University of Michigan Men's Track

Clayton Era. U-M finished tied for 13th in the nation outdoors, the program's second top-15 finish in the last 55 years and the first since 1997. Five athletes earned All-American citations, including the program's first-ever decathlon All-American, Steven Bastien, who re-broke his own program record, the ninth U-M has broken in Clayton's first three seasons. Michigan was second at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with 90.5 points -- both program-highs since the 2008 season -- and placed fourth at the Big Ten Indoor Championships, just two points shy of a runner-up placing. During the season, Mason Ferlic became the first Wolverine in program history to receive votes for the Bowerman Award, collegiate track and field's highest honor, and Michigan's 20 athletes sent to the NCAA East Preliminary Round mark a program-best. At the outdoor championships, U-M was the only program to score in each throwing event (discus, hammer, shot put, javelin), and the Wolverines also scored in the decathlon, pole vault, high jump and triple jump. Steven Bastien broke his program decathlon record en route to a silver medal, and U-M totaled five all-conference honorees in all (three first-team). At the indoor meet, individual champions Steven Bastien (Heptathlon) and Mason Ferlic (5,000m) were among U-M's all-conference honorees (Kevin Stephens; 2nd Team; Triple Jump) and the team broke program records in the 400m race, Triple Jump, Weight Throw and Heptathlon among top-10 all-time performances in a number of other events. Clayton guided Bastien (Heptathlon) to his second career first team All-America honor (eighth place) and another new U-M Heptathlon record (5,810 points) in Birmingham, Alabama, and the DMR also secured All-America honors, giving Michigan five All-Americans on the weekend. In his second season with the Maize and Blue, U-M featured a pair of individual conference champions and a fifth-place finish at the Indoor Big Ten Championships. Clayton guided two Wolverines to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships. Derek Sievers, who set the indoor shot put record early in the 2015 season, earned All-America second team honors by finishing 11th. Clayton also helped U-M to its first-ever All-American in the heptathlon, guiding Bastien to an eighth-place finish and the new U-M indoor program record. During the outdoor campaign, Clayton helped direct 10 Wolverine athletes to the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, including a pair of throwers in Sievers and fifth-year senior co-captain Cody Riffle, who went on to earn USTFCCCA Honorable Mention recognition at the NCAA Championships. Sievers and Riffle also set the indoor and outdoor program records in the shot put, respectively, during the 2015 season. In his first season at U-M, he guided fifth-year senior Bradley James to the Big Ten outdoor high jump title and helped 13 student-athletes advance to the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds, including eight field event athletes. Under Clayton's direction, Derek Sievers qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the shot put, where he earned All-America second team honors. In his event areas, eight Wolverines moved into Michigan's all-time top 10 performance list during the 2014 indoor and outdoor seasons, including Sievers, who set a new school record in the outdoor shot put. One of the nation's top field event coaches, Clayton has successfully developed individualized training programs for the sprints, hurdles and the field events. His work has produced 16 NCAA individual champions, 39 international team competitors, 24 qualifiers for the U.S. Olympic Trials and 33 participants in Olympic Games and World Championship competition. Clayton has coached 88 NCAA All-American student-athletes. He has had 158 athletes qualify for the NCAA Track and Field Championships and 114 individual conference champions. In addition, Clayton has coached athletes that won individual NCAA titles in seven of the nine field events, with competitors receiving All-America accolades in each field event. During Clayton's 15 seasons at Auburn (1998-2013), the Tigers won the 2006 NCAA Women's Outdoor Track and Field championship. He helped Auburn to 18 top-10 finishes at the NCAA Track and Field Championships (indoor and outdoor), including 10 top-five finishes. Clayton personally coached 10 NCAA national champions, had his student-athletes earn 51 All-America honors and 34 SEC individual titles. He had 79 performers qualify for the NCAA Track and Field Championships. Clayton spent three seasons (1995-98) as the University of Florida's field event coach prior to joining the Auburn staff. During his tenure, Clayton helped the Gators produce 13 qualifiers for the NCAA Track and Field Championships, receiving eight All-America honors, three individual SEC champions and 10 All-SEC honors. He helped the Gators program to one top-10 finish at the NCAA Track and Field Championships and four top-three finishes at the SEC Championship. Prior to joining the Florida staff in 