WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (WLFI) - Purdue athletics director Morgan Burke has announced the hiring of Rolando Greene as head coach of the men?s and women?s cross country and track and field programs.
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?I am extremely excited about the opportunity to coach at Purdue, and I appreciate Morgan Burke, Calvin Williams and the search committee for selecting me,? Greene said. ?I look forward to the challenge of building a program that is first and foremost competitive in the Big Ten Conference and, subsequently, nationally.
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?As a coach, you always have an eye on other programs and schools, and I appreciate the principles and values of Purdue and the Big Ten. Our goal will be to recruit student-athletes, first in the state of Indiana and then beyond, who share those philosophies and can help us develop a proud and successful program. I fully believe that can happen at Purdue, and I can?t wait to get started.?
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Greene comes to the Boilermakers from perennial track and field powerhouse Arkansas, where he worked with the women?s program for the past 16 seasons. Most recently, he served as associate head coach in charge of sprints, hurdles, horizontal jumps and multi events. Greene was named the USTFCCCA South Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2011 and 2012.
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?After a comprehensive national search ? led by Calvin Williams ? that included many qualified candidates, Rolando unquestionably rose to the top,? Burke said. ?His long-term success at one of the great programs in the country, competing in one of the premier conferences, is impressive, and he articulated a functional plan for building our cross country and track and field teams into a championship-caliber program.?
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Said Williams, the assistant athletics director who oversees cross country and track and field: ?Rolando brings a reputation of success to Purdue. He is well-respected nationally and internationally for recruiting top-quality student-athletes. He will be a great addition to the Boilermaker family, and I look forward to working with him and moving our program forward.?
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With the Razorbacks, Greene coached four student-athletes to five NCAA event titles, 29 athletes who earned 96 All-America honors, 16 Southeast Conference champions, two SEC Runners of the Year, an SEC co-Freshman Runner of the Year and two U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches? Association South Central Region Runners of the Year.
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Arkansas finished in the top 25 at both the NCAA Women?s Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships in five of the last six seasons. The Razorbacks finished fourth in 2011 and tied for fifth in 2012 at the indoor meet, while posting three top-15 finishes outdoors.
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In more than 20 years of coaching at collegiate level, Greene has mentored six Olympians and three student-athletes who have competed at the World Championships.
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Additionally, his student-athletes have competed at the World Junior Championships, World University Games, Pan Am Games, NACAC U-23 Championships and Central American Championships. He has served on the coaching staff for the NACAC U-23 Championships and was selected (but did not serve) as an aide for the Central American Championships.
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Promoted to associate head coach in 2000, Greene put together back-to-back unprecedented seasons in 2004 and 2005, when two of his student-athletes swept the 200-meter national championships at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets the first year, then followed it with an Aneita Denton sweep of the 800-meter titles in 2005. The 2004 200-meter duo, Veronica Campbell-Brown and La?Shaunte?a Moore, were participants at the Athens Olympics.
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Greene also was an active contributor in the middle distances, mentoring the Razorbacks? 800-meter runners, including Denton, who became just the third woman in NCAA history to sweep national titles in both the indoor and outdoor 800 meters in 2005. She also posted the sixth-fastest indoor 800-meter time in NCAA history (2:01.96) and was the anchor of Arkansas? 4x800-meter relay team that ran the fastest time in the world in 2005 (8:29.13).
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Greene was recognized by his peers with the 2004 U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches? Association National Assistant Coach of the Year award. He also was named the USTFCCCA?s Mideast Region Sprint Coach of the Year in 2007.
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In 2011, Greene had seven student-athletes garner 18 All-America honors, including four accolades each for Regina George, Shelise Williams and Whitney Jones.
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Prior to his stint at Arkansas, Greene was an assistant coach with the University of Minnesota women?s program in 1995-96. He was a men?s and women?s assistant at what is now Missouri State University from 1991 to 1995.
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A native of Nassau, Bahamas, Greene (born Nov. 4, 1966) earned his B.S. degree in criminal justice administration from Murray State University in 1989. He is married to former Razorback LaTayna Stewart. The couple has a daughter, Charisse; three sons, Cameron, Isaiah and Jacob; and two grandchildren,
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