Interview - Pat Henry, Texas A&M Track and Field Coach

where he won 27 national championships during his 17-year tenure

Do you mean NCAA nat'l champs at the college level, college nat'l champs. I'm sure you don't mean USA natl'l champs ?

How many world and olympic champs has Pat coached ?

Is there a written transcript available ?

He was coaching at LSU when he coached 27 national championship teams so this does mean NCAA champion teams. They include mens and womens teams and both indoor and outdoor seasons. I believe he has coached three Olympic champions. As far as a transcript, what you read in the interview is what Pat said. His entire phone interview was on the record. He was very kind to do the interview as he ws leaving the next day for the USATF Championships in Eugene.

I need legal transcripts of this interview for a deposition. The interview must be sworn testimony to hold up under oath.

He coaches both the men and women's teams, but all 27 NCAA championships were won by the women I'm pretty sure. This years Texas A&M men's team is the first men's NCAA championship team that he's coached.

Which isn't a bad thing, but when you say he coached 27 mens and womens NCAA championship teams it sounds like there was equal weight put on both teams, when it was just the women's team carrying the load.

thanks for the summary.

He had won 4 Mens NCAA Team Championships; most were with women, but this was definitely not the first Mens title he's won.

It seems that there are questions regarding Coach Pat Henry's biography, so below is the entire biography that I developed and used with his interview at

www.garycohenrunning.com

. I'm guessing that some of you didn't read the biography and interview or you would have found your answers there previously. Anyway - enjoy the interview.

Pat Henry is the current track and field coach of both the men’s and women’s team at Texas A&M University and has held that position since 2004. The Aggies are the 2009 men’s and women’s NCAA Track and Field Outdoor Champions. His Texas A&M teams have won six Big 12 titles, earning Henry the title of Big 12 Coach of the Year six times. Pat was just named the men’s 2009 Track and Field Coach of the Year. He is also the former track and field coach at Louisiana State University (LSU) where he won 27 national championships during his 17-year tenure. At LSU his teams also won 19 SEC titles, while he earned 15 SEC Coach of the Year and five National Coach of the Year honors. The Lady Tigers won an astounding 10 straight NCAA outdoor championships under Pat’s leadership. He is the only coach in NCAA history to win both men's and women's track and field national titles in the same year which his teams also accomplished twice at LSU. He has coached over 35 Olympians and three Gold Medalists. Pat began his college coaching career at Blinn College in Brenham, Texas in 1983 and won two consecutive Junior College National Titles. Prior to Blinn College, Henry was head coach at Hobbs (NM) High School, where he led his teams to five state championships. Despite the personal successes he often credits his staff, and the consistency of those in place around him, for the overall success of his programs. Pat's coaching abilities can be traced through his lineage. His grandfather, Gwinn, was the head football and track coach at Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico, while his son Gwinn Bub was as an assistant track coach at New Mexico. Pat graduated from the University of New Mexico in 1973 and earned a masters degree from Western New Mexico University in 1979. He graduated from Del Norte High School in Albuquerque, N.M. in 1969. Pat was inducted into the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2004. He has been married to the former Gail Duggin for 35 years. They have a daughter, Shelly, and a son Brandon.

Do you happen to know his personal athletic background?

Like what he competed in during HS/College?

I just mostly found the answer at the end of the interview...he didn't compete at a super high level, which is good to see..

Coach Henry enjoyed a variety of athletics, but found his true calling was in coaching.

He ran distances at least as long as the mile in high school; I don't know what his PRs are.

Mr Arms wrote:

Do you happen to know his personal athletic background?

Like what he competed in during HS/College?

how about his favorite color? do you know that?

Nice well-rounded interview. Now you need to track down John McDonnell.

Did any of you even read the interview?

He talks about the stuff many of you are asking about.

He is the only coach to ever win both NCs in the same year - he did it with LSU 20 years ago (possibly twice, but I can't remember) and again this year with A&M.

He was a distance prospect and ran briefly in college.

He pretty much admits in the interview that they are not giving any scholarships at A&M for distance running, either.

yeah I heard the most a distance guy will get is 30-40%...and that's if he's amazing

A&M can attract distance runners to the town pretty easily without the scholarship money tho. Dan Waters might not be the best of coaches, but he's a pretty good recruiter. Plus, 50,000 kids in the school means good chances for a lot of hotties and an amazing education at the same time. Pretty hard to pass up in my mind

Enjoyed his brief comments about some of his star athletes. Amazing about his grandfather missing the Olympics in 1912. I guess if you missed the team boat you were s.o.l.

Three questions? 1) Will Pat Henry end up with more NCAA coaching titles than John McDonnell? 2) How long will it take? 3) How does it compare since Coach McDonnell only won titles with the mens team though many were in x-c?

With the program Coach Henry has built at Texas A&M, I think there is a better than 50/50 chance he will top 40 NCAA championships before he hangs up his whistle. I estimate eight more years. It is equally impressive to Coach McDonnell's achievements.