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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