2010-11 Men's Track Coaching Staff
Christopher Huffins
Assistant Coach
Phone: 734.487.2245
Email: chuffins@emich.edu
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The 2010 season marks the first season for Christopher Huffins as an assistant coach with the Eastern Michigan University men's track and field team. He will coach sprints, hurdles, jumps and combined events and also serve as the recruiting coordinator.
Huffins, a very decorated collegiate and professional athlete, as well as an accomplished coach, is new to the program at Eastern Michigan, but not new to Head Coach John Goodridge. Huffins served as an assistant coach to Goodridge for three years at Wake Forest University. While there, Huffins coached the university's first-ever ACC champion and NCAA qualifier in the 100 meters and 200 meters, as well as an Atlantic Coast Conference championship 400-meter relay team.
His college career was highlighted by a 1993 NCAA Championship in the decathlon and a 9th place finish in the USA Outdoors decathlon in the same year. Huffins post-collegiate career proved even brighter as the champion runner also captured a 2nd place finish at the USA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in the decathlon in 1995.
In 1996, Huffins finished 3rd in the decathlon's Olympic Trials, making him a qualifier for the Atlanta Summer Games the same year. In his Olympic debut in '96, he finished 10th in the decathlon, helping him earn a 7th place ranking in the world for the event and a 2nd place rank in the United States.
Huffins would continue his dominance in the event, sweeping the Outdoor Track & Field Championships and the Pan Am Games in 1999, and ultimately received the second of his three John H. Bennett Award presented by USA Track & Field. In January of 2000, Huffins was inducted into the Indiana State Track & Field Hall of Fame, and later that year he capped off perhaps his most significant acheivement as an athlete when he captured the Olympic Bronze Medal in the decathlon in the 2000 games in Sydney, Australia.
After his three year coaching stint at Wake Forest (97-00), Huffins went on to coach at Georgia Tech from 2000-2002, serving as the assistant coach of sprints, throws, pole vault and the combined events. Under Huffins' direction, the Yellow Jackets set new school records in the women's pole vault, weight throw, hammer and shot put and in the men's weight throw, hammer and javelin. The team also won its first ACC Championship in school history.
In 2002 he returned to his alma mater, Cal, to take over the head coaching duties. While working with the Golden Bears, the men and women finished among the top 15 at the 2007 NCAA Championships, in addition to leading Cal's women's team to its highest Pac-10 finish in both 2005 and 2006. During his tenure at California, he coached 23 All-Americans, two Top-10 athletes in the U.S. (as ranked by Track & Field News), had five athletes compete in the U.S. Olympic Trials, and recruited Cal's first two NCAA Champions since 1990.
In 2008, Huffins took over as sprints, jumps, hurdles and multis coach at Boise State. During his tenure with the Broncos, he coached seven WAC Champions, four All-Americans and the 2008 NCAA Long Jump Champion.
Huffins earned a degree in Politcal Economics of Industrialized Societies from California Berkeley in 2007. He and his wife, Tamika, have one son, Zachary (11).
Career Accomplishments
1992 Olympic Trials - decathlon - 16th
1993 NCAA - decathlon - 1st
1993 USA Outdoors - decathlon - 9th
1993 Pacific Ten Conference, decathlon - 1st
1993 Ranked by Track and Field News decathlon - 9th U.S.
1995 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships - decathlon - 2nd
1995 1995 World Championships in Athletics Ullevi Stadium, Gothenburg, Sweden - decathlon - 8th
1995 Ranked by Track and Field News decathlon - 8th World, 2nd U.S.
1996 Olympic Trials - decathlon - 3rd
1996 1996 Summer Olympics Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. - decathlon - 10th
1996 Ranked by Track and Field News decathlon - 10th World, 3rd U.S.
1997 Began as an assistant coach under John Goodridge at Wake Forest University
1997 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships - decathlon - 2nd
1997 Ranked by Track and Field News decathlon - 7th World, 2nd U.S.
1998 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships - decathlon - 1st
1998 Deca Jam, - decathlon - 1st
1998 Goodwill Games, - decathlon - 2nd
1998 Ranked by Track and Field News decathlon - 5th World, 2nd U.S.
1998 Recipient of the John H. Bennett Award presented by USA Track & Field
1999 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships - decathlon - 1st
1999 Pan Am Games - decathlon - 1st
1999 World Championships - decathlon - 3rd
1999 Recipient of the John H. Bennett Award presented by USA Track & Field
2000 Began as an assistant coach at Georgia Tech
2000 OG Sydney, Australia - decathlon - 3rd
2000 Ranked by Track and Field News decathlon - 4th World, 1st U.S.
2000 Inducted into the Indiana State Track & Field Hall of Fame
2000 Recipient of the John H. Bennett Award presented by USA Track and Field
2002 Began as the Director and Head Coach of Men's and Women's Track & Field and Cross Country at Cal Berkeley
2008 Began as an assistant coach at Boise State
2010 Began as an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan
Huffins also held the decathlon world record in 100-meter with a time of 10.22.
Courtesy Chris Huffins
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