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Ryan Turner enters his second season as head cross country coach and assistant track & field coach at Houston. Turner comes to UH after spending three years at the assistant cross country and track and field coach at Cowley County Community College (Kan.). There he led the men's team to the 2006 Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference championship of the Eastern Division and a fifth place finish at the National Junior College Athletic Association national meet. He also guided the women's team to a fourth-place finish at the NJCAA National Cross Country meet in 2006. During his three years at Cowley County CC, Turner coached 12 individuals that earned 18 All-America honors. He also coached on All-American relay team, one individual national champion, eight individual regional championships and three regional championship relay teams, as well as 12 individual and three relay teams that captured conference accolades. He also produced 39 national meet qualifiers. During his three years at Cowley, the men and women received four third-place national trophies in indoor and outdoor track. Turner was named NJCAA Region VI Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2006. Following the 2007 indoor track season, Turner was named the NJCAA Women's National Assistant Coach of the Year. Prior to coaching at Cowley County CC, Turner spent two and a half years at Southwestern College, his alma mater, in Winfield, Kan. There he served as the assistant cross country and track and field coach and he was also a Residence Hall Director. The Holdenville, Okla., native began his coaching career spending a semester as a volunteer coach at St. Gregory's University in Shawnee, Okla. Turner holds a bachelors degree in physical education, a master's degree in education and is USATF Level II certified in the endurance and sprints/relays/hurdles events. Turner is a certified USATF Level I instructor. As an athlete, Turner was a four-time national meet qualifier and KCAC Conference runner-up in the 1,500-meter run while at Southwestern College in Kansas. He and his wife Cassie, a third grade teacher, have a two-year-old daughter, Lauryn. |
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