University of South Florida Women's Track

Reif's leadership in 2015, Michael Babinec, Catherine Blaney and Leandra Munson all earned all-conference honors in cross country, the first such honors in 11 years. Babinec also earned all-region honors with a 20th place at the NCAA South Region meet. Reif's second year with the Bulls in 2009-10 saw sophomore Nicole Rozario explode onto the scene in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Rozario set the school record in the second meet of the season, and didn't slow down from there, eventually landing at the NCAA Championships. In doing so, Rozario became the first female athlete at USF to earn a spot at the NCAA Championships in the steeplechase. That followed a fifth-place showing at both the NCAA East Prelim and the BIG EAST Championships. The indoor campaign saw the both the men's and women's DMR take sixth at the BIG EAST Championships, while sophomore Allie Prendergast set the outdoor school record in the 3,000 meters. The women's cross country team took 12th at the BIG EAST Championships in 2009, while the men finished 13th. Sophomore Nicole Rozario took 43rd individually at the championship meet, the second-highest finish ever for a cross country runner - men or women - in five years in the BIG EAST. The women also had their highest finish in five years at the NCAA South Regional with a 12th-place finish there as well. In addition, the women's cross country team earned its third-straight USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic team honor following the 2009 season, while the men were also named an all-academic squad. During her first season as the assistant coach in charge of cross country, Reif led the women's team to several outstanding performances in 2008, including a first-place finish at both the UCF Black and Gold Challenge and the FSU Invitational, as well as a second-place finish at the Mountain Dew Invite and a third-place mark at the Disney Invitational. Reif also led the women to 10th at the BIG EAST Championships and 14th at the NCAA Regional at Knoxville, Tenn. During the 2008-09 track and field season, freshman Allie Prendergast qualified for the U.S. Junior Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the 3,000 meters, placing eighth overall, one of four USF athletes to compete at the championships. The Memphis native moved from her hometown to Tampa to join the USF staff prior to the 2008-09 season after serving as the boys track coach during the 2007-08 school year at Memphis Catholic High School. Reif's impressive resume was recognized by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU), where she spent four years from 2002 until 2006 as the women's head track and field/cross country coach. She was recognized in 2005 as the Colonial Athletic Association (CAA) Track Coach of the Year for the women's outdoor season. Reif's squad took second at the conference meet that year, its highest finish ever, while one of her athletes, Cheri Manning, was named MVP of the meet. The track team's outstanding performance during the 2005 outdoor season followed a successful run by the women's cross country team in 2004, as the women also accomplished their highest finish ever, a second-place showing at the conference meet. Reif's coaching performance at VCU is still in effect today, as a total of 20 school records at VCU are held by athletes whom Reif mentored during her time with the Rams. Reif arrived at VCU after a five-year stint at the University of Southern Mississippi, where she worked with the cross country and track and field teams from 1997-2002. She was hired before the 1997 fall season, serving as the assistant men's and women's cross country/track and field coach from 1997-99. Reif was then named the head men's and women's cross country coach and held that title from 1999-2002 in addition to her assistant coaching duties with the track team. In didn't take long for Reif to make an impact with the Golden Eagles, as she was named the men's 1997 Conference USA Cross Country Coach of the Year in her first year with the program. Two years later, the men's squad won both the Conference USA title and the NCAA South Regional Championship. Four of her athletes were named all-Conference after finishing first, second, fourth and eighth at the championship meet, while Paul Kemei was tabbed the conference MVP. In addition, Golden Eagle runners earned five athlete of the week honors during the regular season. Then, in 2001, Janet Rono qualified for the NCAA Championships after finishing third at regionals, the first time in USM history a woman cross country runner earned a chance to compete at nationals. Reif's duties at USM also included recruiting coordinator, travel, equipment, scheduling and practice implementation. Before her time at Southern Miss, Reif was a volunteer and then a graduate assistant coach at her alma mater, the University of Memphis. Reif began her time with the Tigers as a volunteer assistant women's distance coach during the 1995 indoor and outdoor seasons. She was then named a graduate assistant coach, serving as the head women's cross country coach and the assistant women's track and field coach from 1995-97. In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Reif's duties at Memphis, Southern Miss and Virginia Commonwealth included recruiting coordinator, travel, scheduling, equipment and practice planning. Reif's collegiate coaching experience began back to 1994, when she first worked at Purdue as a volunteer women's cross country coach during the 1994 fall season. Reif earned a bachelor of science degree in education (exercise and sport science) from Memphis in Aug. 1994. Reif has an 11-year old daughter, Brooke.

