Cougar Athletics
30 NAIA National Championships
95 GSAC Championships
...and counting

kreid@apu.edu

He has won more national championships than any active track & field coach in the NAIA. Indeed, Kevin Reid has emerged from the looming shadows of an Azusa Pacific track & field dynasty to appropriately put his stamp on the program’s success.

Now in his 13th season as Azusa Pacific's head coach, Reid has guided the Cougars’ to 7 NAIA championships since taking over the winningest program in NAIA history back in 1996. Reid-coached Cougars have won 5 indoor national championships (1996, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2007) and 2 outdoor crowns (2001 and 2002). They are the reigning NAIA indoor champs.

In addition to his national championship seasons, Reid has been named NAIA Coach of the Year 7 times as well.

Reid, who served as legendary track coach Terry Franson's assistant since 1989, wasted no time putting his identity on Azusa Pacific track & field when he took over for the retiring Franson in 1996. Even though he had no head coaching experience on any level, Reid was given control and before the third month of his 1996 rookie season, he led Azusa Pacific to its first-ever NAIA Indoor Track & Field Championship, quite a feat for a program that frustratingly finished second in 8 previous indoor championship meets. For his efforts, he was named NAIA Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year. Two months later, he took a short-handed Cougar team to a second place finish at the NAIA Outdoor Championships.

While he continued Azusa Pacific's strong presence in field events, in the course of time Reid has redirected the program's focus toward one that relies on jumps and multi-event athletes. By the time his full signature was on the Cougar track & field, Reid had his own dominating program.

He has coached 18 NAIA national champions and over 70 All-Americans. He has led the Cougars to the Golden State Athletic Conference championship 10 of the past 12 years, including the past 9 in a row, a conference record for the longest title string.

Individually, Reid has been recognized by his peers for his excellent work, being named NAIA Indoor Coach of the Year in 1996 and again in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2007. He was also named the NAIA Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2002.

Regarded for his expertise in the multi-events, Reid has coached Bryan Clay, Tage Peterson and David Pichler, 3 the nation's top young decathletes over the past decade. Clay won the silver medal in the decathlon at the 2004 Athens Summer Olympics and was the 2005 world champion in the decathlon. Additionally, Reid is the coordinator of the California Invitational and Mt. SAC Relays Multi-Events meets. He has served on numerous national committees, including the game's committee of the NAIA indoor and outdoor championship meets, of which he co-chaired the games committee of the 2004 NAIA Outdoor Championships Meet. He has served as outdoor championship meet referee for 4 years, and he is also 1 of 10 NAIA delegates to U.S. Track & Field.

As a student-athlete and a member of 2 Azusa Pacific NAIA championship squads, competing in both the intermediate and high hurdles on the 1986 and 1988 teams. Reid posted career-bests of 53.81 in the intermediates and 14.79 in the highs. Reid also was a 2-year letterman on the Cougar football team, starting as a defensive back for the nationally-ranked 1985 and 1986 teams that went a combined 12-3-3.

Reid, who also worked 3 years for Jostens, Inc., graduated from Azusa Pacific in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in marketing. In 2001 he earned his master's degree in education from Azusa Pacific.

Before coming to Azusa Pacific, Reid competed at Yuba Junior College in Marysville, Calif., and prepped at Carson City (Nev.) High School, from which he graduated in 1983.

His younger sister Kim Reid-Schmidt and brother Jim both competed on the Cougar track & field team during the 1990s.

Kevin, 42, and his wife Stacey, a 1992 Azusa Pacific alum, live in Pomona, Calif., with their sons Jonathan (12) and Zachary (7).

