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Haynes named top
track coach in Midwest Region
Release Date: March 8, 2007
 MONMOUTH,
Ill. — The U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Country Coaches
Association (USTFCCCA) announced earlier this week that Monmouth
College’s Roger Haynes was named the Midwest Region Men’s Indoor
Track Coach of the Year in Division III.
The organization names top men’s and women’s coaches in all eight
regions, as well as male and female track athletes of the year and
field athletes of the year. In their news release, the USTFCCCA
cited Monmouth’s recent dominance at the Midwest Conference
championships, as well as the fact that nine men’s team members
qualified for this weekend’s national meet in Terre Haute, Ind.
Haynes, a 1982 graduate of Monmouth, has coached men’s track and
field at his alma mater for 24 years. His teams have produced four
national champion individuals and placed as high as seventh in the
nation (1992). This year’s men’s team could better that mark by
placing in the top four and earning the school’s first-ever national
team trophy.
Last weekend’s indoor conference title was the eighth consecutive
one for the Fighting Scots men. In all, Haynes has guided men’s
teams to 14 indoor championships in the MWC and 12 outdoor crowns.
He took over the women’s program in 2000 and has won 13 additional
MWC titles with those teams, giving his program a total of 39
conference championships under his leadership.
Recently asked if one track or field event was his favorite over any
another, he replied, “They’re all my favorite when you have
motivated kids in an event. I really enjoy trying to help them do
something they’ve never done before.”
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