Bye was tabbed the interim head coach before being formally named to the head coach position on July 12, 2006. Individually, Bye works with the women's sprinters and relays, the men's and women's hurdlers, and the combined events.   During his head coaching tenure, Bye has mentored USF athletes to two U.S. Junior National Championships, one U.S. Olympic Trials final, three All-America honors, eight BIG EAST titles, 31 individual and three relay All-BIG EAST performances, 11 NCAA Championship appearances and 46 NCAA Prelim (formally NCAA Regional) appearances. The back-to-back U.S. Junior National Championships in 2009 (Casey Wagner, javelin) and 2010 (Neamen Wise, decathlon) were the first two junior national titles ever won by a USF student-athlete since the program's first full season in 1992. Wagner went on to place fifth at the 2009 Junior Pan Am Games following her U.S. junior national title, while Wise took 12th at the IAAF World Junior Championships in 2010. In addition, USF athletes have continually qualified for BIG EAST championships, set school records and posted top-5 all-time performances during his tenure. A total of 20 school records between men's and women's outdoor track and field and women's indoor track and field have been set during Bye's head coaching stint. For men's outdoor track and field alone, 40 performances have landed USF student-athletes on the top-5 all-time list during Bye's first four years at the helm of the program. In 2010, the men's sprinters posted six of the top-5 fastest times ever at USF in the 100, 200 and 400 meters combined. Indoors, Reshaw Exilien (400 meters), Lindsey Lamar (60 meters) and the 4x400 relay all took third at the BIG EAST Indoor Championships, while the 4x100 relay took third at the outdoor conference meet to earn all-conference honors. The biggest highlight of the season along with Wise's U.S. junior national title, though, was sophomore David Aristil, who won the BIG EAST title in the 400 hurdles before going on to earn All-America status and take fifth at the NCAA Championships. He followed that up with an eighth-place showing at the USA Senior National Championships to cap a remarkable season. Bye also directed coached senior Yvana Hepburn to 20th place in the 100 hurdles at the NCAA East Prelim. Hepburn had her best season to date in 2010 when she posted the second-fastest time ever at USF in 13.40 seconds and took second at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships. During his tenure, Bye's teams have also improved their standing in the BIG EAST Conference. In the first four years, the women's team has gone from 16th place in 2007 at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships to 11th, 10th and finally seventh in 2010. Indoors, the Bulls have gone from 15th in 2007 to 10th in 2010. The men have been equally as impressive at the BIG EAST Outdoor Championships, finishing eighth Bye's first year before placing seventh the next two years. With several key members of the team not at 100 percent, the men's track and field team still managed a respectable eighth-place finish in 2010. Bye's teams have also done well in the classroom, as both the women's track and field team and the cross country team have earned USTFCCCA Division I All-Academic team honors the last three years. In taking the award that first year, the 2007 women's cross country team also had the nation's highest GPA. In the spring of 2010, members of the men's cross country team joined their brethren when they too earned all-academic team honors. During the past three seasons, USF has also had 12 track athletes named to the individual Division I All-Academic team by the USTFCCCA, including six in 2010 alone. In addition to his solid coaching background, Bye's experience in facility development at previous stops at Louisville and Indiana proved instrumental as USF embarked on a $2.79 million upgrade on the outdoor soccer/track and field facility located a stone's throw away from the USF Athletic Building. That project was completed in Sept. 2008. The upgrades included the addition of a Mondotrack surface, known to be the fastest, most durable and safest track surfaces in the world today and the same style that was used in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. USF became the fourth university in the country at the time to install the surface. Other improvements made to the facility during that construction under Bye's guidance included new