	REID AT AZUSA PACIFIC
                              NAIA     NAIA
Year School           GSAC   Indoor  Outdoor
1996 Azusa Pacific     1st     1st      2nd
1997 Azusa Pacific     2nd     9th      8th  
1998 Azusa Pacific     2nd     2nd      5th  
1999 Azusa Pacific     1st     4th      3rd
2000 Azusa Pacific     1st     5th      4th  
2001 Azusa Pacific     1st     2nd      1st  
2002 Azusa Pacific     1st     1st      1st  
2003 Azusa Pacific     1st     1st      3rd  
2004 Azusa Pacific     1st     1st      3rd 
2005 Azusa Pacific     1st     5th      5th
2006 Azusa Pacific     1st     4th      3rd
2007 Azusa Pacific     1st     1st      3rd
	

mbarnett@apu.edu

In 1983, Mike Barnett was a key athlete in leading Azusa Pacific to its first of a record-setting number of NAIA men’s track & field championships. Twenty years later, as a head coach, he led Azusa Pacific to its first-ever NAIA women’s track & field national championship which opened a unique run of titles. It seems wherever Barnett goes extraordinary success follows as well.

Now in his ninth year at the helm of Azusa Pacific women’s track & field, Barnett is building a dynasty, much like the one he started for the Cougar men during his competitive days. As a coach, Barnett has led Azusa Pacific to 5 NAIA national championships – 3 outdoor and 2 indoor – over the past 5 years. He is the only coach in NAIA history to lead his team to back-to-back sweeps of the indoor and outdoor titles, a feat the Cougars accomplished in 2003 and 2004.

An even-keeled, good-natured man at heart, Barnett appeals to all types of people and is well-liked by his athletes. He is organized and pays attention to detail. And as can be expected by his success, both as an athlete and coach, he is competitive. He strives for the best of himself and his athletes.

He has been named the NAIA Coach of the Year 5 times, including last year after he led his Cougars to the 2007 NAIA outdoor national championship.

As his storied international career began to wind down , Barnett returned to his alma mater in 1999 as a throws coach. After a season as an assistant, he became the head coach in 2000. Within 2 years he had Azusa Pacific post its best-ever showings in women’s track & field with a pair of national runner-up finishes at the 2002 NAIA indoor and outdoor championship meets. In 2003 he became only the sixth coach in NAIA history to lead his squad to a sweep of the NAIA women’s indoor and outdoor national championships. In 2004, he became the first coach ever of a team to sweep NAIA indoor and outdoor crowns in successive years as the Cougars ran away from the field to win both national championships.

While he is an extraordinary throws coach (between the Cougar men and women he has coached 14 All-American throwers), Barnett’s success has come from a balanced attack. Overall, he has coached 44 different All-American Cougar women, including 17 individual champions.

One of the most celebrated athletes in Azusa Pacific history, Barnett was a 5-time NAIA champion. He is the first and still only 4-time NAIA javelin champion, winning the event as a 1980 freshman and then following with 3 straight NAIA record tosses over the next 3 years. At the 1983 NAIA championship meet, his final collegiate appearance as a Cougar, he broke his own record with a heave of 259’ 11”, and combined with his second-place showing in the hammer, he helped lead Azusa Pacific to its first of what would be an unprecedented 7 straight NAIA outdoor track & field championships.

During that 1983 senior season, Barnett sent notice to the international community that he had Olympic-caliber ability when he recorded the fourth-best javelin throw in U.S. history with a toss of 296’ 5” to win the prestigious Mt. SAC Relays title.

Barnett embarked on an international javelin throwing career that he hoped would lead to the Olympics, particularly the 1984 Games in his Southern California home at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. However, at the 1984 U.S. trials, Barnett fell short of his goal. In preparation for the 1988 Summer Games in Seoul, Korea, Barnett finished fourth at the Olympic Trials and had to settle for “alternate.”

In 1989 Barnett captured his first-ever U.S. javelin championship. He repeated the performance with another national javelin title in 1991. Yet neither crown guaranteed him a berth into the 1992 Olympics. In June of 1992, Barnett ended 8 years of frustration and reached the pinnacle of his track & field career, all in one fell swoop, when he garnered a place on the U.S. Olympic team for the 1992 Barcelona Games. He made the most of his lone appearance on the Olympic stage by throwing the javelin 258’ 0” to finish seventh, which is still the highest showing by an American javelin thrower over the past 7 Olympic Summer Games.

