Texas A&M University-Kingsville Men's Track

Dall enters his seventh year as the Texas A&M-Kingsville head Track & Field and Cross Country coach.  Dall led the men's track and field team to a 2016 Lone Star Conference Championship and won his third LSC Men's Track & Field Coach of the Year award since joining the Blue and Gold.  In 2016, Dall had total of 14 student-athletes named to the LSC All-Conference Team for men and women and coached Lutalo Boyce to an Outstanding Male Field Athlete award. On the national level, Dall had 12 All-American athletes. Jordan Yamoah claimed his second Outdoor National Championship in the Men's Pole Vault, while Britteny Holcombe, Kaina Martinez, Teandria Taylor and Plaserae Johnson became the first Outdoor National Champions in the Women's 4x100-meter Relay.  Dall was named the LSC Mens Track & Field Coach of the Year for the 2010 and 2011 after leading the men to a third place finish at the conference championships hosted by Tarleton State. The team was ranked in the top 25 for the entire season and reached a high of #10 on two occasions. At the national meet, the team picked up 13 points to finish in 21st. Jonathan Woodson was a three-time All-America during the season earning one indoors and two outdoors. Dall had six men earned all-conference honors and seven earn all-region honors during the outdoor season. Kiya Dandena broke his own records in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000 meters while Woodson set the school record in the indoor 200 meters. The womens program is also improving under Dall, but at a slower pace than the mens. However, Samantha Alvarez who finished as the national runner-up in the high jump turned in the highlight of the entire 2011 season. Her performance gave the Javelinas a tie for the most points at the national meet by any LSC program. Dall had a pair of student-athletes earned Academic All-District and LSC All-Academic Team honors. After a year to recruit, Dalls team showed dramatic improvement in 2010 and he was rewarded by being named the LSC Mens Track & Field Coach of the Year. The mens team was ranked in the top 25 for most of the season and reached #15 heading into the National Championships. They had five athletes earn All-America recognition during the outdoor season and one during the indoor season. The men and women each finished in fourth place at the LSC Championships hosted by Angelo State in 2010. Dall had three individuals win conference titles and five named to the all-conference squad. Two other individuals took LSC All-Academic honors. During the indoor season Dandena set school records in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters while C.J. Griggs set the school record in the triple jump. In Dalls first year in charge of the program it was a trial by fire. He was not hired until right before the start of the cross country season so he did not have a chance to recruit. Furthermore, he was charged with hosting the Lone Star Conference Championship meets for cross country and track. In his first year at the helm, Dall had a number of athletes set personal records. Distance runner Erica Alvarado set the school record in the indoor 5,000 meters. He had two individuals earn all-conference honors. Dall, a 1999 University of Miami graduate, has extensive experience on the NCAA Division I level serving as an assistant coach at Duke for five years and at Florida International University for four years. Prior to his coaching career, he was the 1995 Big East Conference indoor and outdoor pole vault champion and finished in fourth place in the 1999 Big East decathlon. At Duke, Dall was responsible for the coaching and recruiting of male and female sprinters, hurdlers, pole vaulters and multi-event athletes. He was charged with the set-up of the Asics Duke Invitational Track and Field Meet, a 70-plus school invitational. He coached his athletes to 14 school records, six All-ACC awards, three IC4A champions, 17 All-IC4A awards, one ECAC champion and nine All-ECAC awards. He was the director of the Duke Pole Vault Camp. In his time at FIU, Dall coached and recruited pole vaulters, hurdlers, throwers, high jumpers and multi-event athletes. He worked with two All-Americans in the high jump and javelin, an NCAA Championship qualifier in the 60-meter hurdles, four conference champions and over 20 all-conference performers. He also worked with the cross country team. Dall is a member of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the National Pole Vault Coaches Association and the IC4A Coaches Association. He is Level Two USATF certified in sprints and hurdles. Ryan Dall Head Track and Field/Cross Country Coach Phone : Ryan Dall enters his seventh year as the Texas A&M-Kingsville head Track & Field and Cross Country coach.  Dall led the men's track and field team to a 2016 Lone Star Conference Championship and won his third LSC Men's Track & Field Coach of the Year award since joining the Blue and Gold.  In 2016, Dall had total of 14 student-athletes named to the LSC All-Conference Team for men and women and coached Lutalo Boyce to an Outstanding Male Field Athlete award. On the national level, Dall had 12 All-American athletes. Jordan Yamoah claimed his second Outdoor National Championship in the Men's Pole Vault, while Britteny Holcombe, Kaina Martinez, Teandria Taylor and Plaserae Johnson became the first Outdoor National Champions in the Women's 4x100-meter Relay.  