Austin Roark
@JumpsCoachRoark
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Director of XC/Track and Field at Huntington University #FeartheForest
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ARE YOU SERIOUS?!
@tinylelee
wins the pentathlon, wins the high jump, wins the hurdles, 4th in long jump, and 6th in triple jump... 38 points AT THE NAIA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP.
🤯🤯🤯
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High school athletes telling me they are only considering and visiting D1 programs; only to visit programs that we dog walk every season. I don’t get it. Good luck being “D1” though.
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Incredibly excited to lead this program at Huntington University.
None of this is possible without
@coachdougedgar
,
@jessiebiggs
, and the Indiana Tech student athletes and coaching staff that I’ve had the pleasure to work with over the past 8 years.
Let’s get to work. 🟩⬛️
Track & Field: Roark Hired as HU Track & Field Head Coach
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Excited to be at
#USTFCCCA21
Convention and able to share this with family. Kids were excited and curious about all the different schools, coaches and the Bowerman winners.
@USTFCCCA
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4 of Indiana Tech’s women went to the Akron Invitational and competed in the “Invite” long jump this past weekend.
10+ NCAA D1 programs and 5+ D2 programs.
Indiana Tech took the top 3 spots in the LJ.
You can continue to hype up D1 or you can come jump far and win.
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Proud of these women! 🥈in the entire NAIA!
I challenged these 8 women to do something special and they DELIVERED.
Multiple school records, program records, NAIA meet records, All-Americans, and National Champions… to be named the NAIA INDOOR T/F National Runner-Ups.
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7’1.5”/2.17m from a shortened approach for
@TC8_Era
... and he never took off the warm up pants 👀🚀
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- WHAC Women’s Long Jump Champion-
-New School Record-
-New Conference Record-
-NAIA
#1
-
6.19m/20’3.75”
@DestinyCopela11
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The first commitment of the new era of Huntington University Track & Field is a good one…
Welcome, Destiny Copeland to HU!
◾️5x NAIA National Champion
◾️2022 USTFCCCA NAIA Indoor and Outdoor Women’s Field Event Athlete of the Year
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My brother, Brayden Alexander, diagnosed with autism and Asperger’s syndrome as a 3 year old, was named his high school’s “student of the month” for his honor roll status and character.
Effort goes along way, high school students...
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A familiar face will be leading the Forester horizontal jumps…
Excited to announce 5-time NAIA LJ/TJ National Champion, Destiny Copeland (
@DestinyCopela11
) as Track and Field Asst. Coach at Huntington University.
#FeartheForest
🌲
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The best long jumper at the NAIA indoor national championship AND Indiana Tech’s first women’s long jump national champion,
@DestinyCopela11
. She’s just getting warmed up for outdoors.
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The SPEED just went way up at The Forest. 🌲🌲🌲
Welcome, Assistant Coach Coby Bailey to HU Track & Field.
The 12x NAIA All-American will lead our hurdlers and assist with the short sprints.
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◾️Look Good, Feel Good▫️
Part of the HU gear package. Uniforms, spikes, etc. coming soon.
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I cannot thank this guy enough for saving the mood of my trip home...
@nevillesmith35
with the PR of 14.67m to secure his first All-American and wrap up the team title.
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National Champion!
NAIA Women’s Pentathlon
3,743 points
New School Record
First Indiana Tech Multi-Events National Champion
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Hurdle mobility ➡️ hurdle plyos ➡️ core 10,10,10➡️ stadium/stair circuit x2 for 10 minutes x 2. Multiple ground contacts, total body workout... we got better today.
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Practice complete and ready to go tomorrow night. Indiana Tech Track and Field will be repped by
@TC8_Era
in the US Indoor Championships. High jump at 7:25pm.
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The 2024 Bowerman Women’s Watchlist
Addy Wiley becomes the first NAIA athlete to ever be named to the watchlist of the highest award in college track and field/cross country.
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The Fieldhouse at HU coming along! Soon enough, we will be moving indoors and able to train in our new facility.
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These guys are a blessing to me and our program. The amount of work they did this week to care for our athletes is amazing.
We have the best staff (my opinion) in the NAIA, including these coaches and coaches back home. An incredible indoor season.
#FeartheForest
🌲
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The XC/TF Associate Head Coach position for Huntington University XC/TF is officially open and live!
Searching for a motivated XC/Distance Events coach that is wanting to come to HU and coach some amazing athletes. The future starts now!
#FeartheForest
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Bus was loaded early this moment and on the road for Tallahassee. NAIA XC Nats!
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Respect,
@dkm14
.
For one, I was impressed. 10.36 at that size is commendable.
Second, great public attention brought to the sport of track and field.
Argue with someone else if you think what DK did wasn’t both fun, but also respectable.
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.
@DestinyCopela11
is your
@USTFCCCA
@NAIA
Great Lakes Regional Athlete of the Year. Congrats, Destiny!
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Welcome 2 of Indiana's best! Kerrigan Miller and Djimmon Ogega of Whiteland HS. Big signings for us today!
#reload
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NAIA WOMEN’S PROGRAM OF THE YEAR
Extremely grateful for this staff and our athletes.
