Texas Tech University Men's Track

Thomas has coached great athletes and had success doing so in different parts of the country at the Division-1 level. During his tenure at Tech, Thomas' athletes have claimed 99 new entries into the Texas Tech All-Time performance list, including 32 during the 2016 season. Two of Thomas' student-athletes competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials, both in the men's high jump. Bradley Adkins finished third at the meet and will represent Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Trey Culver placed eighth at Trials, then followed it up with a silver medal performance while representing the U.S. at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U-23 Games. Earlier in the summer, Charles Brown won the U.S. Junior National Championship in the triple jump after leaping to a personal-best 16.35m/53-7.75 to qualify for the IAAF World U-20 Championships. Brown would place 10th at World's in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and was also joined by Kaylee Hinton (heptathlon) and Vincent Crisp (800 meters) at the meet.   Thomas event group enjoyed a wealth of success in 2016. Trey Culver won the programs second-straight NCAA Indoor mens high jump title and third-straight among NCAA Championship meets (indoor-outdoor-indoor). Culvers win made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015).   It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, joining Bradley Adkins as three of the four earned by Texas Tech in 2016. Thomas student-athletes put up big numbers at the conference meets this season, as the womens group accounted for 62 of Techs womens team points at the indoor meet, en route to two Big 12 indoor titles. Texas Tech became the first school in Big 12 history to finish 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, at the conference championship and Viershanie Latham won the programs first indoor womens triple jump title. His group also won three outdoor conference titles, while four of his mens student-athletes combined to score 46 team points. Trey Culver & Bradley Adkins went 1-2 in the high jump, marking the third-straight year Tech teammates had swept the top spots, all three with different winners. Natalie Thompson & Kaylee Hinton also placed 1-2 in the heptathlon, which made it back-to-back titles for Thompson in the event. Charles Brown rounded out the championship winners, bringing him Techs third outdoor long jump crown in four years and became the first freshman to do so since 2010. Coach Thomas was named Womens Assistant of the Year for the indoor season, his fifth USTFCCCA regional award while at Tech.   2015 was an historic year for Coach Thomas' team. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only claimed first and second in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA.   Thomas' student-athletes represented five of Texas Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned in 2015. Along with Duffield and Adkins, Shanice Stewart earned indoor honors in the women's long jump. Duffield's Big 12 indoor and outdoor high jump titles helped the men's team earned runner-up finishes at both meets, which was the highest overall finish at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in school history. Natalie Thompson also took home the women's heptathlon crown at the outdoor meet as the Tech women finished third overall. Coach Thomas swept the Men's & Women's Assistant of the Year titles, his third and fourth USTFCCCA regional awards while at Tech.   When the Texas Tech men took home the 2014 Big 12 Outdoor Championship in front of the home crowd at the Terry & Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex, Coach Thomas' athletes contributed 80.5 points--just over half of the program-record 160.5 points--to the championship performance. Tech became the first Big 12 team to win a conference title at home since Colorado, in 2008. Coach Thomas' athletes delivered the first-ever Tech 1-2 sweep in the Big 12 men's long jump, and the first 1-2-3 sweep in the men's high jump in the history of the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, to help push the Red Raiders over the top.   In the 2015 indoor season, Thomas was responsible for five All-American performances, most notably the high jump, where Red Raiders JaCorian Duffield & Bradley Adkins became the first set of teammates in 41 years to finish 1-2 in the NCAA high jump final. Those 18 points were instrumental toward Tech's program-record 31 team points and fifth-place finish. Duffield, who also took home the 2015 Indoor Big 12 title, was named the USTFCCCA Mountain Region field athlete of the year for his exploits.   Thomas is married to Ebony Thomas and they have two sons Jordan and Jameson Thomas.   Texas Tech File By the Numbers  - 3 National Champions - 1 Olympian - 26 NCAA All-Americans - 11 Individual Big-12 Conference champions - 16 School record performances - 93 All-Big 12 Performances - 5 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors - 3 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year honors - 11 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 6 National Team Members - 99 All-Time top-10 performance list additions - 5 Big-12 Athlete of the Week Recipients     Kentucky File By the Numbers (2007-2012)  - 3 SEC Champions - 14 All-SEC Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 12 All-Americans - 30 NCAA National Qualifiers - 18 School Record Performances - 74 All-time top-10 performance list additions - 16 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 1 SEC Athlete of the year award winner - 5 SEC Athlete of the Week Awards   TCU File By the Numbers (2005-2006)  - 1 Conference Champion - 6 All-Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 2 School record performances - 11 All-Top top-10 performance list additions - 1 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters   Sam Houston State File By the Numbers  - 1 NCAA Qualifier - 1 Southland Conference Champion - 7 All-Southland Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 3 School record performances - 17 All-Time top-5 performances list additions - 3 Student-Athletes 4.0 academic semesters   Education Texas A&M University- Commerce Masters of Science in Health & Human Performance (Athletic Administration)   Sam Houston State University Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology   Mayde Creek High School- Katy, TX   Coaching Education USTFCCCA Jumping Event Specialist USATF Level I Certification USATF Level II Certification- Jumps USATF Level II Certification- Sprints  

Kittley has built the Texas Tech program into a perennial power on the national stage throughout the past decade. Under his tutelage, Texas Tech has produced 10 Olympic Qualifiers, six Olympic Medalists, 20 national champions, over 200 All-Americans and 136 Big 12 Champions. At this year's U.S. Olympic Trials, Kittley's crew will be represented in nine events, with 11 individuals looking to represent the United States in Rio this summer. The group is a mix of current or recently graduated students, as well as alums and one future Red Raider. Representing Texas Tech in Eugene on July 1-10 will be: Bradley Adkins (High Jump), Hannah Carson (Javelin & Discus), Kyle Collins (400m), Trey Culver (High Jump), Norman Grimes (400H), Candace Jackson (200m), Omo Osaghae (110H), Tori Polk (Long Jump), Gil Roberts (400m), Kole Weldon (Discus) and Jason Young (Discus). For the second-straight indoor season and third consecutive NCAA Championship meet (Indoor-Outdoor-Indoor), Texas Tech captured the high jump title thanks to Trey Culver. On March 11 in Birmingham, Alabama, Culver was the only competitor in the field to clear 2.23m/7-3.75, doing so on his third attempt, to win NCAA gold. His victory made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015). It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, as he would finish fifth at the outdoor meet, while teammate Bradley Adkins placed sixth. It was also an historic season for Hannah Carson. In 2016, Carson became the first woman to ever break the 60-meter barrier in both the javelin and the discus in the same NCAA career, let alone the same season. It started on April 23 in Waco, as Carson unleashed a toss of 60.42m/198-3 in the javelin, breaking her own school record and making her the No. 3 all-time collegiate & No. 5 all-time U.S. performer in the event. Two weeks later, she heaved the discus to a school record 61.97m/203-4 at the Masked Rider Open, which helped her become the first woman to qualify for the NCAA's in both since 2012. At the NCAA Championships, she broke her own javelin record again in an intense battle for the title, tossing it over 60 meters twice, the furthest at 61.20m/200-9. The mark would give her runner-up honors for the second-straight year and would also make her the first woman to toss the javelin and discus 200 feet in the same NCAA career. She would also earn second team All-America honors in the discus at the NCAA Championships as well. Texas Tech also racked up nine Big 12 Champions in 2016. Chris Caldwell claimed both the 60 & 110-meter hurdle titles for the second-straight year, becoming the first student-athlete to ever accomplish the feat. He was also the first to win the 110H in back-to-back years since Red Raider Marlon Odom when he won titles in 2005, '06 & '07 and the first to win the 60H in consecutive years since Jermaine Cooper in 2001-02. The Red Raiders went 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, marking the first time a team has ever swept the top three spots in the event at the conference championship. Viershanie Latham rounded out the indoor titles, winning the program's first Big 12 indoor championship in the triple jump. At the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, Tech tallied six individual titles. Along with Caldwell, Natalie Thompson picked up her second-straight heptathlon crown after notching a personal-best in the event. She and teammate Kaylee Hinton finished 1-2, becoming the first teammates to do so since 2010. Trey Culver recorded the program's third-straight high jump championship and also made it three-straight years Tech teammates had placed 1-2 in the event, all with different winners over that stretch. Charles Brown picked up Tech's third long jump outdoor title in the last four years and was the first freshman champion since 2010. C.J. Jones brought the program's seventh outdoor crown in the men's 800 meters, while Benard Keter claimed Tech's first 3,000-meter steeplechase victory at the Big 12 Championship. The men's team was ranked in the top 25 of every poll during both the indoor and outdoor season, climbing as high as seventh during indoors and eighth in the outdoor campaign. It marked the third-straight year the Red Raiders have been ranked inside the top 10 of the weekly poll. Through seven weeks of competition, the Texas Tech men's team was the only team to not drop in the rankings. The women's team moved as high as No. 19 in the polls during the outdoor season. The Red Raiders & Lady Raiders have both been ranked inside the top 25 every year since the poll first began in 2008. History was made by the Red Raiders in 2015. