Robyne Johnson Position: Director, Track & Field Experience: 3rd season Alma Mater: Texas-Austin '86

Robyne Johnson enters her third season as the director of cross country and track & field and the head men's and women's track coach. In her first season as head coach Johnson led the women's track team to their eighth overall America East Indoor Track championship, winning Coach of the Year honors herself. Under her leadership, Abbey Sadowski earned Track Performer of the Year and Tahari James was named Field Performer of the Year.

Johnson is a coaching veteran with 17 years at the Division I level. A four-time participant at the U.S. Olympic trials in the triple jump, Johnson has served as the United States Elite Athletes Development coordinator for the event since 2000.

From 1995 to 2003, Johnson served as an assistant coach at the University of California Berkeley, where she was responsible for the training, conditioning and recruitment of both male and female horizontal jumpers and the female sprinters. During her time there, she coached 11 All-Americans, including seven Pac-10 champions.

Prior to her experience at Cal, Johnson spent two years at Rider University, serving as the associate head coach for track and cross country. At Rider, she coached three conference champions and started the university's first ever women's track and field program. Johnson also served as an assistant coach at Penn State, where she coached three All-Americans, one Big Ten champion, nine ECAC Champions and six school record holders.

On the national level, Johnson was an assistant coach for the US team that captured its first title at the 1998 World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a member of the USA Track and Field Coaches Association and she also was an assistant coach for the 2003 Pan American Games.

Johnson was a five-time All-American in the triple jump at the University of Texas at Austin and she was a key contributor to the Longhorns' outdoor national championship squad in 1982. She was ranked in the top 10 in the nation in the women's triple jump for 10 years. In 1992, she was ranked seventh in the world in the event, and she competed in the Olympic trials in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000.

In addition to her bachelor's degree in history from Texas, Johnson holds a master's of science degree in education from California State University Hayward and she has six years of collegiate teaching experience in physical education.