1995, Clayton was the head men's and women's track and field coach at Southwest Texas State for six seasons (1989-94). He led the Bobcats to a combined four Southland Conference championships, including the first men's outdoor SLC title in program history during the 1993 season. Clayton led the men's team to a program-best seventh place finish at the 1990 NCAA Outdoor Championships and the women's team placed 13th at the 1994 NCAA Outdoor Championships. He was named the 1991 Region VI Coach of the Year and the Southland Conference Coach of the Year on four occasions. Clayton was an assistant men's track and field coach at his alma mater, the University of Illinois, for nine seasons (1980-89) before accepting the Southwest Texas State position. He helped the Illini to seven Big Ten track and field titles and three top-10 finishes at the NCAA Championships. This includes a runner-up performance at the 1988 NCAA Indoor Championships. Clayton is a native of Rushville, Ill. He graduated from Illinois in 1980 with a bachelor of sciences degree in physical education. Clayton was a two-time NCAA qualifier in the shot put. Clayton and his wife, Becky, a former three-time All-American long jumper at the University of Illinois, have two sons: Zach and Nick. Zach played on Auburn's 2010 national championship team, while Nick is a 2013 graduate of the Air Force Academy and has been selected into the pilot's program. Has coached 2 World champions Has coached 2 Olympic Medalists (Silver, Bronze) Has coached athletes in each of the last four Olympic Games and six World Championships Michigan athletes have broken eight records during his tenure, including 1 record-holding relay and 5 record-holders in his event groups Has coached 16 individual NCAA Champions Has coached 88 All-Americans and one All-American relay team, including 15 in his event groups Has All-Americans in 7 of 9 Field Event groups NCAA Great Lakes Region Outdoor Head Coach of the Year (2016) Has coached 30 NCAA Regional Qualifiers at Michigan, including a program-record 20 in 2016

Henry's athletes have earned 424 Academic All-Big Ten honors, eight Big Ten Medals of Honor (awarded for the highest demonstration of scholarship and athletic ability), three NCAA Postgraduate Scholarships and 14 Capital One Academic All-America honors. Most recently in 2016, Henry has helped coach the Maize and Blue to its best season since a program-best year in 2008. During the outdoor campaign, U-M totaled 106 points at the conference meet, its most since 2009, and won gold medals in the 100-meter hurdles, 800 and 1,500-meter runs and the 5 and 10K's. U-M went 1-2 in both middle-distance races and added bronze medals in the heptathlon and high jump to complete the program's first Big Ten sweep since its last triple crown season in 2003. Indoors, his Wolverines won the Big Ten for the first time since 2006, totaling 109 points for their best scoring effort in seven years with five event and relay titles carrying the bulk of the scoring. The Maize and Blue also medaled at 600 meters and in the 60-meter hurdles before carrying that momentum into a sixth-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships -- third-best in program history. There, Henry helped guide Cindy Ofili to the program's first individual title since 2009 (60-meter hurdles) while and the Distance Medley Relay secured three more first team All-American honors. Ofili ran a record-shattering 7.89, ranked No. 5 in the world at the time and No. 6 in collegiate history, to claim the fifth and final record once held by her sister Tiffany. In 2015, Henry guided the Wolverines to their second consecutive runner-up finish at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. He coached Cindy Ofili to a national runner-up finish in the 100m hurdles during the outdoor season, and she broke the program's 100m dash (11.39) and 100m hurdles (12.60) records in the same weekend in Eugene while U-M had its best team finish since the 2009 season, finishing in 19th. Earlier in the season, Henry coached Cindy Ofili to a successful defense of her 60m hurdles crown at the indoor conference meet, and also helped her repeat as the outdoor 100m hurdles champ. U-M's distance medley relay, along with Ofili, competed at the NCAA Indoor Championships, where DMR finished third, and during the outdoor season, Ofili qualified for the national meet in two events, joined by a pair of 1,500m runners and Erin Finn in the 10K race. During the 2014 season, Henry produced the program's most Big Ten champions since 2009 (8), capturing six individual conference titles and the program's 11th straight distance medley relay crown. Cindy Ofili doubled as the indoor 60-meter hurdle and outdoor 100-meter hurdle champion, while freshman Erin Finn won the indoor and outdoor 5,000-meter run and outdoor 10,000-meter run and Erin Busbee took home the indoor long jump gold medal. Finn became the first athlete in Big Ten history to be named Big Ten Athlete of the Year, Freshman of the Year and Athlete of the Championships in the same season. Under Henry's guidance, U-M sent three individuals