Louisiana State University (LSU) Women's Track

Shaver knew the challenge that lay in front of him when he accepted the job. At his opening press conference, Shaver promised fans, coaches, officials and his student-athletes that "we are going to do everything we can to keep this kind of championship program going here at LSU." He has certainly delivered on that promise as the program has showed no signs of slowing down under his guidance. The Lady Tigers were crowned national champions during the 2008 outdoor season and have won a total of seven Southeastern Conference championships during his tenure. While sweeping SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor titles in 2008 and 2011, the Lady Tigers have also captured outdoor title during the 2007, 2010 and 2012 seasons. The Lady Tigers have also added 10 trophy performances with top-four finishes at the NCAA Championships in 11 previous seasons under Shavers guidance, including three second-place finishes, five third-place finishes and one fourth-place finish along with their national championship in 2008. The Tigers have added to their trophy case as well while racking up 13 team trophies with a top-four finish at the NCAA Championships as they have earned five second-place finishes, one third-place finish and seven fourth-place finishes between the indoor and outdoor seasons. The Tigers also scored five second-place finishes and three third-place finishes at the SEC Championships under Shaver. In all, Shavers teams have combined for 23 top-three finishes at the SEC Championships and 23 top-four finishes at the NCAA Championships between the indoor and outdoor seasons going back to his debut season as LSUs head coach in 2005. and the Tigers 4x400-meter relay team added to LSUs national championship pedigree a season ago while accounting for three NCAA event titles to lead the team back among the nations elite once again in 2015. Norwood was crowned the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Champion in the 400-meter dash to highlight a historic senior season at LSU. In his final season, Norwood became just the 14 sprinter in collegiate history to sweep NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor titles in the 400 meters (or 440 yards) in the same season while also anchoring the Tigers to a national championship in the mile relay outdoors. He first clocked an indoor personal best and became the second-ranked LSU Tiger indoors in history with his winning run of 45.31 seconds at the NCAA Indoor Championships to win his first national championship in the 400-meter dash. Norwood completed his NCAA-title sweep outdoors with a time of 45.10 in the national final to join the great Xavier Carter in 2006 as the only two Tigers to win both NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor titles in the event. Norwood wrapped up a brilliant career by anchoring the Tigers to the national title in the 4x400-meter relay as he teamed with , and to run 3 minutes, 1.96 seconds in the final to hand LSU its fourth NCAA Outdoor crown in the event all-time. Norwood was certainly one of the most prolific sprinters in school history as he won four NCAA titles, eight All-America honors and nine All-SEC awards in just two seasons at LSU. Their performance was instrumental in the Tigers taking home a fourth-place team trophy at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships for the second-straight season as the team scored 45 points in two days of competition at Oregons Hayward Field to close out the 2015 season. While emerging as one of the worlds top 400-meter sprinters after running a lifetime best of 44.44 at the LSU Alumni Gold last spring, Norwood followed the collegiate season by representing the United States at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing where he was crowned a World Champion as part of Team USAs 4x400-meter relay team in his championship debut. The LSU Track & Field program shined brightly in Beijing last summer as former Lady Tiger national champion Cassandra Tate also made her mark as one of the worlds great 400-meter hurdlers in bagging the bronze medal for the United States in her championship debut. Tates breakout 2015 season on the world stage with Shavers guidance has her poised for a spot on the medal stand in Rio de Janeiro at the 2016 Olympic Games fast approaching this summer. Despite missing out on her first World Championships while battling injuries late in her outdoor season, former Lady Tiger standout Jasmin Stowers also emerged as one of the worlds top talents in the 100-meter hurdles in 2015 largely thanks to her training with Shaver in Baton Rouge. Stowers, who was crowned a five-time SEC Champion and seven-time All-American in her career at LSU from 2011-14, took the world by storm with a series of personal bests last spring culminating with an IAAF Diamond League all-time record of 12.35 in Doha, Qatar. Stowers became the eighth-fastest 100 hurdler all-time and the fourth-fastest American in history with her performance. Stowers competed as a Lady Tiger for the final time in 2014 as she went out as the NCAA Indoor Bronze Medalist in the 60-meter hurdles for the second year in a row and the NCAA Outdoor Silver Medalist in the 100-meter hurdles that season. Her altitude-adjusted time of 7.96 in the 2014 NCAA final in the 60 hurdles established a new school record in her final race indoors at LSU. The curtain closed on one of the storied careers in the history of collegiate track and field in 2013 when Kimberlyn Duncan stepped onto the track for the final time as a Lady Tiger at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Oregon. Duncan cemented her legacy as one of the all-time great sprinters when she tied the fastest all conditions 200 meters in collegiate history by running a wind-aided 22.04 to win a sixth national championship in the 200-meter dash in her career. Duncans performance tied the 23-year-old collegiate record of 22.04 set by LSUs Dawn Sowell at the 1989 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Provo, Utah. The Katy, Texas, product stepped into history as she swept NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor gold medals for the third-straight season to become the first sprinter in collegiate history to claim six national titles in the 200-meter dash at the NCAA level. Duncan matched that output at the conference level with a sweep of SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor titles in the 200 meters for the third year in a row, even running an SEC Outdoor Championships meet record of 22.35 in her senior season in 2013. Not only did Duncan match the fastest all conditions 200 meters in collegiate history as a senior, but she set the low-altitude collegiate record of 22.19 as a junior in 2012 in the NCAA semifinals. She ran three of the five fastest wind-legal times and five of the eight fastest all conditions times in NCAA history at the time as the most dominant 200-meter sprinter ever at the collegiate level. Duncan earned the right to represent the United States on the international stage for the first time in her career in 2013 when she dropped her personal best of 21.80 in capturing her first career U.S. Outdoor title in the 200 meters to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. Duncan also earned a reputation as one of the worlds emerging talents in the 100-meter dash during her Lady Tiger career when she became just the fifth collegiate sprinter to break 11 seconds after setting the SEC Championships meet record of 10.96 in the 2012 conference final. Duncan defended her SEC 100-meter title as a senior in 2013 before winning the NCAA Outdoor bronze medal in the event that season. She also scored back-to-back NCAA silver medalist in the 100 meters in 2011 and 2012.              