University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Men's Track

Meaders returned to coach at his alma mater in 2012 after an 18-year stint at Florida State that saw him rise to the programs associate head coach in 2004 while coaching the throwers and coordinating recruiting operations. Im extremely delighted to have the opportunity to reunite with the Carolina family, said Meaders in the summer of 2012, Im a product of North Carolina track and field. I was born and raised in this state and had the privilege to compete at the University of North Carolina.  If youve ever worn the Carolina Blue and White, you know how I feel. Carolina is an extremely special place and its an honor to give back to the university and the community that has given so much to me. The track and field teams experienced success on the national level in the 2014-15 season with eight First Team All-Americas (Lizzy Whelan, Sean Sutton, Xenia Rahn [twice], Javonte Lipsey, Ceo Ways [twice], and Kenny Selmon). Additionaly AJ Hicks, Kenny Selmon, Javonte Lipsey and Sarah Howard earned Second Team All-America honors. The team earned 26 All-ACC honorees including ACC champions Xenia Rahn (pentathlon and heptathlon), Paul Haley (heptathlon), and the men's 4x400 relay (RJ Alowonle, Javonte Lipsey, Kenny Selmon and Ceo Ways). The team excelled in the classroom with 46 individuals making the 2014-15 ACC Academic honor roll.  In the throws for 2014-15, Meaders coached AJ Hicks and Sarah Howard to Second Team All-America honors. Hicks set personal bests in the weight throw in four consecutive weeks and eclipsed the second place mark on the school's all-time list in the event. He earned All-ACC honors for finishing third in the event and took 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Howard earned Second Team All-America honors in the shot put during the outdoor season. She set a career best mark at 16.99 meters and still ranks second all-time in UNC's history. During the 2013-14 track and field seasons Meaders led the Tar Heel program to a better blue through four ACC Champions and a 4x400 relay ACC Championship, 19 All-ACC honorees, a relay and 26 individual NCAA First Round qualifiers, three relays and 10 NCAA National Championships qualifiers, five First Team All-Americas in RJ Alowonle (4x400, 400-hurdles), Sean Sutton (4x400), Javonte Lipsey (4x400), Ceo Ways (4x400) and Xenia Rahn (Heptathlon), and seven Second Team All-Americas in Isaac Presson (mile and 5,00), Lizzy Whelan (1,500), Annie LeHardy (mile and DMR), Cori Floyd (DMR), Lianne Farber (DMR), Javonte Lipsey (400-hurdles), and Sarah Howard (shot put), and 22 All-ACC Academic honorees. Additionally, 40 of his student-athletes were named to the 2013-14 ACC Academic Honor Roll. In the throws for 2013-14, Meaders coached the unit to several personal records and a few top-five school marks. Meaders guided AJ Hicks to an ACC Championship in the weight throw as well as earning ACC Indoor Field Event MVP. Sarah Howard threw a new personal record under his direction that ranks second in UNCs history and ranked 10th among all NCAA athletes in 2014. Meaders is a 1992 graduate who competed in the discus, shot put, and 35-pound weight throw. While competing, he won back-to-back ACC outdoor titles in the discus in 1991 and 1992 as well as an indoor conference crown in the weight throw in 1992. Meaders was a high school All-America who became an NCAA and Olympic Trials qualifier while at UNC in addition to his three individual conference championships. He set the school record in discus, a mark that stood for 23 years. Meaders ranks second on the UNC all-time list with a discus throw of 186-10 (56.95 meters). Meaders was also a captain on the 1992 track team that won the ACC Outdoor title in the same year. The Monroe, N.C., native began his coaching at Western Carolina where he spent three years as an assistant coach while earning his masters degree in physical education. While there Meaders also instructed courses in the physical education department. He coached several Western Carolina track and field athletes to multiple Southern Conference individual titles. During his tenure at Florida State, Meaders helped the Seminoles win the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Associations NCAA Division I mens program of the year award for two consecutive years in 2011-12. The Seminole mens and womens programs have both finished among the top five nationally in each of the four years the honor has been awarded by the governing body. As the throws coach, Meaders guided 11 different Florida State throwers to a total of 22 All-America honors and compiled 22 ACC indoor and outdoor titles. The male and female athletes he coached there