University of California - Los Angeles - UCLA Men's Track

Hoyt's coaching duties include all of the jumps and multi-events. He supervises the greatest group of volunteer coaches in Bruin history, which includes; Anthony Curran (pole vault), and Sharon Day-Monroe (heptathlon). Hoyt brings to the Bruin program over 20 years of coaching at the collegiate level. I am so excited to be a Bruin! Coach Maynard has compiled an amazing staff and the team is more motivated than any team Ive ever been around. Great things are coming to Westwood, thats for sure. In his third season the Bruin multis and jump athletes continued to shine on the national stage. Tatum Souza capped off her career in the heptathlon with the second best score in school history at 5,771 points en route to earning All-America honorable mention accolades. In his freshman campaign, Steele Wasik posted the eighth best score in school history with 7,521 points and earned second team All-American honors in the decathlon. In the high jump Zibby Boyer leaped to the fourth best mark in school history at 6-1.25, won the Pac-12 title and earned second team All-American honors. Cody Crampton (high jump), Idrees Bernard (long jump), Austin Hazel (long jump), Jessie Maduka (long jump), Maya Brown (long jump) and Faith Anumba (triple jump) were national meet qualifiers. Hoyt also served at the World University Games head coach for the United States track and field team. He helped coach Boyer to a silver medal in the high jump in South Korea.  In 2014 the multi-events and jumps continued to be a strength for the Bruins. Under Hoyts guidance, three earned All-American honors during the outdoor season and two were honored for their efforts during the indoor campaign. Kylie Price soared to first-team honors by placing third overall at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships while Zibby Boyer and Alexis Walker garnered honorable mention accolades in the high jump. Price was twice named the Pac-12 athlete of the week and Walker earned the honor once. During the indoor season Marcus Nilsson placed eighth overall to earn All-American honors in the heptathlon with a career-best 5,760 points while Price was named to the second team in the long jump. Walker secured the 10 best heptathlon in school history in her very first try by accumulating 5,409 points. She also cleared 5-11.50 for the 10 best high jump in school history. Cody Crampton cleared 7-2.50 for the sixth best high jump at UCLA. He also coached UCLA volunteer coach Sharon Day-Monroe to a new American record in the pentathlon. Day-Monroe won the 2014 USA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a record 4,805 points. In 2013, Hoyts inaugural season at UCLA, personal records were set in every event area. Kylie Price was an All-American at both Indoor and Outdoor Nationals and set a personal best of 21-4 in the long jump. UCLAs All-American pole vaulter, Michael Woepse, jumped a personal best 18-4, while his female counterparts, Allison Koressel (All-American) and Natasha Kolbo both set personal bests at 14-1 and 13-6. The two Bruin heptathletes each improved by over 350 points to 5,691 and 5,165. UCLAs decathletes made even bigger improvements to their scores with two NCAA qualifying marks. Marcus Nilson placed 3 at the NCAA Championship meet and later competed at the World Championships in Russia. In the mens long jump, Michael Perry surprised everyone with a 3 place PAC 12 showing and a personal best improvement of over a foot to 24-8. Dillon Stucky added a foot to his triple jump at 51-1. Faith Anumba returned to form in the triple (41-7) and long jumps (19-7) following a stress fracture in 2012. In the womens high jump, 6 women surpassed their marks from the previous year, 3 of whom qualified into the first round of the NCAA Championship Meet. Cody Crampton, the lone male high jumper, redshirted and will be joined in 2014 by 3 new freshmen all in the 7-foot range. Prior to UCLA, Hoyt spent 7 years as the coach of field events, men's decathlon and women's heptathlon at Cal Poly (San Luis Obispo). During that time, Hoyt coached Sharon Day to national stardom in the heptathlon and high jump. In the fall of 2012, Day followed Hoyt to UCLA and had her best season to date. She set personal records in 6 of the 7 heptathlon events and finished 2013 with the 3 best heptathlon score in the world with her USA Championship winning score of 6,550.  