Winner of The Bowerman in 2012 as the top athlete in collegiate track and field, Duncan tied the school record with seven NCAA event titles and 12 SEC events titles in four seasons from 2010-13. Like Duncan, Tate wrapped up the 2012 campaign as a national champion as she recorded her collegiate best of 55.22 to win the NCAA title in the 400-meter hurdles. She also helped the Lady Tigers win the national title in the 4x400-meter relay during the indoor season as she ran the second leg on a team that featured Rebecca Alexander, Siedda Herbert and Jonique Day as they claimed the 13 NCAA crown for the program in the event all-time with their victory. Alexander, Tate and Day also joined leadoff leg Latoya McDermott on the team that set a new school record of 3:24.59 to finish as the national runners-up during the NCAA Outdoor Championships, marking the third-fastest 4x400-meter relay performance in NCAA history. It was a 2012 season in which Shaver was honored as both the NCAA Division I Womens Outdoor Coach of the year by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association and the SEC Womens Outdoor Coach of the Year in a vote of the leagues head coaches. Shaver has now twice been recognized as the National Coach of the Year and seven times named the SEC Coach of the Year. Shaver has coached 44 athletes to 55 NCAA event titles in a celebrated career that spans 20 seasons at LSU. His athletes have also captured 138 SEC event titles and 503 All-America honors all-time. LSU had been on the cusp of adding to its national championship collection in Shaver's first four seasons as head coach as the teams combined for seven second-place team finishes at the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Championships, including four runner-up finishes for the Tigers and three runner-up finishes for the Lady Tigers during that span. But with his top team making the trip to Des Moines for the 2008 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships, Shaver knew LSU was a championship contender on both sides. The meet unfolded just the way he had anticipated with the women's race for the team title going down to the very last event of the weekend. The Lady Tigers were tied with defending champion Arizona State at 59 points with both teams advancing a team into the final of the 4x400 relay. The stage was set for a dramatic conclusion with the team crossing the finish line first taking the title. The Lady Tigers carried the stick around the track in 3:28.33 to score eight points with a second-place finish in the race, while the Sun Devils were unable to keep pace with a fifth-place finish. The final score of the meet after 21 events read LSU 67, Arizona State 63. Not only did the Lady Tigers capture their first national championship under Shaver, but the team won the 31 NCAA title in the history of the LSU Track & Field program nearly 75 years to the day that the Tigers won their first national championship way back on June 17, 1933. It proved to be a fitting end to a season that also saw the Lady Tigers dominate the Southeastern Conference by sweeping SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor championships for the first time under Shavers direction. Considered one of the leading sprints and hurdles coaches in the sport, LSUs athletes flourished under Shavers guidance once again as the Tigers and Lady Tigers made their presence felt throughout the 2008 season. Shaver coached the likes of Lady Tiger greats Kelly Baptiste and Nickiesha Wilson to NCAA event titles during their final season in the purple and gold, while he also coached Tiger sprint star Richard Thompson to one of the most prolific seasons in collegiate history. Baptiste was the catalyst in LSU's national championship run as she accounted for a team high 19 points at the NCAA Championships while becoming the fifth Lady Tiger in program history to be crowned NCAA champion in the 100-meter dash. Wilson was equally as impressive at the NCAA Outdoor meet as she added 18 points with an NCAA crown in the 400-meter hurdles and a runner-up finish in the final of the 100-meter hurdles. But no athlete dominated collegiate track and field in 2008 quite like Thompson. Arguably the greatest sprinter to ever wear the LSU uniform, Thompson became the first Tiger to sweep NCAA titles in the 60 and 100 meters in the same season while also running the second leg on LSU's NCAA-title-winning 4x100-meter relay team. In addition, Thompson won All-America honors in the 200 meters with a runner-up finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships while being chosen as the NCAA Men's Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. He became the first sprinter coached by Shaver to crack the 10-second barrier in the 100-meter dash with his victory at the SEC Outdoor Championships in Auburn, Alabama. Thompson's 9.93 in the conference final set an SEC record and was the second-fastest time ever recorded at the collegiate level. Thompson, who came to LSU from the country of Trinidad & Tobago with a personal record of 10.65 in the 100 meters, wrapped up his career in Baton Rouge as a four-time NCAA Champion, five-time SEC Champion and eight-time All-American under Shaver's guidance. Shaver coached Thompson to worldwide stardom at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing where he shocked the world by winning a silver medal in the final of the 100-meter dash while setting a new collegiate record with a time of 9.89. He finished second only to Jamaican world-record holder and gold medalist Usain Bolt. After anchoring Trinidad's 4x100-meter relay to a silver medal, Thompson's unforgettable season was complete. While continuing to train in Baton Rouge following his collegiate career, Thompson dropped his 100-meter personal best with a Trinidad & Tobago national record of 9.82 that he set in winning the title at the 2014 Sagicor National Open Championships in Port-of-Spain. While Thompson grabbed the headlines, he was not the only athlete coached by Shaver to line up at the Olympic Games in 2008. Former Lady Tiger hurdler and two-time World Indoor champion Lolo Jones made her Olympics debut with a seventh-place finish after winning the 100-meter hurdles at the U.S. Olympic Trials, while Baptiste (Trinidad and Tobago) and Sherry Fletcher (Grenada) ran the 100 meters and Wilson (Jamaica) and Isa Phillips (Jamaica) competed in the 400-meter hurdles. Jones, who continues to train with Shaver in Baton Rouge, has become one of the recognizable faces in track and field as the worlds leading sprint hurdler. In becoming the first hurdler in meet history to win back-to-back World Indoor gold medals in the 60-meter hurdles at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships, Jones became the new American record holder after setting a new personal best with a winning time of 7.72. Shaver has also coached Jones to a PR of 12.43 in the 100-meter hurdles she set in the semifinal round at the 2008 Olympic Games. Jones made her return to the Olympic Games in London as she just missed earning a spot on the medal podium with a fourth-place finish in her second-straight Olympic final. LSU carried its momentum into the 2009 season as Shaver again proved why he is one of the more respected coaches in the business while coaching two-sport star Trindon Holliday to his first career NCAA championship in the 100-meter dash. After finishing as the national runner-up in 2007 and earning a third-place finish in 2008, Holliday enjoyed a season to remember as he became the third different Tiger in four years to be crowned the NCAA 100-meter champion. He sprinted to the finish line with a PR of 10.00 to continue LSUs domination in the event. His victory in the NCAA 100-meter final followed a 2009 indoor season in which he earned his second national runner-up finish in the 60-meter dash at the NCAA Indoor meet. But no athlete has dominated the sport with Shavers coaching quite like LSU great Xavier Carter did in 2006 as the Tiger sophomore captured four NCAA event