Jamey Harris
Personal information | |
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Nationality | American |
Born | (1971-06-14) June 14, 1971 (age 53) Eugene, Oregon |
Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) |
Sport | |
Sport | Track & Field & Cross Country |
Event(s) | 1500 meters, mile, 800 meters, 3000 meters, 5000 meters |
College team | California State University, Fresno |
Club | Aggies Running Club |
Turned pro | 1994 |
Achievements and titles | |
Regional finals | 1998 Goodwill Games: 4th in men's Mile |
National finals | 1998 USA Outdoor Track & Field Championships: 1st in men's 1500 meter |
Personal best(s) | 1500 meters: 3:37.99[1] Mile: 3:54.90[1] 800 meters: 1:50.38[1] 3000 meters: 8:21.61[1] 5000 meters: 14:16.14[1] 10000 meters: 27:59.31[1] |
Jamey Harris (born June 14, 1971) is an American athlete and coach in track and field and cross-country. He is the 1998 USA national champion in the men's 1500 meters[2] and finished fourth in the world in the men's mile at the 1998 Goodwill Games. Jamey Harris is currently Head Coach for Cross Country and Assistant Coach of Track and Field[3] at Humboldt State University.
Running career
High school
Jamey Harris attended Beaverton High School, where he was coached by Coach Jaxon LeDuc, and graduated in 1989. He won the Oregon State OSAA Boys Cross Country Championships in 1988.[4][5] At the 1989 Oregon state outdoor championships, Harris placed 5th in the 3000 meters (8:46.77)[6] and 4th in the 1500 meters (4:00.40). Harris was also a member of Beaverton High School's state-record-setting 4x800 Relay team.[7]
Collegiate
Harris graduated from California State University, Fresno in 1994, earning a degree in exercise science emphasizing biomechanics. While at Fresno, Harris won both the 1991 and 1992 Big West Conference Championships in the 1500 meters[8] and was an All-American in indoor track & field in 1992 and 1994. In cross country, he won the Big West Conference Championship in 1991 and the Western Athletic Conference in 1992.[9]
Harris also competed in the 1990 IAAF World Cross Country Championships on the USA Junior Men's Team, and came in 104th place.[10]
Professional
Highlights of Harris's professional running career include the following:
- 1998 National Champion in the USA Track & Field Outdoor men's 1500 meters, with a time of 3:37.99.[2][11]
- Represented the United States the 1998 Goodwill Games, where he came in fourth in the men's mile with a time of 3:55.39,[12] behind Algerian Noureddine Morceli and Kenyans William Tanui and Daniel Komen.[13]
- Ran in the 1996 USA Olympic Trials, where he came in 9th in the men's 1500 meters.[14]
Coaching career
Harris is currently the Head Coach for Cross Country and Assistant Coach of Track and Field at Cal Poly Humboldt University, since September 2017. Harris served as Head Coach for both Track & Field and Cross Country at University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), from 2014 to 2017. Before that, he was Assistant Coach at UCSC for four years.[7] He simultaneously served as head track coach at Pacific Collegiate School for 3 years.[15]
During his time at UCSC, Harris was a three-time winner of the Division III Association of Independents Coach of the Year award,[16] for women's cross country. He oversaw a major expansion of the UCSC Track & Field and Cross Country programs, from being Cross Country only, to adding a Women's Track Team in 2012 that consisted exclusively of distance runners, to adding a Men's Track Team in 2015, to both teams competing in all events.[17] In the 2017 Outdoor Track season, UCSC for the first time sponsored full varsity squads for both men and women that competed in all event groups.[18]
Before UCSC, Harris was an Assistant Cross Country Coach for Auburn University, while he pursued his Masters and PhD in exercise physiology.[15] He also previously served as a Volunteer Assistant Coach at Fresno State, his alma mater.[15]
References
- ^ a b c d e f All-Athletics. "Profile of Jamey Harris".
- ^ a b "USA Track & Field - USA Outdoor Track & Field Champions". Legacy.usatf.org. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- ^ "Humboldt State University Athletics". www.hsujacks.com. Retrieved 2017-12-18.
- ^ "Cross Country - Year By Year Results: 1988 Boys" (PDF). Oregon School Activities Association. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ Vance, Miles (12 June 2008). "Last lap". Portland Tribune. Pamplin Media Group. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "OSAA outdoor track & field championships meet results" (PDF). Oregon School Activities Association. June 1, 2017.
- ^ a b "Jamey Harris - UC Santa Cruz". www.goslugs.com. Archived from the original on 2015-09-25.
- ^ "Big West Conference Track & Field Records" (PDF). Official Site of the Big West Conference. Big West Conference. June 1, 2015. p. 5. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
- ^ "Big West Conference Men's Cross Country Record Book" (PDF). Official Site of the Big West Conference. Big West Conference. November 1, 2016. p. 8. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- ^ "IAAF World Cross Country Championships, 8.0km, CC Men". March 24, 1990. Archived from the original on October 16, 2007.
- ^ Jamey Harris - Men's 1500m - 1998 USA Outdoor Championships, retrieved 2019-12-01
- ^ "1998 Goodwill Games Athletics Track & Field Results". Archived from the original on July 19, 2011.
- ^ Noureddine Morceli - Men's Mile - 1998 Goodwill Games, retrieved 2019-12-01
- ^ "1999 Bios - Jamey Harris". www.usatf.org. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
- ^ a b c "LinkedIn Profile for Jamey Harris". LinkedIn. June 4, 2017.