Day had a successful high jump career, winning the NCAA women's high jump event (6-4) in 2005 and making the U. S. team at the 2008 Olympics (Beijing, China). In 2009, Day's first year of full time heptathlon training, she made the USA World Championship Team in both the high jump and heptathlon. Her heptathlon success continued with a second-place finish at the USA National Championship Meet in 2010 and the top spot on the podium in 2011. At the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Day was the top U. S. finisher in the heptathlon. Hoyt has been Day's coach in all seven of the heptathlon events. Along with Day, Hoyt had three other athletes who competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials (two in the decathlon and one in the javelin). During his tenure at Cal Poly-SLO, Hoyt coached two Olympians, five NCAA Division I scoring athletes, 10 NCAA Championship Final meet qualifiers, 37 Regional qualifiers and 19 conference champions. He showed his versatility with conference champions in the pole vault, high jump, long jump, javelin, discus, shot put, heptathlon and decathlon. From 1989-2005, Hoyt coached nearly every event at his alma maître, Seattle Pacific University. During that time, he personally coached Division II All-Americans in the 100 Hurdles, 400 hurdles, 400 meters, high jump, long jump, pole vault, heptathlon, decathlon, shot put and javelin.  He was the Head Coach for the mens and womens teams from 1999-2005. In his final season at SPU, Hoyt led the Falcon women to 13th at the NCAA Div. II Outdoor Championships and eighth indoors. That year, he also coached Danielle Ayers-Stamper to an NCAA Indoor high jump title and 2 in the heptathlon, and Chris Randolph to the NCAA Div. II decathlon title. During his six seasons without a campus track & field facility, Hoyt's SPU teams won a total of five outdoor and indoor conference championships. At SPU he earned a Regional Coach of the Year honor, was a five-time Conference Coach of the Year and produced 36 Div. II All-America athletes and 102 conference champions. Hoyt was an All-American decathlete at Seattle Pacific University in 1987. He competed at the 1992 Olympic Trials in the decathlon where he was coached by current UCLA Director, Mike Maynard. Hoyt has held the SPU high jump record for over 25 years, and in 1990 broke the American Record for the decathlon high jump at 7-2.75. In 2004, Hoyt set the American Record in the decathlon for the over-40 age group. Even at 40 years of age, he was still over 15 feet in the pole vault and 6-5 in the high jump. Currently, he has slowed his athletic career down to lifting weights with his athletes and playing with his family at Santa Monica Beach.

Curran coached Allison Koressel and Tori Anthony to equal marks of 13-7.25 during the outdoor season, a lifetime-best mark for Korressel. Those two, along with Liz Goodrich, competed at the NCAA Preliminary Round, but did not advance to NCAAs. The 2010 season was one of mixed results for Curran as two of his top vaulters were hindered by injury. Casey DiCesare, Johnny Quinn and Greg Woepse posted marks over 17-0 in both the indoor and outdoor season, but Quinn broke his hand during outdoors and missed the post-season while Woepse dealt with hamstring strains that kept him away from top results. DiCesare and Quinn both cleared 17-5 outdoors and 17-7 indoors last year and will continue to raise the bar in 2011. The women vaulters had great success as Tori Peña (14-3.25) and Katy Viuf (14-2) each cleared the 14-foot barrier and finished third and fourth, respectively, at the NCAA Outdoor meet. The horizontal jumpers also did well, while several also struggled with injury. Taylor Hobson missed the season due to knee surgery, but Jonathan Clark (TJ-52-5.25) and Nelson Rosario (LJ-25-0) posted lifetime-best marks during the 2010 season. During the 2009 season, Curran had three vaulters and five jumpers compete at the NCAA Outdoor meet, with Rhonda Watkins, Danielle Watson, Johnny Quinn and Katy Viuf advancing to the event finals. In all, Curran's jumpers tallied 18 regional qualifying marks during the season, while over 15 lifetime-best performances were achieved. Watkins earned indoor and outdoor All-American honors in the long jump. Viuf ranked in the top-5 in the women's vault and moved to fourth all-time in school history. Nine male athletes have earned All-American honors under Curran's tutelage - Dustin DeLeo (`08 indoor); Mike Landers (`06/'07-outdoor); Yoo