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ROBERT JOHNSON Head Coach • Sixth Season • 13th Season Overall at Oregon NCAA Women’s Coach of the Year (7) With five seasons complete as the head coach of Oregon track 2011i, 2012i, 2012xc, 2013i, 2014i, 2015tf, and field, Robert Johnson has led the Ducks to 13 national 2017i championships while producing 12 Pac-12 titles and guiding 48 individuals to victories at the NCAA Championships. He entering NCAA Men’s Coach of the Year (4) his 13th season overall with the Ducks. 2014i, 2014tf, 2015i, 2015tf Oregon’s national titles in the Johnson era include three-straight Pac-12 Women’s Coach of the Year (5) men’s indoor track and field championships (2014-16), two men’s 2012xc, 2013tf, 2014tf, 2014xc, 2017tf outdoor titles (2014-15), four women’s indoor track and field wins (2013-14, 2016-17), two women’s cross country titles (2012, 2016) Pac-12 Men’s Coach of the Year (3) and two women’s outdoor track and field championship (2015, 2013tf, 2014tf, 2017tf 2017). NCAA Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year (1) 2010i Most recently, Johnson and the Women of Oregon made history at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships with a thrilling win Under Head Coach Robert Johnson, to complete the historic Triple Crown - NCAA titles in cross UO Athletes have won: country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field in the same academic year. Trailing Georgia by 8.2 points with only the 4x400 relay remaining, 50 NCAA Titles the Ducks ran a collegiate record 3:23.13 to win the relay, secure the NCAA championship and 60 Meters: 2017i (W) become the first women’s team in NCAA D-I history to complete the Triple Crown. 100 Meters: 2013 (W), 2015 (W), 2016 (W) 200 Meters: 2016 (W), 2017i (W) In addition to the dramatic outdoor win, the Ducks pulled out a one-point victory at the NCAA 400 Meters: 2014i (W) Cross Country Championships for the first jewel of the Triple Crown, and set the stage for the 800 Meters: 2013i (M), 2013 (M), 2014i dramatics in Eugene with a record-setting performance at the NCAA Indoor Championships, (W), 2014 (W), 2015 (W), 2016i (W), 2016 scoring a meet-record 84 points. (W), 2017i (W), 2017 (W), 2018i (W) 1500 Meters: 2013 (M), 2014 (M) Johnson also led the Men and Women of Oregon to their ninth straight sweep of the Pac-12 Mile: 2015i (M) team titles in 2017, guiding both teams to blowout victories at Hayward Field. As a result, 3,000 Meters: 2014i (M), 2015i (M), 2016i Johnson was named the 2017 Pac-12 coach of the year on both the men’s and the women’s side. (M), 2017i (M) Throughout the 2017 season, the Women of Oregon broke seven collegiate records (DMR(i), 5,000 Meters: 2014i (M), 2015i (M), 2015 60m (i), 4x100m, 4x200m, Sprint Medley Relay, 800m, 4x400m), and finished the season with (M), 2016i (M), 2016 (M), 2017i (M) at least a share of six of those records still intact. In the summer of 2017, Johnson helped guide 10,000 Meters: 2014 (M), 2015 (M), 2016 (M) four athletes to berths to the IAAF World Championships at the U.S. Outdoor Championships, 60 Meter Hurdles: 2016i (M), 2017i (W) including a U.S. title in the 200 meters by Deajah Stevens. 110 Meter Hurdles: 2014 (M), 2016 (M) 4x400 Meter Relay: 2013i (W), 2014i (W), 2017 (W) Johnson is one of only two coaches all-time to earn a career women’s triple crown – national Distance Medley Relay: 2015i (M), 2016i (M), titles in cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field. The other coach to 2018i (W) accomplish that is Texas legend Terry Crawford. With a national title in men’s cross country, Long Jump: 2014 (W), 2015i (W) Johnson would become the only coach in NCAA history with career triple crowns for both the Javelin: 2014 (M), 2015 (M) men and women. Cross Country: 2013 (M), 2014 (M), 2015 (M) Under Johnson’s guidance, Oregon has been honored as the national Women’s Program of the Year for each of the nine years of the award’s existence, while the men’s program has earned the 54 Pac-12 Titles honor five times, including three straight from 2013-15. 100 Meters: 2013 (W), 2014 (W), 2015 (W), 2016 (W), 2017 (M), 2017 (W) After a tremendously successful run as associate coach, Robert Johnson was elevated to head 200 Meters: 2013 (W), 2014 (W), 2016 coach of the Oregon track and field and cross country programs in the summer of 2012. He is in (W), 2016 (M), 2017 (M), 2017 (W) his 12th season overall with the Ducks. 