Dan Pfaff
Personal information | |
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Full name | Daniel Pfaff |
Nationality | American |
Born | July 1, 1961 |
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Country | United States of America |
Sport | Athletics |
Club | ALTIS |
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[]
- ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/athletics/6782321/Great-Britains-new-coaching-guru-Dan-Pfaff-orders-shake-up-of-training-methods.html
- ^ http://worldathleticscenter.com/news/dan-pfaff-joins-world-athletics-center/
- ^ https://coachingbest.com/an-interview-with-coach-dan-pfaff-on-what-drives-successful-performance-under-pressure/
External links[]
- Living people
- American track and field coaches
- Wichita State Shockers track and field coaches
- Houston Cougars track and field coaches
- LSU Tigers and Lady Tigers track and field coaches
- Texas Longhorns track and field coaches
- Florida Gators track and field coaches
- UTEP Miners track and field coaches
- 1961 births