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Lennox Graham
Head Men's and Women's Track and field and Cross C, Johnson C. Smith University Location: Charlotte, NC United States Joined: Jul 14th, 2011 |
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On November 7, 2007 Johnson C. Smith University athletics director, Steve Joyner, Sr. announced the hiring of Lennox Graham as the new head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach. Graham also serves as the Irwin Belk Complex stadium manager. Coach Graham brought to the university 14 years of international coaching experience at the junior and senior level in Jamaica, which resulted in six national high school championship titles at Kingston College (High School) in Kingston, Jamaica. He has coached many individual/relay champions at the Jamaican high school, Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA), Central American and Caribbean (CAC), North American Central American and Caribbean (NACAC) championships, Penn Relays, and Pan American Junior Championships levels. Since leading the Golden Bulls track and field program at Johnson C. Smith University, Coach Graham has added medalists, all-conference and/or All-Americans at the CIAA, NACAC, Junior Pan-American Championships, Penn Relays, National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA), and in 2011 added medalists at the World University Games World Championships in Athletics levels. His athletes have also achieved multiple all-region awards in the Atlantic Region in addition to 67 All American awards. Graham is a 1984 graduate of Alabama State University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business administration, He earned his master's degree in business administration from The University of New Orleans in 2006. He is currently a certified IAAF Level 5 Elite coach specializing in sprints and hurdles. As a student-athlete at Alabama State University, Graham competed as a sprinter/hurdler for the ASU hornets from 1984 to 1987. He was the top sprint/hurdler all four years and still holds the school record for the 110 meter hurdles. He earned the Most Academic (1985-87), Most Outstanding Hurdler (1984-85), and the Most Valuable Runner (1986-87) awards while competing for the Hornets. He also garnered the George Hubert Lockhart Award for overall excellence in sports across varsity sports at ASU (1987). As a coach, Graham has made his presence felt on the international circuit having coached in several overseas events including: • 2013 World Championships in Athletics (Moscow, Russia) • 2011 World Championships in Athletics (Daegu, South Korea) • 2009 Central American and Caribbean senior team (Havana, Cuba) • 2007 Pan American Senior Championship (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil) • 2006 Presenter, Sprint Clinic in Kuala Lumpur, Kuching and Kota Kinabalu Malaysia, December • 2005 Central American and Caribbean senior team • 2003 Central American and Caribbean senior team • 2002 Jamaica's World Junior Championships (Kingston) • 2002 Jamaica's Junior Central American and Caribbean team (Barbados) • 2000 Jamaica's Junior Central American and Caribbean team to Puerto Rico - Head Coach • 1998 Jamaica's CARIFTA Team to Trinidad Since his appointment to Johnson C. Smith University Coach Graham has transformed the JCSU track and field program having immediate impact at the CIAA, NCAA and international levels with the following achievements: COACH’S AWARDS: • 2012-2013 USTFCCCA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field National Coach of the Year (First in JCSU history) • 2012-2013 USTFCCCA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (Atlantic Region) • 2012-2013 USTFCCCA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year (Atlantic Region) • 2012-2013 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year • 2012-2013 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year • 2011-2012 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year • 2010-2011 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year • 2009-2010 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year • 2008-2009 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Coach of the Year TEAM ACADEMIC PERFORMANCES: • USTFCCCA 1st ranked academic (GPA) male team in division II at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA female scholar team of the year in division II at the 2013 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA 4th ranked academic (GPA) male team in division II at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA 3rd ranked academic (GPA) female team in division II at the 2012 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA 1st ranked academic (GPA) male team in division II at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA 2nd ranked academic (GPA) female team in division II at the 2011 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA 2nd ranked academic (GPA) male team in division II at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships • USTFCCCA 3rd ranked academic (GPA) female team in division II at the 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championships WOMEN’S TEAM PERFORMANCES: • 2013 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Champion Team • 2012 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 2nd place team • 2011 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Champion Team (First in JCSU History) • 2010 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 3rd place team • 2009 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 3rd place team • 2008 CIAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 5th place team • 2013 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 3rd place team • 2012 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 2nd place team • 2011 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 2nd place team • 2010 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 2nd place team • 2009 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2008 CIAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2013 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 2nd place team • 2012 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 13th place team • 2011 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2010 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 10th place team • 2009 NCAA Women’s Outdoor Track and Field 10th place team • 2013 NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 7th place team • 2012 NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 7th place team • 2011 NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 7th place team • 2010 NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 8th place team • 2009 NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 13th place team • 2008 NCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field 17th place team MEN’S TEAM PERFORMANCES: • 2013 CIAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2012 CIAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 3rd place team . 2011 CIAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 2nd place team . 2010 CIAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 2nd place team . 2009 CIAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 4th place team . 2008 CIAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 5th place team • 2013 CIAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2012 CIAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2011 CIAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2010 CIAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 4th place team • 2009 CIAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 5th place team • 2008 CIAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 5th place team • 2013 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 17th place team • 2012 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 14th place team • 2011 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 6th place team • 2010 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 11th place team • 2009 NCAA Men’s Outdoor Track and Field 16th place team • 2013 NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 15th place team • 2012 NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 12th place team • 2011 NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 11th place team • 2010 NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 10th place team • 2009 NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 26th place team • 2008 NCAA Men’s Indoor Track and Field 18th place team ATHLETE PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS: • 2013 Jamaican National Champion 100m hurdles (Danielle Williams) • 2010-2013 Jamaican National Champion 400m hurdles (Leford Green) • 2013 World Championships 100m hurdles semi-finalist (Shermaine Williams) • 2013 World Championships 100m hurdles semi-finalist (Danielle Williams) • 2013 World Championships 400m hurdles semi-finalist (Leford Green) • 2013 World University Games bronze medalist (Danielle Williams) • 2011 World Championships 400m hurdles semi-finalist (Leford Green) • 2011 World University Games 100m hurdles semi-finalist - Shermaine Williams • 2011 Junior Pan American Junior Championships 2nd place 100m hurdles and 4x100m - Danielle Williams • 2010 Caribbean and Central American Champion 400m hurdles – Leford Green • 2010 World ranked 400m hurdler (10th best time in the world) – Leford Green • 2010 NACAC U23 double medalist in 100m hurdles (3rd)and 4x100m (2nd) - Rosemarie Carty • 2009 Pan Am Junior Championships 1st and 2nd place 100m hurdles - Shermaine Williams, Rosemarie Carty • 2009 World Championship representative – Leford Green • 2008 World Junior Championship 2nd place 100m hurdles – Shermaine Williams COMBINED MEN’S and WOMEN’S TEAMS: • 17 NCAA national indoor/outdoor Champions 2008 (2), 2009 (2), 2010 (2), 2011 (5), 2012 (1), 2013 (5) • 5 NCAA Division II national records Women’s 60m Hurdles – 2008 & 2009; Women 200m, 400m hurdles, 4x100m - 2013 • 2nd best ever time by a 400m hurdler in division II history (Leford Green 48.67 in 2010 NCAA Outdoor Championship) • 97 All-American Awards in indoor and outdoor track and field • Increased number of qualifiers for the NCAA indoor and outdoor championships each year from two qualifiers in 2008 to 26 qualifiers in 2013 Graham and his wife Valrie (teacher Nathaniel Alexander Middle School), have three children – Richard (college senior UNCW), Brian (college sophomore NC State), and Xonnel (junior William A. 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I currently work with Johnson C. Smith University
as Head Men's and Women's Track and field and Cross C I have 22 years of experience working in the Sports and Recreation industry. |
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