runways for the javelin, long jump, triple jump and pole vault, new and improved areas for the high jump and throws, and an eight-lane, 400-meter track that features 48-inch lanes, a six-inch increase from the former design. That construction also included new lights and a new scoreboard capable of showing live results after a race. Bye was a key member of the staff that helped organize the very first USF/Steinbrenner Invitational, a high school meet held at USF in March 2010 that had fans, coaches and athletes raving about the USF track and field facility. Some called it one of the best high school meets ever held on Florida's west coast, wrote Bill Ward in the Tampa Tribune. Prior to being named head coach, Bye served two years with the Bulls as an assistant coach, specializing in horizontal jumps and combined events. With Bye's help, the Bulls had seven athletes qualify in eight events for the 2006 NCAA East Regional, as well as three advance to the national meet in Sacramento, Calif. In addition to managing USF's home meets, Bye also worked as an EXCEL counselor in USF's Academic Services. Bye came to USF from the University of Louisville, where he was the women's cross country and track and field head coach from 2002-04. In addition to training NCAA qualifiers and conference champions at Louisville, he was recognized for three straight years by the NCAA for the team's grade point average. Bye began his six-year tenure at Louisville in 1998 as an assistant coach, focusing on sprints, hurdles, jumps and combined events. He guided the Cardinals to their highest point totals ever at both the indoor and outdoor Conference USA Championships in 2002. Louisville's fifth-place showing at the outdoor meet equaled the highest finish by the Cards in 12 years. Prior to that, he was the sprint, hurdles, jumps and combined-event coach for both the men's and women's teams. In just five short years while at the University of Louisville, Bye was involved in more than 40 of the team's indoor and outdoor school records. In three years as head coach, Bye had six individual Conference USA champions and 20 athletes finish among the top three at the indoor and outdoor conference meets. Bye coached six NCAA Mid-East Regional qualifiers in two years and one NCAA qualifier in the high jump. In the classroom at Louisville, the women's program placed an astounding 25 of 30 student-athletes on the Spring Athletic Director's honor roll for maintaining a 3.0 grade point average for the semester. The program maintained its highest two-year GPA (3.24 in 2001-02; 3.29 in 2002-03) since those records were first kept in 1988-89. Bye's coaching experience extends to his alma mater, Indiana University, where he was a volunteer assistant from 1996-98. During that same period, he was Executive Director of the Indiana Track Club in Bloomington, Ind. Under his guidance, the club's membership increased from 70 to 250 members in just one season. Also at IU, he worked with legendary coach Sam Bell, who developed numerous Olympic athletes and is an inspiration to Bye. "Warren is perceptive, cares about kids and is very knowledgeable about the sport," said Bell, now retired. "His mind is like a sponge when it comes to absorbing information on how to make improvements. He is an exceptional coaching talent who has a bright future in the sport of track and field." In all, Bye has more than 20 years of coaching experience, with 20010-11 marking his 15th year at the NCAA Division I level. He is well versed in the technical events after training as a former decathlete who specialized in the jumps and hurdles. Bye earned a bachelor of science in kinesiology-teaching (K-12) in 2000 from Indiana. He landed at Indiana after a successful high school career at Crawford County High in Marengo, Ind.

Don Marsh begins his 26th year as a member of the University of South Florida Track and Field staff specializing in the pole vault and high jump. Prior to his position with the Bulls, Marsh spent three years (1995-97) as an assistant coach at Saginaw Valley State University and as an extremely successful high school coach in Michigan. During his time at SVSU, Marsh helped Cardinal athletes to several top finishes in the NCAA Division II Championships in the high jump, long jump, decathlon and the 100 meters. In addition, he coached four All-Americans in the high jump, the hurdles, the pole vault, and the 400 meters. After graduation from Michigan State University