Remington Blair

Biography

Remington Blair joined the University of Massachusetts track and field programs as an assistant coach in August 2022. He is responsible for coaching the Minutemen's and Minutewomen's horizontal jumps and high jump. Blair comes to UMass with seven years of Division I coaching experience, over 10 years of track and field competitive experience and has mentored four Atlantic 10 champions and one All-American. Blair spent the previous two years at La Salle where he guided Dennis Manyeah to a historic season in the high jump, finishing as a Second Team All-American. Manyeah broke the Atlantic 10 Championship high jump record on his way to conference gold outdoors and tied his school record with a jump of 2.16 meters at regionals to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor National Championships. Blair mentored Darian Alston to his second consecutive Atlantic 10 title in the triple jump during the indoor season. Prior to arriving at La Salle, Blair spent two years in a similar position as an assistant coach at Northern Colorado in the Big Sky Conference. While with the Bears, he worked closely with the men's and women's jumps events. Before his time at Northern Colorado, a volunteer assistant coach at Fresno State from 2016 to 2017. A former track star during his collegiate days as a student-athlete at Fresno, Blair returned to his alma mater to coach the men's and women's sprints, hurdles and relays. He also spent three years coaching the track and field teams at San Joaquin Memorial High Sch