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Robbie Robinson
Mountain View High School
Impact Statement
Robinson’s career spans over 50 years in two different states, including 31 seasons as a boys and girls track and field coach.
Biography
Robinson’s career spans over 50 years in two different states, including 31 seasons as a boys and girls track and field coach.
He started his career in Minnesota, where, in addition to his teaching and coaching duties, he served 10 years as an athletic director and was the founder and first meet director of the prestigious Mayo Invitational in Rochester.
He came to Mountain View in 1988, and during his career, he has led both the Toros boys and girls teams to four state titles. His boys teams won 5A state titles in 1994, 2000, 2003, and 2004 and also earned eight state runner-up finishes, in 1988, 1989, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002, 2008, and 2010.
Through his first 20 seasons, his teams recorded a dual-meet and multi-meet record of 2,819-119 and also won 20 region titles. His girls teams were state champions in 1993, 1994, 1995, and 1997. He typically has about 130 boys out for track and field, and during his tenure as the girls coach, about 100 girls typically came out for the sport.
A five-time Arizona Coach of the Year, Robinson was a three-time Region Coach of the Year selection by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association (NHSACA), and the NHSACA named him its National Coach of the Year in 2008. Robinson was awarded the Victory with Honor Coach of the Year award by the Arizona Interscholastic Association this year.
Despite retiring from teaching, Robinson has continued to coach at Mesa. In 2015, Robinson was inducted into the Arizona High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
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Catholic High School
“I never looked at myself as anything special or spectacular. I’m just someone that enjoys coaching day in and day out.” -Pete Bourdeaux
“I never looked at myself as anything special or spectacular. I’m just someone that enjoys coaching day in and day out.” -Pete Bourdeaux
Pete Boudreaux
Catholic High School
Impact Statement
“I never looked at myself as anything special or spectacular. I’m just someone that enjoys coaching day in and day out.” -Pete Bourdeaux
Biography
Also the school’s athletic director, Boudreaux has become an institution in Louisiana boys’ track and field and cross country since taking the reins at Catholic in 1967. His teams have won a state-best 33 state titles – 11 in outdoor track, seven in indoor track and 15 in cross country.
This year Boudreaux’s cross country and outdoor track and field teams both set state scoring records and his teams have swept all three state meets the past two years. The track and field team’s record performance this spring included seven event victories, a state record and a pair of 1-2 finishes. His track and field teams were undefeated in regular-season competition for 11 straight years and his athletes have set 12 state records and own three Catholic high school national records.
The Louisiana Track and Field Coaches Association named Boudreaux Coach of the Year in 2002, 2008 and 2009, and presented him with its Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. His cross country teams have won titles in each of the past four decades and is one of just two Louisiana teams to record a perfect state tournament score.
Since being honored in 2010, Boudreaux continued to coach Catholic to success. Boudreaux’s teams have won a staggering 49 State Titles over the duration of his career thus far. That would be 18 Titles for his Cross Country teams, 14 Titles for his Indoor Track teams and 17 Titles for his Outdoor Track teams. He has also coached 13 Individual State Champions in Cross Country. His Track student athletes have excelled individually as well. He’s coached 136 student athletes that have won 176 events at the Championships.
In 2017 Catholic High honored Boudreaux by naming the newly restored Track the “Pete Boudreaux Track”. At the end of 2019, he stepped down from coaching and was honored
In April of 2019 Boudreaux announced retirement leaving a legacy in Track and Field both in Louisiana and across the nation. He will still remain as the Cross Country coach, which he was honored as the NHSCA Coach of the Year in 2021.
Boudreaux received the Tom Nolan Distinguished Coach Award in 2020. This award, according to the LTFCA’s website, is an honor bestowed to a coach who’s made a difference in the the lives of his student athletes.
