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19 MMEETEET TTHEHE RREBELSEBELS TTHEHE 22014014 TTRACKRACK & FFIELDIELD TTEAMEAM 20 HHEADEAD CCOACHOACH YYVONNEVONNE WWADEADE YVONNE WADE Head Coach Seventh Season Colorado, 1996 Yvonne Wade was hired as the fourth head coach in UNLV Track & Field program Blok alone earned All-MW status 11 times (seven outdoor and four indoor) and a history in July of 2007. Given the task of turning the Rebel program around, Wade share of nine relays that claimed all-league recognition. - in her first head coaching position - made it a priority to recruit student-athletes that were committed to striving for excellence both academically and athletically. She has sent 20 individuals (31 times) and two relay teams (six) to NCAA Preliminary meets. Six of those individuals (eight times) and one relay (twice) "UNLV has so much to offer student-athletes. We have a great coaching staff with advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Bingson and Chelsea Cassulo so much knowledge and competitive experience between all of us. There is no both earned USTFCCCA All-American status in 2011, while the former duplicated reason why UNLV should not be a strong team within the Mountain West and at the feat a year later in 2012. the national level." Six events in UNLV's record book have been reset under Scott-Wade's tenure. The Before Wade entered the world of collegiate coaching, she was a member of the indoor record book has seen the 3,000 meter, 5,000 meter, 60-meter hurdles and Japanese National Team from 1996-2004. Born in Tokyo, to a Japanese mother and high jump marks reset once each, while the weight throw figure has been rewritten a Jamaican father, she was able to represent her birth country in back-to-back twice under Scott. The outdoor record book has witnessed the hammer throw bro- Summer Olympics in 1996 (Atlanta) and 2000 (Sydney, Australia). At the 2000 ken numerous times by Bingson. Summer Games, she reached the semifinals of the 100m hurdles. In addition to the success on the track, Wade takes great pride in the accomplish- In all, she was an eight-time Japanese national champion, winning the 100m hur- ments her Rebels have in the classroom. Her athletes have been awarded 74 MW dles six consecutive years (1995-2000) and then twice more in 2002 and '03. Wade All-Academic honors and 26 MW Scholar-Athlete honors. More impressively, the also competed in several IAAF World Championships and was the Asian Champion squad has been named to the USTFCCCA's Division I All-Academic Track & Field in 2002, which allowed her the opportunity to compete in the World Cup in Paris. Team four straight years (2010-13) and two Rebels - Blok and Kelsey Williamson She still holds the distinction of being the Japanese national record holder in both - qualified individually four times during that time frame. the 60m and 100m hurdles. Wade earned her bachelor's degree in sociology with a minor in ethnic studies from As a student-athlete at the University of Colorado, she earned All-American honors Colorado in 1996. She then returned to the classroom some years later to earn her in 1996 and was a three-time Big Eight Conference outdoor champion in the 100m master's degree in physical education with an emphasis in sports administration hurdles. In 1996, she set the school record in the 100m hurdles (12.98) en route to from UNLV in 2010. In 2011, Scott-Wade was awarded the Nell C. Jackson Award becoming an NCAA All-American. That same year, she recorded the second-fastest for outstanding contributions towards women and girls in sport. 100m time (11.68) in CU history. Wade (formerly Scott) was a member of the Buffaloes' 1996 Big Eight Championship team that broke Nebraska's 16-year win- She is married to Larry Wade, a former elite hurdler and member of both Texas ning streak. A&M's and Big 12 Conference's respective Halls of Fame, and she has two sons Jordan (8) and Brandon Before moving to Las Vegas, Wade spent five years as an assistant coach at (2). Sacramento State and Long Beach State. While at LBSU, she WADE File coached standout sprinter Brent Gay to numerous school records Education (100m: 10.24; 200m: 2.51) and NCAA All-American status. University of Colorado, 1996 In her first season at the helm of the UNLV program, Wade Bachelor's Degree in sociology - minor in ethnic studies helped mentor a 4x100m relay team that qualified for the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. She followed that University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2010 by coaching a pair of individuals to the 2009 NCAA Outdoors in Master's Degree in physical education with an emphasis in sports administration the 200m and 100m hurdles. Professional Highlights In 2012, Wade led the Rebels to a third-place showing in the MW • Member of the Japanese National Program from 1996-2004. - the program's highest finish since the program was second • Qualified for the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. overall in 2000. That squad was led by three individual champi- • Qualified for the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney. ons (Amanda Bingson - hammer throw; Kelsey Williamson - • Eight-time Japanese National Champion in the 100-meter hurdles. 