LBSU’s LaTanya Sheffield Named Head Coach For Team USA At 2024 Paris Olympics
2/22/2024 10:39:00 AM | Indoor Track, Track and Field
Sheffield Will Work With The Sprinters And Hurdlers
LONG BEACH, Calif.—Long Beach State Head Men's and Women's Track and Field Coach LaTanya Sheffield was named Head Women's Coach for Team USA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She will also work with Team USA's Sprinters and Hurdlers.
Of high demand on the international stage, Sheffield previously served as the USA National Team Women's Head Coach for the 2022 World Championships. She has been selected twice to lead the United States women's national team's sprints, hurdles, and relays at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She led the entire women's track and field program as Team USA won 18 combined medals at the 2019 Pan American Games.
In addition to her two Olympic Coaching stints and helming the 2019 Pan American Games, Sheffield previously served as an assistant coach for the U.S. women's team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Russia.
Sheffield oversaw the sprints, hurdles, and relays at the World Indoor Championships in 2008 (Valencia, Spain) and 2006 (Moscow, Russia), as well as at the Pan American Games in 2011 (Guadalajara, Mexico) and 2007 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Sheffield has also served on the USA Track & Field Development Committee as the event chair for women's hurdles since 2007.
During her time at Long Beach State, the team has won seven championships in ten years, with the men claiming five titles and the women claiming two over the last three years.
During her time at Long Beach State, the team has won seven Big West championships in ten years, with the men claiming five titles and the women going back-to-back in 2022 and 2023. Under her leadership, the Beach has had a Big West Athlete of the Year on both the men's and women's side in each of the last two seasons and were two points away on the Men's side from becoming the first team in over a decade to claim both championships in a single season. Long Beach State has had a student-athlete earn All-American honors in seven straight contested NCAA championships, and the program is making great strides in indoor competition as well, as Hailey Fune' was named the MPSF Indoor Track and Field Championship Athlete of the Meet in 2023.
Complete Sheffield Bio at Long Beach State;
https://longbeachstate.com/sports/indoor-track/roster/coaches/latanya-sheffield/783
As an athlete, Sheffield was an Olympic finalist in the 400m hurdles at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, and represented the United States at the 1987 World Championships. She was also a two-time gold medalist at the Olympic Sports Festival (1987, 1993) and won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games.
Sheffield, who established an American record in the 400m hurdles in 1985, excelled at San Diego State, where she was a two-time All-American and 1985 NCAA Champion (400H). She was inducted into the SDSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.
Of high demand on the international stage, Sheffield previously served as the USA National Team Women's Head Coach for the 2022 World Championships. She has been selected twice to lead the United States women's national team's sprints, hurdles, and relays at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympics. She led the entire women's track and field program as Team USA won 18 combined medals at the 2019 Pan American Games.
In addition to her two Olympic Coaching stints and helming the 2019 Pan American Games, Sheffield previously served as an assistant coach for the U.S. women's team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, Russia.
Sheffield oversaw the sprints, hurdles, and relays at the World Indoor Championships in 2008 (Valencia, Spain) and 2006 (Moscow, Russia), as well as at the Pan American Games in 2011 (Guadalajara, Mexico) and 2007 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Sheffield has also served on the USA Track & Field Development Committee as the event chair for women's hurdles since 2007.
During her time at Long Beach State, the team has won seven championships in ten years, with the men claiming five titles and the women claiming two over the last three years.
During her time at Long Beach State, the team has won seven Big West championships in ten years, with the men claiming five titles and the women going back-to-back in 2022 and 2023. Under her leadership, the Beach has had a Big West Athlete of the Year on both the men's and women's side in each of the last two seasons and were two points away on the Men's side from becoming the first team in over a decade to claim both championships in a single season. Long Beach State has had a student-athlete earn All-American honors in seven straight contested NCAA championships, and the program is making great strides in indoor competition as well, as Hailey Fune' was named the MPSF Indoor Track and Field Championship Athlete of the Meet in 2023.
Complete Sheffield Bio at Long Beach State;
https://longbeachstate.com/sports/indoor-track/roster/coaches/latanya-sheffield/783
As an athlete, Sheffield was an Olympic finalist in the 400m hurdles at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea, and represented the United States at the 1987 World Championships. She was also a two-time gold medalist at the Olympic Sports Festival (1987, 1993) and won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games.
Sheffield, who established an American record in the 400m hurdles in 1985, excelled at San Diego State, where she was a two-time All-American and 1985 NCAA Champion (400H). She was inducted into the SDSU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1993.
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