Bob Kersee (born in the Canal Zone, Panama) is an American track coach. He was the coach and husband of Olympic gold medallist Jackie Joyner-Kersee.

Career

He is a graduate of San Pedro High School, Los Angeles Harbor College where he was a state finalist in the hurdles, Long Beach State University (B.A. Physical Education 1978) and

California State University, Northridge California State University, Northridge (CSUN or Cal State Northridge) is a public university in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. With a total enrollment of 38,551 students (as of Fall 2021), it has the second largest un ...

(Masters in Exercise Physiology). While at Northridge, he coached their track team. In 1980 he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was an assistant coach for four years. He then became the head coach and established his reputation for training elite level athletes. Many of those athletes have themselves become elite level coaches. In 2005 he was selected USATF Coach of the year. In 1989, sprinter Angela Bailey stated that she did not want to train with Kersee due to suspicions about performance-enhancing drugs.

Athletes trained by Bob Kersee

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* Jerome Bettis *

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* Valerie Brisco-Hooks * Kori Carter * Kerron Clement *

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(née Powell) * Shawn Crawford * Gail Devers *

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* Greg Foster * Florence Griffith Joyner * Joanna Hayes * Dawn Harper *

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* Jackie Joyner-Kersee *

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* Nicole Leach *

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* Brandon Miller * Athing Mu *

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* Andre Phillips

References

External links

UCLA profile
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