California State University-Northridge Men's Track & Field

A former CSUN All-American, Justin Johnson enters his seventh season as head coach of the CSUN Track & Field and Cross Country programs in 2025-26. In his si...

A CSUN alum and former All-American, Dan Lange completed his second season as an assistant coach to the Matadors in 2024-25. Lange has coached Trey Knight to three All-American awards including a pair of national runner-up finishes in the weight throw at the NCAA Indoor Championships from 2024-25. Knight would also earn First-Team All-American honors in the hammer throw at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships. In his two seasons, Lange has coached Knight to a pair of Big West hammer throw titles and MPSF weight throw titles while the CSUN standout was named 2025 NCAA West Region Field Athlete of the Year. Knight would qualify for the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, finishing ninth in the hammer throw as well. On the women's side at CSUN, Lange menored Summer Mosley to standout 2025 season where she won the hammer throw and the discus titles at the Big West Outdoor Championships. Mosley would qualify would set a PR in the hammer throw, posting the second-best mark in school history before qualifying in two events at the NCAA West First Round. Lange joined the Matadors are spending 32 seasons with USC, coaching throwers to All-American honors over 70 times. He has mentored USC throwers to 13 school records and 29 individual Pac-12 titles. Over his career, Lange coached nearly all of the top-10 male and female hammer throwers in USC history as well as nearly every record holder in the men's and women's hammer, discus, javelin and shot put. Over a 21-season stretch from 1993-2013,

Jacob Yowell enters his seventh season as an assistant coach on the CSUN men's and women's track & field staff in 2025-26. He serves as the program's sprints...

Jason Zarb-Cousin enters his second season with CSUN in 2025-26, serving as an assistant coach to the track & field teams as distance coach and guiding the CSUN cross country programs. Zarb-Cousin's first season at CSUN included a pair of all-time top-10 track performances as Savannah Ganter registered the second-best time in school history in the 3000m-steeplechase (10:58.90) while Ami Jacobson recorded the fifth-best time in the indoor 5000m (17:52.31). Sakura Divecchio also reset the CSUN record book in the 4k during the cross country season (14:19.4) and Jacobson cracked the 6k top-10 list by reaching seventh place (21:47.0). Zarb-Cousin joined CSUN after spending the 2023 season at UC Santa Barbara. He worked closely with the Gauchos' distance runners last season, producing a top-29 West Region finisher. Also in his one season at UCSB, Zarb-Cousin helped the Gaucho men to a second-place finish at the Big West Cross Country Championship while Ethan Godsey finished third individually. Zarb-Cousin spent the previous seven years (2016-23) at Loyola Marymount, serving as head coach of the Lions' men's cross country and track & field programs from 2021-23. He would lead the LMU cross country team to one of its best seasons ever, helping his runners make a seven-second improvement on the team's best 8,000-meter time and a 66-second improvement in the 10,000 meters. Working with middle and long-distance runners on the track, Zarb-Cousin helped his student-athletes set school rec

Joy McArthur enters her third season as an assistant coach and director of operations to the CSUN Track & Field teams in 2025-26. McArthur joined the Matador...

Mike Torie enters his second season as an assistant coach to the CSUN Track & Field teams in 2025-26. Torie serves as the team's throws coach for the men's a...

Tracy Spencer is in his second season as assistant coach to the CSUN Track & Field teams in 2023-24. Spencer coaches the Matadors in the sprints and hurdles....