Iowa Hawkeyes Coaching Staff
Coach Layne Anderson
Layne Anderson recently completed his sixth year as head women's cross country coach and is in his second season as head women's track and field coach. Anderson served as an assistant women's track and field coach for the Hawkeyes the past four seasons.

In his five years with the cross country team, the Hawkeyes have made strong strides toward recapturing the program's success of the 1980's. The squad qualified for the NCAA Championships as a team the past two seasons (2006, 2007) after a 14-year absence from the meet. The team's 10th-place finish in 2007 was the second-best in school history. The Hawkeyes also recorded their highest finish at the NCAA Midwest Regional meet (third) under Anderson. The team has improved its finish and lowered its point totals at the Big Ten and regional meets each of the last five years, and has set school records in the 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 and 6,000 meters. Read more about Coach Anderson here.

Coach Christi Smith
Christi Smith enters her second season as an assistant coach for the University of Iowa track and field team. Her main areas of responsibility include multi-events and vertical jumps.

The 2000 NCAA heptathlon champion, Smith joins the Iowa staff after serving as an assistant coach at Kent State last season. She was responsible for coaching the heptathlon, horizontal jumps, high jump and sprints for the Flashes. Shamel Smith excelled under Smith's tutelage in 2008, jumping 7-1 in regular season and qualifying for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Smith also mentored Marc Johnson to a pair of NCAA provisional marks in 2007. Johnson clocked a 6.67 in the 60 meters to win the 2007 Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships and followed it up by recording a 10.45 in the 100 meters to win the 2007 MAC Outdoor Championships.

She graduated from Akron in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in physical education.
Read more about Coach Smith here.

Coach Clive Roberts
Clive Roberts enters his second season as an assistant coach for the University of Iowa women's track and field team. His main areas of responsibility will be overseeing the horizontal jumps, short sprints and hurdles.

A native of Toronto, Canada, Roberts spent the past two seasons as an assistant coach for the Bowling Green State University women's team. During his first indoor season with the Falcons, he guided sprinter Jessica White and hurdler Nicole Standback to successful seasons. White set the school record in the 60 meters (7.53) and placed third in the 100 meters at the MAC Championships. Her season-best time of 11.58 ranked second in school history and qualified her for the NCAA Regional, making her the Falcons' first sprinter to qualify since 2004. Standback placed third in the 60-meter hurdles and 100-meter hurdles at the conference meet, posting the third fastest 100-meter hurdles time (14.03) in school history.

Read more about Coach Roberts here.


Coach Larry Wieczorek
Larry Wieczorek is in his 22nd season as head men's cross country coach and is in his 13th season as head men's track and field coach at the University of Iowa. He served as an assistant track and field coach for 12 years before taking the helm in 1997.

A six-time Big Ten champion (including two in cross country) and four-time all-American at Iowa, Wieczorek once held conference marks in the one, two, three, four and five-mile runs. A member of Iowa's last Big Ten track championship team in 1967, he still owns Iowa's indoor two-mile school record and has the sixth-fastest mark in the cross country 8,000 meters. He was honored for his collegiate accomplishments by being inducted into the University of Iowa's National Varsity Club Athletics Hall of Fame in 1998.

Read more about Coach Wieczorek here.

Coach Scott Cappos
The 2007 USTFCCCA Men's Midwest Region Throws Coach of the Year, Scott Cappos is in his 13th year as an assistant coach at the University of Iowa. A USATF Level II Certified Coach in the throws and jumps, Cappos is in his first season of coaching the throws for the newly consolidated program.

The Hawkeye throwers have recorded numerous team highlights under Cappos. In 2004, Iowa qualified 10 throwers for the NCAA regional, which was the most of any team in the nation. In 2005, the Hawkeyes qualified five throwers to the NCAA Indoor Championships, which tied for the most of any school in the nation. Iowa swept Big Ten titles in the shot put the past two seasons, and broke the 21-year-old school discus record in 2007.

Read more about Coach Cappos here.

Coach Joey Woody
Iowa City native and World Champion runner Joey Woody is in his third season as an assistant coach with the University of Iowa track team. His main area of concentration is the men's sprints, short hurdles and relays, and women's long sprints and hurdles.

In his first two seasons with the Hawkeyes, Woody has made an immediate impact on the team. Last season sophomore Ray Varner earned his second all-region honor in the 400-meter hurdles after making a strong run at the Big Ten title in that event. Both 1,600-meter relays and the outdoor 400-meter relay each earned top five finishes at the Big Ten Championships.

Read more about Coach Woody here.