titles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships held in Sacramento, California. Carter became the first collegiate athlete since Ohio States Jesse Owens in 1935 and 1936 to win four NCAA titles at a single national meet as he struck gold in the 100 meters, 400 meters, 4x100-meter relay and 4x400-meter relay. In his brief two-year career at LSU, Carter won an impressive seven individual national championships and 10 All-America honors as the only collegiate athlete in history to double with national titles in the 100 meters and 400 meters in the same year at the NCAA Championships. Sprint sensation also capped a stellar career in 2006 by leading the Tigers to three relay national titles while earning a total of five All-America honors. With Shaver's coaching, Willie finished his four-year career in Baton Rouge as the most decorated athlete in the history of LSU men's track and field, tying Carter with a school-record seven NCAA individual championships and a LSU record 19 career All-America honors. LSU's men's and women's relay teams proved to be an unbeatable force throughout the 2006 season, sweeping 4x400 titles at the NCAA Championships during the indoor and outdoor seasons and the men claiming a national championship in the 4x100 at the NCAA Outdoor meet. In all, 12 of Shaver's athletes won individual national titles in eight different events for the 2006 season. In Shavers first season as head coach in 2005, Carter and Willie provided the foundation for one of the elite mile relay teams in NCAA history that put an exclamation point onto the end of the collegiate season by setting a new collegiate record en route to a national championship. LSUs foursome of Reggie Dardar (46.4), Willie (44.4), (44.8) and Carter (44.0) clocked 2:59.59 in shattering the 17-year-old record of 2:59.91 set by UCLA in 1988. That national crown catapulted the Tigers to a third-place finish in the final team standings, an effort that was assisted by the national runner-up efforts by Carter in the 200-meter dash and Brazell in the 400-meter hurdles. While he enters his 12 season as head coach, Shaver has enjoyed 20 tremendously successful seasons at LSU after joining the program as an assistant coach in August 1995. Shaver is regarded as one of the premier coaches in the sport of track and field, and he has earned national recognition for his many accomplishments throughout his coaching career. Not only was he named the NCAA Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year by the USTFCCCA in 2008 and 2012, but he has also been named a seven-time SEC Women's Coach of the Year during his tenure. In 2003, he was recognized by his peers as the first USTCA Assistant Coach of the Year for Women's Sprints and Hurdles. In addition, Shaver has received nine National Coach of the Year awards, six Kansas Collegiate Coach of the Year honors and 16 Regional Coach of the Year awards in his coaching career that spans 33 years. Shaver is certified as a Level I, II and Master Coach by USA Track and Field and has been an instructor for the USATF Coaches Education curriculum of the sprint and hurdle events. A native of Salina, Kansas, Shaver received a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1979. In 1981, he added his masters degree in education with an emphasis on administration from Stephen F. Austin State University. Shaver and his wife, Connie, have two children. Their son, Dale, is an installer at Mikes Audio in Baton Rouge and enjoys his hobbies of cars and photography. Their daughter, Lindsay, graduated summa cum laude in 2012 from the University of South Alabama with her Master of Science in nursing with a focus on pediatric primary care. She is a pediatric nurse practitioner in Katy, Texas, where she resides with her husband, Alex Ramirez, a landscape architect with Design Workshop, and their daughter, Ella Darlene Ramirez. 2004-Present Head Coach 1995-2004 Assistant Coach 1992-95 Assistant Coach 1985-91 Head Coach 1982-85 Head Track & Field Coach 1981-85 Assistant Football Coach 1981-82 Assistant Track & Field Coach  

Lanes athletes when Damar Forbes wrapped up one of the most prolific careers for a long jumper in the history of the LSU Track & Field program as a national champion to finish off a dominant outdoor season. After earning SEC and NCAA silver medals during the 2013 indoor season, Forbes followed outdoors by sweeping SEC Outdoor and NCAA Outdoor titles as the nations most prolific long jumper at the collegiate level. Forbes posted the two best wind-aided jumps of his collegiate career in sweeping long jump championships with marks of 27-4 ½w at the SEC Championships and 27-4 ¾w at the NCAA Championships that spring. He became just the third LSU Tiger all-time to sweep SEC and NCAA championships in the long jump outdoors by joining the great Billy Brown (1941) and Walter Davis (2002). Forbes also jumped a wind-legal personal best of 27-0 ¾ to win his second-straight Jamaican long jump title and qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics for the second time for his career as the 10-ranked long jumper worldwide for 2013. He finished in eighth place in his first international final at the World Championships held in Moscow, Russia, in the summer of 2013. A native of Decatur, Georgia, Forbes also made his Olympics debut in the summer of 2012 while representing Jamaica at the London Games. He ended his season with an 18-place finish while competing at the highest level of the sport for the first time. Forbes went out as one of the most decorated long jumpers in the programs history as an NCAA Champion, two-time SEC Champion and six-time All-American with the Tigers. He is the No. 2-ranked long jumper in school history as his PR of 27-0 ¾ trails only the school-record mark of 27-9 ¾ by 2004 Olympic silver medalist John Moffitt. The 2013 indoor season also saw the emergence of two of the nations top triple jumpers on the womens side as Keri Emanuel and Lynnika Pitts earned All-America honors after wrapping up their indoor campaign at the NCAA Championships. Emanuel took sixth place while Pitts followed in seventh place in the triple jump final at the NCAA Indoor meet. Pitts followed with a brilliant senior season in 2014 in which she added two more All-SEC and All-America honors as one of the nations elite triple jumpers once again. The Prairieville, Louisiana, native eclipsed the 44-foot mark for the first time in her career in a bronze-medal-winning third-place finish at the 2014 SEC Indoor Championships while jumping 44-0 ¾ for the No. 7-ranked mark indoors in school history. She then ended the indoor season as the NCAA Indoor bronze medalist with a third-place finish at the national meet. Outdoors, Pitts again took her place among the nations elite as an NCAA Championship qualifier in both the high jump and triple jump. She jumped a wind-legal personal best of 44-1 ¼ to earn All-America honors in the event outdoors for the first time in her career with a fourth-place finish nationally after equaling her indoor effort as the SEC Outdoor bronze medalist in the event. Pitts later jumped a career-best wind-aided 44-6 ¼ to be crowned the USA Outdoor bronze medalist at the 2014 USA Outdoor Championships with her final meet in an LSU uniform. The 2012 season was highlighted by Trinidad & Tobago international Kyron Blaise wrapping up his collegiate career as one of the top scoring Tigers at the NCAA Championships by earning a trio of All-America honors in his final season in Baton Rouge. After setting a wind-legal PR of 54-1 ¼ in an All-SEC runner-up finish in the triple jump at the 2012 SEC Outdoor Championships, Blaise scored the NCAA Outdoor bronze medal with a third-place finish at the national meet in his final competition in an LSU uniform. Blaise totaled a team-leading nine points at the NCAA Outdoor Championships that season as he also reached All-America status in the long jump with a sixth-place finish nationally. Blaise