Mike Sheaner has accepted nomination to become the first Board President of the Texas Track & Field Coaches Association. A good will ambassador and strong advocate for track and field in Texas, Mike has officiated meets for the past 32 years and serves as webmaster for the Jesuit-Sheaner Relays, one of North Texas' premier high school track and field events.
The son of longtime track and field coach Herb Sheaner, Mike's contributions to the sport are enormous: in addition to three-decades-plus officiating, he works closely with the Dallas Morning News, compiling results and maintaining the area's Track & Field Leaders List.
A certified USATF official and member of the NFHS Officials Association, Mike Sheaner has officiated UIL, TAPPS, TCIL, and Red River Athletic Conference meets.
Mike is also managing partner of Sheaner Insurance, LLP, property and casualty.
Steve McBride, the President of the Track & Field Coaches Clinic of Texas, is one of the co-founders of the Texas Track & Field Coaches Association. McBride also serves as the Head XC and TF Coach at the Episcopal School of Dallas, while also serving as a Texas representative for VS Athletics.
Previously McBride was the Head Track & Field and Cross Country Coach at Dallas Bishop Lynch High School, where his teams won five track and field state championships and two cross country state titles.
Altogether McBride has over twenty years experience in coaching track & field.
Stuart Kantor (pictured with Hall of Famer Bill Melton) is one of the co-founders of the Texas Track & Field Coaches Association and is the Managing Director of the Track & Field Coaches Clinic of Texas. He also serves as both sites' webmaster.
A converted basketball coach of 15 years, Stuart has helped Dallas Bishop Lynch High School win 4 state track & field titles (and 1 basketball) with an emphasis on pole vault where he helped produce a two-time TAPPS 6A individual champion.
Doug Robinson has 35 years coaching experience in track & field / cross country. He has spent the past 19 years as head coach in track and cross country at Poteet high School in Mesquite. At Poteet, his cross country teams have won 3 state championships, 12 regional championships, and 15 district championships.
He has produced 2 individual state champions in cross country as well as 6 state medalists. In track, Coach Robinson's athletes have won state championships in the 800, 1600, 3200, 300 meter hurdles, 4 x 200 and triple jump. In addition he has produced state medalists in the shot put, discus, and pole vault. Six of his athletes have gained H.S. All-American honors.
He is the Dallas Morning News "2008 Cross Country Coach of the Year."
Meme Garza:
1968 thru 1971 lettered in track at St. Edwards University in Austin, Texas.
1974: Graduate assistant at The University of Texas under Coach Cleburne Price. Track team was ranked in the top ten in the nation and had 5 NCAA individual national champions.
1975 to present: Head boys and girls track and cross country coach at St. Joseph Academy in Brownsville, Texas. In this time, the boys and girls teams have won a combined 17 State private school championships in track and cross country; also the programs have combined to place second 13 times and third 3 time at the state level. The program has also developed 1 national age group champion and 6 national age group medalist, 103 individual State Champions, and 11 division 1 scholarships. My teaching assignments have been in the Health and Physical Education Department, and I have been the Assistant Athletic Director since 1998.
Inducted into The Rio Grande Valley Sports Hall of Fame 2006; named Rio Grand Valley Coach of the Year 2007, and inducted into the St. Joseph Academy Ring of Honor 2000.
Ray White - Lewisville High School
Jeep Shanks - the TTFCA's first Secretary
I have 29 years experience coaching track and field and began coaching cross country five years ago. I have been the head track and field coach for 21 years with 6 district championships and 1 cross country district championship.
I have coached athletes at the state track meet in every classification 1A through 5A. These athletes have won individual state championships in the discus and 110 meter high hurdles. Seven others have won medals at the state meet and there have been numerous 4th through 6th placings.
I am a USATF national certified track and field official and currently serve as the head boys cross country/track and field coach at Abilene High School in Abilene, Texas.
Co-Executive Directors
President
Vice President
Greg Williams, Head Coach at Lancaster, is the TTFCA's first Vice President.