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only went 1-2 in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA. Duffield and Adkins represented four of Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned during the indoor and outdoor meets. Cierra White (200m) and Hannah Carson (javelin) picked up outdoor first team honors, while Shanice Stewart (long jump), Chris Caldwell (60mH), Kole Weldon (shot put), the men's 4x400 relay team of Steven Champlin, Kyle Collins, Joseph Richards III and C.J. Jones, Le-Tristan Pledger (60mH) and White (200m) tallied indoor first team awards. The Red Raiders also had successful conference showings, notching eight Big 12 Champions. The men's team earned its highest overall finish in Big 12 Indoor Championship history, finishing runner-up with 95.5 points. Caldwell won the 60-meter hurdles and Duffield claimed the high jump title, while Cierra White broke a school and facility record in the women's 200-meter dash to pick the Big 12 crown. At the outdoor meet, the men's squad repeated with a second-place finish, getting individual titles from Weldon (hammer throw), Duffield (high jump), and Caldwell (100mH). Weldon was also named the high point scorer for the meet with 26 points, becoming the first male to repeat as Big 12 Outdoor high point scorer since 2009. Natalie Thompson (heptathlon) and Carson (javelin) picked up conference championships, helping the women's team to a third-place finish. The 2014 season may have been his most special in Lubbock to this point. Texas Tech capped the outdoor season by winning the men's team title at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, scoring a school-record 160.5 points in front of the home crowd at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. The Red Raiders became the first Big 12 team to clinch a track & field title on its own track since Colorado, in 2008. Tech picked up conference titles from Kennedy Kithuka (5,000m & 10,000m), Bradley Adkins (High Jump) and Shujaa Benson (Long Jump) on the outdoor side, and on the indoor side, Tech picked up a conference title from its 4 x 400m relay team of Montenae Roye-Speight, Cierra White, Christen Rivers and Amoy Blake. Bradley Adkins and JaCorian Duffield earned indoor first team All-American honors after tying for fifth in the high jump at the NCAA Championships. On the outdoor side, Kithuka wrapped up his illustrious career by snagging first team All-American honors in both the 5,000m and 10,000m. He was joined by first-teamers Hannah Carson (Javelin), Le'Tristan Pledger (100mH) and Cierra White (200m). Kittley also guided Texas Tech to a Big 12 team title at the 2005 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Red Raiders won the meet with 149.50 points. In 2013, Kittley's program produced 21 First and Second Team All-Americans between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Meanwhile, Tech crowned six individual Big 12 Champions and two national champions. Kennedy Kithuka and Bryce Lamb captured Texas Tech's first national titles in their respective events. Kithuka capped his remarkable 2013 campaign with a national championship in the indoor 3,000-meter run while Lamb brought his indoor career to a close with a national championship in the triple jump. As a team, Texas Tech finished 5th overall at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships with 28 points - the best finish in program history. Tech went on to finish third at the 2013 Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 117.5 points - the best performance at the conference meet since 2005. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Texas Tech track and field program was represented with a contingent of seven former athletes - all of whom competed at Texas Tech during Kittley's tenure. The group brought home three medals - a gold, silver and bronze. In the fall of 2012, Texas Tech produced the men's NCAA Cross Country Champion as Kennedy Kithuka went undefeated in seven meets during on his way to taking home the NCAA crown, and being named the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year. Kittley has been recognized nationally for his efforts at Texas Tech as he has twice been named the Women's Regional Coach of the Year in the last four years. Kittley most recently earned the recognition following the 2012 season after receiving the award in 2009. Kittley and his renowned coaching staff have produced 11 NCAA Champions in the last eight seasons. Kipyego made history as an athlete under Kittley and his staff. The Kenyan native broke the NCAA record with nine national titles during her career in both track and field and cross country before going on to qualify for the Kenyan Olympic team. At the 2012 London Olympics she won silver in the 10,000-meter run before nearly medaling again in the 5,000-meter run and finishing fourth. Meanwhile, thrower D'Andra Carter went on to win Tech's second national title of 2009 during the outdoor season as she became Texas Tech's first discus national champion. She was followed by Julian Wruck who won a men's discus title during the 2011 outdoor season. Texas Tech brought home a total of 32 All-America honors during the unprecedented 2010 season, 17 indoor and 15 outdoor honors being claimed by Red Raiders and Lady Raiders under Kittley's watch. Following the 2005 men's Big 12 Championship meet, Kittley led 31 of his athletes, the most of any program in the country to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kittley moved to Lubbock after leading one of the most successful programs in the history of collegiate track and field. While at Abilene Christian University, Kittley won an unprecedented 29 national track and field championships, the most in Divisions I and II combined. His total is only three short of the all-time record held by Division III Kenyon College swimming and diving coach Jim Steen. Kittley won his first national championship in 1985 when his women's Wildcat squad won the Division II outdoor championship, a title he would win again in `86, `87 and `88. When ACU combined their programs in 1993, Kittley was selected to head the men's team, as well. He wasted no time taking a floundering men's program to an elite level, winning the Division II indoor title in his first season. His 15-year tenure at ACU included coaching 10 Olympic qualifiers, three Pan-American Games athletes, five World University Games athletes, 16 athletes who have qualified for the world championships and three United States national champions. In the fall of 2006, Kittley was honored by the Lone Star Conference for his coaching efforts while at ACU as he was named to the conference's Hall of Honor. Kittley is married to the former Linda Rhoads, and the couple has three sons, Zachary, Christopher and Jonathan. 2000-present Texas Tech University Head Coach 1993-99 ACU, Men's Head Coach 1985-99 ACU, Women's Head Coach

Kittley has built the Texas Tech program into a perennial power on the national stage throughout the past decade. Under his tutelage, Texas Tech has produced 10 Olympic Qualifiers, six Olympic Medalists, 20 national champions, over 200 All-Americans and 136 Big 12 Champions. At this year's U.S. Olympic Trials, Kittley's crew will be represented in nine events, with 11 individuals looking to represent the United States in Rio this summer. The group is a mix of current or recently graduated students, as well as alums and one future Red Raider. Representing Texas Tech in Eugene on July 1-10 will be: Bradley Adkins (High Jump), Hannah Carson (Javelin & Discus), Kyle Collins (400m), Trey Culver (High Jump), Norman Grimes (400H), Candace Jackson (200m), Omo Osaghae (110H), Tori Polk (Long Jump), Gil Roberts (400m), Kole Weldon (Discus) and Jason Young (Discus). For the second-straight indoor season and third consecutive NCAA Championship meet (Indoor-Outdoor-Indoor), Texas Tech captured the high jump title thanks to Trey Culver. On March 11 in Birmingham, Alabama, Culver was the only competitor in the field to clear 2.23m/7-3.75, doing so on his third attempt, to win NCAA gold. His victory made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015). It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, as he would finish fifth at the outdoor meet, while teammate Bradley Adkins placed sixth. It was also an historic season for Hannah Carson. In 2016, Carson became the first woman to ever break the 60-meter barrier in both the javelin and the discus in the same NCAA career, let alone the same season. It started on April 23 in Waco, as Carson unleashed a toss of 60.42m/198-3 in the javelin, breaking her own school record and making her the No. 3 all-time collegiate & No. 5 all-time U.S. performer in the event. Two weeks later, she heaved the discus to a school record 61.97m/203-4 at the Masked Rider Open, which helped her become the first woman to qualify for the NCAA's in both since 2012. At the NCAA Championships, she broke her own javelin record again in an intense battle for the title, tossing it over 60 meters twice, the furthest at 61.20m/200-9. The mark would give her runner-up honors for the second-straight year and would also make her the first woman to toss the javelin and discus 200 feet in the same NCAA career. She would also earn second team All-America honors in the discus at the NCAA Championships as well. Texas Tech also racked up nine Big 12 Champions in 2016. Chris Caldwell claimed both the 60 & 110-meter hurdle titles for the second-straight year, becoming the first student-athlete to ever accomplish the feat. He was also the first to win the 110H in back-to-back years since Red Raider Marlon Odom when he won titles in 2005, '06 & '07 and the first to win the 60H in consecutive years since Jermaine Cooper in 2001-02. The Red Raiders went 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, marking the first time a team has ever swept the top three spots in the event at the conference championship. Viershanie Latham rounded out the indoor titles, winning the program's first Big 12 indoor championship in the triple jump. At the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, Tech tallied six individual titles. Along with Caldwell, Natalie Thompson picked up her second-straight heptathlon crown after notching a personal-best in the event. She and teammate Kaylee Hinton finished 1-2, becoming the first teammates to do so since 2010. Trey Culver recorded the program's third-straight high jump championship and also made it three-straight years Tech teammates had placed 1-2 in the event, all with different winners over that stretch. Charles Brown picked up Tech's third long jump outdoor title in the last four years and was the first freshman champion since 2010. C.J. Jones brought the program's seventh outdoor crown in the men's 800 meters, while Benard Keter claimed Tech's first 3,000-meter steeplechase victory at the Big 12 Championship. The men's team was ranked in the top 25 of every poll during both the indoor and outdoor season, climbing as high as seventh during indoors and eighth in the outdoor campaign. It marked the third-straight year the Red Raiders have been ranked inside the top 10 of the weekly poll. Through seven weeks of competition, the Texas Tech men's team was the only team to not drop in the rankings. The women's team moved as high as No. 19 in the polls during the outdoor season. The Red Raiders & Lady Raiders have both been ranked inside the top 25 every year since the poll first began in 2008. History was made by the Red Raiders in 2015. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only went 1-2 in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA. Duffield and Adkins represented four of Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned during the indoor and outdoor meets. Cierra White (200m) and Hannah Carson (javelin) picked up outdoor first team honors, while Shanice Stewart (long jump), Chris Caldwell (60mH), Kole Weldon (shot put), the men's 4x400 relay team of Steven Champlin, Kyle Collins, Joseph Richards III and C.J. Jones, Le-Tristan Pledger (60mH) and White (200m) tallied indoor first team awards. The Red Raiders also had successful conference showings, notching eight Big 12 Champions. The men's team earned its highest overall finish in Big 12 Indoor Championship history, finishing runner-up with 95.5 points. Caldwell won the 60-meter hurdles and Duffield claimed the high jump title, while Cierra White broke a school and facility record in the women's 200-meter dash to pick the Big 12 crown. At the outdoor meet, the men's squad repeated with a second-place finish, getting individual titles from Weldon (hammer throw), Duffield (high jump), and Caldwell (100mH). Weldon was also named the high point scorer for the meet with 26 points, becoming the first male to repeat as Big 12 Outdoor high point scorer since 2009. Natalie Thompson (heptathlon) and Carson (javelin) picked up conference championships, helping the women's team to a third-place finish. The 2014 season may have been his most special in Lubbock to this point. Texas Tech capped the outdoor season by winning the men's team title at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, scoring a school-record 160.5 points in front of the home crowd at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. The Red Raiders became the first Big 12 team to clinch a track & field title on its own track since Colorado, in 2008. Tech picked up conference titles from Kennedy Kithuka (5,000m & 10,000m), Bradley Adkins (High Jump) and Shujaa Benson (Long Jump) on the outdoor side, and on the indoor side, Tech picked up a conference title from its 4 x 400m relay team of Montenae Roye-Speight, Cierra White, Christen Rivers and Amoy Blake. Bradley Adkins and JaCorian Duffield earned indoor first team All-American honors after tying for fifth in the high jump at the NCAA Championships. On the outdoor side, Kithuka wrapped up his illustrious career by snagging first team All-American honors in both the 5,000m and 10,000m. He was joined by first-teamers Hannah Carson (Javelin), Le'Tristan Pledger (100mH) and Cierra White (200m). Kittley also guided Texas Tech to a Big 12 team title at the 2005 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Red Raiders won the meet with 149.50 points. In 2013, Kittley's program produced 21 First and Second Team All-Americans between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Meanwhile, Tech crowned six individual Big 12 Champions and two national champions. Kennedy Kithuka and Bryce Lamb captured Texas Tech's first national titles in their respective events. Kithuka capped his remarkable 2013 campaign with a national championship in the indoor 3,000-meter run while Lamb brought his indoor career to a close with a national championship in the triple jump. As a team, Texas Tech finished 5th overall at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships with 28 points - the best finish in program history. Tech went on to finish third at the 2013 Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 117.5 points - the best performance at the conference meet since 2005. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Texas Tech track and field program was represented with a contingent of seven former athletes - all of whom competed at Texas Tech during Kittley's tenure. The group brought home three medals - a gold, silver and bronze. In the fall of 2012, Texas Tech produced the men's NCAA Cross Country Champion as Kennedy Kithuka went undefeated in seven meets during on his way to taking home the NCAA crown, and being named the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year. Kittley has been recognized nationally for his efforts at Texas Tech as he has twice been named the Women's Regional Coach of the Year in the last four years. Kittley most recently earned the recognition following the 2012 season after receiving the award in 2009. Kittley and his renowned coaching staff have produced 11 NCAA Champions in the last eight seasons. Kipyego made history as an athlete under Kittley and his staff. The Kenyan native broke the NCAA record with nine national titles during her career in both track and field and cross country before going on to qualify for the Kenyan Olympic team. At the 2012 London Olympics she won silver in the 10,000-meter run before nearly medaling again in the 5,000-meter run and finishing fourth. Meanwhile, thrower D'Andra Carter went on to win Tech's second national title of 2009 during the outdoor season as she became Texas Tech's first discus national champion. She was followed by Julian Wruck who won a men's discus title during the 2011 outdoor season. Texas Tech brought home a total of 32 All-America honors during the unprecedented 2010 season, 17 indoor and 15 outdoor honors being claimed by Red Raiders and Lady Raiders under Kittley's watch. Following the 2005 men's Big 12 Championship meet, Kittley led 31 of his athletes, the most of any program in the country to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kittley moved to Lubbock after leading one of the most successful programs in the history of collegiate track and field. While at Abilene Christian University, Kittley won an unprecedented 29 national track and field championships, the most in Divisions I and II combined. His total is only three short of the all-time record held by Division III Kenyon College swimming and diving coach Jim Steen. Kittley won his first national championship in 1985 when his women's Wildcat squad won the Division II outdoor championship, a title he would win again in `86, `87 and `88. When ACU combined their programs in 1993, Kittley was selected to head the men's team, as well. He wasted no time taking a floundering men's program to an elite level, winning the Division II indoor title in his first season. His 15-year tenure at ACU included coaching 10 Olympic qualifiers, three Pan-American Games athletes, five World University Games athletes, 16 athletes who have qualified for the world championships and three United States national champions. In the fall of 2006, Kittley was honored by the Lone Star Conference for his coaching efforts while at ACU as he was named to the conference's Hall of Honor. Kittley is married to the former Linda Rhoads, and the couple has three sons, Zachary, Christopher and Jonathan. 2000-present Texas Tech University Head Coach 1993-99 ACU, Men's Head Coach 1985-99 ACU, Women's Head Coach

Felkins' throwers. Kole Weldon defended Big 12 high point scorer crown after claiming the hammer throw title and finishing runner-up in both the shot put and discus events. Weldon went on to finish with second team All-America accolades after finishing 10th in the discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. He placed sixth at the indoor meet in the shot put to garner first team All-America honors. Hannah Carson racked up two Big 12 titles in 2015 under Felkins' tutelage. She won the javelin behind a then seasonal-best 56.36m (184-11) on the first day of competition at the conference meet and claimed the discus crown at 53.46m (175-05) on the final day of the meet. Carson would break not only her own PR but also the school record en route to a runner-up finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the javelin at 57.72m (189-4), for first team All-America honors. In 2014, Felkins had two All-Americans: Hannah Carson (First team, outdoor javelin), and Kole Weldon (Second team, indoor shot put). Felkins' throws groups scored a total of 36 points at the 2014 Big 12 Outdoor Championships, led by Weldon, whose 24 points earned him the title of high point scorer. On the indoor side, Felkins' athletes scored 20 points at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, between Weldon and Jorge Garcia. In 2013, Felkins coached Weldon to an NCAA runner-up performance in the shot put at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships. Weldon, in just his sophomore campaign, rewrote the school record books during the 2013 indoor season and currently owns each of the top-five marks. Weldon went on to finish third in the shot put at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene to cap off his remarkable 2013 season. Meanwhile, Felkins was also the architect of both Julian Wruck and D'Andra Carter's NCAA titles in the outdoor discus throw. Wruck won the NCAA Outdoor Discus title in 2011, while Carter captured the NCAA Championship in 2009. In 2012, Felkins was named the Mountain Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association for the indoor season. Felkins guided D'Andra Carter to the 2009 NCAA discus national title, two All-American honors and back-to-back Big 12 titles. Meanwhile, Patience Knight earned three All-American honors and won two-straight indoor and outdoor shot put Big 12 Championships under Felkins tutelage. Harrison Benjamin added to Felkins list as he won the 2009 Big 12 Outdoor Championship in shot put. Before arriving at Texas Tech, Felkins was a member of Wes Kittley's staff at Abilene Christian, where he coached the team's throwers and served as the strength coach for both the men's and women's intercollegiate programs. He joined the ACU staff in 1992 and lifted the throwers to unprecedented heights. During his tenure, Felkins coached the Wildcat throwers to 36 All-American performances, five national championships, four Olympic trials and one Olympian. In 1987, Felkins became the first and only Division II field event athlete to win a Division I national title, forcing the Division I coaches to change the rules, banning Division II athletes from competing at the Division I Championships. Felkins competed at Olympic trials, Olympic festivals and U.S. National Championships before retiring in 1996. Felkins was also inducted into the NCAA Hall of Fame for his collegiate accomplishments. Cliff Felkins Coaching File @ Tech NCAA Champions (2) D'Andra Carter - Discus (outdoor 2009) Julian Wruck - Discus (outdoor 2011) All-Americans (20) Kole Weldon - Discus (outdoor 2015) Hannah Carson - Javelin (outdoor 2015) Kole Weldon - Shot Put (indoor 2015) Kole Weldon - Shot Put (outdoor 2013) Kole Weldon - Shot Put (indoor 2013) Kelly Closse - Weight Throw (indoor 2012) Kelly Closse - Shot Put (indoor 2012) Julian Wruck - Discus (outdoor 2011) Ifeatu Okafor - Shot Put (outdoor 2011) Kelly Closse - Shot Put (indoor 2011) Kelly Closse - Weight Throw (indoor 2011) Julian Wruck - Discus (outdoor 2010) D'Andra Carter - Discus (outdoor 2009) Patience Knight - Shot Put (indoor 2009) D'Andra Carter - Discus (outdoor 2008) Patience Knight - Shot Put (outdoor 2008) Patience Knight - Shot Put (indoor 2008) D'Andra Carter - Discus (outdoor 2007) Jason Young - Discus (outdoor 2004) Jason Young - Discus (outdoor 2003) Big 12 Champions (14) Hannah Carson - Discus (outdoor 2015) Kole Weldon - Hammer Throw (outdoor 2015) Hannah Carson - Javelin (outdoor 2015) Kelly Closse - Weight Throw (indoor 2012) Julian Wruck - Discus (outdoor 2011) Ifeatu Okafor - Shot Put (outdoor 2011) Kelly Closse - Weight Throw (indoor 2011) Harrison Benjamin - Shot Put (outdoor 2009) D'Andra Carter - Discus (outdoor 2009) Patience Knight - Shot Put (outdoor 2009) Patience Knight - Shot Put (indoor 2009) D'Andra Carter - Discus (indoor 2008) Patience Knight - Shot Put (indoor 2008) Patience Knight - Shot Put (indoor 2008) Cliff Felkins Coaching File @ Tech D'Andra Carter - Discus (outdoor 2009) Julian Wruck - Discus (outdoor 2011)

