Jacksonville University Women's Track

Brundage enters his first season as the Jacksonville women's track and field assistant coach in charge of throwers in 2016 for the 10-time Atlantic Sun Conference champions. Brundage held the same position at the University of Pittsburgh where he took the throwing program from obscurity to a national level. Working with many walk-on student-athletes, his work there led to a variety of school records and saw several of his athletes qualify for both the Atlantic Coast Conference and NCAA championships. Prior to his stint at Pitt, Brundage was recruiting coordinator and an assistant coach at Troy University where his charges set nine school throwing records and at Drake. Brundage is a graduate of Simpson (Iowa) with a Bachelor of Arts in secondary education and math. He played football and was on the track team at Simpson. He also is a Level I Certified Coach through USA Track & Field.

GriggJr Conference Championships: 20 / All-Americans: 10 / NCAA Champions: 1 Ron Grigg continues to raise the level of the Dolphins success as he enters his 15th season at the helm in 2016. Grigg became the director of track and field and cross country at JU in 2002 after serving as the associate head coach under former head coach Becky Motley for a year. Grigg originally came to JU in 1998 before leaving to serve as an assistant coach at Kansas State from 1999 to 2001. Grigg has made the Dolphins track program a beacon in the Atlantic Sun Conference by winning the A-Sun Indoor and Outdoor Championships in each of the last 10 seasons earning Coach of the Year in all 20 of those titles, as well as, earning the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association South Region Womens Coach of the Year in 2008.  Since taking over as head coach, Grigg has directly coached more than 120 conference champions in track and more than 250 all-conference performances.  The program has also produced greater than 300 Atlantic Sun All-Academic performers during that time.   In 2015, the Dolphins would sweep the indoor and outdoor titles for the 10th-straight year extending their conference record. The Dolphins have won every indoor title since the conference added the sport in 2006, while JUs outdoor team holds the record for the most consecutive titles in A-Sun history. At the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships, the 4x100 meter squad of Shanique Walker, Courtney Walker, Shadaey Campbell, and Ja'Mesha Richard ran a 44.70, placing 13th overall. Walker also competed in the 100 meter hurdles, placing seventh in a time of 12.96 seconds. The Dolphins earned five second team All-America honors. In 2013 Bienna Freeman became the fifth athlete in JU history to earn All-America honors after her performance in the 800m at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.  During the season she shattered the school record in the event by three seconds and nearly matched her record setting time in the semifinals of the NCAAs where she finished with a time of 2:04.71 which was the 10th overall time for the event. In addition to Freeman, Joane Pierre and sophomore Shanique Walker also advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships giving the Dolphins a program best three representatives.  Walker enjoyed a breakout season for the JU culminating with her record setting performance at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships in which she set the meet record for the 100m hurdles en route to earning 32.5 team points and Most Valuable Performer Honors. Charlene Charles added to her storied JU resume by becoming the first athlete in A-Sun history to win the long jump three times at the Indoor Championships.  She also was just one of 16 people in the country to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the heptathlon before she had to withdraw due to sustaining a serious injury.  After missing the entire outdoor season due to the setback, Charles returned for the conference meet where she gutted it out in the heptathlon to win and end her career on a high note. The 2012 cross country season saw history made when Pierre became the first Dolphin in program history to win the individual conference title. She won with a time of 17:17.5 to win and secure first team all-conference honors for the third time in her career.  Pierre went on to finish seventh at the NCAA South Regional and advanced to the NCAA Cross Country Championships and finished her career as the program record holder in the 5K (17:17.5) and 6K (20:22.1). In 2009-10, the Dolphins became the first A-Sun school to win the Triple Crown after securing the cross country, indoor and outdoor track championships. The JU womens cross country built on its second place finish in 2008 by claiming six of the top 14 runners in the conference meet to win its first A-Sun Championship in 2009. They also produced a program-best ninth place finish at the NCAA South Regionals and were ranked as high as eighth in the USTFCCCA South Region Polls. The Dolphins ended the year by setting points records at the indoor (212) and outdoor (247) meets to secure their fifth straight conference championships. Due to the success, both JU relay teams and runners in the 400 and 800-meters earned spots to the NCAA East Preliminary Round. Charlene Charles was one of two freshmen to earn a position to the heptathlon at the NCAA Championships. From 2006-09, Grigg worked with Natasha Harvey, who finished her career as one of the best athletes in school history. Harvey earned a school-record five All-America honors in the long jump, secured seven berths in the NCAA Championships, produced 18 NCAA regional qualifying marks, won 22 individual conference titles and recorded 35 all-conference honors. She also won Most Outstanding Performer meet honors at the A-Sun Championships nine times and competed with Team USA twice (2006, 2008). Harvey got it done in the classroom as well, earning JU female Student of the Year honors and becoming the first female athlete in school history to be named A-Sun Student-Athlete of the Year for the 2008-09 school year. Grigg also recruited and coached Monique Tubbs, the school's first national champion (60-meter dash, 7.29) and a four-time All-America honoree; and Andrea Pressley, who finished fourth in the heptathlon at the 2004 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Besides the five All-America honorees and the 17 NCAA Division I Championship qualifiers, school records have been set in 20 of 23 outdoor events and 19 out of 21 indoor track events during Grigg's tenure as assistant and head coach. Grigg's teams have also shown success in the classroom, receiving the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team award for 14 consecutive years (2002-15). Since his return in 2001, the Dolphins have had more than 200 academic all-conference selections among the cross country and track teams. Also, the cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams have received NCAA Public Recognition for having APR in the top 10% nationally. While at Kansas State, Grigg served as the team's recruiting coordinator, sprints and hurdles coach and assistant meet director. In 2001, he helped lead the Wildcats to a Big 12 women's outdoor track championship. Grigg also coached 100-meter All-America selection and Big 12 indoor and outdoor champion Terence Newman, now a cornerback with the Dallas Cowboys. Prior to coming to Jacksonville in 1998, Grigg was an assistant coach at Division III power Wheaton (Mass.) College. Under Grigg's tutelage, nine Wheaton athletes earned a total of 21 All-America honors while capturing two individual NCAA championships and two national titles in the 4x400-meter relay. In addition, the 1997 men's team finished seventh in the nation and the women's squad finished as NCAA runners-up in both indoors and outdoors in 1998. Grigg began his coaching career at Carver High School in Baltimore, Md., in 1994 as the head cross country and track and field coach for one year before assuming an assistant coach position at Coppin State College in 1995. Grigg earned a Bachelor of Science in political science from Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 1993. Grigg holds USATF Level II coaching certifications in sprints, hurdles, jumps, throws and multi-events, and has instructed both USATF and USTFCCCA Coaching Certification courses with regularity.