Kansas Jayhawks’ Stanley Redwine named head coach of Team USA men’s track and field

Kansas track and field coach Stanley Redwine has been named the head coach of Team USA men’s track and field for the 2024 Paris Olympics, it was announced Tuesday.

Redwine, who is in his 24th season at KU, is a five-time Big 12 coach of the year. He’s been named USTFCCCA regional coach of the year four times as well as the USTFCCCA women’s outdoor national coach of the year in 2013 after leading the Jayhawks to the NCAA title.

“I am honored for the opportunity and am excited that I get to be around the other coaches from other schools and just to help Team USA get better. Being around those athletes, there’s not a lot that they really need from me, but I will get more out of it than they will. Just to serve them is a great opportunity,” Redwine said Tuesday.

Redwine was assistant coach for Team USA at the 2015 Pan-American Games. He was assistant coach for Team USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

In 2022, he was Team USA men’s head coach at the IAAF World Outdoor Championship, before his appointment as the head coach for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which start on July 26.

Redwine will be joined on the Team USA staff by former Kansas Relays meet director Tim Weaver, a KU graduate who has been named event manager for Team USA.

Weaver previously served as the meet director of the Kansas Relays from 2000 to 2006. He has been on 22 international staffs as a manager and coach. He was manager for the Olympic Teams in 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020.

“Tim is an amazing guy to me. My relationship with him goes back to me coaching him as an athlete at the University of Tulsa and then him coming here before me and helping recommend my name for the University of Kansas job. Our relationship has been strong, and he is an excellent guy. He will do an excellent job and has done an excellent job for Team USA,” Redwine said.

Redwine, a former head coach at Tulsa and assistant at Arkansas, directed the KU women’s team to the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships held in Eugene, Oregon. That marked the first women’s team title in KU history.

He has coached 20 individual champions, 240 All-Americans and 12 Olympians at Kansas.

In his professional athletic career, Redwine qualified for five-consecutive U.S. Olympic Trials between 1980 and 1996, while also competing for Team USA at the World Championships in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993. Redwine was also a two-time U.S. 800-meter champion.

The 2024 Paris Olympics will be held July 26 to August 11.

“The entire Kansas Athletics family is so incredibly proud of Stanley for this well-deserved honor,” said KU athletic director Travis Goff. “Stanley is an elite teacher, leader and communicator, and the success he has achieved throughout the entirety of his career reflects those traits. We have no doubt he will represent Kansas Athletics in the first-class manner he always does while he is leading Team USA in Paris.“

One current Jayhawk has qualified for the 2024 games at this time. Michael Joseph will represent his home country of St. Lucia in the men’s 400 meters after posting a qualifying time of 44.77 during the 2023 outdoor season.