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USATF Announces Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Coaching Staff - USATF

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2020 Tokyo Olympics   Oct 30th 2019, 5:58pm
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USATF Announces Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Coaching Staff

10/30/2019
 

INDIANAPOLIS — Rose Monday and Michael Holloway will serve as head coaches of Team USA for track & field, marathon and race walk at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020, USATF announced Wednesday.


Monday is nationally known as one of the top minds in middle distance and distance running. Her 28-year coaching career spans across all levels from high school to professional. In 2003, she was appointed USATF Development Chair overseeing all events. She’s been appointed to 11 international coaching staffs including 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games as assistant coach for women’s distance, and head coach at the 2015 Pan American Games. She served as Team USATF’s women’s distance coach at the IAAF World Relays in 2014 and 2015 as well as head women’s coach at the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China. Monday has served USATF for over 34 years in a variety of volunteer leadership positions including AAC officer, development coordinator, member of the USATF Board of Directors, USOPC athlete representative and currently serves as Chair of Women’s Track and Field.


Holloway is the men’s and women’s coach at the University of Florida and a 2016 USTFCCCA Hall of Fame inductee. Holloway led the Gators to nine NCAA Division I titles, 15 Southeastern Conference titles, in addition to numerous individual NCAA and SEC champions and All-Americans. Along with his collegiate achievements, Holloway has enjoyed a great amount of success internationally, serving as the men’s head coach of the United States’ 2013 World Championships Team, and as Team USA’s sprints and relays coach at the 2012 Olympics. He also was the head coach of the 2004 NACAC U23 Championships Team. Every U.S Olympic team since 1992 has featured at least one athlete coached by Holloway, with six of them combining for nine medals. Seven Gators who competed collegiately under Holloway or were coached directly by Holloway have combined for 15 medals. Holloway is a native of Columbus, Ohio.


Women’s Assistant Coaches


LaTanya Sheffield, Sprints/Hurdles

LaTanya Sheffield is a retired Olympic hurdler and American record holder. She recently served as the head coach of the women’s 2019 Pan American Games and was a sprints and hurdles assistant coach on the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team. She was inducted into the 1993 Hall of Fame as a standout hurdler at San Diego State where she was a two time All-American and a 1985 NCAA champion. 1985 was also the year Sheffield ran an American record in the 400m hurdles with a time of 54.64. Sheffield was an Olympic finalist in 1988 and again represented the U.S. at the World Championships in 1987. Over the course of her career, she won two 400m hurdles gold medals at the Olympic Sports Festival and a 400m hurdles bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games. Upon retirement in 2000, Sheffield went over to the coaching side and eventually coached national teams at numerous international events, including the World Championships and Pan American Games. Currently, Sheffield is the Women’s head coach assistant coach at Long Beach State, specializing in sprints, hurdles and relays.


Megan Watson, Distance

Megan Watson M. Ed, was most recently women’s head coach of the 2018 World Indoor team. She also served as Team USATF’s assistant coach at the 2017 IAAF World Championships, leading the distance squad in London. Watson was head coach for Team USATF at the 2015 Senior NACAC Track & Field Championships in Costa Rica and served as an assistant coach at the 2014 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Poland. She currently coaches Cross Country and Track and Field at the Kinkaid School in Houston. Megan currently serves on the USATF Women’s Executive Committee and USATF Women’s Development Executive Committee and is a USATF level two certified distance coach.


Robyne Johnson, Jumps/Combined

Johnson, a three-time winner of the USTFCCCA Northeast Indoor Track & Field Women's Coach of the Year award, was named in 2019 University of California, Berkeley’s director of track and field and cross country. She served as an assistant coach for multis and jumps for the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team. She was an assistant coach for the United States at the 2012 DecaNation meet in France, as well as the head women's track & field coach at the World University Games in China. Johnson was also an assistant coach for the United States team that captured its first title at the 1998 World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa and was an assistant coach for the 2003 Pan American Games. Johnson is an active leader in the track and field community, serving in numerous leadership positions. She spent five years on the NCAA Division I Track and Field Committee, where she was one of 13 members who provided a legislative agenda for cross country and track and field. She has also served on the jury of appeals for the America East Conference and the IC4A games committee.


Sandra Fowler, Throws

Fowler most recently represented Team USATF as an assistant coach for throws at the 2019 IAAF World Championships and 2019 Pan Am Games, and was the head women’s coach at the 2018 IAAF U20 Championships in Tampere, Finland. A nine-time All-American, national champion and Olympic alternate in the shot put, Sandy Fowler currently serves as the director of track and field for both the men’s and women’s programs at Coastal Carolina University. Prior to joining Coastal Carolina in April 2017, Fowler spent five seasons as an assistant coach for the University of Michigan women’s track and field program, overseeing throwing events for the Wolverines. She also enjoyed a successful 14-year stint as the head women's track and field coach at the University of Alabama (1997-2011), and eight years as the field events coach at the University of Florida (1989-97). In addition to her collegiate coaching experience, Fowler most recently represented Team USATF as an assistant coach of women’s throws at the 2017 IAAF World Championships in London. She also has served as an assistant coach at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow, Russia, and was Team USATF’s head coach at the 2005 World Championships in Helsinki, Finland.


Marsha Seagrave, Head Manager

Seagrave is a 19-year veteran coach who has served on the Team USATF staff as a manager for 14 international junior and senior teams, including the last three IAAF World Championships and was head manager for the 2016 Rio Olympics and the 2015 Pan Am Games. Seagrave was also the head manager for Team USATF at the inaugural IAAF World Relays in 2014, served as assistant track and field coach at IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida and coached at Chittenango High School from 1998-2011. Seagrave represents women’s track and field on the USATF Women’s Executive Committee and serves as the Women’s Standards Chair. Seagrave also works as a counselor at Sarasota Military Academy.