Dall was named the LSC Mens Track & Field Coach of the Year for the 2010 and 2011 after leading the men to a third place finish at the conference championships hosted by Tarleton State. The team was ranked in the top 25 for the entire season and reached a high of #10 on two occasions. At the national meet, the team picked up 13 points to finish in 21st. Jonathan Woodson was a three-time All-America during the season earning one indoors and two outdoors. Dall had six men earned all-conference honors and seven earn all-region honors during the outdoor season. Kiya Dandena broke his own records in the indoor 3,000 and 5,000 meters while Woodson set the school record in the indoor 200 meters. The womens program is also improving under Dall, but at a slower pace than the mens. However, Samantha Alvarez who finished as the national runner-up in the high jump turned in the highlight of the entire 2011 season. Her performance gave the Javelinas a tie for the most points at the national meet by any LSC program. Dall had a pair of student-athletes earned Academic All-District and LSC All-Academic Team honors. After a year to recruit, Dalls team showed dramatic improvement in 2010 and he was rewarded by being named the LSC Mens Track & Field Coach of the Year. The mens team was ranked in the top 25 for most of the season and reached #15 heading into the National Championships. They had five athletes earn All-America recognition during the outdoor season and one during the indoor season. The men and women each finished in fourth place at the LSC Championships hosted by Angelo State in 2010. Dall had three individuals win conference titles and five named to the all-conference squad. Two other individuals took LSC All-Academic honors. During the indoor season Dandena set school records in the 3,000 and 5,000 meters while C.J. Griggs set the school record in the triple jump. In Dalls first year in charge of the program it was a trial by fire. He was not hired until right before the start of the cross country season so he did not have a chance to recruit. Furthermore, he was charged with hosting the Lone Star Conference Championship meets for cross country and track. In his first year at the helm, Dall had a number of athletes set personal records. Distance runner Erica Alvarado set the school record in the indoor 5,000 meters. He had two individuals earn all-conference honors. Dall, a 1999 University of Miami graduate, has extensive experience on the NCAA Division I level serving as an assistant coach at Duke for five years and at Florida International University for four years. Prior to his coaching career, he was the 1995 Big East Conference indoor and outdoor pole vault champion and finished in fourth place in the 1999 Big East decathlon. At Duke, Dall was responsible for the coaching and recruiting of male and female sprinters, hurdlers, pole vaulters and multi-event athletes. He was charged with the set-up of the Asics Duke Invitational Track and Field Meet, a 70-plus school invitational. He coached his athletes to 14 school records, six All-ACC awards, three IC4A champions, 17 All-IC4A awards, one ECAC champion and nine All-ECAC awards. He was the director of the Duke Pole Vault Camp. In his time at FIU, Dall coached and recruited pole vaulters, hurdlers, throwers, high jumpers and multi-event athletes. He worked with two All-Americans in the high jump and javelin, an NCAA Championship qualifier in the 60-meter hurdles, four conference champions and over 20 all-conference performers. He also worked with the cross country team. Dall is a member of the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association, the National Pole Vault Coaches Association and the IC4A Coaches Association. He is Level Two USATF certified in sprints and hurdles.

Haven enters her first season as a graduate assistant coach with the Texas A&M-Kingsville track and field teams. A former competitor for the Javleinas, she will work primarily with the jumpers. Haven competed for the Blue and Gold from 2012-14. She was an NCAA Division II All-American in the high jump in 2013 when she finished fifth with a clearance of 5-8.75 (1.75m). In her senior season, she placed 10th at the Division II outdoor championships. Both years Haven was named to the all-region track and field team. On the hardwood, she played a season for the TAMUK womens basketball team during the 2011-12 seasons. Haven helped lead the Blue and Gold to a 9-17 record and was the teams leading scorer at 11.8 ppg.   Prior to coming to Kingsville, she attended Valdosta State for three years and was a member of the womens basketball team. The Blazers made two NCAA Tournament appearances during her time. Haven was a two-year starter during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 seasons. In 2011, she was the recipient of the Student Athlete Community Service Award.   Haven attended Calallen High School in Corpus Christi, Texas. She lettered four years in basketball, track & field and volleyball. Every year she qualified for the 4A state meet in the high jump and was named to the All-South Texas team in vertical jumps. Her junior year saw her reach the state meet in the long jump and be selected to the All-South Texas team for horizontal jumps as well.   In basketball, she received the District 31-4A MVP as a senior and sophomore, Offensive MVP as a junior and Newcomer of the Year her freshman season. The Caller Times named her to their High School Girls Fab Five in 2007. Haven, a two-time team captain, was also picked to the TGCA All-State team as a senior.   She was named to the All-District 31-4A first team in volleyball as a freshman and junior. Her sophomore season saw her named to the all-metro and All-South Texas first teams. At the conclusion of the McDonalds Spikefest, Haven was selected as the MVP.   Haven graduated with her bachelors degree in education from Texas A&M-Kingsville in 2014.