Kittley has built the Texas Tech program into a perennial power on the national stage throughout the past decade. Under his tutelage, Texas Tech has produced 10 Olympic Qualifiers, six Olympic Medalists, 20 national champions, over 200 All-Americans and 136 Big 12 Champions. At this year's U.S. Olympic Trials, Kittley's crew will be represented in nine events, with 11 individuals looking to represent the United States in Rio this summer. The group is a mix of current or recently graduated students, as well as alums and one future Red Raider. Representing Texas Tech in Eugene on July 1-10 will be: Bradley Adkins (High Jump), Hannah Carson (Javelin & Discus), Kyle Collins (400m), Trey Culver (High Jump), Norman Grimes (400H), Candace Jackson (200m), Omo Osaghae (110H), Tori Polk (Long Jump), Gil Roberts (400m), Kole Weldon (Discus) and Jason Young (Discus). For the second-straight indoor season and third consecutive NCAA Championship meet (Indoor-Outdoor-Indoor), Texas Tech captured the high jump title thanks to Trey Culver. On March 11 in Birmingham, Alabama, Culver was the only competitor in the field to clear 2.23m/7-3.75, doing so on his third attempt, to win NCAA gold. His victory made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015). It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, as he would finish fifth at the outdoor meet, while teammate Bradley Adkins placed sixth. It was also an historic season for Hannah Carson. In 2016, Carson became the first woman to ever break the 60-meter barrier in both the javelin and the discus in the same NCAA career, let alone the same season. It started on April 23 in Waco, as Carson unleashed a toss of 60.42m/198-3 in the javelin, breaking her own school record and making her the No. 3 all-time collegiate & No. 5 all-time U.S. performer in the event. Two weeks later, she heaved the discus to a school record 61.97m/203-4 at the Masked Rider Open, which helped her become the first woman to qualify for the NCAA's in both since 2012. At the NCAA Championships, she broke her own javelin record again in an intense battle for the title, tossing it over 60 meters twice, the furthest at 61.20m/200-9. The mark would give her runner-up honors for the second-straight year and would also make her the first woman to toss the javelin and discus 200 feet in the same NCAA career. She would also earn second team All-America honors in the discus at the NCAA Championships as well. Texas Tech also racked up nine Big 12 Champions in 2016. Chris Caldwell claimed both the 60 & 110-meter hurdle titles for the second-straight year, becoming the first student-athlete to ever accomplish the feat. He was also the first to win the 110H in back-to-back years since Red Raider Marlon Odom when he won titles in 2005, '06 & '07 and the first to win the 60H in consecutive years since Jermaine Cooper in 2001-02. The Red Raiders went 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, marking the first time a team has ever swept the top three spots in the event at the conference championship. Viershanie Latham rounded out the indoor titles, winning the program's first Big 12 indoor championship in the triple jump. At the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, Tech tallied six individual titles. Along with Caldwell, Natalie Thompson picked up her second-straight heptathlon crown after notching a personal-best in the event. She and teammate Kaylee Hinton finished 1-2, becoming the first teammates to do so since 2010. Trey Culver recorded the program's third-straight high jump championship and also made it three-straight years Tech teammates had placed 1-2 in the event, all with different winners over that stretch. Charles Brown picked up Tech's third long jump outdoor title in the last four years and was the first freshman champion since 2010. C.J. Jones brought the program's seventh outdoor crown in the men's 800 meters, while Benard Keter claimed Tech's first 3,000-meter steeplechase victory at the Big 12 Championship. The men's team was ranked in the top 25 of every poll during both the indoor and outdoor season, climbing as high as seventh during indoors and eighth in the outdoor campaign. It marked the third-straight year the Red Raiders have been ranked inside the top 10 of the weekly poll. Through seven weeks of competition, the Texas Tech men's team was the only team to not drop in the rankings. The women's team moved as high as No. 19 in the polls during the outdoor season. The Red Raiders & Lady Raiders have both been ranked inside the top 25 every year since the poll first began in 2008. History was made by the Red Raiders in 2015. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only went 1-2 in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA. Duffield and Adkins represented four of Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned during the indoor and outdoor meets. Cierra White (200m) and Hannah Carson (javelin) picked up outdoor first team honors, while Shanice Stewart (long jump), Chris Caldwell (60mH), Kole Weldon (shot put), the men's 4x400 relay team of Steven Champlin, Kyle Collins, Joseph Richards III and C.J. Jones, Le-Tristan Pledger (60mH) and White (200m) tallied indoor first team awards. The Red Raiders also had successful conference showings, notching eight Big 12 Champions. The men's team earned its highest overall finish in Big 12 Indoor Championship history, finishing runner-up with 95.5 points. Caldwell won the 60-meter hurdles and Duffield claimed the high jump title, while Cierra White broke a school and facility record in the women's 200-meter dash to pick the Big 12 crown. At the outdoor meet, the men's squad repeated with a second-place finish, getting individual titles from Weldon (hammer throw), Duffield (high jump), and Caldwell (100mH). Weldon was also named the high point scorer for the meet with 26 points, becoming the first male to repeat as Big 12 Outdoor high point scorer since 2009. Natalie Thompson (heptathlon) and Carson (javelin) picked up conference championships, helping the women's team to a third-place finish. The 2014 season may have been his most special in Lubbock to this point. Texas Tech capped the outdoor season by winning the men's team title at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, scoring a school-record 160.5 points in front of the home crowd at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. The Red Raiders became the first Big 12 team to clinch a track & field title on its own track since Colorado, in 2008. Tech picked up conference titles from Kennedy Kithuka (5,000m & 10,000m), Bradley Adkins (High Jump) and Shujaa Benson (Long Jump) on the outdoor side, and on the indoor side, Tech picked up a conference title from its 4 x 400m relay team of Montenae Roye-Speight, Cierra White, Christen Rivers and Amoy Blake. Bradley Adkins and JaCorian Duffield earned indoor first team All-American honors after tying for fifth in the high jump at the NCAA Championships. On the outdoor side, Kithuka wrapped up his illustrious career by snagging first team All-American honors in both the 5,000m and 10,000m. He was joined by first-teamers Hannah Carson (Javelin), Le'Tristan Pledger (100mH) and Cierra White (200m). Kittley also guided Texas Tech to a Big 12 team title at the 2005 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Red Raiders won the meet with 149.50 points. In 2013, Kittley's program produced 21 First and Second Team All-Americans between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Meanwhile, Tech crowned six individual Big 12 Champions and two national champions. Kennedy Kithuka and Bryce Lamb captured Texas Tech's first national titles in their respective events. Kithuka capped his remarkable 2013 campaign with a national championship in the indoor 3,000-meter run while Lamb brought his indoor career to a close with a national championship in the triple jump. As a team, Texas Tech finished 5th overall at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships with 28 points - the best finish in program history. Tech went on to finish third at the 2013 Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 117.5 points - the best performance at the conference meet since 2005. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Texas Tech track and field program was represented with a contingent of seven former athletes - all of whom competed at Texas Tech during Kittley's tenure. The group brought home three medals - a gold, silver and bronze. In the fall of 2012, Texas Tech produced the men's NCAA Cross Country Champion as Kennedy Kithuka went undefeated in seven meets during on his way to taking home the NCAA crown, and being named the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year. Kittley has been recognized nationally for his efforts at Texas Tech as he has twice been named the Women's Regional Coach of the Year in the last four years. Kittley most recently earned the recognition following the 2012 season after receiving the award in 2009. Kittley and his renowned coaching staff have produced 11 NCAA Champions in the last eight seasons. Kipyego made history as an athlete under Kittley and his staff. The Kenyan native broke the NCAA record with nine national titles during her career in both track and field and cross country before going on to qualify for the Kenyan Olympic team. At the 2012 London Olympics she won silver in the 10,000-meter run before nearly medaling again in the 5,000-meter run and finishing fourth. Meanwhile, thrower D'Andra Carter went on to win Tech's second national title of 2009 during the outdoor season as she became Texas Tech's first discus national champion. She was followed by Julian Wruck who won a men's discus title during the 2011 outdoor season. Texas Tech brought home a total of 32 All-America honors during the unprecedented 2010 season, 17 indoor and 15 outdoor honors being claimed by Red Raiders and Lady Raiders under Kittley's watch. Following the 2005 men's Big 12 Championship meet, Kittley led 31 of his athletes, the most of any program in the country to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kittley moved to Lubbock after leading one of the most successful programs in the history of collegiate track and field. While at Abilene Christian University, Kittley won an unprecedented 29 national track and field championships, the most in Divisions I and II combined. His total is only three short of the all-time record held by Division III Kenyon College swimming and diving coach Jim Steen. Kittley won his first national championship in 1985 when his women's Wildcat squad won the Division II outdoor championship, a title he would win again in `86, `87 and `88. When ACU combined their programs in 1993, Kittley was selected to head the men's team, as well. He wasted no time taking a floundering men's program to an elite level, winning the Division II indoor title in his first season. His 15-year tenure at ACU included coaching 10 Olympic qualifiers, three Pan-American Games athletes, five World University Games athletes, 16 athletes who have qualified for the world championships and three United States national champions. In the fall of 2006, Kittley was honored by the Lone Star Conference for his coaching efforts while at ACU as he was named to the conference's Hall of Honor. Kittley is married to the former Linda Rhoads, and the couple has three sons, Zachary, Christopher and Jonathan. 2000-present Texas Tech University Head Coach 1993-99 ACU, Men's Head Coach 1985-99 ACU, Women's Head Coach