proved himself as one of the NCAAs leading dual jumpers in his final season at LSU, earning his first career All-America honor in the long jump with a sixth-place finish indoors before setting a lifetime PR of 25-11 ½ in a third-place finish at the SEC Outdoor meet. The 2012 season also witnessed the final season in the career of the most decorated pole vaulter in the storied history of the LSU womens program as Rachel Laurent hung up her spikes as a four-time All-American and five-time All-SEC performer. The 2011 season saw the end of two storied careers as Brittani Carter and Zedric Thomas also finished their eligibility among the all-time greats to wear the purple and gold. Carter is the most decorated high jumper in the history of the Lady Tiger program after winning two SEC titles and five All-America honors in four seasons at LSU. As a senior in 2011, Carter set a lifetime PR indoors at 6-1 ¼ and defended her SEC Indoor crown before earning All-America honors in national competition with a bronze-medal-winning third-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships and seventh-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Like Carter, Thomas wrapped up his collegiate career in 2011 as a five-time All-America selection in four seasons with the Tigers while shattering personal bests in both the long jump and triple jump. Thomas had top wind-legal marks of 26-6 ¼ in the long jump and 54-5 ½ in the triple jump in his final collegiate season with Lanes coaching. Lane joined the LSU coaching staff after spending one season at the University of Miami, where he was voted the top womens jumps and combined events assistant in the East Region by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association in 2007. The Hurricanes enjoyed great success under Lanes tutelage as he coached his athletes to a total of three All-America honors, eight All-Atlantic Coast Conference honors, four ACC titles and one current school record. In addition, Hurricane standouts Brenda Faluade and Amy Seward swept postseason awards in 2007 while being named the ACC Indoor Field Performer of the Year and ACC Outdoor Field Performer of the Year, respectively. Prior to joining the staff at Miami, Lane served as an assistant coach at Ball State University of the Mid-American Conference. In 2006, he helped guide BSU to a runner-up finish at the MAC Indoor Championships and a third-place showing at the MAC Outdoor Championships before being named interim head coach following the season. Lane is not without head coaching experience as he was the head track and field coach at Georgia Southern University for five years where he oversaw the program from its inception in 1999. He was named the SoCon Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2003 and 2004 after leading Georgia Southern to back-to-back runner-up finishes at the SoCon Outdoor Championships. Off the track, Lane has been involved as an instructor for USA Track & Field and currently with USTFCCCA in coaching education programs. He also lectures nationally on training and technique. A native of Iowa City, Iowa, the 43-year-old Lane graduated from Luther College (Iowa) in May 1995 with a bachelors degree in political science. An avid Green Bay Packers fan, Lane has also received two masters degrees from Georgia Southern University, including one in sport management in May 1997 and a second in exercise science in December 2005. Lane and his wife of 18 years, Turena Johnson Lane, are the proud parents of four children their daughter, Taylor Grace Lane, born on May 6, 2011; and their sons, Miles William Lane, born on Aug. 30, 2012; Mason James Lane, born on Jan. 27, 2014; and Jace James Lane, born on Dec. 16, 2015. 2007-Present Assistant Coach 2006-07 Assistant Coach 2004-06 Assistant Coach 1999-2004 Head Womens Track & Field Coach 1997-2004 Head Cross Country Coach 1995-96 Graduate Assistant Cross Country Coach 1996-97 Head Cross Country Coach; Assistant Track & Field Coach 1 Olympian 1 U.S. Indoor Champion 1 NCAA Champion 7 NCAA Silver Medalists 4 NCAA Bronze Medalists 11 NCAA Scorers earning 35 All-America honors 5 SEC Champion athletes winning 6 SEC Championships 13 All-SEC athletes earning 36 All-SEC honors High Jump (5) Pole Vault (5) Long Jump (13) Triple Jump (12)

Parris-Thymes joined Shavers staff in 2005. That includes five Lady Tigers who won All-America honors for the first time in their careers a year ago to help guide their team to a tie for ninth place nationally at the NCAA Indoor Championships and 11 place overall at the NCAA Outdoor Championships with their performance. Sophomores and and freshmen , and all achieved All-America status for the first time as Lady Tigers. Junior earned All-America honors for the second-straight season with her performance in 2015. In 2014, former Lady Tiger standout Jasmin Stowers put an exclamation point onto the end of a storied collegiate career as she captured the NCAA Outdoor silver medal in the 100-meter hurdles, clocking her collegiate-best wind-aided time of 12.54 seconds in the national final. She followed the 2014 collegiate season by racing to a new wind-legal best of 12.71 at the USA Outdoor Championships, finishing her collegiate career only one one-hundredth of a second shy of matching Tananjalyn Stanleys school-record time of 12.70 set in 1989. Stowers did wrap up the 2014 indoor season as LSUs school-record holder in the 60-meter hurdles when she crossed the finish line with an altitude-adjusted time of 7.96 to defend her NCAA Indoor bronze medal in the event. That performance smashed Joyce Bates 14-year-old school record of 7.99 in the event that was previously set during the 2000 season. Stowers went out as one of the most decorated hurdlers in the history of the Lady Tiger team as a five-time SEC Champion, seven-time All-American and seven-time All-SEC performer. Two Lady Tigers also scored top-five finishes in the final of the womens 400-meter hurdles at the NCAA Championships in 2014 with Nikita Tracey finishing in fourth place followed by Chase in fifth place nationally that season. Both set personal bests during the 2014 season with Tracey running her PR of 55.18 and Chase clocking her top time of 56.27 as a Lady Tiger. The curtain closed on one of the storied careers in the history of collegiate track and field in 2013 when Kimberlyn Duncan stepped onto the track for the final time as an LSU Lady Tiger at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships that season. Duncan cemented her legacy as one of the all-time great sprinters when she tied the fastest all conditions 200 meters in collegiate history by running a wind-aided 22.04 to win a sixth national championship in the 200-meter dash in her career. Duncans performance tied the 23-year-old collegiate record of 22.04 set by LSUs Dawn Sowell at the 1989 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Provo, Utah. The Katy, Texas, product stepped into history as she swept NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor gold medals for the third-straight season to become the first sprinter in collegiate history to claim six national titles in the 200-meter dash at the NCAA level. Duncan matched that output at the conference level with a sweep of SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor titles in the 200 meters for the third year in a row, even running an SEC Outdoor Championships meet record of 22.35 in her senior season in 2013. Not only did Duncan match the fastest all conditions 200 meters in collegiate history as a senior, but she set the low-altitude collegiate record of 22.19 as a junior in 2012 in the NCAA semifinals. She ran three of the five fastest wind-legal times and five of the eight fastest all conditions times in NCAA history as the most dominant 200-meter sprinter ever at the collegiate level. Duncan earned the right to represent the United States on the international stage for the first time