FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.- Mike Maynard, who recently guided the Boise State University men’s track and field team to its second WAC Indoor Championship in three years, has been named the US Track and Field Coaches Association 2006 West Region Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. The announcement was made March 9 during a NCAA banquet in conjunction with the NCAA Indoor Championships.
In his fifth year as the head coach for the men and women’s track and field programs at Boise State, Maynard was also named the 2006 WAC Men’s Indoor Coach of the Year following the team’s league championship in late February. The WAC award was his second as he was also named the conference’s indoor coach of the year in 2004 when Boise State captured the men’s indoor title.
Three of Maynard’s student-athletes competed at the NCAA Indoor Championships on the University of Arkansas campus. Keron Francis is in the men’s long jump, Forest Braden in the men’s 5,000-meters and Mattias Jons in the men’s weight throw.
Maynard has guided Bronco student-athletes to 31 school records, 16 NCAA All-American awards and two NCAA national championship performances during his career guiding the Boise State track and field program.
Three of those records came during this year’s indoor season. Braden established records in the 3,000 and 5,000-meter runs with times of 7:58.08 and 13:47.73, respectively, while Jons set a school record in the weight throw at 72-4.50 (22.06m).
Following the completion of the indoor season, Maynard and the Bronco teams open the 2006 outdoor season on March 25 at the Hornet Invitational in Sacramento, Calif..