and the distance medley relay to the NCAA Indoor Championships and five athletes to the national outdoor meet. Ofili earned All-American first team honors in the 60-meter hurdles (6th) indoors, while Erin Finn (10,000m, 6th) and Brook Handler (1,500mm, 6th) also garnered First Team All-America recognition outdoors. Henry also helped U-M's first heptathlete reach the NCAA Outdoor Championships since 2009, as Aaron Howell recorded a 16th-place finish to earn All-America second team accolades. Fifth-year senior pole vaulter Kiley Tobel capped her career as a Capital One Academic All-American. Henry's 2013 squad produced its best Big Ten team finishes since 2009, placing third at the indoor conference meet and fourth at the outdoor event. Fifth-year senior Amanda Eccleston captured the indoor mile and outdoor 1,500-meter run titles and also ran the anchor leg of Michigan's NCAA champion distance medley relay, which set a new school record (10:56.46). Rebecca Addison, Jillian Smith and freshman sprinter Maya Long joined Eccleston on the winning relay. The Big Ten DMR (Shannon Osika, Meg Bellino, Smith and Addison) captured the program's 10th-striaght conference crown. In addition to U-M's DMR winning the national title, junior multi-event athlete Erin Busbee finished sixth in the long jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships to propel the Wolverines to a tie for 15th place -- its best team result since 2009. Following the 2013 season, Addison and Smith were named to the Capital One Academic All-America first and second teams, respectively. Addison became the first Wolverine to earn a spot on the first team since 2006. At the 2012 London Olympic Games, three former Wolverines, as well as one U-M graduate student represented Michigan. Tiffany (Ofili) Porter (100 meter hurdles, Great Britain), Geena Gall (800 meters, USA) and Nicole (Edwards) Sifuentes (1,500 meters, Canada), as well as Uhunoma Osazuwa (Heptathlon, Nigeria), who currently trains with Henry, each competed for their respective countries. In 2012, Addison and Tobel spearheaded Michigan's success. Addison won the third straight Big Ten indoor 800-meter title for U-M, as Jillian Smith captured crowns in 2010 and 2011. Addison and Smith were also members of Michigan's ninth-straight Big Ten distance medley relay title. Addison and Tobel were each First Team All-Americans in their respective events at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Tobel set new school records in the indoor and outdoor pole vault, while Addison capped the season on the Academic All-America third team list. Smith and Addison teamed up at the 2011 Big Ten Indoor Championships, winning the 800- and 1,500-meter titles, respectively, and were also members of the winning distance medley relay team, leading U-M to a fourth-place finish. That duo carried through to the NCAA Indoor Championships, as they were each All-Americans in the 800-meter run and DMR, helping U-M place 18th as a team. In 2010, Henry's newest recruit, freshman Erin Pendleton contributed immediately, winning the Big Ten outdoor discus title and was named conference freshman of the year for her efforts. Pendleton (discus) and Shana Vinson (indoor 400 meter) each set new Michigan records in 2010 that still stand today. 2009 was perhaps Henry's best year at Michigan, as he led the Wolverines to an 11th-place showing at the NCAA Indoor Championships and a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Tiffany Ofili capped her career with five national titles, winning the 60-meter hurdles (indoor) for the second consecutive season, while winning the 100-meter hurdles (outdoor) for the third year in a row. Geena Gall, a 10-time All-American, won her second consecutive national title in the 800-meter run (outdoor), as both seniors capped their career in grand fashion. The 2009 senior class left its mark on Michigan women's track and field, winning seven national championships with 23 All-America citations. The group accounted for 14 Big Ten championships, earning Athlete of the Year or Championships, six times. In addition to the class' athletic achievements, the group was recognized as Academic All-Big Ten honorees, 32 times. In 2008, Henry guided the Wolverines to a third-place finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships and a seventh-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. The Maize and Blue earned three national championships, as Ofili took the 60-meter hurdles (indoor) and 100-meter hurdles (outdoor) crowns, while Gall earned top honors in the outdoor 800-meter run. Under Henry's guidance, U-M also earned eight Big Ten titles in 2008. Following the completion of the 2008 collegiate season, 12 current or former Wolverines competed in their respective nation's Olympic trials. Nicole Forrester (1996-99) (Canada) and Anna Willard (2007) (USA) went onto compete in the 2008 Beijing Games. Henry began his coaching career in 1981 as an assistant with the Michigan men's and women's track and field teams, working with U-M's first women's track coach, Red Simmons and then Francie Kraker Goodridge, who