in her career in 2013 when she dropped her personal best of 21.80 in capturing her first career U.S. Outdoor title in the 200 meters to qualify for the IAAF World Championships in Athletics. Duncan also earned a reputation as one of the worlds emerging talents in the 100-meter dash during her Lady Tiger career when she became just the fifth collegiate sprinter to break 11 seconds after setting the SEC Championships meet record of 10.96 in the 2012 conference final. Duncan defended her SEC 100-meter title as a senior in 2013 before winning the NCAA Outdoor bronze medal in the event for 2013. She also scored back-to-back NCAA silver medals in the 100 meters in 2011 and 2012. Winner of The Bowerman in 2012 as the top athlete in collegiate track and field, Duncan tied the school record with seven NCAA event titles and 12 SEC events titles in four seasons from 2010-13. Like Duncan, former Lady Tiger standout Cassandra Tate wrapped up the 2012 campaign as a national champion as she recorded a career-best of 55.22 to claim the NCAA crown in the 400-meter hurdles. Tate also helped lead the Lady Tigers to the national title in the 4x400-meter relay during the indoor season as she ran the second leg on a team that featured Alexander, Siedda Herbert and Jonique Day as they earned the 13 NCAA crown for the program in the event all-time with their victory. Alexander, Tate and Day also joined leadoff leg Latoya McDermott on the team that set a new school record of 3 minutes, 24.59 seconds to finish as the national runners-up during the NCAA Outdoor Championships, marking the third-fastest 4x400-meter relay performance in NCAA history. Parris-Thymes athletes were the catalyst in the Lady Tigers winning their 25 national championship in 2008 with a victory at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Des Moines. LSU's sprinters and hurdlers accounted for 59 of 67 points in the team standings as the Lady Tigers won their first NCAA Outdoor crown since 2003. In 2008, Parris-Thymes also helped guide the LSU women to their first sweep of SEC Indoor and SEC Outdoor titles since 1996. Kelly Baptiste became the first Lady Tiger in program history to sweep NCAA titles in the 60-meter dash and 100-meter dash in the same season, following in the footsteps of LSU greats Dawn Sowell (1989), Esther Jones (1990), D'Andre Hill (1994, 1995) and Sherry Fletcher (2007) as an NCAA 100-meter champion. Baptiste also earned outdoor All-America honors in the 200 meters, 4x100 relay and 4x400 relay to finish as the Lady Tigers' top point scorer at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Using her expertise as a 400-meter hurdler, Parris-Thymes also helped coach former Lady Tiger star Nickiesha Wilson to an NCAA title in the event in LSUs 2008 championship season. The Lady Tigers carried that momentum into the summer as Baptiste (Trinidad & Tobago), Fletcher (Grenada) and Wilson (Jamaica) each represented their respective countries in the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. They were part of the largest representation of any collegiate track and field program in the United States as 12 athletes with LSU ties participated in the Olympics that season. In 2007, Parris-Thymes helped guide the Lady Tigers to a pair of NCAA runner-up finishes during both the indoor and outdoor seasons, while the team added yet another SEC Outdoor title to its resume. Fletcher was among the athletes to win a national title with the help of Parris-Thymes that season with her improbable victory in the 100-meter dash at the NCAA Championships, her first event title in an LSU uniform. The Lady Tigers also won an NCAA championship in the 4x400-meter relay during the 2007 outdoor season to put an exclamation point onto the end of a tremendous season. Having competed extensively at the highest level of international track and field for more than a decade, Parris-Thymes turned in numerous outstanding performances while under Shaver's guidance. Her professional career included appearances in two Olympic Games, six World Championships, two Commonwealth Games and two Goodwill Games, among many other elite international competitions. A specialist in the 400-meter hurdles, Parris-Thymes' resume boasts three Jamaican national titles, one Central American & Caribbean Championships title, two Commonwealth Games silver medals, a pair of Goodwill Games silver medals, three World Championships finals appearances and two top-10 finishes at the Olympic Games. Her success was nurtured at the collegiate level while spending two highly successful seasons as a member of the Lady Tigers' national championship squad. An eight-time All-American, Parris-Thymes won a total of five NCAA titles, five SEC titles and was awarded the SEC Commissioner's Trophy in 1994 for her efforts. She currently ranks No. 3 on LSU's all-time outdoor performance list in the 400 hurdles as she posted a top time of 55.17 during her collegiate career. A native of Trelawny, Jamaica, Parris-Thymes graduated with a bachelors degree from LSU in 1995 after earning an associate of arts degree from San Jacinto College in 1992. She is married to Derrick Thymes, a former member of the football and track teams at LSU, and they have a daughter named Jana Marie Thymes. LSU        2005-Present - Assistant Coach 2-time Olympian 6 World Championships appearances 2-time Goodwill Games silver medalist 2-time Commonwealth Games silver medalist 3 Jamaican National Titles 1 Central American and Caribbean Title 5-time NCAA Champion 8-time NCAA All-American 5 SEC Titles 1994 Recipient of the SEC Commissioner's Trophy 2-year letterwinner at LSU 4 Olympians 16 NCAA Champion athletes winning 17 NCAA event titles 6 NCAA Champion Relay Teams 31 All-American athletes earning 161 All-America honors 21 SEC Champion athletes winning 39 SEC event titles 34 All-SEC athletes earning 120 All-SEC honors  

Yush during his tenure at LSU was Samia Stokes, who became the first Lady Tiger in 16 years to win the SEC Outdoor title in the womens discus in 2010 with a winning throw of 168-5 at the conference meet. Strokes raised her PR of 181-0 to rank No. 2 in school history and went out as the SEC Bronze Medalist in 2012. Michael Lauro wrapped up an All-American career with the Tigers in 2012 after claiming five All-America honors in his four seasons at LSU. Lauro saved his best for last at the NCAA Championships while earning career-best finishes of eighth place in the weight throw indoors and fourth place in the hammer throw outdoors at the national meets as a senior in 2012. The LSU throws group enjoyed its most successful season at the SEC Championship with Yushs guidance in 2012 as his athletes scored a total of 82 points in conference action. Yush was also honored following the 2012 season as he had the privilege of serving as the mens throws coach for Team USA at the North American, Central American & Caribbean Under-23 Championships held in Guanajuato, Mexico. The 2011 campaign witnessed the end of an era as Tiger great Walter Henning wrapped up an outstanding collegiate career as arguably the premier thrower in program history. Henning put an exclamation point onto the end of an undefeated 2011 indoor season with a national championship in the 35-pound weight throw while defending his title at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships. Henning posted a series-best mark of 72-8 ½ to take the national title by nearly three feet. The Kings Park, New York, native then took home a bronze medal in the hammer throw during his last event as an LSU Tiger at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships. In arguably the most prolific career by a thrower in the programs history, Henning won a total of three NCAA championships in his three seasons in Baton Rouge. That dominance was also felt by his rivals in the Southeastern Conference with his sweep of SEC championships in the weight throw indoors and hammer throw