hold more than three-quarters of the top-10 all-time school bests in the discus, javelin, shot put and weight throws. In 2005, Meaders was named the East Regional Assistant Coach of the Year for his success with the Seminoles throwing corps. At Florida State Meaders coached two-time NCAA Champion Garrett Johnson who is widely considered the greatest student-athlete in Florida State school history. In the fall of 2005 Johnson was honored as the second Rhodes Scholar in school history as well as the first for a student-athlete. In the spring of 2005 Johnson claimed NCAA Indoor and Outdoor titles in the shot put for the Seminoles first national championships in that event. Johnson also set school, conference and NCAA East Regional records that year. Johnson went on to compete in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials, earning a ranking of 14th in the world. Meaders coached Olympian Dorian Scott, a stand-out at Florida State and native of Jamaica, to the 2012 London Olympics. Scott was the first Jamaican to ever reach the final of the mens shot put at an Olympics, throwing 66-6 (20.31 meters) to qualify, and ultimately finished 10th with a throw of 67-6 (20.61 meters). Scott has an all-time best shot throw of 70-4 ½ (21.45 meters) which he set in March 2008 in Tallahassee, Fla. Among producing top athletes, Meaders has also taught student-athletes who have gone on to become successful coaches: Gregg Jack is the throws coach at Virginia Tech, Cathy Erickson is the head coach at Northeastern University, David Price is at East Carolina, B.J. Linnenbrink is at Duke, and Dorian Scott is an assistant coach at Florida State. Karen Rademeyer and Makiba Batten are also former Meaders pupils who went on to coach. In addition to the coaching and athletic successes to his name, Meaders brings with him a deep commitment to academic success. From 2007 to 2012, his student-athletes earned 19 Academic All-America honors. He was also the co-founder of R.E.A.L. Men (Reliable, Educated, Approachable Leaders), a leadership program at Florida State for male student-athletes. Along with his coaching duties at FSU, Meaders oversaw daily operations, including team travel and budget, as well as acting as the programs liaison with athletic department administration, compliance, facilities, admission, financial aid and the business office.

VanAlstyne coached the womens cross country team to their first ACC Championship in 10 years. VanAsltyne also qualified both teams for the NCAA Cross Country Championship, a feat that had never been accomplished by Carolina before. The men ultimately placed 12th, their highest finish at the Championship since 1985 while the women finished 22nd. With the mens team competing at the Championship, VanAlstyne guided the men to two consecutive championships, which hadnt been done for nearly 40 years in North Carolina history. Under VanAlstynes guidance the teams had eight All-ACC Honorees (, ,, , , , , and ) and eight All-Region Honorees (, , , , , , , and ). VanAlstyne coached 10 Tar Heels to the first round of the NCAA National Championships, including Lizzy Whelan, Karley Rempel, Annie LeHardy, Lianne Farber, Stella Radford, Caroline Alcorta, Hannah Christen, Ryan Walling, Mark Derrick and John Raneri. LeHardy went on to the NCAA Outdoor Championships to compete in the 5,000 while Farber went for the 1,500. Both women earned All-America honorable mentions. VanAlstyne acted as an assistant athletic director at North Florida and was essential in transitioning the program from NCAA Division II to Division I in 2005. He coached six national champions, 35 All-Americas in track and 12 All-Americas in cross country while leading the Ospreys. One of VanAlstynes athletes went on to win a U.S. Championship while another gained a berth in the 2004 Olympic Marathon. VanAlstyne has accrued numerous coaching honors, including the 2002 NCAA South Region Coach of the Year, 2003 Peach Belt Conference Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year and the 2010 Atlantic Sun Conference Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year, and most recently 2014 ACC Womens Cross Country Coach of the Year. VanAlstyne was inducted into the North Florida Hall of Fame in October of 2013 for his coaching and athletic accomplishments. A graduate of North Florida and a former stand-out athlete there, VanAlstyne holds the school record for the marathon while his 10,000 meters time ranks third all-time in the school record books. VanAlstyne is married to Patty, who was a six-time All-America track & field athlete at North Florida. They have a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Kaley. Follow Coach VanAlstyne on Twitter or friend him on Facebook.