2023-2024- Let’s run it back. 👀
#FeartheForest
🌲
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✅ 12.43m- NAIA A Standard
✅ New Indoor PR and furthest opener ever
✅ New HU School Record
✅New Facility Record
🟢⚫️Amazing opener for
@DestinyCopela11
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Thankful for the athletes and other coaches that have allowed this! ❤️
Here are our 𝗡𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗔𝗖𝗛𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗬𝗘𝗔𝗥 for the 2021
@NAIA
Indoor Track & Field season!
M - Nate Wolf,
@duxc_tf
W - Austin Roark,
@INTechWarriors
👇 LEARN MORE 👇
🔗
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When you see an athlete chose a D-1 school that is not as good as your program in every statistical category/event, especially that athlete’s particular event.
#NotAllD1sAreGood
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Happy Birthday to my wife and best friend, Kelly!! Welcome to the 30’s club!
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Intersquad Men’s High Jump:
@Close2My_Goal
(alumni/volunteer coach)- 7’
@tjballer16
- 6’10”
@shamoney542
- 6’8”
@keyshawn_mcgill
- 6’8”
@KadenBranam
- 6’8”
@Tehron_Oli
- 6’4”
@peyto_17
(new approach work)- 6’
It’s November, and this was at practice. Are you kidding me?
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Meet day at Notre Dame! Dropping this guy off in South Bend at his grandparents for the day, then headed over to get some big marks in the jumps.
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This group was nothing short of amazing all year. Indiana Tech Pentathletes.
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The 2022 NAIA Outdoor Women’s High Jump Champion is headed to Huntington University!
Welcome, Erica Xayarath!
◾️3x NAIA All-American
◾️2022 USTFCCCA Great Lakes Region Indoor Women’s Field Event Athlete of the Year
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Congrats to Donneasha (5.73m) with a 6th place finish, and
@DestinyCopela11
(6.21m) for winning the NAIA National Championship in women’s long jump. I’m so lucky to get the opportunity to work with these two amazing women.
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🥹🥹🥹 8 of the best years of my life, with some of the greatest people and athletes there are.
A huge congratulations to Austin Roark on being named the Head Track & Field coach at Huntington University! It’s impossible to express the impact he’s had on our program after eight years and we know he’ll be taking the Foresters to new levels of success.
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Herb Gary (
@Close2My_Goal
) over 2.15m on his first attempt to qualify for
@usatf
Indoor Championship.
@USATFIndiana
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2 things to take away from this week so far:
1. I didn’t think I would be writing 600m/800m training plans for an elite long sprinter.
2. Didn’t expect to see my name on a XC COY ballot. But here we are…
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Indiana Tech high jump represented all over the 🌍. Two former NAIA high jump national champions,
@Close2My_Goal
and
@CandelaGuijarro
competing overseas in Spain.
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I’m incredibly blessed to be surrounded by amazing athletes, the best coaching staff, and a great support staff that allows our jumpers to do big things. 8 more days to put a bow on this indoor season.
Austin Roark has his jump and multi squads ranked
#1
in the nation this season. His athletes won event titles at the WHAC Indoor Championships in the high jump, long jump and triple jump, combining for 76.5 points. Eleven of his athletes are ranked in the national top-10.
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Long Jump takeoff mechanics combined with a 460 and 400 runs today got the return of
@tinylelee
feeling like...
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So many emotions involved in a pentathlon at the national meet; but the best and most important emotion is how proud and happy I am for
@tinylelee
for her runner-up finish and
@ReniqueSmith
for her 9th place finish. I wouldn’t want to coach anyone other than these two.
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Doug
@INTechTrack
has come a long way... he couldn’t clear fences before and now can climb giant rocks. Improve every day...
@baronsunburst
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Amazing weekend and meet with this team. I’m so lucky to be a small part of this national championship. Indiana Tech T&F is truly a special group to be a part of. Thank you
@INTechTrack
,
@baronsunburst
, and the whole staff for allowing me to join 5 years ago.
Onto Outdoor!
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Raising the bar to new heights at HU!
He’s helped coach 5 NAIA High Jump National Champions, including 3 in the last 2 years.
Welcome, Chris McLean, as assistant coach for HU Track & Field. Chris will help lead the horizontal jumps and assist with sprints. 🌲🌲
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Incredible weekend. No words.
BACK TO BACK NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!
🏆🏆🏆 in Women’s Indoor Track & Field History
🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆 🏆🏆🏆 in Indiana Tech Track & Field History
(That’s 3 and 15)
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Special thanks to one of the best high jump minds out there, and one of the worst hotel roommates ever,
@CMJC2828
. I’m lucky to coach with you, Chris.
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I wish I could have captured the looks I received when I told our women jumpers that they are all too slow and that we were going to be sprinting a lot for the next MONTH... 😬
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Blessed to be a part of this coaching staff. Program of the Year with
@INTechTrack
and
@baronsunburst
!
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It only took her 4 jumps to break the indoor Indiana Tech freshman long jump record. Congrats
@DestinyCopela11
with a new record and PR of 5.86m (19’2.75”).