outdoors in consecutive seasons from 2009-11. Henning, a seven-time All-American and two-time Bowerman Award candidate during his collegiate career, became the first LSU Tiger in program history to capture NCAA titles in the weight throw indoors and hammer throw outdoors with his championship sweep in 2010. After taking the weight throw crown at the 2010 NCAA Indoor Championships, Henning completed the sweep with a dramatic come-from-behind victory in the hammer throw at the NCAA Outdoor Championships to wrap up his junior season. While Henning trailed Virginia Techs Alexander Ziegler with a top mark of 235-6 through five rounds, he took the crown on his sixth and final throw of the competition after posting a mark of 238-10 on his last attempt to wrap up the title more than one foot ahead of Zieglers 237-7 effort. Henning shattered his own school records during his junior season in posting his personal records of 78-1 in the weight throw and 239-5 in the hammer throw during the campaign. With an effort of 78-1 in winning the weight throw at the 2010 SEC Indoor Championships, he established a new meet record while shattering the previous mark of 76-5 by Auburns Cory Martin in 2007. Not only did Henning add the title of national champion to his resume under Yushs guidance, but he was also crowned World Junior Champion in the summer of 2008 with his gold-medal-winning performance in the 6-kg. hammer throw at the IAAF World Junior Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland, after transferring to LSU from the University of North Carolina. His throw of 252-4 at the IAAF World Junior Championships was an American junior record in the event. While Yush has now guided his athletes to 19 All-America honors in his stint as LSUs throws coach, former Tiger javelin thrower Preston Chatham was the first to reach that status with his first career All-America honor during the 2008 outdoor season. Chatham earned a fourth place in the javelin at the NCAA Outdoor Championships while posting a PR of 234-7. Since Yush joined the LSU coaching staff in 2008, the Lady Tigers have now taken home six SEC championships and one NCAA championship as they continue to add to trophy case as the premier womens program in collegiate track and field. In fact, the Tigers and Lady Tigers have now combined for 20 top-five finishes at the NCAA Championships between the indoor and outdoor seasons since Yushs arrival. Yush came to LSU in 2007 after spending eight seasons at the University of Rhode Island, where he coached the mens throws, jumps and multi-events while also acting as an assistant with the cross country team. Rhode Island enjoyed tremendous success under Yushs guidance as he helped lead the squad to 11 Atlantic-10 Conference titles from 2001-07, including five indoor and six outdoor crowns during his tenure. In addition to his experience at Rhode Island, Yush brings head coaching experience to the position as he served as the head mens and womens coach at Eastern Connecticut State University from 1998-99. He actually got his start in the coaching profession at ECSU as he was named the assistant sprints, jumps and throws coach in 1997. The Enfield, Connecticut, native also served two seasons as an administrative assistant at the University of Connecticut where he served as a team captain and helped lead the Huskies to Big East and New England as a senior. He was a consistent scorer at the Big East Championships and was an Intercollegiate Association of Amateur Athletes of America performer. Yush has earned a USA Track and Field Level II Coaching Certificate as he is fully certified to coach sprints, hurdles, relays, jumps, throws and multi-events. He is also a certified strength and conditioning specialist after joining the National Strength and Conditioning Association in 1997. He earned a bachelors degree in dietetics from Connecticut in May 1997. 2007-Present Assistant Coach 1999-2007 Assistant Coach 1998-99 Head Coach 1997-98 Assistant Coach 2010 USTFCCCA Mens South Central Region Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year 1 NCAA Champion winning 3 NCAA Championships 7 All-American athletes earning 19 All-America honors 6 SEC Champion athletes winning 13 SEC Championships 11 All-SEC athletes earning 24 All-SEC honors 7 LSU School Records 2 SEC Championship Meet Records Served as the mens throws coach for Team USA at the 2012 North American, Central American & Caribbean Under-23 Championships in Guanajuato, Mexico.  

Brazell was himself part of five NCAA Champion relay teams during his collegiate career with the Tigers from 2002-05, and he has helped add to that proud tradition by coaching the Tigers to NCAA titles in the 4x400-meter relay during the 2014 indoor season and 2015 outdoor season since his return. After nearly setting the indoor school record with a seasonal-best run of 3 minutes, 4.04 seconds in an All-SEC third-place finish at the 2014 SEC Indoor Championships, the Tigers were crowned national champions that season with their winning 3:04.54 in the national final to take the title ahead of Florida and Texas A&M at the NCAA Championships. NCAA Indoor Champions , and all returned for a title-winning performance during the 2015 outdoor season as they teamed with to claim last years NCAA Outdoor crown in 3:01.96 to again strike gold ahead of the Gators. Norwood was crowned the NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Champion in the 400-meter dash to highlight a historic senior season in 2015. In his final season, Norwood became just the 14 sprinter in collegiate history to sweep NCAA Indoor and NCAA Outdoor titles in the 400 meters (or 440 yards) in the same season while also anchoring the Tigers to the outdoor crown in the mile relay. Norwood was certainly one of the most prolific sprinters in school history as he won four NCAA titles, eight All-America honors and nine All-SEC awards in just two seasons at LSU. While emerging as one of the worlds top 400-meter sprinters after running a lifetime best of 44.44 at the LSU Alumni Gold last spring, Norwood followed the collegiate season by representing the United States at the IAAF World Championships in Beijing where he was crowned a World Champion as part of Team USAs 4x400-meter relay team in his championship debut. Brazell was one of the worlds leading 400-meter hurdlers throughout his own athletic career as an LSU Tiger, and he helped coach Downing to a pair of All-America honors in the event during his career in Baton Rouge. After finishing his junior season in 2014 as the NCAA Outdoor Bronze Medalist, Downing went out as an All-American in the 400 hurdles once again by finishing fourth nationally to cap his senior season in which he set a personal best of 49.63 in the event. LSUs senior-laden sprint squad a season ago also featured , who wrapped up his collegiate career in 2015 with three more All-America honors while reclaiming the SEC Indoor title in the 200-meter dash he first won as a sophomore in 2013. One of the most decorated LSU sprinters in recent memory, Ernest went out as an 11-time All-American and three-time SEC Champion from 2012-15. While Ernest placed fifth nationally in his return appearance to the NCAA Outdoor final in the 200 meters, Tiger sophomore emerged as one of the NCAAs stars of the future by placing fourth in the event with a career-best wind-aided run of 20.04 to claim his first career All-America honor in the event. Acy, the 2015 SEC Outdoor Bronze Medalist, also raced to a wind-legal best of 20.17 during the national semifinals en route to his first career NCAA finals appearance. also earned All-America honors for the first time in his collegiate career last spring when he crossed the finish line in fourth place in the national final of the 110-meter hurdles while running a career-best wind-aided time of 13.34 in his final race as an LSU Tiger. Thompson, Norwood, Acy and Ernest all teamed together to turn in