Rebel Coaching Staff Barbara Ferrell-EEdmonson Head Coach • Fourth Season

Barbara Ferrell-Edmonson enters her fourth season at the helm of the UNLV women’s /cross country program and she has positioned the Rebels to make a leap back toward the top of the Mountain West Conference and into national prominence. Last season she guided the Rebels to a fifth-place finish at the MWC Outdoor Championships with six ath- letes advancing to the 2005 NCAA West Regional Championships. In the process, two Rebels advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and Christine Spence earned All-America honors in both the high jump and 400 meter hurdles. It was the fourth All-America honor that Spence earned under Ferrell-Edmonson’s guidance. Ferrell-Edmonson came to Las Vegas from California State University Dominguez Hills where she served as the Director of Community Relations for University Advancement. She started at CSUDH in 1999 as the Director of Development in the same area. From 1991-99, Ferrell-Edmonson was at the University of Southern California and became USC’s women’s track and field head coach in 1992. Some of her head coaching highlights at USC include: a fifth-place finish at the 1998 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, a third-place finish at the 1998 Pacific-10 Conference Championships, a second-place finish at the 1997 Pac-10s, defeating 10-time defending NCAA champion LSU in a dual meet on USC’s way to a 14th-place showing at the 1997 NCAAs and the program’s first-ever Pac-10 championship in 1996. When Ferrell-Edmonson came to USC in 1991, she became one of the few female coaches to handle both the men’s and women’s sprinters at a Division I program. Ferrell-Edmonson took control of the women’s team in April of 1992 and led the Trojans to a third-place finish in the Pac-10. “Barbara has done a great job since becoming the head coach here at UNLV,” said Associate Athletic Director Terry Cottle. “With her coaching experience and connections in Southern California, she has the ability to bring UNLV track and field and cross country to a greater level.” Ferrell-Edmonson came back to USC in 2001 to serve as a volunteer women’s track coach and performing that role until taking over as head coach at UNLV. Ferrell-Edmonson is a former world-record holder in the 50m, 100m and 200m and, competing under her maiden name of Ferrell, was a member of the 1968 and 1972 United States Olympic teams. She was a member of the gold medal-winning 4x100m relay team and also won the 100m silver medal at the 1968 Olympics in . Ferrell-Edmonson is a member of the U.S. National Track and Field Hall of Fame (1986 inductee). Ferrell-Edmonson was an elementary teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School district for eight years (1968-76) and continued to compete on an international level for much of her teaching career. In 1977, she moved on to become the United Teachers of Los Angeles union representative. At the same time, she returned to track as a coach for the Beyond Athletics Track Club. In 1982, she stepped up to the college ranks, coach- ing the sprinters at West Los Angeles Junior College. Ferrell-Edmonson became the head boys’ and girls’ coach at St, Bernard High in Playa Del Rey, Calif., in 1968, and led both teams to the league title. Ferrell-Edmonson graduated with a bachelor’s degree from California State University Los Angeles in 1969. She is the wife of former UCLA sprint great Warren Edmonson, the 1972 NCAA 100m champion. The couple have two daughters.

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• One of the world’s top sprinters in the late 1960s and early 1970s. • Coached the Rebels’ second four-time All-American, Christine Spence. • Named the 2005 Women’s Coach of the Year by the Cal-Nevada Association. • Guided America’s best at the 2002 IAAF World Cup in Madrid, Spain. • Became one of the few female coaches to handle both the men’s and women’s sprinters at a major Division I program, while a coach at USC from 1991-99. • Former world-record holder in the 50, 100 and 200 Meters. • A member of the 1968 and 1972 U.S. Olympic Teams. • 1968 Olympic Gold Medalist - 4x100 Meter Relay. • 1968 Olympic Silver Medalist - 100 Meters. • 1967 Gold Medalist - 100 Meters. • Three-time U.S. National Champion. • Inducted into the National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1986.

14 2005-06 UNLV Cross Country/Track and Field Rebel Coaching Staff Pablo Sanchez Assistant Coach • Second Season

Pablo Sanchez enters his second season as an assistant with UNLV, where he works primarily with the distance runners and also coaches the cross country team. Sanchez comes to UNLV after spending the previous past five years as an assistant cross country and track coach at Murray (Ky.) State University. Sanchez has more than 13 years of experience coaching cross country and distance runners at the collegiate level. He started his coaching career at Brevard (N.C.) College as a volunteer assistant in 1992, spending three years there. Sanchez then moved to the University of Southern Mississippi as a graduate assistant in 1995. His first head coaching position was at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., in 1997. After two years at Converse he continued his climb up the coaching ladder to Nicholls State in Thibodaux, La., where he was an assistant coach for two years before moving to Murray State in 1999. In his collegiate coaching career, Sanchez has coached eight conference champions, 40 all conference performers, 10 regional qualifiers and two national qualifiers. He is currently the site coordinator for the USATF Coaching Clinic, which will be held at UNLV and Sanchez himself is a USATF Level II certified coach.He also coached Joyce Chepchumba, a three-time London Marathon winner. Sanchez has also coached at the Olympic level, working with the Kenyan Olympic team for eight weeks prior to the 1996 . “This school has the resources and the potential to make a move up,” Sanchez said. “I couldn’t ask for a better situa- tion and it is a privilege to work under coach Edmonson.” Sanchez graduated from Columbus (Ga.) State University in 1992 with a degree in science and parks recreation. He earned his master’s degree in human performance from the University of Southern Mississippi in 1997. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, Gaye Haynes, and his stepdaughter, Jaye Haynes.

