Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Team USA coaching staffs announced for IAAF World Championships and Pan American Games

 

5/12/2015
 
INDIANAPOLIS -- USA Track & Field announced Tuesday the coaching staffs that will lead Team USA at the IAAF World Championships and Pan American Games this summer.

Leading Team USA at the IAAF World Championships are Delethea Quarles and Edrick Floréal as the women’s and men’s head coaches, respectively, while Rose Monday and John Moon will spearhead the American effort at the 2015 Pan American Games.

The IAAF World Championships take place August 22-30, 2015 in Beijing, China at Beijing National Stadium. Affectionately known as the “Bird’s Nest,” Beijing National Stadium was the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games and seats 91,000 fans. Team USA is coming off an impressive performance at the IAAF World Championships in Moscow in 2013, scoring 282 points as a team for the most ever by a U.S. team. Team USA captured 25 medals, tying its second-highest medal output. Qualification standards and selection procedures are now available.

The track & field portion of the Pan American Games takes place July 20-26, 2015 in Toronto, Canada at CIBC Pan/Parapan Am Athletics Stadium at York University. The third-largest international multi-sport Games, the 2015 Pan American Games will welcome over 7,000 athletes from across the Americas and the Caribbean. Qualifying standards for the event are now available and athletes will be chosen from the top finishers at the USATF Outdoor Championships. Team USA earned 10 medals in the last Pan American Games, with eight of the 10 medals coming from the field events.

Quarles is in her 18th year at the University of South Carolina and currently serves as assistant head coach. Quarles has extensive international experience, having been appointed to the Team USA staff for the last two IAAF World Championships. Most recently in Moscow at the 2013 IAAF World Championships, Quarles served as the jumps and multis coach for the women's team. Quarles was an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2011 IAAF World Championships in Daegu, South Korea, with responsibility for the jumping events.

Floréal is the head coach of the University of Kentucky men's and women's cross country and track and field teams, taking over the reins in July 2012 after a successful six-year stint as director of track and field at Stanford. In two years at UK, Floréal has built the Wildcats into a national power in track and field, with Wildcats athletes earning 26 All-America honors, 16 individual SEC Championships and Dezerea Bryant became UK's first-ever women's sprinter NCAA Champion. Floréal served as an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2002 IAAF World Junior Championships.

Monday, who most recently coached at the University of Texas-San Antonio, is nationally known as one of the top minds in middle distance and distance running. In 2003, she was appointed USATF Development chair for women’s distance events. She was an assistant coach for the U.S. team at the 2005 World University Games in Izmir, Turkey, and served as head women’s coach for Team USA at the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships in Beijing, China. She most recently served as the assistant coach for women’s distance for the U.S. women’s team at the Olympic Games in London, and has served as the Team USA women’s distance coach at the IAAF World Relays in 2014 and 2015.

Moon coaches at Seton Hall University, where he’s been the leader of the program since 1972. His success at Seton Hall is evident as he has a large collection of championships and accolades. The seven-time Big East Coach of the Year has coached 71 All-Americans, seven NCAA champions and tutored 19 Olympic athletes during his career. Away from coaching at the collegiate level, he also has quite a resume on the international stage. The pinnacle of his international coaching career came in 2000 when he was an assistant coach for the U.S. men’s team at the Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. This is Moon’s second head coaching appointment for the Pan American Games.

Join the conversation by following USATF on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. The hashtag for the 2015 Pan American Games is #TO2015 and fans can engage about the IAAF World Championships using #Beijing2015.

2015 Pan American Games
Women's Staff
   
Rose
Monday
Head Coach - Women
Chandra
Cheeseborough
Assistant Sprint/Hurdles Coach
Sandra
Fowler
Assistant Throws Coach
Carol
McClatchie
Assistant Distance Coach
Pamela
Marquez
Assistant Jumps/Combined Events Coach
Marsha
Horan
Head Manager
     
Men's Staff
   
John
Moon
Head Coach - Men
Rod
Staggs
Assistant Sprint/Hurdles Coach
Norm
Tate
Assistant Jumps/Combined Events Coach
Stanley
Redwine
Assistant Distance Coach
Gary
Aldrich
Assistant Throws Coach
Tracy
Sundlun
Head Manager
     
Kim
Keenan-Kirkpatrick
Event Manager
     
Medical Staff
   
Jodi
Moore
ATC (Head)
Christie-Lee
Miller
ATC
Dee
Mahoney
ATC
Nicole
Diggs
ATC/LMT
Alicia
Lamb
LMT
Ena
Weinstein
LMT
Williams
Roundtree
MD
Ted
Forcum
DC
Traci
Statler
Sport Psych
     
2015 World Outdoor Championships
Women's Staff
   
Delethea
Quarles
Head Coach - Women
Rahn
Sheffield
Assistant Sprint/Hurdles Coach
Bonnie
Edmonson
Assistant Throws Coach
Terrence
Mahon
Assistant Distance Coach
John
Green
Assistant Jumps/Combined Events Coach
Francesca
Green
Head Manager
     
Men's Staff
   
Edrick
Floréal
Head Coach
Maurice
Pierce
Assistant Sprint/Hurdles Coach
Nat
Page
Assistant Jumps/Combined Events Coach
Teddy
Mitchell
Assistant Distance Coach
Ty
Sevin
Assistant Throws Coach
Jack
Warner
Head Manager
     
David
Watkins
Event Manager
Danielle
Siebert
Event Manager
     
Relay Coaches
   
Dennis
Mitchell
Head Coach
Darvis “Doc”
Patton
Assistant Sprint/Hurdles Coach
     
Medical Staff
   
Dustin
Williams
ATC (Head)
Ed
Elder
ATC
Bill
Ito
ATC
Junko
Yazaw
ATC
Phillip
Vardiman
ATC
Beth
Mignano
LMT
Bill
Theriault
LMT
Carolyn
Levy
LMT
Amadeous
Mason
MD
Leroy
Sims
MD
Norman
Eng
DC
Kevin
Pierce
DC
Traci
Statler
Sport Psych
Sean
McCann
Sport Psych


Amanda Brooks
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USA Track & Field
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