Greg Williams is a native Wacoan and the son of former Waco High School principal Willie Williams and former LaVega High School teacher and coach, Robbie Williams. Greg graduated from Richfield High School in 1983. At Richfield, Greg played football and basketball. He then attended Texas A & M – Commerce (formerly East Texas State University) where he received his Bachelor’s degree in General Business.
Greg began his teaching and coaching career at Lancaster High School as an assistant football and assistant track coach. After 8 years, Greg left Lancaster for one year to teach United States History and become the Offensive Coordinator and Head Track Coach at Wilmer-Hutchins High School. Greg then returned to Lancaster and became the Head Boys Track Coach in 1998. Under Greg’s leadership, the Tigers have won 12 District Championships, 6 Regional Championships (2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009 and 2010), 5 State Championships (2003, 2004, 2008, 2009, and 2010) and 2005 State Runner-up by just 4 points narrowly missing a 3-peat performance as state champions. Greg and his coaching staff have been named Dallas Morning News Coaching Staff of the Year three times (2004, 2008 and 2009), PVIL Track and Field Coaching Staff of the Year three times (2008, 2009, and 2010) and UIL Texas State Track and Field Coaching Staff of the Year in 2009.
At Lancaster, Greg has taught in the History department for 22 years. He served as the History Department Chair for 3 years, leading the department to two of its highest rated years on the TAKS test during his tenure. In his career, Greg has taught Texas History, United States History and his current assignment is Regular and Advanced Placement World History. Greg has been nominated numerous times for Lancaster High School Teacher of the Year by his peers. Over the years Greg has attended numerous workshops and conferences to develop his teaching skills. He has used them along with his own life experiences to develop his teaching philosophy.
“I tell my students on many occasions that understanding World History is the key to developing relationships in this global community that we live in. My students must understand that they are not competing with just the students in the seats next to them but also the students on the other side of the world for scholarships, jobs, and other opportunities. For them to be successful, they must understand the background of the people they are competing against. The motivation for teaching my students is to give them the tools to compete in our global society. My reward is when they take those tools and use them to become successful.”
Greg is married to Yolanda Jackson Williams formerly of Waco. They have two children, Laronda and Gregory Jr.
Secretary
Forevermore, head coach Barbara Crousen will go down in McMurry history as the first head coach to lead a team of any kind to a team national championship. Crousen guided McMurry’s men to the NCAA III Outdoor National Championship in 2008 giving the school its first national title of any kind since it began intercollegiate athletic competition in 1923.
Since taking over the program in the summer of 1998, Crousen has helped McMurry become a consistent track power in the south region and nationally among NCAA Division III schools.
Since her first season in 1999, Crousen led the men’s team to 12 consecutive American Southwest Conference titles (1999-2010) and the women’s team to 10 ASC championships in the last 12 seasons (1999-2004, 2006-2009).
During that time, she has been named the ASC’s Men’s Coach of the Year all 12 seasons and nine times she was named the Women’s ASC Coach of the Year.
In 2010, she was named the men’s South/Southeast Region Coach of the Year marking the seventh time she’d earned the honor. The men’s team finished in eighth place at the national outdoor meet and sixth at indoor nationals.
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Ray Baca, Canyon High School
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Barry Briner
Hurdles, Long Jump Triple Jump
A naitive on New Orleans, Louisiana, Barry Briner was born November 2, 1958. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1981 and a Master of Education degree from Stephen F. Austin State University in 1994. He has thirty years of educational experience including 24 years in coaching and 6 years in administration. His coaching experience includes 24 years in football and 12 years coaching track and field.
While at North Shore High School Briner was part of a staff that won fifteen consecutive games culminating in a state title in 2003. The Mustangs also reached the state semi-finals twice during his stint.
In Track and Field, Briner served as the Mustang’s Head Coach for the past seven years leading his team to seven consecutive District titles, back to back Regional Championships and a Class 5A State Championship in 2010. In 2010 Coach Briner’s team scored eighty-eight points at the State Meet, the most scored by a team in the one hundred year history of the meet. In 2010, Coach Briner was selected by the Prairie View Interscholastic League Coach of the Year. He was also named Male Coach of the Year by the Texas Track and Field Coaches Association.
