Linfield College Women's Track

Two-time Northwest Conference pole vaulting champion Dayson Tiogangco is in his 17th year as a member of the Linfield track and field coaching staff. He has coached national championship-winning pole vaulters Catherine Street and Olivia McDaniel, who together combined for four NCAA indoor and outdoor titles. Tiogangco lettered four times in track & field, capturing individual NWC titles in his signature event as a freshman and as a senior. He ranks sixth on Linfield’s all-time pole vault list with a career-best mark of 15 feet, 6¼ inches. The Hilo, Hawaii, native graduated from Linfield with an bachelor's degree in art in 2005. He and his wife, Laura, are raising two children.

Former all-star football player Tramaine Payne is in his 24th year as a member of the track and field coaching staff. Payne graduated from Linfield in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in physical education and earned his master's degree in kinesiology at Humboldt State. He holds a sprints and hurdles specialist certification from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. Payne was honored in 2016 as the USTFCCCA NCAA Division III Indoor Track & Field West Region Assistant Coach of the Year.  A native of Klamath Falls, Payne is a graduate of Henley High School. Outside of his coaching duties at Linfield, he works as a physical education teacher at Patton Middle School in McMinnville. He was honored as the McMinnville School District's 2024-25 Distinguished Educator of the Year. Tramaine and his wife, Anna, a former all-star Linfield volleyball player, live in McMinnville where they are raising two sons, Trayden, 9, and Paxon, 7.

Director of cross country and track & field Travis Olson is in his 16th year at the helm of the track and field program. He previously served 12 years as an assistant track and field coach.  As Linfield cross country coach from 2010 until 2015, the Wildcat women placed among the top four teams at the Northwest Conference Cross Country Championships three times, while the Linfield men finished in the upper half of the league twice. He has coached three individual to six NCAA individual championships during his tenure, including Catherine Street (2012) and Olivia McDaniel (2019) in the women's pole vault and Jake Mihelich (2015, 2016) in the men's 400 meters. In 2022, Keaton Wood placed second nationally in the men's heptathlon (NCAA Indoor Championships) and men's decathlon (Outdoor Championships). In 2012, Olson was recognized as the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association West Region Head Coach of the Year. During his time as an assistant coach, he received the USTFCCCA West Region Assistant Coach of the Year three times, twice for his work with the Linfield women (2010, 2009) and once for his guidance with the men's program (2010). He helped coach a total of 24 All-Americans, including the national champion and two runner-ups in the decathlon. Olson is certified as a jumping event specialist through the USTFCCCA Academy. Over his four-year career as a student-athlete at Linfield, Olson earned 10 varsity letters in track, basketball and football before graduating in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in finance. A six-time All-American in the javelin, decathlon and high jump, Olson twice placed second in the javelin at the NAIA championship meet. He still holds five top-10 marks in the Linfield record books, ranking third in the high jump (6-10), fourth in the javelin (203-02), sixth in the decathlon (6774), seventh in the discus (154-09) and eighth in the pole vault (15-01). Olson was inducted into the Linfield Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012. He and his wife, Maridee, live in McMinnville with their daughters, Bailee and Olivia.