Coach Marsh first taught and coached at Chesaning where in his second year, they won their first Conference Track Title in 25 years. He then went on to Flint Kearsley High School. During his 32 years at Flint Kearsley High School, he molded one of the premier track and field programs in the state, regularly winning conference, regional, and state titles. He was named Michigan's Track Coach of the Year in 1974, 1978, and 1992. He was also named Midwest Track Coach of the Year in 1992 and was a finalist for National Coach of the Year that same year. In 1996, he was inducted into the Michigan Coaches Hall of Fame, and in 2006 he was inducted into the Michigan Track Coaches Hall of Fame. In 2011, he was inducted into the Michigan Sport Sages. In 2014, he was inducted into the Flint Kearsley High School Inaugural Hall of Fame in Michigan. Marsh continues to make his mark in track and field here at South Florida.  Under his guidance, USF high jumper Jimmy Baxter earned All-American honors for the third time in four years in 2005 and placed third in the NCAA Championships with a height of 7' 5". In addition, pole vaulter Jonathon Miller won the Conference USA Championship for a second straight year in 2004 with a conference and school record height of 17' 4.5". Marsh would help Miller achieve a three-peat in the pole vault a year later. He also coached freshman Megan Malone to a Conference USA Indoor Championship with a height of 12' 5 1/2" in 2005. In 2008, Coach Marsh coached Denise vonEynatten to a Big East Indoor Championship and a place in the NCAA Indoor National Championship achieving All-American Honors in the pole vault with a jump of 13' 11 3/4".   Also in 2008, Sean Young won the Big East Title and advanced to the finals in the Outdoor NCAA Championships with a jump of 17' 2 3/4". In addition, Dana Webb and Stephanie Duffy have qualified 2 straight years to the regional championship in the pole vault.  Both athletes also have been Academic All-Americans. Denise vonEynatten returned to USF in 2011 winning Indoor and Outdoor Big East Titles setting records in both. She also broke the school record by jumping 14' 1 3/4". She also placed 5th in the NCAA Indoor Championship to garner another All-American honors. Stephanie Duffy jumped 13' 6 1/4" outdoors to also achieve All-American status. In 2013, he coached Drew Volz to an Indoor Big East Championship in the pole vault. In 2015, David Shephard vaulted to All-American status. Junior David Bell vaulted 17’ 7” to break a 14-year-old school record in 2018. Bell in his senior season won the ACC Conference Championship and qualified for his third appearance in the NCAA first round. He coached Stephanie Lambeth to an Indoor Conference Title in 2020. In 2021, he coached Stone Baker to a spot in the Outdoor NCAA Championship meet in the pole vault with a jump of 17' 6 1/2". In 2023, Coach Marsh coached Kobe Babin to school records in both the Indoor and Outdoor Pole Vault with a jump of 17' 7 3/4". In 2023, Romaine Beckford excelled in the High Jump, winning both Indoor and Outdoor National Championships with a school record of 7' 5 1/4".  In 2024, Coach Marsh coached Kobe Babin to an indoor and outdoor AAC championship with his Outdoor performance clearing 18’ ½ inch, first USF vaulter to jump 18 feet. Coach Marsh has continued to coach outstanding performers in high jump, with Errol Blackmon jumping 7' 1" and advancing to the NCAA Championships three times in four years. Also in this group, Coach Marsh has coached Michael Kursteiner to three straight regional performances and Loutisha Hall to a school record of 5' 10". In 2013, he coached Chase Meyers to a 7’ 1” high jump to win the Big East Indoor Title. Coach Marsh has coached nine All-Americans, 17 National Qualifiers, 19 Conference Champions, and 58  Regional Qualifiers. Coach Marsh was a member of the Coaching Staff of the Year in Conference USA in 2003. Marsh remains an active community advocate for track and field and has served as a top official in four Special Olympics International Games. Marsh was a high school state champion himself at Charlotte High School and a four-year letter winner at Michigan State University, where he ran the 400 meters. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Michigan State University in biology and a Master's in administration from Central Michigan University.    Marsh and his wife, Betty, have four children, Jeff, David, Tim and Leigh Anne and five grandchildren.