Thomas has coached great athletes and had success doing so in different parts of the country at the Division-1 level. During his tenure at Tech, Thomas' athletes have claimed 99 new entries into the Texas Tech All-Time performance list, including 32 during the 2016 season. Two of Thomas' student-athletes competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials, both in the men's high jump. Bradley Adkins finished third at the meet and will represent Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Trey Culver placed eighth at Trials, then followed it up with a silver medal performance while representing the U.S. at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U-23 Games. Earlier in the summer, Charles Brown won the U.S. Junior National Championship in the triple jump after leaping to a personal-best 16.35m/53-7.75 to qualify for the IAAF World U-20 Championships. Brown would place 10th at World's in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and was also joined by Kaylee Hinton (heptathlon) and Vincent Crisp (800 meters) at the meet.   Thomas event group enjoyed a wealth of success in 2016. Trey Culver won the programs second-straight NCAA Indoor mens high jump title and third-straight among NCAA Championship meets (indoor-outdoor-indoor). Culvers win made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015).   It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, joining Bradley Adkins as three of the four earned by Texas Tech in 2016. Thomas student-athletes put up big numbers at the conference meets this season, as the womens group accounted for 62 of Techs womens team points at the indoor meet, en route to two Big 12 indoor titles. Texas Tech became the first school in Big 12 history to finish 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, at the conference championship and Viershanie Latham won the programs first indoor womens triple jump title. His group also won three outdoor conference titles, while four of his mens student-athletes combined to score 46 team points. Trey Culver & Bradley Adkins went 1-2 in the high jump, marking the third-straight year Tech teammates had swept the top spots, all three with different winners. Natalie Thompson & Kaylee Hinton also placed 1-2 in the heptathlon, which made it back-to-back titles for Thompson in the event. Charles Brown rounded out the championship winners, bringing him Techs third outdoor long jump crown in four years and became the first freshman to do so since 2010. Coach Thomas was named Womens Assistant of the Year for the indoor season, his fifth USTFCCCA regional award while at Tech.   2015 was an historic year for Coach Thomas' team. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only claimed first and second in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA.   Thomas' student-athletes represented five of Texas Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned in 2015. Along with Duffield and Adkins, Shanice Stewart earned indoor honors in the women's long jump. Duffield's Big 12 indoor and outdoor high jump titles helped the men's team earned runner-up finishes at both meets, which was the highest overall finish at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in school history. Natalie Thompson also took home the women's heptathlon crown at the outdoor meet as the Tech women finished third overall. Coach Thomas swept the Men's & Women's Assistant of the Year titles, his third and fourth USTFCCCA regional awards while at Tech.   When the Texas Tech men took home the 2014 Big 12 Outdoor Championship in front of the home crowd at the Terry & Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex, Coach Thomas' athletes contributed 80.5 points--just over half of the program-record 160.5 points--to the championship performance. Tech became the first Big 12 team to win a conference title at home since Colorado, in 2008. Coach Thomas' athletes delivered the first-ever Tech 1-2 sweep in the Big 12 men's long jump, and the first 1-2-3 sweep in the men's high jump in the history of the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, to help push the Red Raiders over the top.   In the 2015 indoor season, Thomas was responsible for five All-American performances, most notably the high jump, where Red Raiders JaCorian Duffield & Bradley Adkins became the first set of teammates in 41 years to finish 1-2 in the NCAA high jump final. Those 18 points were instrumental toward Tech's program-record 31 team points and fifth-place finish. Duffield, who also took home the 2015 Indoor Big 12 title, was named the USTFCCCA Mountain Region field athlete of the year for his exploits.   Thomas is married to Ebony Thomas and they have two sons Jordan and Jameson Thomas.   Texas Tech File By the Numbers  - 3 National Champions - 1 Olympian - 26 NCAA All-Americans - 11 Individual Big-12 Conference champions - 16 School record performances - 93 All-Big 12 Performances - 5 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors - 3 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year honors - 11 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 6 National Team Members - 99 All-Time top-10 performance list additions - 5 Big-12 Athlete of the Week Recipients     Kentucky File By the Numbers (2007-2012)  - 3 SEC Champions - 14 All-SEC Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 12 All-Americans - 30 NCAA National Qualifiers - 18 School Record Performances - 74 All-time top-10 performance list additions - 16 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 1 SEC Athlete of the year award winner - 5 SEC Athlete of the Week Awards   TCU File By the Numbers (2005-2006)  - 1 Conference Champion - 6 All-Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 2 School record performances - 11 All-Top top-10 performance list additions - 1 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters   Sam Houston State File By the Numbers  - 1 NCAA Qualifier - 1 Southland Conference Champion - 7 All-Southland Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 3 School record performances - 17 All-Time top-5 performances list additions - 3 Student-Athletes 4.0 academic semesters   Education Texas A&M University- Commerce Masters of Science in Health & Human Performance (Athletic Administration)   Sam Houston State University Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology   Mayde Creek High School- Katy, TX   Coaching Education USTFCCCA Jumping Event Specialist USATF Level I Certification USATF Level II Certification- Jumps USATF Level II Certification- Sprints  

Thomas has coached great athletes and had success doing so in different parts of the country at the Division-1 level. During his tenure at Tech, Thomas' athletes have claimed 99 new entries into the Texas Tech All-Time performance list, including 32 during the 2016 season. Two of Thomas' student-athletes competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials, both in the men's high jump. Bradley Adkins finished third at the meet and will represent Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Trey Culver placed eighth at Trials, then followed it up with a silver medal performance while representing the U.S. at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U-23 Games. Earlier in the summer, Charles Brown won the U.S. Junior National Championship in the triple jump after leaping to a personal-best 16.35m/53-7.75 to qualify for the IAAF World U-20 Championships. Brown would place 10th at World's in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and was also joined by Kaylee Hinton (heptathlon) and Vincent Crisp (800 meters) at the meet.   Thomas event group enjoyed a wealth of success in 2016. Trey Culver won the programs second-straight NCAA Indoor mens high jump title and third-straight among NCAA Championship meets (indoor-outdoor-indoor). Culvers win made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015).   It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, joining Bradley Adkins as three of the four earned by Texas Tech in 2016. Thomas student-athletes put up big numbers at the conference meets this season, as the womens group accounted for 62 of Techs womens team points at the indoor meet, en route to two Big 12 indoor titles. Texas Tech became the first school in Big 12 history to finish 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, at the conference championship and Viershanie Latham won the programs first indoor womens triple jump title. His group also won three outdoor conference titles, while four of his mens student-athletes combined to score 46 team points. Trey Culver & Bradley Adkins went 1-2 in the high jump, marking the third-straight year Tech teammates had swept the top spots, all three with different winners. Natalie Thompson & Kaylee Hinton also placed 1-2 in the heptathlon, which made it back-to-back titles for Thompson in the event. Charles Brown rounded out the championship winners, bringing him Techs third outdoor long jump crown in four years and became the first freshman to do so since 2010. Coach Thomas was named Womens Assistant of the Year for the indoor season, his fifth USTFCCCA regional award while at Tech.   2015 was an historic year for Coach Thomas' team. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only claimed first and second in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA.   