Kansas Jayhawks track/cross country coach signs 4-year contract extension: Details
Kansas Jayhawks track and field/cross-country coach Stanley Redwine, who led the U.S. Olympic men’s track team at the 2024 Paris Summer Games, has signed a four-year contract extension through the 2029 season, KU athletic director Travis Goff announced Friday.
Redwine, who is in his 25th season as men’s and women’s coach at KU, is the longest-tenured head coach in program history. He recently surpassed Bob Timmons, who directed the KU track team for 23 years (1966-88).
Redwine is also the longest-tenured of any current KU head coach. Ray Bechard recently retired after serving as KU’s volleyball coach for 27 seasons.
“Stanley is synonymous with excellence in the sport of track and field, both collegiately and on the global stage,” Goff said in a KU news release about Redwin’s contract extension. “We are thrilled to extend his leadership of our proud program, while continuing to represent our country for the biggest moments in the sport.”
Redwine is a five-time Big 12 coach of the year whose 2013 KU women’s track team won the 2013 NCAA Outdoor title.
“I’m grateful that Travis Goff has given me the opportunity to continue serving as the head cross country and track and field coach here at Kansas,” Redwine said. “The University of Kansas and the community of Lawrence have been great to me and my family. This is truly a reflection of our coaches, staff and student-athletes, who work day-in-and-day-out to improve our cross country and track programs.”
With Redwine as coach this past summer in Paris, the U.S. men’s track team secured six gold medals. That performance came after Team USA failed to win a medal in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020.
The 2024 men’s Olympic team won medals in nine of 10 individual track races, the most for any country since the first time that all of those events were part of the Olympic program in 1920.
Redwine was an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. He was also the men’s head coach for Team USA at the 2022 World Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon — the first track and field World Championships held on U.S. soil.
A former head coach at Tulsa and assistant at Arkansas, Redwine has coached 20 individual champions, 240 All-Americans and 12 Olympians at Kansas.
During his own professional athletic career, Redwine qualified for five consecutive U.S. Olympic Trials between 1980 and 1996, while also competing for Team USA at the World Championships in 1985, 1987, 1989, 1991 and 1993. He was also a two-time U.S. 800-meter champion.
At the time he was named coach of the U.S. Olympic men’s team, Goff stated: “The entire Kansas Athletics family is so incredibly proud of Stanley for this well-deserved honor. Stanley is an elite teacher, leader and communicator, and the success he has achieved throughout the entirety of his career reflects those traits.”
