Jamey Harris (born June 14, 1971) is an American athlete and coach in

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

and

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. He is the 1998 USA national champion in the men's 1500 meters and finished fourth in the world in the men's mile at the

1998 Goodwill Games The 1998 Goodwill Games was the fourth edition of the international sports competition the Goodwill Games, which were created by Ted Turner in reaction to the political troubles surrounding the Olympic Games of the 1980s. The competition was held i ...

. Jamey Harris is currently Head Coach for Cross Country and Assistant Coach of Track and Field at

Humboldt State University California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt also known as Cal Poly Humboldt, Humboldt or Cal Poly"Cal Poly" may also refer to California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California or California State Polytechnic Universi ...

Running career

High school

Jamey Harris attended

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, where he was coached by Coach Jaxon LeDuc, and graduated in 1989. He won the Oregon State OSAA Boys Cross Country Championships in 1988. At the 1989 Oregon state outdoor championships, Harris placed 5th in the

3000 meters The 3000 metres or 3000-metre run is a track running event, also commonly known as the "3K" or "3K run", where 7.5 laps are run around an outdoor 400 m track, or 15 laps around a 200 m indoor track. It is debated whether the 3000m shoul ...

(8:46.77) and 4th in the

1500 meters The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...

(4:00.40). Harris was also a member of Beaverton High School's state-record-setting 4x800 Relay team.

Collegiate

Harris graduated from California State University, Fresno in 1994, earning a degree in exercise science emphasizing biomechanics. While at Fresno, Harris won both the 1991 and 1992

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Championships in the

and was an

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n in indoor track & field in 1992 and 1994. In cross country, he won the

Championship in 1991 and the

Western Athletic Conference The Western Athletic Conference (WAC) is an NCAA Division I conference. The WAC covers a broad expanse of the western United States with member institutions located in Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Washington (state), Washington, and Texa ...

in 1992. Harris also competed in the

1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships The 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships was held in Aix-les-Bains, France, at the Hippodrome de Marlioz on March 25, 1990. A report on the event was given in the Glasgow Herald. Complete results for senior men, junior men, senior ...

on the USA Junior Men's Team, and came in 104th place.

Professional

Highlights of Harris's professional running career include the following: * 1998 National Champion in the USA Track & Field Outdoor men's 1500 meters, with a time of 3:37.99. * Represented the United States the

, where he came in fourth in the men's mile with a time of 3:55.39, behind Algerian

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and Kenyans

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and Daniel Komen. * Ran in the 1996 USA Olympic Trials, where he came in 9th in the men's 1500 meters.

Coaching career

Harris is currently the Head Coach for Cross Country and Assistant Coach of Track and Field at Cal Poly Humboldt University, since September 2017. Harris served as Head Coach for both Track & Field and Cross Country at

University of California, Santa Cruz The University of California, Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz or UCSC) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Santa Cruz, California. It is one of the ten campuses in the University of California syste ...

(UCSC), from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he was Assistant Coach at UCSC for four years. He simultaneously served as head track coach at

Pacific Collegiate School Pacific Collegiate School is a grades 7-12 charter school located on the westside of Santa Cruz, California. Currently, the number of students is about 514. The school mascot is the Puma, and the school colors are white, black and silver. Accor ...

for 3 years. During his time at UCSC, Harris was a three-time winner of the Division III Association of Independents Coach of the Year award, for women's cross country. He oversaw a major expansion of the UCSC Track & Field and Cross Country programs, from being Cross Country only, to adding a Women's Track Team in 2012 that consisted exclusively of distance runners, to adding a Men's Track Team in 2015, to both teams competing in all events. In the 2017 Outdoor Track season, UCSC for the first time sponsored full varsity squads for both men and women that competed in all event groups. Before UCSC, Harris was an Assistant Cross Country Coach for

Auburn University Auburn University (AU or Auburn) is a public land-grant research university in Auburn, Alabama. With more than 24,600 undergraduate students and a total enrollment of more than 30,000 with 1,330 faculty members, Auburn is the second largest uni ...

, while he pursued his Masters and PhD in exercise physiology. He also previously served as a Volunteer Assistant Coach at Fresno State, his alma mater.

References

External links

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"Comparing Two Races: Sub-4 Minute Miles"

Harris profile on All-Athletics.net
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