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Randy HeathHead Coach |
Randy Heath serves as head coach for the OC men's and women's track and field teams.
Heath was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in May 2003 in recognition of his career accomplishments and contributions to NAIA cross country and track and field.
The 59-year-old Heath has developed one of the top track and field programs in the NAIA. His teams have won two men's and four women's NAIA District IX titles and earned one men’s and four women’s runnerup finishes in the Sooner Athletic Conference.
Heath also had a 38-year tenure as men’s cross country head coach (21 with the women’s cross country program) before turning over the reins to Wayne Strohman in February 2007. Heath’s cross country programs won 12 men’s and five women’s titles in NAIA District IX.
Heath has received 10 Coach of the Year awards from NAIA District IX and the Sooner Athletic Conference. In his coaching career, he has coached 57 different athletes to NAIA All-America honors 121 times and, in 1997, was inducted into the Oklahoma Christian Athletic Hall of Fame.
Heath has been very active at every level in the NAIA track area and served as president of the NAIA Track Coaches Association for 1990-92. In 2002, he served as meet referee for the NAIA Indoor and Outdoor National Track Championships.
In 1989, he served as head coach of an NAIA team of athletes who competed in the French National University Championships in Montpellier, France. He also has served as a member of the Committee for NAIA Regional Enhancement in 1997-98 and as cross country regional rater from 1999-2001.
The Oklahoma City native is a 1969 Oklahoma Christian graduate and received a master's degree from the University of Central Oklahoma in 1972. He taught in the Oklahoma City Public Schools from 1969 to 1977 and joined Oklahoma Christian in September 1977.
A professor in the physical education department, Heath is married to the former Barbara Epley of Amarillo, Texas. He and his wife Barbara (OC '72) have two children: Brent (OC '98) and Lisa (OC '99).
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Jeff BennettAssistant Coach |
Jeff Bennett, perhaps Oklahoma Christian’s most acclaimed athlete, serves as the associate dean of students. In 2002, after a 28-year career in public education, he returned to OC as the field events coach.
A native of Vinita, Okla., Bennett was a member of 1972 U.S. Olympic team, placing fourth in the decathlon with 7,974 points at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. He set a personal record of 8,121 points when he won the American Amateur Union’s national decathlon championship in 1973.
Bennett won NAIA national championships in the decathlon in both 1969 and 1970. In 1968, he was the NAIA national champion in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and was runnerup in the pole vault in 1970.
The four-time NAIA All-American still holds Oklahoma Christian records in the 400 hurdles (51.44) and the decathlon (8,071 points). He was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1976 and was a charter honoree of the OC Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.
A 1970 Oklahoma Christian graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree in Biology, Bennett also served as the school’s assistant track and field coach from 1974 to 1985. He and his wife Lisa have two daughters, Lauren and Raley.
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Danielle HamlinStudent AssistantSenior Liberal Studies Major - Laverne, Oklahoma Danielle, in her third year as a student assistant, is in charge of home meet results. |