Thomas' student-athletes represented five of Texas Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned in 2015. Along with Duffield and Adkins, Shanice Stewart earned indoor honors in the women's long jump. Duffield's Big 12 indoor and outdoor high jump titles helped the men's team earned runner-up finishes at both meets, which was the highest overall finish at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in school history. Natalie Thompson also took home the women's heptathlon crown at the outdoor meet as the Tech women finished third overall. Coach Thomas swept the Men's & Women's Assistant of the Year titles, his third and fourth USTFCCCA regional awards while at Tech.   When the Texas Tech men took home the 2014 Big 12 Outdoor Championship in front of the home crowd at the Terry & Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex, Coach Thomas' athletes contributed 80.5 points--just over half of the program-record 160.5 points--to the championship performance. Tech became the first Big 12 team to win a conference title at home since Colorado, in 2008. Coach Thomas' athletes delivered the first-ever Tech 1-2 sweep in the Big 12 men's long jump, and the first 1-2-3 sweep in the men's high jump in the history of the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, to help push the Red Raiders over the top.   In the 2015 indoor season, Thomas was responsible for five All-American performances, most notably the high jump, where Red Raiders JaCorian Duffield & Bradley Adkins became the first set of teammates in 41 years to finish 1-2 in the NCAA high jump final. Those 18 points were instrumental toward Tech's program-record 31 team points and fifth-place finish. Duffield, who also took home the 2015 Indoor Big 12 title, was named the USTFCCCA Mountain Region field athlete of the year for his exploits.   Thomas is married to Ebony Thomas and they have two sons Jordan and Jameson Thomas.   Texas Tech File By the Numbers  - 3 National Champions - 1 Olympian - 26 NCAA All-Americans - 11 Individual Big-12 Conference champions - 16 School record performances - 93 All-Big 12 Performances - 5 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors - 3 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year honors - 11 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 6 National Team Members - 99 All-Time top-10 performance list additions - 5 Big-12 Athlete of the Week Recipients     Kentucky File By the Numbers (2007-2012)  - 3 SEC Champions - 14 All-SEC Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 12 All-Americans - 30 NCAA National Qualifiers - 18 School Record Performances - 74 All-time top-10 performance list additions - 16 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 1 SEC Athlete of the year award winner - 5 SEC Athlete of the Week Awards   TCU File By the Numbers (2005-2006)  - 1 Conference Champion - 6 All-Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 2 School record performances - 11 All-Top top-10 performance list additions - 1 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters   Sam Houston State File By the Numbers  - 1 NCAA Qualifier - 1 Southland Conference Champion - 7 All-Southland Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 3 School record performances - 17 All-Time top-5 performances list additions - 3 Student-Athletes 4.0 academic semesters   Education Texas A&M University- Commerce Masters of Science in Health & Human Performance (Athletic Administration)   Sam Houston State University Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology   Mayde Creek High School- Katy, TX   Coaching Education USTFCCCA Jumping Event Specialist USATF Level I Certification USATF Level II Certification- Jumps USATF Level II Certification- Sprints  

Kittley has built the Texas Tech program into a perennial power on the national stage throughout the past decade. Under his tutelage, Texas Tech has produced 10 Olympic Qualifiers, six Olympic Medalists, 20 national champions, over 200 All-Americans and 136 Big 12 Champions. At this year's U.S. Olympic Trials, Kittley's crew will be represented in nine events, with 11 individuals looking to represent the United States in Rio this summer. The group is a mix of current or recently graduated students, as well as alums and one future Red Raider. Representing Texas Tech in Eugene on July 1-10 will be: Bradley Adkins (High Jump), Hannah Carson (Javelin & Discus), Kyle Collins (400m), Trey Culver (High Jump), Norman Grimes (400H), Candace Jackson (200m), Omo Osaghae (110H), Tori Polk (Long Jump), Gil Roberts (400m), Kole Weldon (Discus) and Jason Young (Discus). For the second-straight indoor season and third consecutive NCAA Championship meet (Indoor-Outdoor-Indoor), Texas Tech captured the high jump title thanks to Trey Culver. On March 11 in Birmingham, Alabama, Culver was the only competitor in the field to clear 2.23m/7-3.75, doing so on his third attempt, to win NCAA gold. His victory made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015). It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, as he would finish fifth at the outdoor meet, while teammate Bradley Adkins placed sixth. It was also an historic season for Hannah Carson. In 2016, Carson became the first woman to ever break the 60-meter barrier in both the javelin and the discus in the same NCAA career, let alone the same season. It started on April 23 in Waco, as Carson unleashed a toss of 60.42m/198-3 in the javelin, breaking her own school record and making her the No. 3 all-time collegiate & No. 5 all-time U.S. performer in the event. Two weeks later, she heaved the discus to a school record 61.97m/203-4 at the Masked Rider Open, which helped her become the first woman to qualify for the NCAA's in both since 2012. At the NCAA Championships, she broke her own javelin record again in an intense battle for the title, tossing it over 60 meters twice, the furthest at 61.20m/200-9. The mark would give her runner-up honors for the second-straight year and would also make her the first woman to toss the javelin and discus 200 feet in the same NCAA career. She would also earn second team All-America honors in the discus at the NCAA Championships as well. Texas Tech also racked up nine Big 12 Champions in 2016. Chris Caldwell claimed both the 60 & 110-meter hurdle titles for the second-straight year, becoming the first student-athlete to ever accomplish the feat. He was also the first to win the 110H in back-to-back years since Red Raider Marlon Odom when he won titles in 2005, '06 & '07 and the first to win the 60H in consecutive years since Jermaine Cooper in 2001-02. The Red Raiders went 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, marking the first time a team has ever swept the top three spots in the event at the conference championship. Viershanie Latham rounded out the indoor titles, winning the program's first Big 12 indoor championship in the triple jump. At the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, Tech tallied six individual titles. Along with Caldwell, Natalie Thompson picked up her second-straight heptathlon crown after notching a personal-best in the event. She and teammate Kaylee Hinton finished 1-2, becoming the first teammates to do so since 2010. Trey Culver recorded the program's third-straight high jump championship and also made it three-straight years Tech teammates had placed 1-2 in the event, all with different winners over that stretch. Charles Brown picked up Tech's third long jump outdoor title in the last four years and was the first freshman champion since 2010. C.J. Jones brought the program's seventh outdoor crown in the men's 800 meters, while Benard Keter claimed Tech's first 3,000-meter steeplechase victory at the Big 12 Championship. The men's team was ranked in the top 25 of every poll during both the indoor and outdoor season, climbing as high as seventh during indoors and eighth in the outdoor campaign. It marked the third-straight year the Red Raiders have been ranked inside the top 10 of the weekly poll. Through seven weeks of competition, the Texas Tech men's team was the only team to not drop in the rankings. The women's team moved as high as No. 19 in the polls during the outdoor season. The Red Raiders & Lady Raiders have both been ranked inside the top 25 every year since the poll first began in 2008. History was made by the Red Raiders in 2015. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only went 1-2 in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA. Duffield and Adkins represented four of Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned during the indoor and outdoor meets. Cierra White (200m) and Hannah Carson (javelin) picked up outdoor first team honors, while Shanice Stewart (long jump), Chris Caldwell (60mH), Kole Weldon (shot put), the men's 4x400 relay team of Steven Champlin, Kyle Collins, Joseph Richards III and C.J. Jones, Le-Tristan Pledger (60mH) and White (200m) tallied indoor first team awards. The Red Raiders also had successful conference showings, notching eight Big 12 Champions. The men's team earned its highest overall finish in Big 12 Indoor Championship history, finishing runner-up with 95.5 points. Caldwell won the 60-meter hurdles and Duffield claimed the high jump title, while Cierra White broke a school and facility record in the women's 200-meter dash to pick the Big 12 crown. At the outdoor meet, the men's squad repeated with a second-place finish, getting individual titles from Weldon (hammer throw), Duffield (high jump), and Caldwell (100mH). Weldon was also named the high point scorer for the meet with 26 points, becoming the first male to repeat as Big 12 Outdoor high point scorer since 2009. Natalie Thompson (heptathlon) and Carson (javelin) picked up conference championships, helping the women's team to a third-place finish. The 2014 season may have been his most special in Lubbock to this point. Texas Tech capped the outdoor season by winning the men's team title at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, scoring a school-record 160.5 points in front of the home crowd at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. The Red Raiders became the first Big 12 team to clinch a track & field title on its own track since Colorado, in 2008. Tech picked up conference titles from Kennedy Kithuka (5,000m & 10,000m), Bradley Adkins (High Jump) and Shujaa Benson (Long Jump) on the outdoor side, and on the indoor side, Tech picked up a conference title from its 4 x 400m relay team of Montenae Roye-Speight, Cierra White, Christen Rivers and Amoy Blake. Bradley Adkins and JaCorian Duffield earned indoor first team All-American honors after tying for fifth in the high jump at the NCAA Championships. On the outdoor side, Kithuka wrapped up his illustrious career by snagging first team All-American honors in both the 5,000m and 10,000m. He was joined by first-teamers Hannah Carson (Javelin), Le'Tristan Pledger (100mH) and Cierra White (200m). Kittley also guided Texas Tech to a Big 12 team title at the 2005 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Red Raiders won the meet with 149.50 points. In 2013, Kittley's program produced 21 First and Second Team All-Americans between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Meanwhile, Tech crowned six individual Big 12 Champions and two national champions. Kennedy Kithuka and Bryce Lamb captured Texas Tech's first national titles in their respective events. Kithuka capped his remarkable 2013 campaign with a national championship in the indoor 3,000-meter run while Lamb brought his indoor career to a close with a national championship in the triple jump. As a team, Texas Tech finished 5th overall at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships with 28 points - the best finish in program history. Tech went on to finish third at the 2013 Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 117.5 points - the best performance at the conference meet since 2005. