Jill Lancaster
DIRECTOR OF TRACK AND FIELD Sixth Year • Eighth Year overall
COACHING EXPERIENCE University of Oklahoma Assistant Coach 1983-86 University of Kansas Assistant Women’s Coach 1986-87 University of Toledo Head Women’s Coach 1988-93 Kansas State University Assistant Coach 1993-97 University of Oklahoma Co-Head Coach 1997-2005 Troy University Women’s Head Coach 2005-07 Troy University Head Coach 2007-pres.
ATHLETIC CAREER University of Oklahoma 1978-81 Three time All-American School record holder in the 400-meter hurdles Part of school record holding indoor mile relay team
COACHING ACCOMPLISHMENTS 28 Conference Champions 72 All-America selections 50 NCAA First Round qualifiers 2 Olympic Trials qualifiers at Troy 9 Academic All-America Teams 6 Academic All-Americans Coached the 2001 NCAA Woman of the Year for the state of Oklahoma (Janel Hayes) NCAA Woman of the Year Toledo, 1992 (Shantel Ransom)
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Jill Lancaster begins her eighth season overall at Troy University, and sixth as the Director of Track and Field/Cross Country, after spending a pair of seasons as the assistant coach on the Trojans staff. Lancaster, who took over the reins prior to the 20072008 season, oversees the direction of both the men’s and women’s programs, while concentrating her efforts with the Trojan sprints, hurdles, jumps, relays and combined event athletes. During her time at Troy, Lancaster has seen nothing but success for the track and field program. She has coached two Olympic Trials qualifiers in the 100, 200 and long jump and one USA team representative who medaled at the NACA Championships in the 100 and the 4x 100 relay. In addition she has had numerous USA Junior/Senior National Qualifiers. She has coached six individuals who have qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 2012, The Trojans sent seven athletes to the NCAA First Round, led by Martins Pildavs. Pildavs placed second at the Sun Belt Championships and seventh at the NCAA First Round, on his way to second team All-America honors at the NCAA Championships. Larry Henry won the high jump at the Sun Belt Championships and represented the Trojans well at the NCAA First Round. The men finished fourth overall at the Sun Belt Championships, their second highest finish since joining the conference. In 2011, she produced two All-Americans for track and field, Leander McKenzie in the 110 High Hurdles and Lamontrey Stamper in the Long Jump. Three different student-athletes have met the NCAA Indoor qualifying marks under her guidance. The list of accomplishments is long for Lancaster and the Trojans, and continues to grow each day. Over the last four years, the Trojans have participated in 48 events at the NCAA Regional meet. Since Lancaster joined the program in 2006, the Trojans have been represented at Regional competition in horizontal jumps, hurdles and the 4x100-meter relay each year. Basketball standout, O’Darien Bassett was the first athlete in school history to win a NCAA First Round Championship and went undefeated in the 2008 season until he reached the NCAA National Championships. The Trojans have claimed 17 Sun Belt conference championships titles in the past four seasons. Lancaster has seen the list of record holders at the university grow under her watch, as 46 different school records have fallen since she has been at the helm. In 2010 Lancaster coached nine student-athletes to the NCAA First Round and NCAA National Qualifiers. Lamontrey Stamper and Leander McKenzie were named AllAmericans. After a stellar season, sprinter Ja-Courtney Alexander was named Freshman of the Year in both the indoor and outdoor Sun Belt Championships. Tiphanie Baker was named Athlete of the Meet at the outdoor championships. The Trojan men were well represented in the 100-meters at the NCAA First Round, with the most competitors in that event in a regional meet behind only Texas Christian University in the west. The high hurdles continued to be a dominant event for the Trojans as Naquita Rowe, Latoya Ragland and Leander McKenzie repeated their NCAA First Round qualifying performances. The women’s program tied its best finish at both indoor and outdoor conference meets in 2010, with individual titles in the high jump, discus, hammer and 4x400 relay. The men added championship titles in the 4x100 relay and 110 meter hurdles. Under the guidance of Lancaster, the team has enjoyed tremendous success in the classroom. The women’s cross country team is consistently near the top in the conference and region in GPA, most recently earning Academic All-America status in 2012. The men’s cross country team earned its first NCAA Division I Academic All-America team honor in 2010, while the women’s track and field team won its first in 2009. Lancaster has seen the first track and field student-athlete earn scholar-athlete status at the Division I level, in Burke Leonce, who received his first honor in 2009 and repeated the following season. He was not alone, as freshman javelin school record holder Lizzie Clough joined him in receiving the prestigious honor for academic and athletic performance at the NCAA Championship level. The last Trojan runner to receive an individual NCAA Academic All-American honor was cross country runner Michael Green, who is now a professor at Troy. The Trojans earned two additional academic recognitions during the senior banquet for maintaining the highest GPA of any student athlete at the university. Burke Leonce received the Clements Award and Kelly Harrington was presented the Sorrell Award. In addition, the men’s team GPA was recognized as carrying the highest GPA of
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