Kim (`04-outdoor, `03-outdoor); Pat Luke (`03-outdoor); Brian McLaughlin (`00-indoor); Johnny Quinn (`08 outdoor); Scott Slover (`98-indoor/outdoor, `97-indoor, `96-indoor/outdoor); John Sommers (`94-indoor); and Mike Woepse (`11-outdoor); while eight women have earned the honor - Tori Peña (`10 outdoor/indoor); Katy Viuf (`10 outdoor); Tori Anthony (`08 indoor); Chelsea Johnson (`06-indoor/outdoor, `04-indoor/outdoor); Ingrid Kantola (`07 indoor and outdoor); Jackie Nguyen (`04-outdoor); Tracy O'Hara (`02-'99-both indoor and outdoor all four years at UCLA); and Erica Hoernig (`98-indoor). O'Hara won three NCAA titles - 2002 and 2000 Outdoor and 2000 Indoor. Johnson was the 2006 Indoor champion and 2004 Outdoor champion, and set the NCAA Collegiate Pole Vault Record (15-1) in 2006. His athletes have won nine Pac-10 titles, four on the men's side and five on the women's side, while over 20 men and women have secured spots on UCLA's all-time top-10 vault list with him as their coach. In recent years, Curran has coached six Olympians - Okkert Brits (South Africa), Yoo Kim (South Korea), Canadians Dana Ellis and Stephanie McCann, and American Mel Mueller. Ellis is the current Canadian National Record Holder (14-7.25) and both her and Ellis were Canadian National Champions. Kim set a Korean National Record in 2004 with a mark of 18-4.50, a height which also ranks third all-time at UCLA. Curran, 51, was a four-year letterman and All-American from 1978-82. During his senior season, he won the Pac-10 title with an 18-2.50 vault, No. 4 in Bruin history. In '82, Curran also placed fourth in the NCAA. As a junior, he was second in the conference (18-0.50) and also placed second in the NCAA, his best collegiate finish. In 1981, he ranked sixth in the U.S. As a sophomore in 1980, he jumped 17-8.50 to again place second in the Pac-10 and was third at the NCAA Championship. During his freshman season, Curran placed second (17-3) at the conference level and fourth at the NCAA. Still active as a vaulter into the '90s, Curran cleared 18-8.50 (personal-best) in 1992 and that summer competed in the U.S. Olympic trials. Curran, whose brother Tim was a Bruin vaulter in 1975-76, graduated from Crespi HS in Encino in 1978. During his senior prep season, he was the State champion (17-0.50, a CA State record at the time), and his 17-4.25 was a national prep record. As a junior, he vaulted 16-4, as a sophomore 15-9 and as a freshman in 1975, his best was 14-8.50. Curran started his own track club, "No Limit Sport" in 1985. In 1989, he founded the Beach Pole Vault Association. He has coached five elite women vaulters - 2000 Olympian Mel Mueller (15-1.75), No. 3 in the U. S.; Mary Sauer, ranked No. 10 in the World (15-3i), Canadian National Champion and Canadian National Record Holder Dana Ellis (14-8, 6th at the Athens Olympics), former Canadian National Champion Stephanie McCann (14-7.25, 10th at the Athens Olympics), Alexa Harz, fifth at the 2000 U. S. Olympic Trials (13-9.25) and O'Hara, who placed fifth at the U.S. Olympic Trials in 2004 (Personal-best 15-0 in 2005). Curran began his own production company in 1995 and has produced seven surf movies sold worldwide. He also began the Curran Surf Camps in 1998, which he runs during the summer, in addition to holding two UCLA pole vault and track camps. In 2003, Curran, an avid musician, produced his first music CD. He wrote, arranged and performed all 13 songs. Curran married Lisa Carlson in 1994, and they have five children - Sara (14), Tate (10) and Marlow (9), and Shaylee (4) and Kai Lilly (2). /

Smith was born and raised a Bruin. Following in the footsteps of his uncle, world renowned sprint and hurdle coach John Smith, he graduated in 1993 from UCLA, with a Political Science degree.  Under the guidance of John, he helped guide the careers of some of track and fields greatest athletes, including Bruin alums Kevin Young and Ato Boldon.  He hopes to use the experience of taking athletes to four Olympiads and seven World Championships, to help mold and guide the Bruins back to a national title.  He also relies on his experience as a student-athlete to help his charges navigate the challenges of being a UCLA Bruin, student athlete.  He believes in balancing the high expectations of UCLA, on and off the track.  Achieving a UCLA degree is just as important as scoring points on the track - one cannot be done without the other. Smith has three kids, Ricky 26, Aysia 24 and Jaden 11.