800m and Christine Lowe - 400m hurdles) and one relay titlist • Japanese record holder in both the 60- and 100-meter hurdles. (4x400m). • Earned All-American honors in 1996 while at Colorado. • At Long Beach State, mentored student-athletes who earned All-Big West honors 29 time- Later that year, Bingson - a three-time MW hammer throw cham- and saw 10 school record broken. pion - went on to qualify third at the 2012 US Nationals and • At UNLV, coached 18 individuals and three relays to All-Mountain West honors 53 times. earned a spot on the US Olympic Team that competed at the • At UNLV, led 15 individuals (25 times) and two relays (nine times) compete in NCAA London Olympics. Preliminaries. Since her inaugural year leading the UNLV track & field pro- • At UNLV, led 20 individuals and one relay to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. gram, Wade and her coaching staff have overseen 18 individuals • At UNLV, six events in the Rebel record book have been reset. and three relay squads earn all-conference honors a total of 53 • At UNLV, two individuals and two relay teams (six times) have earned NCAA All- times. Fifteen individuals (25 times) and two relays (nine) have American honors four times. been acknowledged on the outdoor list, while nine individuals • Had one student-athlete, Amanda Bingson, participate in the 2012 London Olympics. (16) and two relays (three) garnered indoor placement. Emily 21 AASSISTSSISTAANTNT CCOACHESOACHES EENOCHNOCH JEBREH BBOROZINSKIOROZINSKI HARRIS Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Enoch Borozinski, who came to UNLV in September of 2010, enters his Jebreh Harris, who came to UNLV in September of 2012, enters his second fourth year as an assistant track and field coach at UNLV. Borozinski is in season as the head cross country/assistant track & field coach at UNLV. charge of developing the horizontal and vertical jumpers as well as the multi- event student-athletes. Harris, a native of Decatur, Ga., took over UNLV's distance program in 2013 and helped guide two Rebels - Auzsane Crowe-Carter (indoor) and Kelsey During the 2011-12 track & field season, Borozinski mentored Amanda Williamson (outdoor) to Mountain West All-Conference honors. Bingson to USTFCCCA All-American honors in the weight throw (indoor season) and hammer throw (outdoor) en route to a spot on the United States Prior to his move to Southern Nevada, Harris served as the head cross country Olympic Team that participated in the 2012 London Games. Bingson had and assistant track & field coach at South Carolina State University in finished second overall at the US Olympic Trials in the hammer throw with a Orangeburg, S.C. He had been at SCSU since February of 2010, where he distance of 235-6 (71.78m), which was, at the time, a personal best. coached the men's and women's cross country teams for two seasons and oversaw the development of the distance and middle-distance programs and Prior to the Olympics, Bingson finished seventh overall at the NCAA Indoor the men's and women's hurdlers and men's 400m runners for three years. Championships to earn All-American status after she had previously set the Twenty-three school records were set in both indoor and outdoor competition program's weight throw record on two different occasions. During the outdoor under his watch, while the 2010 women's cross country team earned its best campaign, she set an NCAA Preliminary meet record with a hammer throw finish - second place - in school history. measurement of (228-2/69.57m), which also equated to the eighth time she had broken the program record. She finished third overall at the NCAA Prior to his stint at SCSU, Harris was a volunteer assistant coach at his alma Outdoor Championships. mater, the University of Tennessee, from 2003-09. While in Knoxville, Tenn., he was as a track coach with the Knoxville Track Club and primarily worked More recently, Borozinski guided MyShauna Alexander to first place in the with the youth program. He also spent time as a sport specific/personal trainer javelin at the 2013 Mountain West Outdoor Championships, which were held (Performance Training Inc.), where he trained several world class athletes and in Las Vegas at Myron Partridge Stadium & Sheila Tarr-Smith Field. designed workouts for clients with particular needs. Alexander unleashed a throw of 151-10 (46.28m) to become the fourth Rebel to top honors in the javelin at a conference meet.

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