Wayne Angel

Biography

building the Bear programs toward conference championships and national recognition. His impact on the program didn’t take long to see. In his first season with the cross country program, the men earned their highest-ever finish at the Big Sky Conference Championship by taking fifth place. Both the men and women continuously set new personal record times and the men ended up ranked as high as 13th in the highly competitive Mountain Region. It’s a path he cultivated toward a triumphant five-year stint at Tennessee Tech University where he took the women’s track & field program to Three conference crowns. Angel led Tennessee Tech to domination with both the indoor and outdoor Ohio Valley Conference championships in 2018 and 2019. In that time, he also produced the OVC Athlete of the Year each season and trained the school’s first-ever women’s track All-American. Angel coached TTU to 40 OVC individual titles from 2016-19 and was named the OVC Coach of the Year four times. Angel not only had success as the track and field coach but also in cross country at Tennessee Tech. He sent an individual to the NCAA Championships in 2017 and 2018 and had both the men's and women's individual OVC champion in 2016. The Golden Eagles not only excelled on the cross country course but in the classroom as well as earning NCAA top 10 percent APR progress rating awards in 2017 and 2018. Prior to Tennessee Tech, Angel was the head men's cross country and track and field head coach at Florida A&M fro