Coaches We Work With
Ascent Track Clinic and Workshop staff are hand-picked for their proven record of success. Together they have coached over 700 NCAA All-Americans, 50 NCAA Champions, and 30+ Olympians.
Coaching Spotlight
Boo Schexnayder
Irving “Boo” Schexnayder is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities in training design. Over his 40-year career, Schexnayder has been part of 13 NCAA Championship teams and coached 26 individual NCAA Champions, 18 Olympians, and 7 World Championship medalists.
Coaching Spotlight
Tramaine Shaw
A five-time CAA Men's Outdoor Coach of the Year, Tramaine Shaw has guided the Huskies to eight straight CAA outdoor titles and the program's first-ever CAA Indoor Championship since taking over as Director of Track and Field in 2018. Under her leadership, Northeastern athletes have earned dozens of All-CAA honors and multiple NCAA All-America selections.
Coaching Spotlight
Kebba Tolbert
Harvard Associate Head Coach, Kebba Tolbert, has been named Northeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year multiple times in his career; he’s mentored over 100 NCAA All-Americans; and he helped Gabby Thomas become the first Ivy League women's sprinter to win an indoor national championship in the 200m, setting a new collegiate record in the process.
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Allyson Waruch
Allyson Waruch has helped build UMass-Lowell into a force in the jumps and multi-events, coaching school record holders in six different events — from the pole vault and heptathlon to the high jump, triple jump, and pentathlon. Her athletes have swept conference titles, set an America East record, and qualified for the NCAA Regional Meet.
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Reuben Jones
Reuben Jones is an Associate Head Coach at Princeton University and a multiple-time USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Assistant Coach of the Year. He also coaches at Ascent Track's Summer Track & Field Clinics and teaches for the USTFCCCA Track & Field Academy, where he is known for helping coaches translate training theory into practical coaching decisions.
Coaching Spotlight
Ryan Banta
Ryan Banta is a Missouri Track & Field and Cross-Country Coaches Association Hall of Famer and USTFCCCA Girls' Coach of the Year (2022), whose Parkway Central program has produced a state team title, 24 individual state champions, and 233 state qualifiers. He was the high school coach of Olympian Emily Sisson.
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Mike McCabe
Coach Mike McCabe has established Union Catholic as one of the top programs in the nation. He has coached dozens of national champions and All-Americans, including national record-setting girls relay teams in the 4x800 and Distance Medley. He coached Sydney McLaughlin to the 2016 Rio Olympics and was named Girls National Coach of the Year by USA Today in 2019, and by the USTFCCCA in 2020.
Coaching Spotlight
Brian Doyle
Since joining the staff in 2021, Brian Doyle has helped lead the Rams to four straight Atlantic 10 titles and Rhody's first New England Cross Country crown since 1952. He arrives from Davidson, where he spent six years as associate head coach and helped athletes set 69 combined school records, following a standout career as a team captain at both Northeastern and Providence College.
Coaching Spotlight
Lara-Jane (LJ) Que
Specializing in sprints and hurdles, LJ Que has overseen a period of outstanding achievement as the Head Coach of Track & Field at Bowdoin, with numerous NCAA qualifiers, All-Americans and NESCAC champions. Since joining the Bowdoin staff in 2017, she has coached 28 All-Americans, including eight in 2025, and was part of the coaching staff for Bowdoin’s 2018 NCAA Division III champion women’s distance medley relay