assumed the helm in 1982.Henry has been a part of every Michigan team that has won a Big Ten title since the Wolverines captured their first crown in 1982 -- an indoor championship. In 1985, legendary U-M Athletic Director Donald Canham hired Henry as the third head coach in the history of the program. Henry guided Michigan to seven top-30 finishes at the NCAA Championships in his first five years at the helm, adding 10 All-America honors to the resumes of his student-athletes in the process. The seed for Michigan's success in women's track and field was planted when Henry added Mike McGuire and Arnett Chisholm to his coaching staff in 1990. McGuire, who competed in cross country and track for the Wolverines, returned to Ann Arbor after two seasons as an assistant track and field coach at Kansas, while Chisholm moved to the women's side after working as a volunteer assistant with the Michigan men's track and field program. Henry's moves began to pay dividends in 1994 with the program's first Big Ten outdoor title, triggering a string of success that included the program's first triple crown in 1994, and another triple crown in 1998. Henry's 1998 Wolverine team captured both the indoor and outdoor Big Ten crowns as well, while also producing Michigan's first individual NCAA champion (Katie McGregor in the indoor 3,000-meter run) and its second national champion distance medley relay team. In 2002, Henry's squad swept the Big Ten indoor and outdoor championships for the third time during his tenure, earning him conference coach of the year honors. Henry guided the 2003 Wolverines to the third and fourth consecutive Big Ten team titles, as the Maize and Blue captured both the indoor and outdoor league crowns for the second straight year. He earned Big Ten Coach of the Year honors for the second straight year. In 2004, Henry guided U-M to its third straight Big Ten outdoor championship -- the fourth in seven years (1998, 2002, '03), earning coach of the year honors along the way, while the Wolverines secured a second place finish in the Big Ten indoor championship. U-M captured seven Big Ten individual crowns and one relay title, as well as nine NCAA All-America honors, including three for Lindsey Gallo and two for Katie Erdman. Six U-M records were broken in 2004, including the 1,500-meter, which had stood for 21 years. Six U-M athletes competed in the Olympic Trials with 1996 graduate Courtney Babcock competing for Canada at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games. Off the track, Gallo was the 2004 and 2005 CoSIDA Women's Track & Field Academic All-American of the Year, while Melissa Bickett earned an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Henry earned the 12th Big Ten Coach of the Year award of his career in 2006 and was named the USTFCCCA Indoor Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year for the second year in a row, following U-M's 14th Big Ten title and its seventh title in the last nine chances. Henry's squad took the 2006 Big Ten indoor title -- the program's eighth -- while finishing second in the Big Ten Outdoor Championships as the Wolverines narrowly missed out on winning their fourth triple crown. Michigan posted its third-best finish in program history at the NCAA Indoor Championships (13th place) and the second best finish in program history at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (13th place). In 2007, Henry won the USTFCCCA Indoor Track & Field Great Lakes Region Coach of the Year. He led the Wolverines to second place at the Big Ten Indoor Championships and the program's fourth-best finish (ninth) -- at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Henry's team tied for first place with Illinois in the 2007 Big Ten Outdoor Championships and posted a program-best third place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Five U-M records were broken in 2007 -- Nicole Edwards' indoor mile (4:36.08) and Tiffany Ofili's 60-meter indoor hurdles (7.43) set new marks as did Ofili's outdoor 100-meter hurdles (12.80), Anna Willard's outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase (9:38.08) and Erdman's 800-meter run (1:59.35). Edwards and Ofili topped those records in 2008, while Erdman and Willard's record still stand today. Ofili and Willard each won NCAA outdoor titles in their respective events that year. A 1980 Michigan graduate, Henry earned a bachelor's degree in education, while lettering four years on the Wolverine track and field team (1977-80), specializing in the long jump. Henry was the first U-M athlete to long jump 25 feet and his collegiate-best jumps still stand as Michigan's fourth-best indoor and third-best outdoor performances. He won the 1980 Big Ten long jump title, and helped U-M to the 1978 indoor, 1978 outdoor and 1980 outdoor Big Ten team championships. A three-time record holder at the Central Collegiate Championships, Henry qualified four times for the NCAA Championships. Active in a number of Washtenaw County community organizations, Henry resides in Ann Arbor with his wife, Michelle, daughter, Kamilah, and son, James II.