A 7-time NAIA All-American, Barnett’s javelin throwing resume also includes the 1980 Pan-Am and U.S. junior championships. In 1991, he was fourth in the javelin at the World Cup. Before his retirement from the sport in 1996, Track & Field News ranked Barnett among the top 10 javelin throwers in the United State for 14 years, ranking him the nation’s best in 1989 and again in 1991.

His international competition delayed completion of his academic pursuits but in 1997 Barnett earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from Azusa Pacific. In 2001 he completed work on his master's in education, which he also earned at Azusa Pacific.

Barnett also lettered 3 seasons on Azusa Pacific's football team (1979-81) and teamed with his older brother, Doug, to spearhead one of the finest Cougar defenses ever during the early 1980s. Doug, who went on to play 5 seasons in the NFL with the Rams, Redskins and Falcons, also partnered with Mike to form one of college track & field's best-ever brother combinations. Like Mike, Doug was an accomplished thrower and won 5 NAIA individuals titles in the hammer, shot and 35-pound weight throws. In 1982, the Barnett brothers became the first Cougars ever to be nationally-ranked by Track & Field News in their respective events -- Mike in the javelin and Doug in the hammer.

During his many years of competition, Mike supported himself and his family as the sole owner of Elite Wallcovering, a business he still operates today though on a reduced scale. Mike, who teaches in Azusa Pacific's exercise & sport science department, and his wife Julie, also an Azusa Pacific alum, reside in Glendora, Calif., with their 2 children, Cory (21), a senior business major at Azusa Pacific, and Shawna (18), a senior at Glendora High.

	BARNETT AT AZUSA PACIFIC
                              NAIA     NAIA
Year School           GSAC   Indoor  Outdoor
2000 Azusa Pacific     2nd     12th     3rd  
2001 Azusa Pacific     1st     13nd     4th  
2002 Azusa Pacific     1st      2nd     2nd  
2003 Azusa Pacific     1st      1st     1st  
2004 Azusa Pacific     1st      1st     1st 
2005 Azusa Pacific     2nd      5th     5th
2006 Azusa Pacific     1st      6th     2nd
2007 Azusa Pacific     2nd      9th     1st
	

preston@apu.edu

Preston Grey is in his third season as the director of the Azusa Pacific men's and women's distance programs and his fourth year with Azusa Pacific.

Grey has continued to build upon the work of his predecessors, Bill Reeves and Irv Ray, taking Azusa Pacific to new heights in program history. In 2006, he guided the Cougar men to their finest showing ever at the NAIA cross country championships, a third-place finish that was improvement upon their fifth-place showing the year before, Grey’s first at the Cougar helm.

The Azusa Pacific women have improved under Grey’s leadership, moving from an 18th-place finish in 2005 to ninth in 2006 and now a sixth-place finish at the 2007 championships.

This past fall, he became only the second coach in NAIA history to coach 2 NAIA cross country champions of the same season when Cougars’ Jaime Canterbury and Aron Rono respectively captured the NAIA women’s and men’s cross country titles.

Grey has already coached 4 NAIA cross country All-Americans (Whitney Jacobsmeyer, Jaime Canterbury, Jackie Kipwambok, Aron Rono), and in track & field he has led 16 different All-Americans, including NAIA champions Rono, Canterbury and school-record holder Tim Ramirez.

Grey came to Azusa Pacific in the summer of 2004 as a graduate assistant coach in the Cougar track & field and cross country program. He had just completed an outstanding 4-year distance running career at NAIA-member Cornerstone University of Grand Rapids, Mich. Grey was a 2-time qualifier for the NAIA cross country championship meet, earning All-American recognition during his 2003 senior season when he also clocked a school-record 24.48 8K. He was also a 2-time all-region and 3-time all-conference honoree.

In track & field, Grey was a 6-time qualifier for the NAIA championship meet and was a 2-time Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference honoree. He posted career bests of 31:22 (10,000 meters), 14:51 (5000 meters) and 8:46 (3000 meters).

Grey, a native of Champaign, Ill., graduated from Cornerstone in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in business/sports management. This past December, he completed a master's degree in education at Azusa Pacific.

Cedarville '02

Former NAIA All-American Mike Marsh is in his sixth season on the Cougar track & field coaching staff. Marsh primarily oversees the Cougar men's and women's pole vaulters, but he does assist in other events among the decathlon/heptathlon family.