Men’s Assistant Coaches


Darryl Woodson, Sprints/Hurdles

Darryl Woodson, is a two-time recipient of the USOPC’s Order of Ikkos Award with has over 20 years of coaching experience from the grassroots to professional level. Woodson has served on five USATF National Teams while coaching podium level athletes at all major championships and Olympic Games. Woodson serves on USATF’s Men’s and Women’s Track & Field Executive Committee as well as the Coaches Advisory Committee and coaches at Elites Optimizing Services. He also works with Historically Black Colleges and Universities to promote the sport and meets within the community.


Stanley Redwine, Distance

Entering his 20th season at Kansas, Redwine is a five-time Big 12 Coach of the Year. He has coached 21 individual champions, 284 All-Americans, eight Olympians and 23 national championship teams between his years as head coach at Kansas and Tulsa and an assistant coach at Arkansas. Redwine served as an assistant coach on Team USATF at the 2015 Pan American games. Professionally, Redwine retired from competition in 1996 after he finished fifth in the 800-meter run at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Atlanta, Georgia. He was a U.S. Olympic Trial qualifier five-straight times from 1980 to 1996 and was a two-time silver medalist in the 800-meter run at the Goodwill Games in 1986 and 1994. He won bronze medals at the Pan American Games in 1983 and 1987. Redwine was also a World Championship team member in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993 and a two-time U.S. 800-meter champion.


Nat Page, Jumps/Combined

Nat Page is in his 24th year as an assistant coach for the Georgia Tech track and field program.

In addition to his work at Tech, Page founded Nat’s Athletic Training and Career Experiences in September 1993. He has coached nine World Championship team members with a total of eight medals, and five Olympians along with four American record setters. Since joining the Tech staff in 1996, Page has mentored Tech student-athletes to 45 ACC titles, 44 All-America performances and four national titles. He was named the NCAA South Region Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year in 2008 and the Mondo Women’s Jumps/Multi Events Coach of the Year in 2004. Page was an NCAA Champion high jumper at the University of Missouri in 1979. He was ranked in the top-10 in the world from 1979-81 and earned a spot on the 1980 U.S. Olympic Team after finishing second at the U.S. Olympic Trials. He also competed at a world-class level in both the high and intermediate hurdles from 1984-92. From 1990-92, he was ranked in the top-10 in the world in the 400 intermediate hurdles. A member of the United States’ 1992 World Cup team, Page was a finalist at the U.S. Track and Field Championships every year from 1985-91. Page is married and resides in the Atlanta metro area.


Gary Aldrich, Throws

Aldrich, currently the head coach at Carnegie Mellon University, has had six opportunities to coach on the international stage with his most recent appointment coming with the 2019 NACAC U23 Team as the men's throws coach. He also went to the 2017 World Outdoor Championships in London, England, where he served as men's throws coach. Prior to that appointment, Aldrich served as the men’s and women’s throws coach at the 2016 World Indoor Championships in Portland, Oregon. Another international appointment saw Aldrich served as the men’s throws coach at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto, Canada. His first international experience came as the men’s throws coach for the NACAC (North American, Central American, and Caribbean Athletic Association) Under 23 Team in July 2010 before he served as the men’s throws coach for the United States at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in Barcelona, Spain in July 2012.


Tim Weaver, Head Manager

A veteran of 21 International Team Staffs as a manager, coach and team leader, Tim Weaver was a manager for the Olympic Teams in 2008, 2012 and 2016. Weaver has served as meet director for Junior Olympic, high school, NJCAA, and NCAA championship events. A former member of the NCAA Track and Field Committee, he was the meet director of the Kansas Relays from 2000 to 2006, bringing the event back from a two-year hiatus to crowds in excess of 25,000 spectators. He has been active with multiple volunteer committees within USATF since 1997. Weaver is the Vice President of Corporate Development for Chanje Energy, an electric truck manufacturer, where he oversees business development, public policy, and European expansion. Weaver was a sprinter/hurdler at the University of Tulsa, where he was coached by Stanley Redwine, also part of the 2020 Olympic staff.


Combined Staff

Orin Richburg, Relay Coach

Appointed as head relay coach in 2017, Richburg is no stranger to the international coaching scene. He served as the head coach for the U.S. U20 track and field team at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland. He has also served as the head relay coach for Team USA at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing, China, and as a relay coach at the 2007 Pan American Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Additionally, he has been the sprint coordinator for the senior national team since 1995. Richburg was the head coach for the U.S. National team at the World Track and Field Championships in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.


Manny Bautista, Event Manager

Manny Bautista served on his first International team with USATF in 1997 at the World University Games. He has since served on a total of 18 National teams including the Olympic Games, World Indoors and Outdoors, World Cross Country, World Relays and the Continental Cup. In 2008 Bautista served on the Beijing 2008 USATF staff as assistant manager and in 2018 he was elected into the California Community College Cross Country and Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame.


Danielle Siebert, Event Manager

Danielle Siebert is entering her 12th year as an associate head track coach - middle distance at the University of Maryland. As an active member of USATF, Siebert has served on several International team staffs. Most recently, she served as an event manager at the 2019 NACAC U23 championships in Queretaro, Mexico. In 2017 she was the head manager for the Pan Am Junior squad in Trujillo, Peru where she organized the operations of this trip for the U20 team. She went on to serve as an event manager for the 2017 World Championships in London, England. Siebert spent the summer of 2015 as a staff member for Team USA at the World Championships in Beijing, China. In 2014, Siebert earned a position as a Team USATF manager for the World Junior Championships hosted in Eugene, Oregon and in 2012, she served as a manager on the NACAC U23 team in Irapuato, Mexico.

 



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