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Texas Tech track and field program was represented with a contingent of seven former athletes - all of whom competed at Texas Tech during Kittley's tenure. The group brought home three medals - a gold, silver and bronze. In the fall of 2012, Texas Tech produced the men's NCAA Cross Country Champion as Kennedy Kithuka went undefeated in seven meets during on his way to taking home the NCAA crown, and being named the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year. Kittley has been recognized nationally for his efforts at Texas Tech as he has twice been named the Women's Regional Coach of the Year in the last four years. Kittley most recently earned the recognition following the 2012 season after receiving the award in 2009. Kittley and his renowned coaching staff have produced 11 NCAA Champions in the last eight seasons. Kipyego made history as an athlete under Kittley and his staff. The Kenyan native broke the NCAA record with nine national titles during her career in both track and field and cross country before going on to qualify for the Kenyan Olympic team. At the 2012 London Olympics she won silver in the 10,000-meter run before nearly medaling again in the 5,000-meter run and finishing fourth. Meanwhile, thrower D'Andra Carter went on to win Tech's second national title of 2009 during the outdoor season as she became Texas Tech's first discus national champion. She was followed by Julian Wruck who won a men's discus title during the 2011 outdoor season. Texas Tech brought home a total of 32 All-America honors during the unprecedented 2010 season, 17 indoor and 15 outdoor honors being claimed by Red Raiders and Lady Raiders under Kittley's watch. Following the 2005 men's Big 12 Championship meet, Kittley led 31 of his athletes, the most of any program in the country to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kittley moved to Lubbock after leading one of the most successful programs in the history of collegiate track and field. While at Abilene Christian University, Kittley won an unprecedented 29 national track and field championships, the most in Divisions I and II combined. His total is only three short of the all-time record held by Division III Kenyon College swimming and diving coach Jim Steen. Kittley won his first national championship in 1985 when his women's Wildcat squad won the Division II outdoor championship, a title he would win again in `86, `87 and `88. When ACU combined their programs in 1993, Kittley was selected to head the men's team, as well. He wasted no time taking a floundering men's program to an elite level, winning the Division II indoor title in his first season. His 15-year tenure at ACU included coaching 10 Olympic qualifiers, three Pan-American Games athletes, five World University Games athletes, 16 athletes who have qualified for the world championships and three United States national champions. In the fall of 2006, Kittley was honored by the Lone Star Conference for his coaching efforts while at ACU as he was named to the conference's Hall of Honor. Kittley is married to the former Linda Rhoads, and the couple has three sons, Zachary, Christopher and Jonathan. 2000-present Texas Tech University Head Coach 1993-99 ACU, Men's Head Coach 1985-99 ACU, Women's Head Coach

Kittley has built the Texas Tech program into a perennial power on the national stage throughout the past decade. Under his tutelage, Texas Tech has produced 10 Olympic Qualifiers, six Olympic Medalists, 20 national champions, over 200 All-Americans and 136 Big 12 Champions. At this year's U.S. Olympic Trials, Kittley's crew will be represented in nine events, with 11 individuals looking to represent the United States in Rio this summer. The group is a mix of current or recently graduated students, as well as alums and one future Red Raider. Representing Texas Tech in Eugene on July 1-10 will be: Bradley Adkins (High Jump), Hannah Carson (Javelin & Discus), Kyle Collins (400m), Trey Culver (High Jump), Norman Grimes (400H), Candace Jackson (200m), Omo Osaghae (110H), Tori Polk (Long Jump), Gil Roberts (400m), Kole Weldon (Discus) and Jason Young (Discus). For the second-straight indoor season and third consecutive NCAA Championship meet (Indoor-Outdoor-Indoor), Texas Tech captured the high jump title thanks to Trey Culver. On March 11 in Birmingham, Alabama, Culver was the only competitor in the field to clear 2.23m/7-3.75, doing so on his third attempt, to win NCAA gold. His victory made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015). It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, as he would finish fifth at the outdoor meet, while teammate Bradley Adkins placed sixth. It was also an historic season for Hannah Carson. In 2016, Carson became the first woman to ever break the 60-meter barrier in both the javelin and the discus in the same NCAA career, let alone the same season. It started on April 23 in Waco, as Carson unleashed a toss of 60.42m/198-3 in the javelin, breaking her own school record and making her the No. 3 all-time collegiate & No. 5 all-time U.S. performer in the event. Two weeks later, she heaved the discus to a school record 61.97m/203-4 at the Masked Rider Open, which helped her become the first woman to qualify for the NCAA's in both since 2012. At the NCAA Championships, she broke her own javelin record again in an intense battle for the title, tossing it over 60 meters twice, the furthest at 61.20m/200-9. The mark would give her runner-up honors for the second-straight year and would also make her the first woman to toss the javelin and discus 200 feet in the same NCAA career. She would also earn second team All-America honors in the discus at the NCAA Championships as well. Texas Tech also racked up nine Big 12 Champions in 2016. Chris Caldwell claimed both the 60 & 110-meter hurdle titles for the second-straight year, becoming the first student-athlete to ever accomplish the feat. He was also the first to win the 110H in back-to-back years since Red Raider Marlon Odom when he won titles in 2005, '06 & '07 and the first to win the 60H in consecutive years since Jermaine Cooper in 2001-02. The Red Raiders went 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, marking the first time a team has ever swept the top three spots in the event at the conference championship. Viershanie Latham rounded out the indoor titles, winning the program's first Big 12 indoor championship in the triple jump. At the Big 12 Outdoor Championship, Tech tallied six individual titles. Along with Caldwell, Natalie Thompson picked up her second-straight heptathlon crown after notching a personal-best in the event. She and teammate Kaylee Hinton finished 1-2, becoming the first teammates to do so since 2010. Trey Culver recorded the program's third-straight high jump championship and also made it three-straight years Tech teammates had placed 1-2 in the event, all with different winners over that stretch. Charles Brown picked up Tech's third long jump outdoor title in the last four years and was the first freshman champion since 2010. C.J. Jones brought the program's seventh outdoor crown in the men's 800 meters, while Benard Keter claimed Tech's first 3,000-meter steeplechase victory at the Big 12 Championship. The men's team was ranked in the top 25 of every poll during both the indoor and outdoor season, climbing as high as seventh during indoors and eighth in the outdoor campaign. It marked the third-straight year the Red Raiders have been ranked inside the top 10 of the weekly poll. Through seven weeks of competition, the Texas Tech men's team was the only team to not drop in the rankings. The women's team moved as high as No. 19 in the polls during the outdoor season. The Red Raiders & Lady Raiders have both been ranked inside the top 25 every year since the poll first began in 2008. History was made by the Red Raiders in 2015. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only went 1-2 in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA. Duffield and Adkins represented four of Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned during the indoor and outdoor meets. Cierra White (200m) and Hannah Carson (javelin) picked up outdoor first team honors, while Shanice Stewart (long jump), Chris Caldwell (60mH), Kole Weldon (shot put), the men's 4x400 relay team of Steven Champlin, Kyle Collins, Joseph Richards III and C.J. Jones, Le-Tristan Pledger (60mH) and White (200m) tallied indoor first team awards. The Red Raiders also had successful conference showings, notching eight Big 12 Champions. The men's team earned its highest overall finish in Big 12 Indoor Championship history, finishing runner-up with 95.5 points. Caldwell won the 60-meter hurdles and Duffield claimed the high jump title, while Cierra White broke a school and facility record in the women's 200-meter dash to pick the Big 12 crown. At the outdoor meet, the men's squad repeated with a second-place finish, getting individual titles from Weldon (hammer throw), Duffield (high jump), and Caldwell (100mH). Weldon was also named the high point scorer for the meet with 26 points, becoming the first male to repeat as Big 12 Outdoor high point scorer since 2009. Natalie Thompson (heptathlon) and Carson (javelin) picked up conference championships, helping the women's team to a third-place finish. The 2014 season may have been his most special in Lubbock to this point. Texas Tech capped the outdoor season by winning the men's team title at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, scoring a school-record 160.5 points in front of the home crowd at the Terry and Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex. The Red Raiders became the first Big 12 team to clinch a track & field title on its own track since Colorado, in 2008. Tech picked up conference titles from Kennedy Kithuka (5,000m & 10,000m), Bradley Adkins (High Jump) and Shujaa Benson (Long Jump) on the outdoor side, and on the indoor side, Tech picked up a conference title from its 4 x 400m relay team of Montenae Roye-Speight, Cierra White, Christen Rivers and Amoy Blake. Bradley Adkins and JaCorian Duffield earned indoor first team All-American honors after tying for fifth in the high jump at the NCAA Championships. On the outdoor side, Kithuka wrapped up his illustrious career by snagging first team All-American honors in both the 5,000m and 10,000m. He was joined by first-teamers Hannah Carson (Javelin), Le'Tristan Pledger (100mH) and Cierra White (200m). Kittley also guided Texas Tech to a Big 12 team title at the 2005 Big 12 Outdoor Track and Field Championships as the Red Raiders won the meet with 149.50 points. In 2013, Kittley's program produced 21 First and Second Team All-Americans between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Meanwhile, Tech crowned six individual Big 12 Champions and two national champions. Kennedy Kithuka and Bryce Lamb captured Texas Tech's first national titles in their respective events. Kithuka capped his remarkable 2013 campaign with a national championship in the indoor 3,000-meter run while Lamb brought his indoor career to a close with a national championship in the triple jump. As a team, Texas Tech finished 5th overall at the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships with 28 points - the best finish in program history. Tech went on to finish third at the 2013 Big 12 Outdoor Championships with 117.5 points - the best performance at the conference meet since 2005. At the 2012 London Olympics, the Texas Tech track and field program was represented with a contingent of seven former athletes - all of whom competed at Texas Tech during Kittley's tenure. The group brought home three medals - a gold, silver and bronze. In the fall of 2012, Texas Tech produced the men's NCAA Cross Country Champion as Kennedy Kithuka went undefeated in seven meets during on his way to taking home the NCAA crown, and being named the 2012 Male Athlete of the Year. Kittley has been recognized nationally for his efforts at Texas Tech as he has twice been named the Women's Regional Coach of the Year in the last four years. Kittley most recently earned the recognition following the 2012 season after receiving the award in 2009. Kittley and his renowned coaching staff have produced 11 NCAA Champions in the last eight seasons. Kipyego made history as an athlete under Kittley and his staff. The Kenyan native broke the NCAA record with nine national titles during her career in both track and field and cross country before going on to qualify for the Kenyan Olympic team. At the 2012 London Olympics she won silver in the 10,000-meter run before nearly medaling again in the 5,000-meter run and finishing fourth. Meanwhile, thrower D'Andra Carter went on to win Tech's second national title of 2009 during the outdoor season as she became Texas Tech's first discus national champion. She was followed by Julian Wruck who won a men's discus title during the 2011 outdoor season. Texas Tech brought home a total of 32 All-America honors during the unprecedented 2010 season, 17 indoor and 15 outdoor honors being claimed by Red Raiders and Lady Raiders under Kittley's watch. Following the 2005 men's Big 12 Championship meet, Kittley led 31 of his athletes, the most of any program in the country to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Kittley moved to Lubbock after leading one of the most successful programs in the history of collegiate track and field. While at Abilene Christian University, Kittley won an unprecedented 29 national track and field championships, the most in Divisions I and II combined. His total is only three short of the all-time record held by Division III Kenyon College swimming and diving coach Jim Steen. Kittley won his first national championship in 1985 when his women's Wildcat squad won the Division II outdoor championship, a title he would win again in `86, `87 and `88. When ACU combined their programs in 1993, Kittley was selected to head the men's team, as well. He wasted no time taking a floundering men's program to an elite level, winning the Division II indoor title in his first season. His 15-year tenure at ACU included coaching 10 Olympic qualifiers, three Pan-American Games athletes, five World University Games athletes, 16 athletes who have qualified for the world championships and three United States national champions. In the fall of 2006, Kittley was honored by the Lone Star Conference for his coaching efforts while at ACU as he was named to the conference's Hall of Honor. Kittley is married to the former Linda Rhoads, and the couple has three sons, Zachary, Christopher and Jonathan. 2000-present Texas Tech University Head Coach 1993-99 ACU, Men's Head Coach 1985-99 ACU, Women's Head Coach

Thomas has coached great athletes and had success doing so in different parts of the country at the Division-1 level. During his tenure at Tech, Thomas' athletes have claimed 99 new entries into the Texas Tech All-Time performance list, including 32 during the 2016 season. Two of Thomas' student-athletes competed at the U.S. Olympic Trials, both in the men's high jump. Bradley Adkins finished third at the meet and will represent Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Trey Culver placed eighth at Trials, then followed it up with a silver medal performance while representing the U.S. at the North American, Central American and Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) U-23 Games. Earlier in the summer, Charles Brown won the U.S. Junior National Championship in the triple jump after leaping to a personal-best 16.35m/53-7.75 to qualify for the IAAF World U-20 Championships. Brown would place 10th at World's in Bydgoszcz, Poland, and was also joined by Kaylee Hinton (heptathlon) and Vincent Crisp (800 meters) at the meet.   Thomas event group enjoyed a wealth of success in 2016. Trey Culver won the programs second-straight NCAA Indoor mens high jump title and third-straight among NCAA Championship meets (indoor-outdoor-indoor). Culvers win made Texas Tech the first school to win the NCAA Indoor Championship in the event in back-to-back years with different athletes (JaCorian Duffield in 2015).   It was the first of two first team All-America honors for Culver in 2016, joining Bradley Adkins as three of the four earned by Texas Tech in 2016. Thomas student-athletes put up big numbers at the conference meets this season, as the womens group accounted for 62 of Techs womens team points at the indoor meet, en route to two Big 12 indoor titles. Texas Tech became the first school in Big 12 history to finish 1-2-3 in the pentathlon, led by Shanice Stewart, at the conference championship and Viershanie Latham won the programs first indoor womens triple jump title. His group also won three outdoor conference titles, while four of his mens student-athletes combined to score 46 team points. Trey Culver & Bradley Adkins went 1-2 in the high jump, marking the third-straight year Tech teammates had swept the top spots, all three with different winners. Natalie Thompson & Kaylee Hinton also placed 1-2 in the heptathlon, which made it back-to-back titles for Thompson in the event. Charles Brown rounded out the championship winners, bringing him Techs third outdoor long jump crown in four years and became the first freshman to do so since 2010. Coach Thomas was named Womens Assistant of the Year for the indoor season, his fifth USTFCCCA regional award while at Tech.   2015 was an historic year for Coach Thomas' team. JaCorian Duffield and Bradley Adkins not only claimed first and second in the men's high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Arkansas, but they duplicated their performances at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. The duo became the first teammates since 1939 (Southern California) to go 1-2 at the outdoor championships and the first teammates to go 1-2 at both the indoor and outdoor championships in the history of the NCAA.   Thomas' student-athletes represented five of Texas Tech's 11 first team All-America accolades earned in 2015. Along with Duffield and Adkins, Shanice Stewart earned indoor honors in the women's long jump. Duffield's Big 12 indoor and outdoor high jump titles helped the men's team earned runner-up finishes at both meets, which was the highest overall finish at the Big 12 Indoor Championships in school history. Natalie Thompson also took home the women's heptathlon crown at the outdoor meet as the Tech women finished third overall. Coach Thomas swept the Men's & Women's Assistant of the Year titles, his third and fourth USTFCCCA regional awards while at Tech.   When the Texas Tech men took home the 2014 Big 12 Outdoor Championship in front of the home crowd at the Terry & Linda Fuller Track & Field Complex, Coach Thomas' athletes contributed 80.5 points--just over half of the program-record 160.5 points--to the championship performance. Tech became the first Big 12 team to win a conference title at home since Colorado, in 2008. Coach Thomas' athletes delivered the first-ever Tech 1-2 sweep in the Big 12 men's long jump, and the first 1-2-3 sweep in the men's high jump in the history of the Big 12 Outdoor Championships, to help push the Red Raiders over the top.   In the 2015 indoor season, Thomas was responsible for five All-American performances, most notably the high jump, where Red Raiders JaCorian Duffield & Bradley Adkins became the first set of teammates in 41 years to finish 1-2 in the NCAA high jump final. Those 18 points were instrumental toward Tech's program-record 31 team points and fifth-place finish. Duffield, who also took home the 2015 Indoor Big 12 title, was named the USTFCCCA Mountain Region field athlete of the year for his exploits.   Thomas is married to Ebony Thomas and they have two sons Jordan and Jameson Thomas.   Texas Tech File By the Numbers  - 3 National Champions - 1 Olympian - 26 NCAA All-Americans - 11 Individual Big-12 Conference champions - 16 School record performances - 93 All-Big 12 Performances - 5 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Assistant Coach of the Year honors - 3 USTFCCCA Mountain Region Athlete of the Year honors - 11 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 6 National Team Members - 99 All-Time top-10 performance list additions - 5 Big-12 Athlete of the Week Recipients     Kentucky File By the Numbers (2007-2012)  - 3 SEC Champions - 14 All-SEC Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 12 All-Americans - 30 NCAA National Qualifiers - 18 School Record Performances - 74 All-time top-10 performance list additions - 16 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters - 1 SEC Athlete of the year award winner - 5 SEC Athlete of the Week Awards   TCU File By the Numbers (2005-2006)  - 1 Conference Champion - 6 All-Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 2 School record performances - 11 All-Top top-10 performance list additions - 1 Student-Athlete 4.0 academic semesters   Sam Houston State File By the Numbers  - 1 NCAA Qualifier - 1 Southland Conference Champion - 7 All-Southland Conference Performances (Top-3 finishers) - 3 School record performances - 17 All-Time top-5 performances list additions - 3 Student-Athletes 4.0 academic semesters   Education Texas A&M University- Commerce Masters of Science in Health & Human Performance (Athletic Administration)   Sam Houston State University Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology   Mayde Creek High School- Katy, TX   Coaching Education USTFCCCA Jumping Event Specialist USATF Level I Certification USATF Level II Certification- Jumps USATF Level II Certification- Sprints