another All-American performance for the Tigers in the 4x100-meter relay to close out the 2015 season as they followed their All-SEC second-place finish at the SEC Championships with a bronze-medal-winning third-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships while clocking a seasonal best of 38.62 in the final. Their performance was instrumental in the Tigers taking home a fourth-place team trophy at the NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships for the second-straight season as the team scored 45 points in two days of competition at Oregons Hayward Field to wrap up the 2015 season. In Brazells first season in 2012, the Tigers followed a fifth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships with an impressive second-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships as they were just two points shy of winning a national championship in his inaugural campaign. They followed in 2013 with another top-10 team finish nationally by taking seventh place at the NCAA Outdoor meet. Their 2012 season was highlighted by claiming their eighth national championship all-time in the 4x100-meter relay. While running with a team of Barrett Nugent, , Keyth Talley and Shermund Allsop, the Tigers matched the seventh-fastest relay performance in collegiate history with a winning run of 38.38 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Nugent wrapped up his collegiate career in 2012 as the most decorated hurdler in the history of the LSU mens program with a pair of NCAA titles and four SEC titles to go along with 10 All-America honors in his four seasons in Baton Rouge. After breaking his own indoor school record in the 60 hurdles with a run of 7.55 to claim the NCAA Indoor bronze medal, Nugent captured his third-straight SEC crown in the 110 hurdles and ended his career with All-America honors during the outdoor season. Nugent owns the distinction of being the only LSU Tiger to win three-straight SEC Outdoor titles in the 110-meter hurdles in the history of the SEC Outdoor Championships. The 2012 season also saw former Tigers Ade Alleyne-Forte (Trinidad & Tobago) and Riker Hylton (Jamaica) make their Olympics debut in London while running the mile relay for their countries. Alleyne-Forte certainly made the most of his first Olympic Games as he led Trinidad & Tobago to a bronze medal in the relay as a third leg on the team that set a national record of 2:59.40 in the Olympic final. A member of the program from 2002-05, Brazell helped the Tigers claim five NCAA relay titles while earning 14 All-America honors as one of the NCAAs leading 400-meter hurdlers during his four seasons in Baton Rouge. By earning 14 All-America accolades for his career, Brazell is the No. 2-ranked Tiger all-time behind only the 19 All-America honors won by from 2003-06. Brazell actually owns the unique distinction of being the universitys first student-athlete to win national championships with two different sports teams during his LSU career. In four seasons as a member of national championship football and track programs at LSU, Brazell became one of the schools most recognizable two-sport stars during his career that featured national titles in track and field outdoors in 2002 and indoors in 2004 and on the football field in 2003. Brazell even represented the United States on an international stage during his junior season at LSU as he advanced to the Olympic final in the 400-meter hurdles at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. In his Olympics debut, he finished in eighth place in the final at the centennial games. A product of Westbury High School in Houston, Brazell made an immediate impact on the LSU Track & Field program as the nations No. 1-ranked high school prospect in the 400-meter hurdles. During his freshman season, Brazell scored eight points as the NCAA Outdoor runner-up in the 400-meter hurdles while breaking the school record in the event with a time of 48.80. He also anchored LSU to a national title in the 4x100-meter relay that ran the fourth-fastest time in NCAA history at 38.32, while also running the third leg on the Tigers bronze-medal winning 4x400-meter relay team. Brazells 14 points helped led LSU to a national championship in its own backyard with the 2002 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships being held at the Bernie Moore Track Stadium. Brazell helped guide LSU to a second NCAA team title at the onset of his junior season in 2004 with their victory at the NCAA Indoor Championships. With the Lady Tigers also winning the team championship, LSU made history as the first program to sweep both the mens and womens team titles at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships. Brazell certainly went out with a bang as a senior in 2005 at the NCAA Championships as he enjoyed performances in both the 400 hurdles and 4x400 relay that eclipsed previous collegiate records. In the most exciting NCAA final in the 400-meter hurdles in NCAA Championships history, Brazell and Floridas Kerron Clement each shattered the collegiate record as Clement struck gold in 47.56 and Brazell took home the silver in 47.67, a time that remains LSUs school record in the event. While Brazell came up just short of owning the collegiate record in the 400-meter hurdles with his second place to Clement in the national final, he would not be denied in the final of the 4x400-meter relay. Thats where he ran a 44.8-second split on the third leg to set the collegiate record at 2:59.59 with Reggie Dardar (46.4), (44.4) and Xavier Carter (44.0) in winning the NCAA crown. The Houston native also enjoyed a successful career on the football field while appearing in 43 contests in his four seasons as a wide receiver and special teams standout. Brazell appeared in 11 games for the Tigers during their national championship season in 2003, including the 2004 Sugar Bowl. Brazell concluded his football career at LSU with 17 catches for 341 yards and three touchdowns before being picked in the seventh round of the 2006 NFL Draft as the 231 overall pick by the Cincinnati Bengals. 2004 Olympian 5-time NCAA Champion 14-time NCAA All-American Collegiate Record Holder (4x400 Relay) LSU School Record Holder (400 Hurdles, 4x400 Relay) 231 overall pick (7 Round) of the 2006 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals Member of LSUs 2002 NCAA Outdoor and 2004 NCAA Indoor championship teams on the track. Member of LSUs 2003 national championship team on the football field.   2 Olympians 1 Olympic Medalist 1 World Champion 2 World Junior Championships Medalists 9 NCAA Champion athletes winning 5 NCAA event title 8 SEC Champion athletes winning 5 SEC event titles 15 All-American athletes winning 56 All-America honors 18 All-SEC athletes winning 48 All-SEC honors  