Rubin has guided student-athletes to All-America status in every sprinting, relay, hurdling and jumping event, as well as the decathlon. In 2015, the Tar Heel resurgence in the mens sprints and hurdles under Rubins guidance continued. Sophomore Ceo Ways was named First Team All-America in the 400m, setting a new personal record of 45.49, which moved him to third on UNCs all-time performance list.  Ways joined freshman Kenny Selmon, senior Sean Sutton and junior Javonte Lipsey to gain First Team All-America honors in the Indoor 4x400m relay, placing sixth overall at the 2015 Championships. Outdoors, the relay quartet continued its dominance at the ACC championship, winning its fourth conference title in a row, as well as setting a new school record with the team of Ways, Sutton, Lipsey and junior RJ Alowonle in 3:04.06. Rubin has also been instrumental in the recent recognition of UNC as Hurdle U, as the Tar Heels placed three 400m hurdlers in the NCAA National Championships. Among them, Selmon had an outstanding first season, setting a new personal record of 49.60, winning the US Junior National Championship and earning a silver medal at the 2015 Junior Pan American Games. Lipsey set a new personal record of 49.65 and finished 10th overall at the NCAA Championships; and Junior RJ Alowonle set his new PR of 50.02.  In 2014, Rubin led the mens sprinters and hurdlers to one of the most successful campaigns in UNC history. The Indoor 4x400 meter relay team of RJ Alowonle, Sean Sutton, Javonte Lipsey and Ceo Ways moved from relative obscurity to a fifth-place All-American finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The team ran 3:06.49 and was just 0.13 seconds from the school record, which was set by the 1996 National Championship team. Outdoors, the mens sprinters and hurdlers made a significant impact at the 2014 ACC Outdoor Championships, combining to score 67 of the teams 110 total points. The 400m hurdles were a particularly strong area for the Tar Heels, as sophomore Alowonle won his second straight ACC Championship and sophomore Lipsey was right behind to earn the silver medal and ensure the second consecutive year that North Carolina would finish 1-2 in the event. Freshman Ceo Ways signaled his arrival in the ACC by completing an impressive pair of second-place finishes in both the 200m (20.53) and 400m (45.93), and by anchoring the ACC-Champion 4x400m Relay team that included Alowonle, Lipsey and freshman Kwame Donyinah. The team ran 3:05.89 to claim North Carolinas third consecutive ACC 4x400m Championship. At the Outdoor NCAA Championships, Alowonle set his PR of 50.11 en route to earning fifth place and First Team NCAA All-America honors, while Lipsey finished 10th for Second Team All-America honors. The 4x400 meter relay team of Alowonle, Donyinah, Lipsey and Ways ran their best time of the year in the preliminary round and qualified for the NCAA finals with a time of 3:04.80, the second best time in UNC history. In his first year in Chapel Hill, Rubin guided four athletes to the NCAA Championships, including Clayton Parros, Tristine Johnson and Briana Hudson, all of whom qualified for the Outdoor NCAA Finals in Eugene, Or., and Chrishawn Williams who qualified for the Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Williams earned NCAA All-America honors in the long jump with a lifetime-best of 6.31m; Parros achieved a collegiate-best in the 400m at 45.73; and Johnson and Hudson jumped 12.84m and 12.75m, respectively, to give the Tar Heels double-qualifiers in the womens triple jump. Coach Rubins squad also made a significant impact at the conference level as his athletes garnered 10 All-ACC Outdoor honors. Included among those achievements were the Carolinas Mens 4x400 relay team, which became repeat-ACC Champions, and RJ Alowonle and Reynaldo Radlin, who finished 1-2 in the 400m hurdles. Rubins jumpers also made a statement as Jacinda Evans (6.43) and Chrishawn Williams (6.31) finished second and third in the Womens Long Jump with national top-10 marks. In 2005 while head coach at Florida International, he led Sheri-Ann Brooks to an NCAA Championship in the 200 meters, as she ran 22.85 and became the first-ever national champion in the history of the FIU program. In the same year, Rubin guided Kevon Pierre to FIU records in the 100m (10.19) and 200m (22.42) and led the Mens 4x100 to a school record (39.65) and NCAA Championship qualification. In 2010, he guided Case Western Reserve's Obinna Nwanna to an NCAA National Championship in the decathlon. In all, he has coached a total of 38 First-Team NCAA All-Americans and two national champions over the course of his distinguished career. Rubin is a USATF Level II Certified Instructor and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA. He graduated from Emory University in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy.  He and his wife, Tiffeni, live in Chapel hill.  