Garfield Ellenwood Assistant Coach • Second Season

Garfield Ellenwood enters his second season as an assistant coach with the UNLV track and field pro- gram. Ellenwood works primarily with the sprinters and field athletes. Ellenwood came to UNLV after spending two years at Campbell University. While coaching there, Ellenwood guided high jumper Eric Bergemann to the NCAA Indoor Championships, the first time a Campbell athlete advanced to the championships. Bergemann topped seven feet in the high jump for the first time in his career and set the school indoor record. Sprinter Akeisha Flegler won the Atlantic Sun 100-meter championship and set school records indoors in the 55- and 60- and 200-meter events and the outdoor 200. The men’s 4x100 meter relay squad also earned all-conference honors with a third-place finish at the league championship. This past summer he was an assistant coach at the 2005 World Junior Championships in Windsor, Canada, and he helped coached six golf medalists and a total of 17 medalists for Team USA. A 1998 graduate of Seton Hall with a bachelor of sceince in social and behavioral sciences/psychology, Ellenwood set a Big East Conference indoor record in the 55-meter dash and finished third in the event in the 1997 NCAA Indoor Championship. During his career, Ellenwood won five Big East titles and was a three-time All-American. Ellenwood has continued to compete professionally as a sprinter throughout the world while entering the coaching ranks. He represented the United States for the first time in his career at the 2002 Penn Relays where he was a member of the USA Red 4x200-meter relay team that competed against Poland, Ghana, Germany and Jamaica. While running with the Reebok Enclave, Ellenwood competed in the 2000 United States Olympic Trials in both the 100 and 200. During the 2000 indoor season, he finished fourth in the U.S. Championships in the 200. Ellenwood’s previous coaching experience includes a stint as a volunteer assistant coach at Essex County College in Newark, N.J. He also coached track and field athletes in the Rochester, N.Y., Southwest Area Neighborhood (SWAN) and National Youth Sports programs. A member of the USATF Athlete Advisory Committee since 1999, Ellenwood is a USATF Level I Certified coach. During the 2004 USATF annual convention, he was named the AAC event leader for the men’s sprints as well as an assistant coach for the 2005 US World University Games men’s track and field team, which will compete in Izmir, Turkey. Outside the track and field realm, he played with the Rochester Brigade during the 2001 Arena Football League season. A native of Rochester, N.Y., Garfield currently resides in North Las Vegas with his 11-year-old daughter, Diamond.

2005-06 UNLV Cross Country/Track and Field 15 Rebel Coaching Staff Assistant Coach • Second Season

Martha Watson begins her second season with UNLV track and field and works primarily with the jumpers. Watson brings a wealth of success as an athlete to UNLV, as she was a member of four Summer Olympic Teams, participated in the 1975 Pan-Am Games and won six USA Track and Field championships. She made her first Olympic squad in the summer of 1964, placing second in the long jump at the U.S. Olympic Trials to qualify. She competed in three more Summer Olympics as a long jumper while also running on the 400- meter relay. In 1972 the relay team narrowly missed medaling, finished fourth. Watson dominated the long jump in the United States during the 1970s, winning three consecutive titles in the event at both the USA Outdoor Championships and USA Indoor Championships from 1973 to 1976. At the 1975 Pan-Am Games she son a silver medal in the long jump and a gold medal in the 400-meter relay. She set the indoor long jump record twice during her career, and had a personal-best leap of 21’-7.5”. She was inducted into the Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1987. Watson graduated from Tennessee State in 1970 with a degree in speech pathology.

Kia Davis Volunteer Assistant Coach • First Season

Kia Davis enters her first season as a volunteer coach for the UNLV women's track and field team and she will work primarily with the hurdlers and sprinters. Before coming to UNLV, Davis spent two years as an assistant coach at Campbell University (N.C.). She is no stranger to the track, as she is one of the top sprinters and hurdlers in the U.S. Davis has competed in a number of national and international events, including the 2005 USATF Outdoor Championships, the Penn Relays, the Home Depot Invitational and the Felix Sanchez Invitational. Her best finish was second place in the 200 meters at the Felix Sanchez. Davis was also a member of U.S. 4x400 meter relay pool, but did not compete in the Athens games due to a collision during relay practice. Davis earned her degree in sociology from St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, N.C., in 2002. Lara Saye Volunteer Assistant Coach • First Season

Lara Saye enters her first season as a volunteer assistant coach with the UNLV women's track and field team, and she will work with the Rebel throwers. This is the first coaching position for Saye, who is a native of Las Vegas and recently wrapped up her collegiate career at UCLA. She is a USATF Level I Certified coach and before coming to UNLV she helped coach clinics and camps at UCLA. Saye was a four-year letterwinner for the Bruins and earned All-America status in 2002 in the discus, placing fifth with a throw of 175-2.00. Her best toss in the discus came last year, when she threw 188-0.00, the third-best mark in the NCAA in 2005. Back problems limited her at the NCAA Championships in 2005, as she placed 13th. Saye graduated from Silverado High School in Las Vegas in 2000 after a strong prep career, winning the shot put and discus at the Nevada State meet in her junior and senior seasons. Saye graduated from UCLA in 2005 with a degree in sociology with a minor in classical civilizations. She is cur- rently single and lives in Las Vegas.

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