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What do you do after running a 400mH season best and run the 2nd fastest 1500m time in collegiate history?
Smash some BBQ.
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Excited to welcome Jonathan Spearman, a transfer student from Cloud County CC.
14.93m triple jump PR
6.94m long jump PR
2.03m high jump PR
NJCAA indoor triple jump All-American
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Destiny finished 5 at Florida Relays in the women’s open long jump. She was the only NAIA athlete in the comp; better than 18 D1 women including the ACC, Big Ten, and SEC. She’s a freshman.
I’m talking to the recruits that put D1 on a pedestal. Good is good at any division.
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The past 8 years of marriage have been everything I could imagine; can’t wait to spend the next 8 with this woman. Happy Anniversary, Kelly!
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Surprise when I got back to campus! New weight equipment for our sports at
@HU_Sports
!Incredible!
#FeartheForest
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Congrats
@_IBeCheyenne
for being the NAIA Outdoor Long Jump Runner-Up.
▪️6.02m/19’9
🔸NAIA Runner-Up
▪️New Freshman Record
🔸New Outdoor School Record
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Oh my! What a jump! That pit wasn’t ready for that man. We’re gonna need a bigger sand pit.
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What a way to start day 1!
@tinylelee
with a massive PR, school pentathlon record, and 2nd place NAIA Indoor Championship.
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What can’t she do?
@EricaXayarath
is AA again in the long jump, and caps off her indoor season with a new PR and program record in the high jump (1.73m) for 🥈.
Stay tuned for outdoors for one of the best 3-way jumpers in the country.
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This is everything. All the hours, thoughts, training, frustration, happiness... all for this.
#BoomSquad
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Two jumps coaches in attendance for the NAIA CROSS COUNTRY business meeting?!
@jwmaierle
“Is this the correct room?”
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Okay,
@IHSAA1
, let’s get this fixed for the athletes that earned their spot at the state championship. I’ve been around track a long time, seen many malicious baton tosses, and this isn’t one of them. Fix it,
@IHSAA1
.
Finished the race and then walking off the track to go hug his teammates and then gets disqualified? The runner’s time stops after her crosses the finish line! So what he does with the baton 10 seconds after SHOULD NOT MATTER!
@IHSAA1
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Good luck finding a better group of jumpers in the country. Outdoors with this group and a few more is going to be 🔥.
#BoomSquad
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This guy comes to lifting/practice today and gets to the top of the rope. ❤️
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She does it!
@_IBeCheyenne
wins the NAIA Outdoor Triple Jump National Championship!
🔸12.30m/40’4.5”
▪️NAIA National Champion
🔸New Freshman Record
▪️7th best jump in Indiana Tech history
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Coaching staff at XC Meet today!
One of us is the 1500m collegiate record holder and the other is a jumps coach.
You decide…
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@isprint800m
Indiana Tech (NAIA) vs Alabama A&M 🤷🏻♂️
Numbers never lie. If we weak, what are you guys?
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5 NAIA 🥇in one meet.
Let that sink in.
Congrats on a historic meet,
@addylwiley
. Outdoor season will be a 🎥.
Thanks,
@MariamDavis_
for the video!
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HU Track and Field isn’t done yet!
We’re down in Nashville for the Music City Track Carnival. Practice tonight, meet starts tomorrow.
@addylwiley
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I’m so thankful to work with the staff that we have and our student-athletes. This is an all-encompassing award! Coaches, trainers, admin, support staff, etc.
Thanks,
@CoachBailey0
,
@CMJC2828
,
@jdneideck
,
@ThrowsCoachCass
, Avy Barrow, and Dale Gerke!
Year one ✅
Congratulations to
@HU_Sports
for being named the Fred Beile Women's Program of the Year in
@NAIA
! The Foresters finished runner-up indoors, sixth outdoors and 13th in cross country.
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This guy killed it in his kindergarten play today. Best turnip/fisherman I’ve ever seen.
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What a year for
@DestinyCopela11
! I’m excited every day to work with her and watch her perform. Congrats Destiny on winning the NAIA Women’s Field Event Athlete of the Year. The titles keep coming!
#shesprettygood
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She’s faster and stronger than ever right now, but…
She wanted a “hard” day.
Ask and you shall receive.
@DestinyCopela11
#FeartheForest
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There are a ton of coaches that I appreciate their friendship and support! One of them is
@CoachLatnie
. Always fun coaching alongside him.
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Excited to welcome one of Indiana’s best to HU XC/TF!
@oliviahowell_20
joins us next year and will make an immediate impact!
400m- 59.90
800m- 2:15
1600m- 5:07
XC 5k- 19:32
#FeartheForest
🌲
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Tune into Peacock/CNBC tonight from 9-11pm EST for live coverage of the USA Championships.
Addy Wiley will race against the best in the 1500m final at 9:34 EST.
#FeartheForest
🌲
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Update:
@MariamDavis_
jumped 18’4.25”, a 7” PR, to qualify for the NAIA national championship meet ONE WEEK after Alfredo tweeted this.
Alfredo spoke it into existence and Mo worked to achieve it.
Words can’t explain how much I appreciate
@Asmithrises
and how talented he is.
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