAA competitors. In 2015, Flood led the mens and womens team to second place finishes at the WAC Outdoor Championships that included 12 student-athletes crowned WAC Champions. During the WAC Indoor Championships, the mens team once again placed runner-up, just 20 points out of first. With 11 student-athletes crowned WAC Champions, Flood earned Womens Indoor Coach of the Year. In 2014, during the programs first transition year to the Division I level, Flood guided the Lopes to stellar performances at both the 2014 WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships. For his efforts, Flood was named the WAC Womens Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. The Grand Canyon men placed second at the indoor championships, falling to Idaho by just one point. During the WAC Outdoor Championships, the womens team turned in a second-place finish, while the GCU men finished third. The track and field programs run at the Division II level for Flood and company was highlighted by 87 All-American performances, including three individuals being crowned DII National Champions, and DII Indoor National title for the mens team. In 2013, Flood continued to build one of the top Division II track and field programs in the country. In just the programs third year, Flood led the GCU women to a third-place finish at the Division II Indoor Championships, while the mens took fourth at the Division II Outdoor Championships. In addition to their success at the national level, the Lopes swept the PacWest Outdoor Conference Championships. Flood was named the 2013 West Region Mens and Womens Coach of the Year, while overseeing 50 USTFCCCA All-Region honorees. In just its second year of existence, Flood guided the mens indoor track and field program to the Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championships where the Lopes came home with individual National Championship titles in the long jump and 60-meter dash. The womens team finished sixth at the DII Indoor Championships and best that performance with a fifth-place finish at the DII Outdoor Championships. Floods student-athletes collected 35 All-American nods in 2012 as he was named United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Mens Indoor Track and Field National Coach of the Year. Additionally, Flood was named the USTFCCCA Mens and Womens West Region Coach of the Year for the outdoor season, while also garnering the honor for the mens indoor season. As assistant track and field coach at Colorado State, he helped bring unprecedented success to the program, including the Mens Indoor Conference Championship in 2002. In four seasons, 11 Conference Championships and 32 All-Conference performances, including two-time All-American John Woods and 2002 USATF 400-meter IM hurdles runner-up Megan Addy. In 2000, CSU mens 4x100 meter relay (consisting of four former walk-on athletes) ran the eighth fastest time in the country that year (39.56). The success of these athletes should come as no surprise when considering Floods past as both a competitor and coach. He was a long and triple jumper at Arizona State from 1979-82. Before coaching at CSU, he worked with Bruce Frankie, former sprints and hurdles coach at Arizona State, and his F.A.S.T. program from 1987-1995. Together, they trained many professional, collegiate and elite high school track and field athletes. Also, during this time he built a highly successful sprints and hurdles program at Sunnyslope High School in Phoenix, Arizona. Flood is a former football and track standout from Washington High School in Phoenix, Arizona. In 1977, during his sophomore season, the Rams won the State Track and Field Championship. In the fall of 1977, Flood teamed with future NFL quarterback Mike Pagel to reach the State Football Final, losing to Tempe McClintock. In 1978 the No. 1-ranked Rams lost their only game in the State Semifinals. He was elected to the 1979 Arizona vs. Utah All-Star football team that also featured former UCLA football coach and current Pac-12 analyst Rick Neuheisel and former NFL player Pete Mandley. Floods nephew Brad Western was an outstanding baseball player for Grand Canyon from 2003-2007. Flood resides in Arcadia with his son Taylor, daughter Madison and son Cheney.

Slattery begins her second season as GCUs head mens and womens cross country in 2015 after a successful career both professionally and as an NCAA athlete.     Slattery has been a professional distance runner since May 2005, competing in both national and international competitions. In 2007, she was the Pan American Games champion in the 10,000 meters in Rio de Janerio. She was an alternate for the U.S. Olympic Team at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing and has been a member of multiple U.S. national teams.   Slattery graduated from Colorado in 2003 with a degree in economics and earned a master's degree in secondary and adult education from the university in 2005. She competed for the Buffaloes in cross country and both indoor and outdoor track and field with many notable finishes. She was a four-time NCAA champion, 10-time Big 12 champion, and a 10-time All-American as a student-athlete.   Slattery is from Phoenix, where she attended Mountain Pointe High School, earning three consecutive All-East Valley honors and All-East Valley Runner of the Year awards. She was also a member of the 1998 U.S. Junior National Cross Country Team and earned Arizona State Runner-of-the-Year honors during her junior and senior years.