A veteran of nearly 20 years of experience who has coached a total of 49 All-Americans, Abigi Id-Deen is in his fourth season as an assistant coach with the USF Track and Field program. He works primarily with the USF sprinters and hurdlers. Id-deen was promoted to Associate Head Coach on August 14, 2023. During the 2024 indoor season, the 60m school record was broken multiple times. First by Jermaine Dyges with a time of 6.68. Then ultimately at the conference championship with Abdul-Rasheed Saminu running a time of 6.57. Saminu would go on to place eighth at the NCAA indoor championships. Becoming the first USF sprinter to compete in the 60m at the NCAA championship. Freshman Markel Jones would win the 60mh at the conference championship and run on the winning 4x400m relay team which earned him the Freshman of the Year Award. Jaleel Croal won the 60m and well as the 200m at the conference championship which would allow him to win the Most Valuable Athlete Award. Zahria Allers-Liburd broke the 200m indoor school record (23.53). In the 2023 outdoor season, Michael Bourne III tied his school record in the 110mh as well as winning the 400mh at the AAC championship meet. His 400mh time of (50.86) also moved him to fifth all-time in school history. Bourne would go on to compete at the NCAA Preliminary round in the 110mh as well as 400mh and 4x400 relay. Following the AAC Championships, Sanique Walker would be victorious in the 400mh while breaking the school record as well as the conference record with a time of 55.87. Walker would go on to be a finalist in the Jamaican National Championship the hurdles. After competing with the 4x100m relay at the NCAA Championships; Jaleel Croal would go on to represent the British Virgin Islands in the 200m at the CAC games in San Salvador. During the 2023 indoor season Zayquan Lincoln became the school record holder in the 60m. with a time of 6.73 and would go on to be a conference finalist in the 60m as well as the 200m. Michael Bourne III would become runner-up at the AAC championships in the 60mh.  The 2022 outdoor season concluded with Shaneylix Davila qualifying for the NCAA championships in the 100mh and Sanique Walker becoming no. 3 all-time in the 400mh hurdles while qualifying for the NCAA Championships as well. Both athletes reached all-conference honors in the 400mh. Michael Bourne III broke the school record outdoor in the 110mh while qualifying for the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds joining Shaneylix, Sanique, and Hannah Connell. After their success during the outdoor season, both Shaneylix (Puerto Rico) and Hannah (Barbados) went on the represent their countries at the 2022 (u23) Caribbean Games making the final in the 100mh. In the 2022 Indoor campaign, Shaneylix Davila broke the previous school record held by Adriana Janic in the 60mh seven times to bring the time down to (8.19). Hannah Connell also ran (8.20) in the 60mh and broke the school record indoor in the 200m (23.87) During the 2021 season seven student-athletes under Id-Deen shot up into USF’s all-time record books with eleven placements. Duncan Agyemang qualified for the NCAA Championships after placing no. 4 on the all-time 400mh with a time of 50.82. Jae’Nisa Heckstall currently sets the USF record in the 400mh with 56.94 and is the no. 2 all-time record holder in the 100m hurdles. She grabbed multiple titles at the 2021 AAC Championship in the 400mh and 4x400, the relay tabbing her as a NCAA Championship Qualifier. After her success in the 2021 season, Heckstall secured her spot for the USATF Olympic Trials. Id-Deen has also coached 4x100 NCAA 1st round qualifier Kadesha Prescott. Additionally, Prescott is no. 7 in the 100m all-time and a 4x100 NCAA Championship qualifier. Dee Jennings, NCAA 1st round qualifier 110mh and sits at no. 3 all-time for the 110mh hurdles. Danelson Mahautiere currently boasts spots on the all-time list for no. 3 100m and no. 7 200m outdoor. And Zahria Allers-Liburd stands at no. 9 on the 200m indoor all-time list with 24.84. Shaneylix Davila went on to become the Puerto Rican National Champion in the 100mh and is the current school record holder of the 100mh. Davila also sits at spots two and three for the 60mh and 400mh all-time rankings. In his first season with the Bulls, Id-Deen led Adriana Janic to a school record indoor in the 60mh (8.29) during the 2020 indoor season. The outdoor season was cancelled due to Covid-19. Prior to USF, Id-Deen spent two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of North Carolina and helped the Tar Heels win back-to-back ACC Outdoor Championships in the men’s 4x400 meter relays while also taking 10th at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championships. Id-Deen also helped Anna Keefer earn All-ACC honors in both the women’s indoor and outdoor long jump while posting the third-best 60 meters and fourth-best 100 meters time in school history. Keefer also qualified and competed in three events at the NCAA East Regional. In his first season at North Carolina, Id-Deen made a huge impact on the North Carolina record books. Cierra Dunston, McKinley McNeill, Dontavian Smith