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Warren Central High School
“Coach Mac truly has a big heart and has formed a special bond with his coaches and student athletes over the years. -Marques Clayton, WCHS’ Athletic Dicrector
“Coach Mac truly has a big heart and has formed a special bond with his coaches and student athletes over the years. -Marques Clayton, WCHS’ Athletic Dicrector
Dennis McNulty
Warren Central High School
Impact Statement
“Coach Mac truly has a big heart and has formed a special bond with his coaches and student athletes over the years. -Marques Clayton, WCHS’ Athletic Dicrector
Biography
McNulty has been coaching for 33 years and he is completing his 23rd season at Warren Central.
His teams have been back-to-back state champions twice – in 1995 and 1996 and 2006 and 2007. He added a state runner-up finish in 2005 and a third-place finish in 2008, and his teams have finished in the state’s top 10 10 times. His teams also were regional and sectional champions in 1995, 1996, 2003, 2004 and 2005.
Nine of his athletes have won state titles and six have recorded runner-up finishes. McNulty has also coached five relay teams to state titles. An 11-time Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches (IATCCC) Coach of the Year nominee, McNulty earned Coach of the Year honors in all four of his championship seasons.
He was inducted into the IATCCC Hall of Fame in 2006. The National Federation named him its District 4 Coach of the Year both years and its national Coach of the Year in 2008. McNulty also was a finalist for National High School Athletic Coaches Association Coach of the Year honors in 2008.
Following the 2012 season McNutly hung up his coaching sneakers. He leaves a legacy behind at Warren Central.
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Limon High School
Mitchell coached multiple sports at Limon and earned the selection of Colorado’s “Coach of the Three-Quarter Century”.
Mitchell coached multiple sports at Limon and earned the selection of Colorado’s “Coach of the Three-Quarter Century”.
Warren Mitchell
Limon High School
Impact Statement
Mitchell coached multiple sports at Limon and earned the selection of Colorado’s “Coach of the Three-Quarter Century”.
Biography
If coaching is the “Fountain of Youth,” then Mitchell has found it. At 85, he is completing his 55th season as the school’s track and field coach. His boys track team has won 12 Class 2A state titles, most recently back-to-back crowns in 2004 and 2005, and the Denver Rocky Mountain News named him All-Colorado Boys Coach of the Year in 2005.
Mitchell also coached football for 37 seasons at Limon, 10 as the head coach, and posted a 399-162 record and won four state championships in 24 seasons as head basketball coach. Mitchell has won over 700 games and 27 team championships in his coaching career.
He was inducted into the Colorado High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1986, the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1997 and the Colorado High School Activities Association Hall of Fame in 2001, and will be inducted into the National Federation of State High School Associations Hall of Fame this summer.
He was selected Colorado’s “Coach of the Three-Quarter Century” honoree by Coach and Athletic Director magazine in 2007.
Upon being honored, Mitchell continued to coach at Limon until his retirement in 2010. Over his career, he coached 73 Individual (57) and Relay (16) State Champions.
Mitchell passed away November 14, 2014, but his coaching legacy lives on.
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Lisbon High School
“He bleeds red and gold.” -Pat Adair, Lisbon activities director
“He bleeds red and gold.” -Pat Adair, Lisbon activities director
Joe Howell
Lisbon High School
Impact Statement
“He bleeds red and gold.” -Pat Adair, Lisbon activities director
Biography
Howell, who grew up in Lisbon in a family of nine children, was hired at his hometown high school to fill in for a teacher who was given some time off to try to sell his business. The business never sold, and Howell is still coaching track and field 29 years later – and handling athletic director duties as well.
Howell was also the school’s head basketball coach for eight seasons in the 1980s, started the school’s cross country program without a stipend, also coaching baseball and football. Howell’s track program at Lisbon has become a small-school powerhouse, winning 26 region championships to go along with three Class B state team titles.
This year’s boys’ and girls’ teams finished eighth. A seven-time state Coach of the Year, Howell was selected National Track and Field Coach of the Year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association in 2005.
Since being honored in 2007 Howell continued to coach Lisbon until his retirement in 2011, after 33 years. While he retired, he stayed on as an assistant coach.
Howell has also helped coach football, basketball, volleyball, cross country, baseball and softball programs throughout his tenure at Lisbon.