Ryan Petrocchi was named Assistant Coach for the Javelina track and field program in December, 2019. Petrocchi comes to Kingsville after spending the last six seasons at Birmingham-Southern College as an assistant coach. While at BSC, he had four All-America citations handed out over the final three years along with seven national qualifiers, 31 All-Southern Athletic Association honorees, and helped lead the men’s program to its first-ever SAA Championship in 2016 before repeating the feat at the 2017 SAA Championships. Petrocchi’s final three years for the Panthers included two First Team All-America accolades doled out to Luke Ballard in the javelin in 2018 and 2019, while Kameren Morgan was named All-American in the hammer throw in 2017 and the weight throw in 2019. Luke Ballard finished third in the javelin at the 2019 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championships with a toss of 62.36m (204-7), one year after finishing eighth at the 2018 championships with a throw of 62.35m (204-7). Morgan, meanwhile, took fourth in the weight throw at the 2019 indoor championships with a mark of 19.87m (65-2.25) and finished third at the 2017 outdoor championships in the hammer throw with a final attempt of 58.04m (190-5). In total, Morgan qualified for the NCAA Championships thrice in the hammer throw and once in the weight throw, while Luke Ballard qualified twice for the javelin and Hank Ballard made the final site once in the javelin. While at BSC, Petrocchi had 12 SAA individual champions between 2014 and 2019, including four hammer throw titles from Morgan, two javelin trophies from Luke Ballard, three shot put championships and one hammer throw title from Michael Snow, one hammer throw gold medal from Earen Robinson and one javelin crown from Hank Ballard. Both Snow and Hank Ballard were SAA Field Athletes of the Year in 2014 and 2015, respectively, while Morgan and Luke Ballard were both USTFCCCA Southeast Region Field Athletes of the Year in 2019. Petrocchi’s time at BSC included 13 USTFCCCA All-Region honorees with Morgan gathering six of them between the weight throw and hammer throw. Luke Ballard was a two-time All-Region member in the javelin, matched by two accolades from CJ Lecroy in the same event, while Snow grabbed two shot put All-Region accolades along with one from Robinson in the weight throw. Among his list of standout throwers, two of them currently own program records for BSC as Robinson is the women’s record holder in two indoor categories, shot put and weight throw, along with three in the outdoor season, shot put, discus throw and hammer throw. Meanwhile, Morgan currently stands as the men’s record holder in the weight throw and hammer throw. In total, seven women and eight men are on the top five list for indoor events for the Panthers’ record book, while 16 women and 13 men have landed in the top five for the outdoor records. Prior to his career on the coaching side of athletics, Petrocchi was a five-year member of the Nebraska track and field program under the late Mark Colligan. He was the men’s most improved athlete in 2008, was part of the team that claimed the 2009 and 2010 Big XII Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and made the NCAA Division I East Regional in the javelin in the same years. A five-time member of the Big XII Commissioner’s Honor Roll, Petrocchi was a Second Team Academic All-Big XII in 2007 and made the Academic All-Big XII first team in 2010. A native of Ralston, Neb., Petrocchi graduated with a degree in nutrition, exercise, and health science from Nebraska in 2010.

Brock enters his sixth year on the athletic administrative staff at Texas A&M University-Kingsville. He also served as an assistant track and field coach for the Javelinas for two campaigns. A lifelong Texas track and field coach, Brock has dedicated 35 years to coaching at the high school level. He has been a Special Olympics Athletics coach for 16 years. He assisted in the founding of the Karnes County Texas Special Olympics athletic teams. Brock was the athletic director and coached football, basketball and track and field for 27 years at Falls City High School. He also coached at Runge High School, Medina High School and H.M. King High School in Kingsville. Brock's track & field teams have won 2 U.I.L. state championships, three state runner-up titles, six regional track championships and 33 district titles. He finished his basketball coaching career with over 400 victories. Brock is a member of the Texas High School Coaches Association and U.S.A. Track and Field. He is married to Janis Wilson Brock. They have two sons, Cory David of Conroe, Texas and Kirby David of Kingsville, along with four grandchildren. He served active duty in the United State Air Force and Texas Air National Guard. Brock holds a Masters Degree from Texas A&I University.