Robinson boasts a distinguished pedigree as one of the all-time great middle distance runners in the history of USA Track & Field as a two-time Olympian and eight-time U.S. Champion in the 800-meter run before joining the coaching ranks with stints as a head cross country coach and assistant track and field coach at UNLV in 2012 and Ohio State in 2013. LSU has always been one of the premier programs in the nation, both on the mens and womens sides. Having the opportunity to work with Coach Shaver and his staff is exciting for me because I know it will help me develop into a better coach and learn what it takes to be a part of a championship program, Robinson said. We all strive to reach our full potential, no matter your profession. Being a part of the LSU tradition has given me the opportunity to work harder and pursue my full potential while working with coaches and athletes whove been at this level for a very long time. Its hard for a program to do what LSU has done on both the mens and womens sides for so long, so to help build on that tradition is a great opportunity for me as a coach. Shaver believes Robinson has the required talent and experience to lead one of the nations premier middle distance groups in Baton Rouge. is the perfect fit for our program here at LSU. Were very excited that he is leading an event area thats really been instrumental in our pursuit of SEC and NCAA championships over the years, Shaver said. Khadevis is a rising star in our (coaching) ranks. Its special any time you can have someone with his experience and pedigree into your program. Hes a world-class athlete in his own right, which gives him immediate credibility to the athletes he recruits and trains here in Baton Rouge. The Tigers and Lady Tigers have shown tremendous progress in just two seasons under Robinsons leadership, but perhaps none moreso than LSUs emerging All-American candidate as she returns as one of the NCAAs leading 800-meter runners from the 2015 season. Schuetz enjoyed a breakout sophomore season a year ago as an NCAA Championship semifinalist during both the indoor and outdoor seasons while earning All-SEC honors for the first time in her collegiate career. She slashed nearly four seconds off of her lifetime personal best over the course of the 2015 season while finishing with top times of 2 minutes, 4.53 seconds to rank sixth indoors and 2:03.12 to rank eighth outdoors on LSUs all-time performance list. Schuetz actually clocked her indoor PR of 2:04.53 in the national semifinals at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships a year ago to highlight a campaign in which she picked up her first All-SEC honor as the anchor leg of LSUs silver-medal-winning distance medley relay team during the SEC Indoor Championships. She anchored the squad that also featured , and as the SEC Indoor Silver Medalists for 2015. But it was her sophomore season outdoors when Schuetz truly staked her claim among the elite 800-meter runners in collegiate track and field. After racing to a lifetime best of 2:03.12 in her regular-season finale at the LSU Invitational, Schuetz bagged the bronze medal with her All-SEC third-place finish at the SEC Outdoor Championships before making a run to the NCAA semifinals. Schuetz has prepped for the 2016 track and field season with a decorated cross country season in which she earned all-region honors for the first time in her career with a 12-place individual finish at the NCAA South Central Regional during the 2015 fall semester. Schuetz wasnt LSUs only athlete to receive recognition with an outstanding season on the cross country course when Class of 2015 recruit became the first LSU cross country runner on either team to earn a major postseason award from the Southeastern Conference when he was honored as the SEC Mens Freshman Runner of the Year following his rookie season. The 2015 track and field season also saw become the fifth LSU Tiger in history to be crowned the SEC Outdoor Champion in the 800 meters with his improbably victory in the SEC final. After clocking a best of 1:47.33 during the regular season, Parker dropped his personal best by more than one full second as he crossed the finish line in 1:46.17 to strike gold as the SECs 800-meter champion in his senior season. That performance made Parker the third-fastest half-miler in the schools history and earned him a place in the NCAA Championships for the first time in his career. Sophomore also cracked LSUs all-time Top 10 performance list a year ago when he posted a lifetime best of 1:47.03 to rank seventh in school history in the event. The Lake Charles native also made a return trip to the NCAA Championships by advancing to the quarterfinal round at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds in Jacksonville, Florida. Schuetz and Henderson both made their NCAA Championship debuts during the outdoor season in 2014 in Robinsons first season coaching the group. Former Lady Tiger runner also lined up at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds in the 1,500 meters that season. In his one season at Ohio State, Robinson coached sophomore Katie Borchers to All-America honors in the 800 meters by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association while setting school records with PRs of 2:06.95 indoors and 2:05.56 outdoors to earn a spot in the national semifinals at the 2013 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track & Field Championships. He also coached a young Buckeye squad to great success during the 2012 cross country season as Ohio State claimed a pair of sixth-place team finishes at the Big Ten Championships and the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. That included junior Meredith Wagner and sophomore Michelle Thomas earning all-region honors and Wagner adding a Second-Team All-Big Ten selection for her performance. The Ohio State womens cross country team earned a 2012 NCAA Division I All-Academic Team honor by the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association with a cumulative team grade-point average of 3.31 through the 2012 fall semester. Prior to joining the Buckeye staff, Robinson guided the UNLV Runnin Rebels to a successful 2012 campaign in which standout Kelsey Williams swept Mountain West Conference championships in the womens 800 meters during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Brett Zorich, the 2012 Mountain West Indoor bronze medalist, also qualified for the 800-meter semifinals at the NCAA Outdoor Championships while earning a 13-place finish nationally with a personal record of 2:04.54 in the event. UNLVs relay teams were also impressive under Robinsons direction as the Rebels earned All-Mountain West honors with a silver-medal-winning second-place finish in the womens distance medley relay (11:52.41) at the 2012 MWC Indoor Championships and won the 4x800-meter relay (8:39.22) at the 85 Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays during the 2012 outdoor season. A native of Fort Worth, Texas, and 1998 graduate of TCU, Robinson was crowned the NCAA Outdoor Champion in the mens 800 meters during his senior season with the Horned Frogs in 1998. He would go on to a distinguished professional career as one of the worlds premier 800-meter runners in which he represented the United States at the Olympic Games in Athens in 2004 and London in 2012. Robinson also earned his spot on Team USA at the IAAF World Championships a total of seven times while setting a lifetime personal best of 1:43.68 in his specialty event. Robinson is one of the most accomplished middle distance runners in USA Track & Field history while winning four U.S. Indoor titles in 1999, 2005, 2006 and 2007 and four U.S. Outdoor titles in 1999, 2006, 2008 and 2009. He is also a six-time silver medalist in the 800 meters at the USA Outdoor Championships, including a pair of runner-up finishes at the U.S. Olympic Track & Field Trials in 2004 and 2012. He has also helped foster the careers of some of USA Track & Fields rising stars while coaching the likes of 2012 U.S. Olympian Duane Solomon early in his professional career. Robinson graduated from TCU in 1998 with an undergraduate degree in social work before earning his masters degree in public administration from Cal State Los Angeles in 2004. Robinson has spent the past decade training and competing as one of the worlds top runners while coaching athletes from all age groups. Hes also served as a public speaker and as an educator in the Santa Monica Unified School District. He also co-founded a 501c3 called The Youth Track & Running Club of which he remains an active board member. 2-time U.S. Olympian (2004, 2012) 7-time IAAF World Championships Qualifier 4-time USA Indoor Champion (800 Meters) 4-time USA Outdoor Champion (800 Meters) 2-time U.S. Olympic Trials Silver Medalist (800 Meters) 1998 NCAA Outdoor Champion (800 Meters) 4-time NCAA All-American   1 SEC Champion 6 All-SEC Athletes earning 6 All-SEC honors 14 NCAA Championships Qualifiers 2 Mountain West Conference Champions 2 Ohio State School Records