Roberts will work directly with the cross country program and middle distance runners, but will have a hand in coaching all distance runners. I am honored and humbled that Coach Meaders and Coach VanAlstyne have faith in me as one of the next leaders to assist this distance program, Roberts said. This University demands the very best in all areas and as an alumnus, I share the same love and passion that is contagious for this community and campus. I am eager to continue building off of the successes that this program has enjoyed and work toward furthering the tradition of excellence here at Carolina.  Roberts first joined the coaching staff at UNC after completing his Masters in Sport Administration in May of 2013. In his time as a volunteer assistant, Roberts helped coach the mens cross country program to two consecutive NCAA Championship appearances and their highest finish since 1985. On the womens side he helped coach the womens team to an ACC Championship in 2014 and an NCAA appearance. The womens team also had its highest USTFCCCA ranking since 2004. During the track and field seasons, Roberts worked across all distance events including large involvement with mens half milers. Most recently, Roberts helped coach Cory Nichols to a breakout season in 2015 where Nichols finished second in the 800 at the ACC Indoor Championships earning all-conference honors. Oneal Wanliss also reached the NCAA East Preliminary Round in the same event. Roberts is an alumnus of Baylor University where he completed his undergraduate degree in Health Science Studies (Pre-Physical Therapy) while competing on the track and field and cross country teams. During his time at Baylor, Roberts served as the Big 12 Conference representative on NCAA Division I National Student Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the NCAA Division I Sport Management/Championships cabinet. After earning his degree at Baylor, Roberts received the Dr. Gerald Lage Award, the highest academic honor distributed by the Big 12 Conference. Roberts earned the USATF Level 1 coaches certification in February of 2013.

Rubin has guided student-athletes to All-America status in every sprinting, relay, hurdling and jumping event, as well as the decathlon. In 2015, the Tar Heel resurgence in the mens sprints and hurdles under Rubins guidance continued. Sophomore Ceo Ways was named First Team All-America in the 400m, setting a new personal record of 45.49, which moved him to third on UNCs all-time performance list.  Ways joined freshman Kenny Selmon, senior Sean Sutton and junior Javonte Lipsey to gain First Team All-America honors in the Indoor 4x400m relay, placing sixth overall at the 2015 Championships. Outdoors, the relay quartet continued its dominance at the ACC championship, winning its fourth conference title in a row, as well as setting a new school record with the team of Ways, Sutton, Lipsey and junior RJ Alowonle in 3:04.06. Rubin has also been instrumental in the recent recognition of UNC as Hurdle U, as the Tar Heels placed three 400m hurdlers in the NCAA National Championships. Among them, Selmon had an outstanding first season, setting a new personal record of 49.60, winning the US Junior National Championship and earning a silver medal at the 2015 Junior Pan American Games. Lipsey set a new personal record of 49.65 and finished 10th overall at the NCAA Championships; and Junior RJ Alowonle set his new PR of 50.02.  