and Kenny Selmon all qualified for at least one ACC Indoor Championship final and each earned a spot among the top-five all-time marks at UNC. Brianna Duncan broke the school record in the 60-meter, clocking in at 7.29, before setting two more Carolina records in the outdoor season — a time of 11.27 in the 100 and 23.03 in the 200. Both the men's and women's outdoor 4x100 relays also ran times that rank in the top-five in the history of Carolina track & field and a number of athletes qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round. Anna Keefer won indoor ACC long jump title as a freshman and earned second-team All-America honors during outdoor season. Most notably, Id-Deen coached Selmon who went on to claim the NCAA runner-up title in the 400-meter hurdles after clocking in a new school record time of 48.12 at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Kenny also went on to win the USATF 400H title in Des Moines, Iowa. A native of Staten Island, N.Y., raised in Arizona, Id-Deen was an assistant coach for sprints at Tennessee from 2015-17 where he specialized in long sprints, hurdles and relays. With the Volunteers, Id-Deen coached 400-meter student-athletes Nathan Strother (45.07) and Felicia Majors (51.29) and two 4x400 teams to All-America honors in 2016. Also, during the 2016 season, the Volunteer women broke the 4x400 school record on their way to winning the SEC Indoor Championship. Under Id-Deen, freshman Ari Cogdell ran 46.27 to become of a member of the United States Junior 4x400 team, which win the gold medal at the 2016 U-20 World Championships in Poland. He also coached freshman Brooklynn Broadwater to the seventh-fastest time in Tennessee history in the 400-meter hurdles when she finished in 58.20 at the 2017 NCAA East Preliminary Round. Prior to Tennessee, Id-Deen spent nine years at George Mason, beginning his stint there as an assistant coach. In 2011, Id-Deen was promoted to associate head coach after guiding student-athletes to 10 All-America performances in the Patriot sprints and jumps and the men’s team to Colonial Athletic Association titles in 2010 and 2011. Following the promotion, Id-Deen earned the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year Award after helping the Patriot men to their third consecutive CAA title. Eleven of his athletes qualified for the NCAA East Region Championships that year, with two moving on to the National Championships. Also in 2012, Id-Deen coached LaVell Handy to the Most Outstanding Field Performer Award at the CAA Championships. Handy qualified for the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the long jump and took part in the Olympic Trials at the end of the season. In 2013, Id-Deen coached the Patriot men's 4x400-meter relay team to All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Sprinter David Verburg was second-team All-America during the indoor season and earned first-team honors during the outdoor campaign in the 400. Verburg would go on to the USA Championships where his 400 time of 44.75 earned a place at the World Championships in Moscow, Russia. The women's 4x400 also picked up second-team All-America honors that season. In 2014, the Patriot women's squad claimed the Atlantic 10 Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Three of Id-Deen’s athletes seized individual titles at the A-10 Outdoor Championships, as did the men's and women's 4x400 relay teams. In total, Id-Deen coached 21 All-America individuals, six All-America relays, 48 individual conference champions and 18 conference relay champions in his nine seasons at George Mason. Prior to George Mason, Id-Deen spent two years as a member of Richmond's track and field staff, working primarily with the sprints, jumps and hurdle events. During his two-year tenure, his athletes broke 17 school records and earned five all-conference selections. Id-Deen coached Richmond’s Jessica Young to the World Junior Championships and five school records, including the 60, 200, and indoor 400, and outdoor 200 and 400. Young was the first female sprinter in Spider history to qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 400 and the NCAA East Regional Championships in the 200 and 400. Before becoming a member of the Richmond staff, he served two years as a volunteer assistant at Phoenix College (Ariz.), primarily working with the sprints and jumps. Id-Deen competed in track and field at Central Arizona College from 1997-99 prior to transferring to Arizona State. He set a long jump personal best of 24-06, ran the 200 meters in 21.32 and set a personal mark of 47.50 in the 400 meters. He graduated from ASU in 2002. He and his wife, Kia (formerly Kia Davis) were married in August of 2014; Kia is a 2008 Olympian for Liberia, where she holds six-national records. The couple has two sons, Akil and Khair. Id-Deen is a USATF level I and II certified instructor in sprints, hurdles, jumps and combined events. He also holds USTFCCCA certification in advanced strength and conditioning