Lehman begins his fourth season as Associate Head Coach and seventh overall with the Lopes in 2017. Lehman will oversee vertical jumps and mens multi-events. Since GCU transitioned to Division I, Lehman has coached 12 student-athletes to individual WAC Championships titles, including Heptathlon champions, Pierre-Louis Ricou and Michael Bolliger, and four-time pole vault champion, Jennifer Rolph. In 2016, Lehman assisted the mens and womens programs to their first Division I WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships, including five student-athletes he coached crowned individual WAC Champions, including Heptathlon champion, Ricou. Lehman began coaching at Paradise Valley Community College in 1999 as an assistant track and field coach. Since then, he has coached 27 NJCAA individual national champions, 62 All-Americans and 33 academic All-Americans. His athletes have set NJCAA national records 11 times and his teams posted 15 top-10 performances at the national meet, including back-to-back third-place finishes in 2005 and 2006.  Since joining the Lopes in 2010, he has coached GCU student-athletes to nine Division II All-America honors. Lehman is a former Arizona high school state champion and state record holder who attended Southern California. While at USC, he was a four-time letterman and co-captain of the track and field team. He began his collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant at USC in 1992. He then went to PVCC after coaching stints at the U.S. Air Force Academy (1993-95) and Indiana State (1995-97). While coaching at USAFA and ISU, Lehman coached three All-Americans, five conference champions, and five school record holders. In 1998, Lehman opened the Kiss the Sky Pole Vault Center in Phoenix, which he continues to operate. He gives instruction to pole vaulters of all levels and ages, including some of the best in the world. A USA Track and Field Level II coach, Lehman was selected as the 2004 National Collegiate Pole Vault Coach of the Year in 2004 by the USATF Pole Vault Development Committee. He also was voted the 2005 Indoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year by the NJCAA Track Coaches Association. Together with his wife Kate, they have four sons: Lucas, Maxwell, Ty and Reed. Todd Lehman Associate Head Coach Todd Lehman begins his fourth season as Associate Head Coach and seventh overall with the Lopes in 2017. Lehman will oversee vertical jumps and mens multi-events. Since GCU transitioned to Division I, Lehman has coached 12 student-athletes to individual WAC Championships titles, including Heptathlon champions, Pierre-Louis Ricou and Michael Bolliger, and four-time pole vault champion, Jennifer Rolph. In 2016, Lehman assisted the mens and womens programs to their first Division I WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships, including five student-athletes he coached crowned individual WAC Champions, including Heptathlon champion, Ricou. Lehman began coaching at Paradise Valley Community College in 1999 as an assistant track and field coach. Since then, he has coached 27 NJCAA individual national champions, 62 All-Americans and 33 academic All-Americans. His athletes have set NJCAA national records 11 times and his teams posted 15 top-10 performances at the national meet, including back-to-back third-place finishes in 2005 and 2006.  Since joining the Lopes in 2010, he has coached GCU student-athletes to nine Division II All-America honors. Lehman is a former Arizona high school state champion and state record holder who attended Southern California. While at USC, he was a four-time letterman and co-captain of the track and field team. He began his collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant at USC in 1992. He then went to PVCC after coaching stints at the U.S. Air Force Academy (1993-95) and Indiana State (1995-97). While coaching at USAFA and ISU, Lehman coached three All-Americans, five conference champions, and five school record holders. In 1998, Lehman opened the Kiss the Sky Pole Vault Center in Phoenix, which he continues to operate. He gives instruction to pole vaulters of all levels and ages, including some of the best in the world. A USA Track and Field Level II coach, Lehman was selected as the 2004 National Collegiate Pole Vault Coach of the Year in 2004 by the USATF Pole Vault Development Committee. He also was voted the 2005 Indoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year by the NJCAA Track Coaches Association. Together with his wife Kate, they have four sons: Lucas, Maxwell, Ty and Reed.