Marsh came west in 2002 to train with the nationally renowned Azusa Pacific decathletes after completing a fine 4-year career at Cedarville (Ohio) College. As a collegian, Marsh was a 3-time NAIA All-American in the decathlon (twice) and pentathlon (once).

As a 2001 junior he fashioned one of the best individual seasons in Cedarville track & field history. He set the school and National Christian College Athletic Association decathlon records with a score of 6,551 points at the NCCAA championship meet held at Cedarville. He led the Yellow Jackets to their first and only American Mideast Conference championship. Earlier that year, he finished third in NAIA indoor pentathlon, trailing only Azusa Pacific's Bryan Clay and Chris Carlson, by tallying a school record 3,480 points.

As a 2002 senior, Marsh earned another NAIA All-American honor in the pentathlon and later in the year won the American Mideast Conference long jump crown. He posted collegiate personal bests of 11.39 (100m), 15.64 (110m HH), 4:44.77 (1500m), and 22' 10 1/2" (long jump)

Marsh, 27, graduated from Cedarville in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in business. He prepped at Keswick Christian High in St. Petersburg, Fla., where he competed 4 seasons in cross country, qualifying for the state meet as a 1998 senior, and 1 season in track & field.

Since coming to California nearly 5 years ago, Marsh has continued his training in the decathlon. Last June he scored 7,578 points in a decathlon in Dallas, Texas, to qualify for the U.S. Championships. In the spring of 2005, he narrowly missed the U.S. Championship Meet when he recorded a career best 7,587 points to win the Claremont Classic with a Burns Stadium record. His point total was the 15th best in the nation that year. He registered bests of 10.88 (100m), 14.73 (110m HH), and 15’ 11” (pole vault) in that decathlon.

Marsh and his wife Lauri, (an Azusa Pacific alum and assistant coach in the Cougar aquatics program), reside in Glendora. Mike also works as a lifeguard and is sponsored by Champion Nutrition in his competitions.

Former Cougar trackster Rob Jarvis is in his second year on the Azusa Pacific coaching staff.

Jarvis, who assists in the administration of all home Azusa Pacific meets, also oversees the Cougar sprinters and relays.

As an athlete, Jarvis was a 4-time NAIA All-American during his 4-year Cougar career. He came to Azusa Pacific and returned to track & field after a 2-year stint as a wide receiver at San Diego State University.

Persistent, nagging injuries derailed Jarvis’ aspirations to be a decathlete so he turned his attention to the long sprints and relays. As a 2003 freshman, he picked up his first 2 All-America honors by running the third leg on the Cougars’ 4x100-meter relay that finished fourth at the NAIA Outdoor Championship Meet in Olathe, Kan., and the second leg on the 4x400 that won the NAIA title with a 3:12.49. As a 2004 sophomore, he ran the opening leg on the Cougar 4x100 that finished third (40.41) at the outdoor championships. In 2005, he garnered his final All-America recognition by running the second leg on the Cougar 4x400 that finished sixth (3:16.47) at the NAIA Indoor Championship Meet.

Throughout his college career, Jarvis qualified for the NAIAs in the open 200 and 400, yet never advanced to the finals.

Jarvis prepped at Covina (Calif.) High where he sprinted 4 years for former Cougar standout Kevin Glaspy. Jarvis was a 5-time Valle Vista League champ in the 100, 200 and long jump, and as a 1997 senior he was the CIF runner-up in the 400. He set the Covina High school records in the 200 (21.63) and 400 (48.08) before accepting a football scholarship to San Diego State.

Jarvis, 29, coached football (wide receivers) 2 years at Covina High while attending classes at Azusa Pacific (the Colts advanced to the CIF playoffs both years). He graduated from Azusa Pacific in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He will begin pursuit of an MBA this fall. He is currently working on his USATF Level I coaching certification and a Level II certification in the sprints.

Jarvis, who also runs a personal business that provides fully automatic timing for college and high school track & field meets, is single and resides in Baldwin Park, Calif.