Rice University Men's Track & Field

Email Coach Warren Jon Warren enters his 25th year as head coach of the Rice men's track and field program (2025-26), and 31st year as a full-time coach, hav...

Birthdate: November 20, 1950, Mount Vernon, New York College: Texas Christian University Age Group: 60-64 Events: 60m, 100m, 200m, 400m, Relays Bill Collins is the head coach for Houston Elite and owner of ACALA Sports Training Systems. Career Highlights: Open World Records: 400 meter relay 38.03 (Dusseldorf Germany - 1977) Sprint Mledley relay/indoors (400/200/200/300) 4 times at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY 1979 -2:02.45 , 1980 - 2:02.16, 1981 - 2:01.10, 1982 - 2:00.64 Current American & World Masters Indoor Records: Men[apos]s 40 - 44: 200m - 22.19 (AR) Men[apos]s 45 - 49: 200m - 22.57 (AR & WR) Men[apos]s 50 - 54: 200m - 22.99 (AR & WR) ... 400m - 52.78 (AR) Men[apos]s 55 - 59: 60m - 7.34 (AR & WR) ... 200m - 23.36 (AR & WR) Current American & World Masters Outdoor Records: Men[apos]s 50 - 54: 100m - 10.95 (AR & WR) Men[apos]s 55 - 59: 100m - 10.39 (AR & WR) Men[apos]s 55 - 59: 200m - 23.36 (AR & WR) Men[apos]s 55 - 59: 4X400m Relay - 3:40.62 (AR & WR) High School Achievements (Mt. Vernon H.S): 2 - Time New York State Champion in both the 100 and 220 yard dashes ( 1969, 1970) Set Five individual school records 40 yds, 50yds, 300 yds indoors 100 and 220 yds outdoors. Set National indoor 1600 meter relay record at Madison Square Garden (1970) College Achievements (Texas Christian University): 4 - time Southwest Conference Champion 100/200 meters and 4 x 100 relay Masters Achievements: 151 National Championships 46 World Championships 49 World Records set Four times U

2024 USTFCCCA South Central Assistant Coach of the Year Brek Christensen enters his 12th season with the Rice Owls track and field program. In August 2024, Christensen was promoted to the Associate Head Coach for the men's track and field team. In 2018-2019, Christensen began coaching both the men’s and women’s throws. With the Owls, Christensen has continued to exceed expectations with the Rice throwers, consistently competing at the conference and national stages. Since Christensen has been on staff, his throwers have set six school records, won 34 conference individual championships, qualified 50 athletes to the NCAA West Preliminary Round, and earned 23 NCAA All-American honors at the NCAA Championships. In 2025, the Owls continued to find success in the throws, with Mckyla Van der Westhuizen leading the way with a seventh-place finish in the javelin at the NCAA Championships, earning back-to-back First Team All-American honors. She also claimed her second consecutive AAC title for javelin and was named the 2025 Joyce Pounds Hardy Award winner. Red-shirt freshman Jack Greaves also shined, earning a trip to the NCAA Championships where he finished 16th to earn Second Team All-American honors in just his fourth meet competing with the Owls. Another freshman, Juan Marais, finished second at the AAC Championships in discus and qualified for the NCAA West Prelims. Cal Abdulky closed his outdoor career also at the NCAA West Prelims and finished third in the hammer throw at the

Email Coach Butler Widely regarded as one of the top technicians in the world, the "Zen Master of the pole vault," David Butler begins his 25th year as an assistant coach of both the men's and women's pole vaulters at Rice University, where he has produced over 70 conference and NCAA medal winners. Butler brings over 50 years of experience as a pole vaulter, educator, coach, clinician and historian. Most recently, Butler has worked with Alexander Slinkman, who earned First Team All-American honors at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships after placing seventh. A year prior, he earned Second Team All-American honors at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships (11th place) and also at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships (10th place). Under Butler's guidance, Slinkman has grabbed four C-USA pole vault titles and swept the indoor/outdoor pole vault titles at the conference meets in 2023 while setting a meet record at both (5.39m indoor, 5.43m outdoor). Slinkman was also a 2022 NCAA Outdoor All-American Honorable Mention after an 18th-place finish. So far, out of the many highlights of Butler’s coaching career at Rice, the number one highlight has to be Jason Colwick capturing both the Indoor and Outdoor NCAA Championships in the Pole Vault in 2009. During that campaign Colwick cleared 18-9.25 (5.72) outdoors and 18-7.25 indoors (5.67). These are both school records and were the top marks in the NCAA that year. Colwick, who graduated with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, also posted the

2024 Virginia Tech Hall of Fame Inductee Artis-Gray enters his third season in 2025-26 with the Rice men's track and field team. With the Owls, Artis-Gray co...