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UMS-Wright Prep School
Galle and UMS-Wright are synonymous with winning. His teams, over his 50 year career, have captured 59 State Championships in Track & Field and Cross Country.
Galle and UMS-Wright are synonymous with winning. His teams, over his 50 year career, have captured 59 State Championships in Track & Field and Cross Country.
Pat Galle
UMS-Wright Prep School
Impact Statement
Galle and UMS-Wright are synonymous with winning. His teams, over his 50 year career, have captured 59 State Championships in Track & Field and Cross Country.
Biography
Galle’s teams have dominated Class 4A competition during his 34 years at UMS-Wright. This month his boys team won its ninth state title in the past 10 years, winning by 105.5 points, and his girls team won its seventh consecutive title.
In all, 32 of his teams have won indoor and outdoor track state team titles, and eight of the athletes he has coached hold Alabama state records. He also has coached UMS-Wright’s cross country teams to five state titles, and 32 of his teams in the six disciplines have been state runners-up. A member of the UMS-Wright Hall of Fame, Galle was inducted into the Alabama High School Athletic Association Hall of Fame this year.
Since being honored, Galle is still at the helm of UMS-Wright after 50 years. His boys’ teams have won 19 Alabama Outdoor State Championships, while his girls’ captured 15 Outdoor State Championships. For indoor track and field, his boys’ teams have won 9 and the girls have won 4. In addition, his teams have claimed 5 Boys’ and 7 Girls’ Cross Country State Titles.
In 2011 UMS-Wright’s track was renamed the Galle-Leatherbury Track.
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Russellville High School
Over the course of his career, Carnahan’s teams teams won 11 state championships and 12 state runner-up finishes.
Over the course of his career, Carnahan’s teams teams won 11 state championships and 12 state runner-up finishes.
Don Carnahan
Russellville High School
Impact Statement
Over the course of his career, Carnahan’s teams teams won 11 state championships and 12 state runner-up finishes.
Biography
In a coaching career spanning 30 years Carnahan’s teams have won a total of 10 state championships in indoor and outdoor track and cross country, along with 12 runner-up finishes.
In the 2001-02 season his teams won the state’s “Triple Crown” – Class 5A titles in cross country, indoor and outdoor track – and he was selected the state’s Coach of the Year in cross country and outdoor track.
A five-time state Coach of the Year, he was inducted into the National High School Athletic Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1998 and the Arkansas Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2003.
After being honored in 2005, Carnahan coached the next two season before retiring in 2007. Over the course of his career his teams won 11 state championships and 12 state runner-up finishes.
Since his retirement Carnahan is still active officiating local and state track meets.
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Wheeler High School
“Chad believes the best part about track and field is having sixteen different events where student athletes can find some success along the way.”
“Chad believes the best part about track and field is having sixteen different events where student athletes can find some success along the way.”
Chad Walker
Wheeler High School
Impact Statement
“Chad believes the best part about track and field is having sixteen different events where student athletes can find some success along the way.”
Biography
Chad Walker of Wheeler High in Marietta, Georgia takes the top spot among boys’ track and field coaches this year after leading the Wildcats to the 5A state championship while posting some of the best overall results in the country.
Since being honored Walker took over the position at Starr’s Mill High School, a position he still maintains. In his tenure, his Panthers have finished second in the Girls’ State Meet twice and once for the boys.
Walker has also coached cross country and assisted with the football team’s wide receivers, the position he played while a student athlete at the University of Western Georgia.
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Clare High School
“He had a great attitude and you could tell early on that he was going to be successful in whatever he did.” -Don Sazima, past CMU coach
“He had a great attitude and you could tell early on that he was going to be successful in whatever he did.” -Don Sazima, past CMU coach
Rob Johnson
Clare High School
Impact Statement
“He had a great attitude and you could tell early on that he was going to be successful in whatever he did.” -Don Sazima, past CMU coach
Biography
“Rob Johnson has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to young athletes by coaching for over 30 years on the prep level,” said NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro. “The NHSCA is proud to recognize Coach Johnson as the National High School Boys Track Coach of the Year.”
