Dan Pfaff

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Dan Pfaff
Personal information
Full nameDaniel Pfaff
NationalityAmerican
Born (1961-07-01) July 1, 1961 (age 60)
Sport
CountryUnited States United States of America
SportAthletics
ClubALTIS

Dan Pfaff is a track and field coach, who has coached national, world, and Olympic championship athletes.[citation needed]

Pfaff started as a high school coach,[citation needed] and moved up to the college ranks starting at Wichita State University.[citation needed] He then served as a graduate assistant at the University of Houston from 1980-81 under Tom Tellez.[citation needed] Pfaff was then Women's Head Track and Field coach at UTEP from 1982-84.[citation needed] From 1985-94, he was the head field events coach at LSU, during which time the program won multiple national championships, including back to back men's and women's national titles from 1989-90.[citation needed] He then had assistant coaching stints at the University of Texas and the University of Florida.[citation needed].

Pfaff was hired to run the United States Olympic Training Center.[citation needed] In summer 2009, he was made head of the Lee Valley Athletics Centre by United Kingdom Athletics (UKA), to organise the coaching and training of the UK's athletes in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. He also coached and trained 10 athletes within the UKA programme.[1] Pfaff is currently one of the coaches at the in Phoenix, Arizona.[2]

Coaching career[]

College[]

  • University of Houston 1980-1981
  • UTEP 1981-1985
  • LSU 1985-1995
  • Texas 1995-2003
  • Florida 2003-2006

Professional[]

  • USATF 2006-2009
  • UKA 2009-2012
  • ALTIS 2009-Present

Coaching Philosophy[]

Pfaff has coached: Donovan Bailey—The 1996 Atlanta Olympic Gold Medalist in the 100m; As well as Bruny Surin and Glenroy Gilbert—who teamed with Bailey to win the 4 × 100m relay in Atlanta ; Greg Rutherford who won the London 2012 Olympics in the men's long jump.[citation needed]

His career in track and field has seen incredible success over the past four decades. He is considered a leader in high performance coaching.[3] Some of his high profile clients include NFL player Antonio Brown.

References[]

  1. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/6782321/Great-Britains-new-coaching-guru-Dan-Pfaff-orders-shake-up-of-training-methods.html
  2. ^ http://worldathleticscenter.com/news/dan-pfaff-joins-world-athletics-center/
  3. ^ https://coachingbest.com/an-interview-with-coach-dan-pfaff-on-what-drives-successful-performance-under-pressure/

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