Colyer's prior track and field experience spans more than 10 years, both professionally and as an all-America student-athlete, and includes numerous top performances by both him and the athletes he has mentored along the way. With Colyer's coaching, Devin Screen scored 22 points at the American Outdoor Championships in 2016 including the discus title. Screen also was an NCAA qualifier in the discus for the second time in as many years competing. Also that year, Bernicia Holifield became an NCAA qualifier in the hammer throw in her first season with the Bulls. The 2010 campaign saw Colyer's athletes continue to excel on the field, as sophomores Casey Wagner, Lauren Noe, Sarah Canter and Jared Thomas and senior Tyler Perkins each qualified for the NCAA East Prelim. Wagner and Thomas went on to compete at the NCAA Championships, two of USF's four total NCAA qualifiers. Wagner became the first javelin thrower at USF - men or women - to qualify for the championships, while Thomas became the first USF thrower (discus, shot put, hammer, javelin) on the men's side to earn a spot at the Championships. Both also extended their school records set during their freshman campaigns on three different occasions during the 2010 season, as Wagner threw 155-8 in the javelin at the East Prelim while Thomas threw 193-6 at the FSU Relays. Thomas finished the 2010 season ninth in the nation in the discus with that record-setting throw. Perkins finished his career second all-time in the discus behind Thomas after a PR of 176-8 in 2010. Canter and Noe moved up to third all-time in the javelin (143-1) and hammer (179-3), respectively, while sophomore Atasha Warren posted the fourth-best hammer throw ever at USF with a toss of 167-0. Since Colyer has taken over as the throws coach, 15 total performances have landed USF student-athletes, both men and women, on the top-5 all-time list for the javelin, hammer, shot put and discus. Noe and Wagner also earned a spot on the 2010 USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, with Wagner taking home the honor for the second year in a row. Throughout the 2009 season, Colyer coached perhaps the finest group of freshmen throwers in school history. Both Wagner and Thomas set school records in the javelin and discus, respectively, while qualifying for the U.S. Junior National Championships. Wagner went on to win the national championship, USF's first ever at the championships, while Thomas finished fifth at the meet. Colyer also coached rookie Noe to class records in the weight and the hammer, while Wagner, Thomas, Jara Cornett (javelin) and Perkins (discus) all qualified for the NCAA Regional, with Cornett and Perkins competing for the second year in a row. In 2008, Colyer coached Taylor Stallings to a 13th-place finish in the discus at the NCAA Championships along with three different qualifying marks for NCAA regionals in the shot put, discus and hammer. He also led Cornett and Perkins to the NCAA Regional, while Stallings and Perkins earned All-BIG EAST performances in the shot put and discus, respectively, with silver medals at the conference meet. All three carved their names on the top-5 all-time performance list at USF. Colyer made an immediate impact in his first year with the Bulls, as Perkins not only set a class record in the discus, but threw the third-best mark in school history. Grant Scelzi also threw the second-best mark in school annals in the javelin, breaking his previous personal best by 20 feet. During the 2007 season, all athletes Colyer coached earned personal best in their respective events, while Perkins and Scelzi posted all-Conference performances. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Colyer remained with the team from 2003-06, first as a student-coach and later as an administrative assistant, where his main duties included team travel, equipment, team banquets, budgeting and supervising three team managers. While working at Tennessee, Colyer earned his Levels I and II USA Track and Field certifications and lent his expertise as an instructor at UT's All-American Track and Field Camp in 2004 and 2005. An all-American in the javelin at Tennessee, Colyer was a three-time letterwinner for the Volunteers and was elected a team captain prior to the squad winning the 2001 SEC and NCAA Outdoor Championships. Colyer's junior season saw him join the Tennessee elite when he earned All-SEC and All-America honors. His personal best of 225-10 in the javelin ranks seventh all time in school history. Colyer was also a two-time SEC All-Academic selection while at Tennessee. After a successful high school career at East Juniata High in Cocalamus, Pa., Colyer was recruited to throw for Wallace State Community College in Hanceville, Ala. It was there that Colyer made a name for himself, as he captured the national championship in the shot put and placed second in the javelin in his first college season in 1997, earning NJCAA All-America honors. Following his rookie campaign, Colyer was recruited to SEC powerhouse Tennessee to throw the javelin and shot put. Along with the collegiate ranks, Colyer's background also extends to coaching throwers at the high school and club levels. A native of McAlisterville, Pa., Colyer earned his bachelor's degree in sociology from Tennessee in the fall of 2001.