Frankie has been training athletes at the professional, collegiate, and high school levels for more than 40 years. Frankies back ground includes individual training of NFL, NBA and MLB athletes. While coaching track and field athletes at world class, collegiate and high school levels, he has helped produce Olympic medalists, top world finishers, national champions, high school champions and national championship teams. Frankie has held the position of Chairman of the United States Olympic Development for the 400-meter dash and was a past member of the athlete development in track and field for the United States. Frankie has coached at Cortez, Washington, Pinnacle, Cactus Shadows, Glendale CC, Mesa CC, Arizona State and is in his fourth year at Grand Canyon in 2016, where he assists head coach Tom Flood with the sprinters, hurdlers, relays and the 800-meter runners.  One of Frankie's core beliefs is: The essence of speed is creating havoc for your opponent.   

Riccio is entering his third season as assistant coach mens and womens teams in 2017. Riccio will oversee throwers. Since joining GCU, Riccio has assisted four student-athletes to individual WAC Championship titles, including three-time champion, Tarasue Barnett. In 2016, he assisted the mens and womens programs to their first Division I WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Riccio led Jamaican-native, Barnett, to the 2016 Rio Olympic Games as she qualified for the womens discus throw. The junior sophomore finished 16th in the world at the games with the best mark among all NCAA competitors. Prior to joining the Lopes, Riccio was assistant throws coach at Mesa Community College for a year. He helped several athletes qualify for nationals, including two  who brought home All-America honors (one one men's side, one on women's side).  As a student-athlete, Riccio began his college career at Mesa CC where he was a national champion an earned multiple national honors. He picked up the championship in the hammer throw as a sophomore and was an All-American in the shot put and weight throw while also competing in the javelin.  Following his JUCO days, Riccio competed at Wyoming for a year and earned a Mountain West Athlete of the Week award and was a point scorer in three events (shot put, weight throw and hammer), including placing fourth during outdoor season in the hammer. He then transferred to Arizona State where he scored at the Pac-12 Championship and was a regional qualifier in the hammer. Riccio's high school career included an Arizona state championship in the shot put and discus.  

Riggs enters his fifth season as an assistant coach and 14th overall with the Lopes in 2017. Riggs will oversee the horizontal jumps and women's multi-events, as well as serve as the recruiting coordinator for the track and field program. Since GCU transitioned to Division I, Riggs has coached 13 student-athletes to individual WAC Championship titles, including four-time long jump champion, Marcus Flannigan. In 2016, Riggs assisted the mens and womens programs to their first Division I WAC Indoor and Outdoor Championships, including five student-athletes he coached crowned 2016 WAC Champions. Riggs coached five different athletes to a total of eight Division II All-America performances in 2013, while also being named the 2013 USTFCCCA Indoor West Region Womens Assistant Coach of the Year. In addition, six school jump records were snapped during the 2013 season, including Aaron Hills long jump mark of 7.85 meters. Riggs came to GCU after spending two seasons at Windward School in Los Angeles.  Under his direction, Windward sprinters set school records in all sprint and relay events, including a league record in the boys 4x400 meter relay. Prior to Windward, Riggs spent two years at UCLA as the teams decathlon coach.  While with the Bruins, Riggs coached Trent Perez to an eighth-place finish at the 2009 USATF Junior National Championships. Perez scored a career-high 7,315 points at the conference meet, a mark was good enough for No. 9 all-time at UCLA. From 2005 to 2008, Riggs was the sprints, relays and jumps coach at Santa Monica Community College. He also served as a cross country assistant at SMCC. Riggs coached several athletes to conference titles and CCC Championship qualifying marks, and also coached former UCLA Bruin Eric White to multiple school records in the pole vault during the 2008 season. Prior to SMCC, Riggs assisted with the sprints, jumps and multi-event groups at his alma mater Colorado State, where he helped coach two NCAA qualifiers and John Woods, an All-American in the indoor 60m and outdoor 200m. As an athlete at Colorado State, Riggs was a three-time conference champion and nine-time All-Mountain West honoree. He was a four-time Midwest regional qualifier and a 2003 USATF Championship qualifier in the 200m. He graduated from Colorado State in 2004 with a bachelors degree in speech communications.