A member of the Michigan High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Johnson has led Clare to a pair of top-two state finishes in the past five seasons, including the 2000 Division 3 state championship. He holds a career dual-meet win percentage of 90-percent. Johnson’s teams have also won 17 regional titles and 19 conference championships as of 2002.
As an athlete Johnson earned All-American honors in 1969. He also led the Chippewas to the IIAC championship in 1969.
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Hartford Public High School
“I used to tell my sprinters, ‘If you can beat me, you make the team, I could beat every sprinter until I was 42.”
-Lindy Remigino
“I used to tell my sprinters, ‘If you can beat me, you make the team, I could beat every sprinter until I was 42.”
-Lindy Remigino
Lindy Remigino
Hartford Public High School
Impact Statement
“I used to tell my sprinters, ‘If you can beat me, you make the team, I could beat every sprinter until I was 42.”
-Lindy Remigino
Biography
A graduate of Hartford Public High, Remigino returned to his alma mater as a physical education teacher in 1953 after winning gold medals in the 100-meter dash and the 4×100-meter relay at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki, Finland.
Remigino has coached the boys and girls cross country, indoor and outdoor track teams, winning over 85 per cent of his dual meets over his 43 year career. His track teams have won a total of 31 state titles – 21 outdoor and 10 indoor – and 25 city championships, including the last 18 in a row. A two-time Connecticut Track Coach of the Year, Remigino was named by Sports Illustrated as one of the 10 best high school coaches in the nation in 1973, and also by Runners World in 1983.
He is a 2002 inductee of the National Federation of State High School Association’s Hall of Fame this year.
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Kearney High School
“We set a new paradigm years ago when we created a different process for developmental programs.” -Roger Mathiesen
“We set a new paradigm years ago when we created a different process for developmental programs.” -Roger Mathiesen
Roger Mathiesen
Kearney High School
Impact Statement
“We set a new paradigm years ago when we created a different process for developmental programs.” -Roger Mathiesen
Biography
Mathiesen led Kearney High to its eighth consecutive Class A state title last week and his team was rated No. 7 nationally entering this season (2001). He would lead Kearney to 11 in a row from 1994-2004.
His teams had won 123 consecutive multi-school meets between 1993-2014. This is longest such streak in the nation according to the NFHS. Since 1987, Kearney High had won 112 of 118 such events, finishing second in the other six. Mathiesen’s teams have won 22 state tournament titles in 14 different events ,19 since the consecutive state title streak began in 1994, and hold nine state records.
Mathiesen lead Kearney to be 1st or 2nd in the State tournament 22 times during his tenure. After 38 years and 16 State Championships, Mathiesen retired in 2018.
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Carmel High School
“I still have a passion for the sport. I’ve loved it all my life. Still do.” -Chuck Koeppen
“I still have a passion for the sport. I’ve loved it all my life. Still do.” -Chuck Koeppen
Chuck Koeppen
Carmel High School
Impact Statement
“I still have a passion for the sport. I’ve loved it all my life. Still do.” -Chuck Koeppen
Biography
“Chuck Koeppen is an outstanding example for successful high school track and field coaches,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “They place a high value on the teamwork skills athletes learn for success in the classroom and on the field, and we are proud to be honoring him.”
A graduate of Ball State University and a 37-year teaching veteran, Koeppen has served as head coach of the boys track team and the boys and girls cross country teams at Carmel High since 1972. Last year he coached Carmel to the state title, his team going a perfect 7-0 in dual meets and also winning conference, sectional, and regional titles. Overall his teams at Carmel have a record of 189-45-2, including 14 unbeaten seasons.
He is a member of the Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame, and has been the head coach of the Indiana All-Star Team since 1978. Koeppen also has an outstanding record as a cross country coach.
Koeppen announced his retirement from Carmel in 2008. During his career Koeppen led his teams (boys and girls) to an unbelievable 20 state titles. He also has led the boys team to nine state runner-up finishes and seven for the girls.
Upon his retirement Koeppen was named the third ever coach at IUPUI, Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis. As of 2020, Koeppen is still the leader of the Jaguars.
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