Sullivan was announced as head coach of the Michigan men's cross country program on July 17, 2014, and in the midst of his third season at the helm of the program. He also serves as an assistant men's track and field coach. In just his second season leading the Maize and Blue, Sullivan coached the team to its first sweep of the Big Ten and NCAA Great Lakes Regional titles with a top-10 NCAA finish since his senior season in 1997. U-M placed ninth at the national championships, the program's best finish since 2003. At the regional meet, Sullivan guided five Wolverines to all-region honors, three of whom earned the accolade for the first time in their respective careers. Mason Ferlic won the individual title and became U-M's first athlete to accomplish that feat since Nate Brannen in 2004. The conference crown was U-M's first Big Ten title since the 1998 season. Ferlic was the runner-up, the highest-finishing Wolverine since Brannen took second in 2003. U-M put three in the top 10, all five scorers in the top 25, and had three all-conference honorees. Ferlic was a first-teamer, while Ben Flanagan (8th) and Tony Smoragiewicz (9th) were second-team. In 2016, Sullivan's Wolverines finished fifth at the Big Ten Championship behind sixth-place all-conference performer Aaron Baumgarten, and went on to place fifth in the regional meet at all. Baumgarten, Billy Bund, Connor Herr and Jordy Hewitt secured all-region honors. In his first year at the helm of the program, Sullivan guided U-M to its fifth consecutive appearance at the NCAA Championships, and its best performance in more than a decade. Mason Ferlic took 13th to become the program's first back-to-back All-American since Nate Brannen in 2003-04. Sullivan coached the Maize and Blue to 11th place, the team's best finish since 2003, and also the best finish in program history under a first-year head coach. Sullivan also helped U-M to its third consecutive runner-up placing at the Big Ten Championships, pushing Ferlic and Ben Flanagan to first and second-team all-conference honors, respectively, before coaching U-M to a third-place finish in the NCAA Great Lakes Regional. Ferlic and Flanagan were joined by August Pappas in earning all-region honors. The most decorated runner in school history, Sullivan was a 16-time Big Ten champion and a 14-time NCAA All-American during his Michigan career. He won four NCAA titles, claiming top honors in the mile (1995 and 1998) and the distance medley relay (1995) during the indoor season, and the 1500m run at the 1995 outdoor championships. Sullivan was a nine-time Big Ten Athlete of the Year, earning the honor each of his four years in cross country, three times in indoor track and field and twice outdoors. In cross country, Sullivan was a four-time NCAA All-American (1993-95, 1997), four-time NCAA regional champion, four-time Big Ten champion, four-time Big Ten Athlete of the Year and a four-time all-conference selection. He was also the 1993 Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Sullivan was a three-time Olympian for Canada, competing in the 2000, 2004 and 2008 Games. He placed fifth in the 1500m run at the 2000 Olympics and is Canada's record holder in three events: 1500m (3:31.71), mile (3:50.26) and 3000m (7:41.61). Sullivan was one of the world's top competitors in the 1500m run for nearly a decade, winning a silver medal at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and 2001 Goodwill Games, and earned the bronze medal in the 2000 IAAF Grand Prix Final. Overall, he participated in 22 World Championships in cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field. Since finishing his competitive running career, Sullivan has remained involved in the running community. He was the operations manager for the Florida State University track and field team during the 2010 season. Sullivan was responsible for preparing travel, entering student-athletes in competition and assisted with the administration of three home events for the Seminoles. He left FSU to open up Capital City Runners, a full-service specialty running store, of which he is the owner and manager. Sullivan has stayed close to the Big Ten Conference competition as an analyst for the BTN with various track and field programming. He served as an editorial research assistant for CTV Sports (Agincourt, Ontario) during the 2012 London Olympics. He has been a volunteer assistant coach for the women's cross country program at Florida State University since 2007. Prior to 2007, Sullivan was a volunteer coach at the University of Illinois with the women's programs (2003-07) and men's program's (2002-03). He also spent four seasons as a volunteer coach with the Michigan men's cross country and track programs from 1999 through 2002. Sullivan graduated from the University of Michigan in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. Academically, Sullivan was a seven-time Academic All-Big Ten selection, three-time CoSIDA Academic All-American, and was the 1998 Spring At-Large Academic All-American of the Year. He was a recipient of the 1998 NCAA Top VIII Award. He was Michigan's male recipient of the 1998 Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor. Sullivan was inducted into the University of Michigan Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2006. Coached U-M to one Top-10 NCAA Finish (2015) Coached U-M to one Big Ten Championship (2015) Coached U-M to one NCAA Great Lakes Regional title (2015) Big Ten Cross Country Coach of the Year (2015) NCAA Great Lakes Regional Coach of the Year (2015) Coached 33 All-Americans, including one in track and one in cross-country at Michigan Coached his athletes to 28 conference titles in track and cross country, including two track and field titles at Michigan Coached one individual regional champion (Mason Ferlic, 2015) Coached one Great Lakes Regional Athlete of the Year (Mason Ferlic, 2015) Coached his athletes at U-M to 12 all-region honors. Coached his athletes at U-M to six all-conference honors (three first team, three second team)