400 Meters: 2013 (W), 2014 (W), 2014 (M), 2015 (M), 2016 (M) His leadership was evident immediately upon taking the helm of the most storied programs in 800 Meters: 2013 (W), 2013 (M), 2014 collegiate track and field. Less than six months after becoming Oregon’s head coach, Johnson’s (W), 2015 (W), 2016 (W), 2017 (W) Women of Oregon set the foundation of success by winning the 2012 cross country national 5,000 Meters: 2015 (M) championship for the first time in 25 years. The Ducks followed that performance with their 10,000 Meters: 2016 (M), 2017 (M) fourth straight women’s national indoor title in 2013. Johnson then oversaw Oregon’s men’s and 100 Meter Hurdles: 2016 (W), 2017 (W) women’s sweep of the Pac-12 Championships, before guiding both teams to trophy finishes at 110 Meter Hurdles: 2016 (M) the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships. 400 Meter Hurdles: 2015 (M) 4x100 Meter Relay: 2013 (W), 2016 (W), In his second year as head coach, Johnson guided the Men and Women of Oregon to a sweep of 2017 (W), 2017 (M) 4x400 Meter Relay: 2013 (M), 2015 (M) the NCAA Indoor National Championships. His women became just the second team in meet Long Jump: 2014 (W), 2015 (W), 2017 history to win five consecutive NCAA indoor crowns while the men claimed their first title since (W), 2017 (M) 2009. Both teams followed-up with their sixth straight sweep of the Pac-12 Championships. A Triple Jump: 2015 (W), 2017 (W) month later at Hayward Field the men, fueled by four individual champions, claimed their first Discus: 2017 (M) NCAA outdoor title since 1984 by setting a meet-record 88 points and the largest margin of Shot Put: 2015 (W), 2016 (W) victory in 20 years. Hammer Throw: 2014 (W), 2016 (M) Javelin: 2013 (M), 2014 (M), 2015 (M), Year three of the Johnson era saw three national championships as the men defended their 2016 (M) indoor and outdoor titles. The outdoor title came by 29 points, the largest margin of victory at Decathlon: 2013 (M), 2014 (M), 2017 (M) the NCAA Championships in 21 years. The Ducks then added the crown jewel of year three when the women collected points across the board to win Oregon’s first outdoor national ROBERT JOHNSON Head Coach • Sixth Season • 13th Season Overall at Oregon championship in 30 years. The Ducks also added to their Pac-12 dominance with a sweep of the men’s and women’s track and field championships, while also claiming the 2014 women’s cross country title. In 2015-16, Johnson led the Ducks to a sweep of the indoor championships as the Men of Oregon claimed their third-straight national title and the Women of Oregon won the indoor crown for the third time in four years. The women added their second cross country national championships in the fall of 2016, as they came out and shocked the nation with a one-point victory over Michigan. The Ducks have won 47 individual national titles under Johnson. Leading the charge is 17-time champion, and three-time Bowerman Award finalist, Edward Cheserek. Cheserek claimed two titles at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships to run his career total to 17, making him the winningest athlete in NCAA track and field/cross country history. Cheserek finished only two titles shy for the most won by an individual in the history of NCAA athletics. On the women’s side, Johnson served as a key mentor to Raevyn Rogers, who won five straight NCAA 800m titles, including indoors, and provided the memorable kick on the 4x400m relay to win the 2017 NCAA outdoor title and complete the Triple Crown. Johnson has mentored a number of other standout athletes in multiple disciplines, including Olympians Devon Allen, English Gardner, Jenna Prandini, Deajah Stevens and Ariana Washington. Johnson has established himself as one of the top sprint, relays and horizontal jumps coaches in NCAA. He has coached Oregon student- athletes to the American women’s indoor record in the 400 meters (50.46), the U.S. junior women’s record in the 100 meters (11.03), the collegiate record in the indoor 4x400 meter relay (3:27.40) and the women’s DMR (10:38.77), the Pac-12 record in the 100 meters (10.92), a US Championship in the 100 meters as well as 26 Oregon school records. In addition to mentoring five national championship 4x400 meter teams, his athletes have won NCAA titles at 60 meters, 100 meters, 400 meters, 800 meters and long jump. As an assistant and associate head coach from 2005 to 2012, Johnson helped lead a remarkable resurgence of an Oregon women’s program that won three straight NCAA Indoor Titles (2010-2012), claimed four straight Pac-12 Championships (2009-2012), and placed second at the NCAA Outdoor Championships four times (2009-2012).