University of Missouri - Kansas City Men's Track
Academic Snapshot
Acceptance Rate
75%
Avg SAT
1,230
Avg ACT
26
Enrollment
6,618
Team Information
Sport
Track
Gender
Men's
Division
NCAA Division 1
Location
Kansas City, MO
Coaching Staff (5)
Shameika McField
Head Coach
McField was named the head coach for the UMKC track and field/cross country programs on March 4, 2008. Before her appointment, McField served as the interim head coach for the Kangaroos from January to March 2008. McField joined the athletics department in September 2007 as an academic advisor.
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Benaud Shirley
Head Coach
Shirley served as the primary assistant to the horizontal jumps for Jayhawk assistant coach Milan Donley. During his stint in Lawrence, he had the opportunity to work with four student-athletes that went on to earn all-America honors. As a student-athlete at Kansas, Shirley was a nine-time all-Big 12 Conference jumper. He was the conference champion in the outdoor triple jump in 2002 and 2003, and he was an NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field National Championships participant. In the classroom, he was a four-time Jayhawk Scholar, which is an award given to student-athletes that achieve a 3.0 grade point average or higher on a 4.0 scale. On the national scene, Shirley was the 2003 Jamaica senior national triple jump champion, and he was the national representative at the 2003 Pan American Games. As a prep, Shirley was a national high school triple jump champion and a three-time national representative. He holds high school records in the long jump, high jump and triple jump events. A native of Portland, Jamaica, Shirley earned his bachelor of science degree in economics from the University of Kansas in May 2004. He and his wife, Maria del Carmen, have one daughter, Gisselle A., and are expecting their second in February. Shirley resides in Eudora, Kan., with his family.
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Brett Guemmer
Assistant Coach
Guemmer joined the UMKC staff in the summer of 2015. Guemmer is an assistant coach for men's and women's track and field and cross country. He earned his Bachelor's Degree in secondary education from UMKC in 2013 and was on the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) all four years he ran for the 'Roos, and was president of SAAC in 2011-12. Guemmer is originally from DeSoto, Missouri, where most of his family still lives, including two of his three brothers.
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Brian Bishop
Assistant Coach
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Marlon Shirley
Assistant Coach
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