Remuro Henry is in his sixth season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the University of South Florida (USF) Track & Field team. He works primarily with the Long and Triple Jump athletes, helping guide the Bulls to national recognition through his expert coaching and mentoring. In 2024, Henry played a pivotal role in leading the men’s indoor track and field team to a conference championship. Under his guidance, standout athlete Goodness Iredia became the long jump record holder at USF, achieving a jump of 7.52m (24’8") and ranking top 4 all-time in the triple jump. Iredia also set the outdoor school record with a jump of 7.94m (26'0") and won both the long jump and triple jump titles at the 2024 American Athletic Conference (AAC) Championships. In the 2023 season, Henry coached Nia Robinson, who earned Indoor All-America honors in the long jump and claimed the AAC outdoor long jump championship with a mark of 6.69m (21’11”). Under Henry’s leadership, Robinson contributed to USF’s long jump squad ranking among the top 5 NCAA Division I teams. Henry’s impact on USF’s jumpers continued in the 2021 season when he coached Shaniya Benjamin, a Tampa native who became the AAC Conference Long Jump Champion with a mark of 6.53m (21'5"). Benjamin also became USF’s No. 2 all-time outdoor performer in the 200m (22.97) and was a key member of the 4x1 and 4x4 relay AAC Championship teams. Additionally, David Ajama set the USF indoor record for the triple jump with a distance of 16.03m (52'3"), while earning both indoor and outdoor AAC conference championships in the event. Before arriving at USF, Henry spent a season at Western Kentucky University (WKU), where he served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. He helped Annastacia Forrester achieve NCAA Outdoor All-America Honorable Mention status and post the fourth-longest indoor long jump in school history (19'11.50"). Henry’s coaching career began at Barton Community College, where he helped the Cougars win the 2018 conference and regional championships. He was named the USTFCCCA Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year after his athletes secured 50 All-American accolades, contributing significantly to Barton’s national title. Henry’s earlier coaching experience includes stints at Wayland Baptist University and Coffeyville Community College, where he coached Olympic medalist Andre De Grasse. As a student-athlete, Henry competed at Barton Community College, where he earned five All-America honors and an individual national title before transferring to the University of Oklahoma, where he earned eight All-Big 12 honors.  

Rouser helped Dwight Davis become an NCAA qualifier in the 400m dash. An Olympic gold medalist and five-time All-American, Rouser previously served as the head coach for nearby Zephyrhills High School from 2009-2012. As a professional athlete, Rouser specialized in the 400m. At the 1993 World Indoor Championships he finished sixth in the 400m and won a gold medal in the 4x400m relay. He won another relay gold medal at the 1997 World Indoor Championships. At the 1996 Olympic Games, Rouser ran the second leg in a personal best time of 44.22 seconds for the American relay team that later won the final and thus awarded a gold medal. Rouser graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1994 as an 11-time Big Eight Conference Champion and a five-time All-American. Among his many accomplishments, Rouser was the NCAA runner-up in 1991 for the indoor 400m, the indoor runner-up in the 400m at the 1993 USATF Indoor Championships and the outdoor runner-up in the 400m at the 1994 USATF Outdoor Championships. Rouser currently owns and operates his own company called, GOALWorks, which he started in 2004. GOALWorks helps to develop athletes in many different sports.

Otey, a three-time All-American at the University of Virginia, coaches the Bulls in mens and womens sprints, horizontal jumps and high jump. At USF, Otey has coached the most decorated student-athlete in school history, Matthew O'Neal to All-America honors, twice indoors and twice outdoors, and school records in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump. O'Neal also finished fifth at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials in 2016. In 2015, O'Neal accepted an invitation to compete internationally at the World University Games where he finished eighth. She helped O'Neal to three conference titles in the triple jump and in 2015, coached Kevin Bell to an indoor conference title in the long jump.  Otey came to USF after four seasons as an assistant coach at UAB where she worked with the jumpers and multi-event athletes. The New Kent, Va., native became a professional athlete in 2003 and most recently participated in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic trials. Following a successful athletic career at Virginia from 1999-2003, Otey served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Cavaliers during the 2003-04 season. While at Virginia, Otey was a six-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer and a two-time ACC champion in the long jump. She holds the current ACC outdoor long jump record (6.54 meters/21-5.50) and the Virginia indoor 60-meter record (7.37). She ranks second in school history in the 100-meter, 200-meter and long jump events. In 2003, Otey became a USA Indoor Track and Field champion in the indoor long jump with a leap of 6.33 meters (20-9.25). Otey graduated from Virginia in 2003 with a degree in sociology. A New Kent high School alum, she still holds six school records, three state records and won the state championship in 1999.