- ^ "Association of Division III Independents Names 2016 All-Independent Men's and Women's Cross Country Teams - Association of Division III Independents" (PDF). www.d3independents.org. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
- ^ "2017 UC Santa Cruz Men's Track and Field Season Outlook". UC Santa Cruz. 2017-01-26. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
- ^ "A Brief History of UCSC Track & Field". College Running. 2017-05-30. Retrieved 2017-06-04.
External links
- Jamey Harris at World Athletics
- "Comparing Two Races: Sub-4 Minute Miles"
- Jamey Harris profile at USATF
- Harris profile on All-Athletics.net
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New York Athletic Club
- 1876M: Harold Lambe (CAN) * Cornelius Vought
- 1877M: Richard Morgan
- 1878M: Thomas Smith
NAAAA
- 1879M: Henry Pellatt (CAN) * William Duffy
- 1880–83M: Harry Fredericks
- 1884M: Percy Madeira
- 1885M: George Gilbert
- 1886–87M: Edward Carter
- 1888MNote 1: Thomas Conneff
Amateur Athletic Union
- 1888MNote 1: G.M. Gibbs (CAN) * Thomas Conneff
- 1889–90M: Albert George
- 1891M: Thomas Conneff
- 1892M: George Orton (CAN) * Ernest Hjertberg
- 1893-5M: George Orton (CAN) * A.J. Walsh
- 1896M: George Orton (CAN) * Mortimer Remington
- 1897–98M: John Cregan
- 1899M: Alex Grant
- 1900M: George Orton (CAN) *Alex Grant
- 1901–03M: Alex Grant
- 1904M: David Munson
- 1905M: Jim Lightbody
- 1906M: Albert Rodgers
- 1907M: James Sullivan
- 1908M: Herbert Trube
- 1909M: Joe Ballard
- 1910M: Joe Monument
- 1911–12M: Abel Kiviat
- 1913M: Norman Taber
- 1914M: Abel Kiviat
- 1915M: Joie Ray
- 1916M: Ivan Meyers
- 1917–23M OT: Joie Ray
- 1924–25M: Ray Buker
- 1926M: Lloyd Hahn
- 1927M-28OT: Ray Conger
- 1929M: Leo Lermond
- 1930M: Ray Conger
- 1931M: Leo Lermond
- 1932OT: Norwood Hallowell
- 1933: Glenn Cunningham
- 1934: Bill Bonthron
- 1935–38: Glenn Cunningham
- 1939: Blaine Rideout
- 1940: Walter Mehl
- 1941: Leslie MacMitchell
- 1942–43: Gil Dodds
- 1944: William Hulse
- 1945: Roland Sink
- 1946: Lennart Strand (SWE) * Leslie MacMitchell
- 1947: Gerry Karver
- 1948: Gil Dodds
- 1949–50: John Twomey
- 1951: Len Truex
- 1952–53M: Wes Santee
- 1954M: Fred Dwyer
- 1955M: Wes Santee
- 1956: Jerome Walters
- 1957M: Merv Lincoln (AUS) * Bob Seaman
- 1958M: Herb Elliott (AUS) * Ed Moran
- 1959: Dyrol Burleson
- 1960: Jim Grelle
- 1961M: Dyrol Burleson
- 1962M: Jim Beatty
- 1963M: Dyrol Burleson
- 1964: Tom O'Hara
- 1965–67M: Jim Ryun
- 1968: John Mason
- 1969M: Marty Liquori
- 1970M: Howell Michael
- 1971M: Marty Liquori
- 1972: Jerome Howe
- 1973M: Leonard Hilton
- 1974: Rod Dixon (NZL) * Tom Byers
- 1975: Leonard Hilton
- 1976: Eamonn Coghlan (IRL) *Michael Manke
- 1977–79: Steve Scott
The Athletics Congress
- 1980: Steve Lacy
- 1981: Sydney Maree (SAF) * Steve Scott
- 1982–83: Steve Scott
- 1984–85: Jim Spivey
- 1986: Steve Scott
- 1987: Jim Spivey
- 1988: Mark Deady
- 1989: Terrance Herrington
- 1990: Joe Falcon
- 1991: Terrance Herrington
- 1992OT: Jim Spivey
USA Track & Field
- 1993: Bill Burke
- 1994: Terrance Herrington
- 1995–96OT: Paul McMullen
- 1997: Seneca Lassiter
- 1998: Jamey Harris
- 1999: Steve Holman
- 2000OT: Gabe Jennings
- 2001: Andy Downin
- 2002: Seneca Lassiter
- 2003: Jason Lunn
- 2004–05: Alan Webb
- 2006: Bernard Lagat
- 2007: Alan Webb
- 2008: Bernard Lagat
- 2009–10: Lopez Lomong
- 2011: Matthew Centrowitz
- 2012: Leonel Manzano
- 2013: Matthew Centrowitz
- 2014: Leonel Manzano
- 2015–16: Matthew Centrowitz
- 2017: Robby Andrews
- 2018: Matthew Centrowitz
- 2019: Craig Engels
- 20212020 OT: Cole Hocker
- 2022: Cooper Teare
- 2023: Yared Nuguse
- Note 1: In 1888 both the NAAAA and the AAU held championships
- M: Denotes that the race was run over a mile rather than 1500 m
- OT: The 1920, 1928, 1932, 1992, 1996 & 2000 championships incorporated the Olympic Trials, otherwise held as a discrete event.
- 2020 OT: The 2020 Olympic Trials were delayed and held in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.