In 2014, Rubin led the mens sprinters and hurdlers to one of the most successful campaigns in UNC history. The Indoor 4x400 meter relay team of RJ Alowonle, Sean Sutton, Javonte Lipsey and Ceo Ways moved from relative obscurity to a fifth-place All-American finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships. The team ran 3:06.49 and was just 0.13 seconds from the school record, which was set by the 1996 National Championship team. Outdoors, the mens sprinters and hurdlers made a significant impact at the 2014 ACC Outdoor Championships, combining to score 67 of the teams 110 total points. The 400m hurdles were a particularly strong area for the Tar Heels, as sophomore Alowonle won his second straight ACC Championship and sophomore Lipsey was right behind to earn the silver medal and ensure the second consecutive year that North Carolina would finish 1-2 in the event. Freshman Ceo Ways signaled his arrival in the ACC by completing an impressive pair of second-place finishes in both the 200m (20.53) and 400m (45.93), and by anchoring the ACC-Champion 4x400m Relay team that included Alowonle, Lipsey and freshman Kwame Donyinah. The team ran 3:05.89 to claim North Carolinas third consecutive ACC 4x400m Championship. At the Outdoor NCAA Championships, Alowonle set his PR of 50.11 en route to earning fifth place and First Team NCAA All-America honors, while Lipsey finished 10th for Second Team All-America honors. The 4x400 meter relay team of Alowonle, Donyinah, Lipsey and Ways ran their best time of the year in the preliminary round and qualified for the NCAA finals with a time of 3:04.80, the second best time in UNC history. In his first year in Chapel Hill, Rubin guided four athletes to the NCAA Championships, including Clayton Parros, Tristine Johnson and Briana Hudson, all of whom qualified for the Outdoor NCAA Finals in Eugene, Or., and Chrishawn Williams who qualified for the Indoor Championships in Fayetteville, Ark. Williams earned NCAA All-America honors in the long jump with a lifetime-best of 6.31m; Parros achieved a collegiate-best in the 400m at 45.73; and Johnson and Hudson jumped 12.84m and 12.75m, respectively, to give the Tar Heels double-qualifiers in the womens triple jump. Coach Rubins squad also made a significant impact at the conference level as his athletes garnered 10 All-ACC Outdoor honors. Included among those achievements were the Carolinas Mens 4x400 relay team, which became repeat-ACC Champions, and RJ Alowonle and Reynaldo Radlin, who finished 1-2 in the 400m hurdles. Rubins jumpers also made a statement as Jacinda Evans (6.43) and Chrishawn Williams (6.31) finished second and third in the Womens Long Jump with national top-10 marks. In 2005 while head coach at Florida International, he led Sheri-Ann Brooks to an NCAA Championship in the 200 meters, as she ran 22.85 and became the first-ever national champion in the history of the FIU program. In the same year, Rubin guided Kevon Pierre to FIU records in the 100m (10.19) and 200m (22.42) and led the Mens 4x100 to a school record (39.65) and NCAA Championship qualification. In 2010, he guided Case Western Reserve's Obinna Nwanna to an NCAA National Championship in the decathlon. In all, he has coached a total of 38 First-Team NCAA All-Americans and two national champions over the course of his distinguished career. Rubin is a USATF Level II Certified Instructor and a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA. He graduated from Emory University in 1991 with a bachelor's degree in political science and philosophy.  He and his wife, Tiffeni, live in Chapel hill.  

