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Thursday, August 15, 2002
Harvey, Gary nominated to head 2003 Pan American Games Team
INDIANAPOLIS – USA Track & Field has nominated Fred Harvey and Monica Gary
to serve as Team USA’s men’s and women’s head coaches, respectively, for the
2003 Pan American Games.
The nominations for the Pan American Games staff are being submitted to the
U.S. Olympic Committee. Once approved by the USOC, Harvey, Gary and the Team
USA staff will guide the World’s #1 Track & Field Team at the Pan American
Games in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. The track and field events are
August 3-10.
Known as one of the finest sprint and hurdles coaches in the nation, Harvey
’s coaching expertise and enthusiasm have served him well in his 15 years as
an assistant coach at the University of Arizona.
Harvey has coached some of the most successful athletes in Arizona history,
including 2001 NCAA women’s 200 meter and long jump champion Brianna Glenn.
Last month Glenn won the 2002 U.S. women’s outdoor long jump title with a
best of 6.46 meters/21 feet 2.50 inches. Harvey also tutored NCAA men’s 800m
champion Patrick Nduwimana, who advanced to the 2000 Olympic Games
semifinals.
Originally from San Francisco, Harvey came to Arizona from Cal Poly-San
Luis Obispo, where he was the women’s assistant coach for seven years and
coached 14 NCAA Division II national champions, 52 All-Americans and two
Division I All-Americans. During his stint at Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, the
Mustangs won 11 national titles.
During her three years as an assistant coach at Purdue University, Monica
Gary has already had a significant impact on the program.
In 2001 Gary helped lead the Boilermakers women’s team to its first-ever
Big Ten Indoor Championship. Her first Big Ten champion was Krissy Liphardt,
who won the 400 meters in 54.89 and ran school-record times in the 60m
hurdles and 200 meters. Gary also mentored Angela Craft to heptathlon and
pentathlon championships at the indoor and outdoor conference meets.
As a high school coach in Cleveland, Ohio, Gary’s teams won eight state
championships, including five in a six-year span. Gary came to Purdue from
Beaumont School for Girls, where she had been the co-head track and field
and assistant cross country coach since 1995.
The head women’s coach for the 2002 Team USA squad competing this month at
the World Junior Championships in Kingston, Jamaica, Gary has served on
three other national team staffs. In 1995 she was on the women’s team staff
for the Junior National Team that competed in Chile, and she was on the
coaching staff for the North Olympic Festival Team at the Air Force Academy
in Colorado Springs. She also was the assistant team manager for the 1998
U.S. World Junior Championships team in Annecy, France.
For the last eight years Gary has served as a member of the oversight
committee for the USA Junior National Championships, and she was recently
appointed to the executive committee of USATF’s Women’s Track and Field
Committee.
Harvey and Gary lead a talented group of assistant coaches and managers,
listed below:
Men
Endurance events, Stanley Redwine: Currently in his second year as head
coach at Kansas, Redwine spent six years as head coach at the University of
Tulsa, where his athletes broke over 70 school records and rewrote the
school’s all-time performance lists. A star athlete and former assistant
coach at the University of Arkansas, Redwine was a five-time U.S. World
Championships team member as an athlete.
Power events, Irving “Boo” Schexnayder: The author of several publications
on jumping events and the chairman of the National Coaching Education
Curriculum, Schexnayder is in his eighth season as an assistant at Louisiana
State University, where he coached at least one national champion in five of
his first six years.
Explosive events, Art Venegas: Considered one of the world’s premier men’s
and women’s throwing coaches, Venegas is in his third season as head coach
of UCLA’s men’s track team. Since arriving at UCLA in 1981, Venegas has
worked as a throws and strength coach with Bruin greats including Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, Gail Devers, John Godina and Seilala Sua.
Head Manager, Manny Bautista: The head cross country and assistant track
coach at San Diego Mesa Community College, Bautista earned California
Community College Cross Country Coach of the Year honors in 1994 & 2000
(men) and 1995 (women). Bautista is the secretary of USATF’s Men’s Track &
Field Development Committee.
Women
Endurance events, Dr. Robert Vaughan: An exercise physiologist at the
Baylor Medical Center’s Tom Landry Center in Dallas, Texas, Dr. Vaughan
coaches and performs physiological testing on middle and long distance
runners. Dr. Vaughan also conducts USATF’s annual Level 3 Long Distance
Running Seminar.
Power events, Robyne Johnson: A five-time All-American at the University of
Texas, Johnson is in her eighth year as an assistant coach at the University
of California-Berkeley, and is the USATF national coordinator for the women’
s triple jump. She was an assistant coach on the 1998 U.S. women’s World Cup
team that won the team championship for the first time ever.
Explosive events, Amy Deem: Since taking over the University of Miami’s
women’s track program 12 years ago, Deem has guided 13 different athletes to
a combined total of 36 All-America honors and six national titles. A USATF
Level 3 coach and instructor, Deem served as head coach of Team USA’s Junior
squad that competed last summer in England and Scotland.
Head Manager, Ramona Pagel: A four-time Olympian, three-time World Outdoor
Championships team member and five-time U.S. Outdoor women’s shot put
champion, Pagel is USATF’s Women’s Development Shot Put Coordinator, a
member of USATF’s Athlete Advisory Committee and a member of the Women’s T&F
Sports Science Committee. She was an assistant coach on Team USA’s 1998
World Cup and 2001 World Outdoor Championships Teams.
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