Langley owns 11 years of coaching experience including years at his alma maters Western Carolina and Gardner-Webb as well as at Clemson. A quick look at the body of work that Josh has composed throughout his coaching career, and perhaps its obvious why I am excited to see Josh take on the role of Assistant Head Track and Field Coach here at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Meaders said. Under his guidance athletes have excelled in nearly every discipline that our sport has to offer. Josh has a comprehensive knowledge base and a proven ability to teach young men and women. Above and beyond that, Josh has consistently demonstrated character and the highest degree of moral fiber. He has embraced each of our guiding principles but embodies the principal of helping our student-athletes grow as individuals. I am delighted that Josh, in this new capacity, will continue to help me and the rest of the staff write the next chapter for Carolina track and field and cross country. Langley coaches the multis, pole-vaulters, javelin, and Avana Story in the throws. Nearly every student-athlete under his guidance set a personal record in 2015. His athletes earned 44.5 of the 62.5 points that the womens team scored at the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships, a large reason in why Langley was named the Southeast Womens Assistant Coach of the Year for the indoor season. Among his athletes who had a stellar year in 2015 was Xenia Rahn. Rahn was a headline for the track and field teammate throughout the entire year as she smashed all the school and conference records for the pentathlon and heptathlon. Under Langleys guidance, Rahn was the ACC Champion in the pentathlon and heptathlon and earned First Team All-America nods twice last year, including a third-place finish in the pentathlon at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Her performance in the national meet made her become the seventh-best individual to ever compete in the pentathlon in NCAA history. The other female multis each posted personal records in their events throughout the year. Langley also coached Paul Haley to a breakout year. Haley improved his heptathlon mark considerably and became ACC Champion in the heptathlon during the indoor season. Haley was narrowly edged out for a final spot at the NCAA Indoor National Championships. In his last collegiate competition, Ryan Ramsey scored an all-time personal best score in the heptathlon with help from Langley, and earned all-conference honors for finishing third. Langley guided Cameron Overstreet to a school record in 2015. Overstreet broke the indoor pole vault record by clearing 13-11 in her final indoor home meet of her collegiate career. She placed second at the ACC Indoor Track and Field Championships earning all-conference. Redshirt freshman Brittany hull consistently cleared 13-0 and ended up finishing fourth in the indoor pole vault at the conference meet. Overstreet had previously earned All-America honors during the 2013 outdoor season. Langley coached Overstreet during a jump-off at the NCAA East Preliminary Round in which Overstreet won that allowed her to qualify for the NCAA Championships. Langley is a 2003 graduate of Western Carolina where began his coaching career with the Catamounts. He was an outstanding javelin thrower at WCU and was a member of two Southern Conference championship teams in 1999. Langley received his masters degree in Sport Science/Pedagogy from Gardner-Webb in 2005, where he also coached for a three-year period from 2004-06. He coached 49 all-conference selections and five regional qualifiers in his three seasons at Gardner-Webb. The Bulldogs won the 2006 Atlantic Sun Conference mens outdoor title. Langley helped coach the Bulldogs to the 2006 Atlantic Sun Championship title, and his throwers scored 92 points at the championship meet, including Cody MacArthur who was named Field Event Performer of the Year. In 2005, GWU jumper Jake Didion was named Freshman of the Year in the Atlantic Sun Conference. Langley coached at Clemson from the fall of 2006 to the spring of 2009 where he coached several specialties including mens field events, multi-event athletes, and mens and womens pole vault across the years of his tenure. Named the 2007 East Region Assistant Coach of the Year for Jumps and Combined Events at Clemson, he helped Mitch Greeley to a second-place finish in the pole vault at the 2008 NCAA Indoor Championships, the Tigers best individual finish indoors ever by a field athlete. Greeley later qualified for the U.S. Olympic Trials. Langley also helped Miller Moss qualify for the 2009 NCAA Championships in the decathlon; Nicole Lomnicka was ranked No. 7 in the nation for the hammer; and his athletes earned All-America honors in the heptathlon and triple jump. In his first season with Carolina, Langley helped two Tar Heels earn All-America accolades in Daniel Keller and Mateo Sossah. Both merited All-America honors in the decathlon. During the 2010-11 season Langley took over as the Meet Director in addition to his post as assistant coach for pole vault at Carolina. In that same season, Langley coached Parker Smith and Sandi Morris each to NCAA appearances. Smith took fourth tying the highest finish ever by a UNC pole vaulter at the NCAA Outdoor Championships, earning him All-America honors, and also qualified for the 2011 NCAA Indoor meet, where he took 14th. In his last indoor season of eligibility, Smith added a second first-team All-America honor to his credit when he cleared a personal best 17-8 1/2 at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championships. He is married to the former Layna Stoetzel, a former volleyball player at Western Carolina. Their daughter Jayden was born September 1, 2010. Their son Raymond Jacob (RJ) was born August 23, 2012 and their daughter Lilly Anne was born October 16, 2013.