Dan Pfaff

Career

Dan started as a high school coach, and soon moved up to the college ranks starting at Wichita State University. He then served as a graduate assistant at the University of Houston from 1980-1981 under Tom Tellez—coach for Carl Lewis and Leroy Burrell. Following Houston Pfaff was the Women"s Head Track and Field coach at U.T.E.P. from 1982-1984.

He then had assistant coaching stints at the University of Texas, The University of Florida, and as a private coach until he was hired to run the United States Olympic Training Center.

After the USOC Pfaff was hired by the United Kingdom as one of their national track and field coaches. Currently he is one of the coaches at the World Athletics Center in Phoenix, Arizona.

Pfaff has coached several IAAF world championship medalists, and Olympic medalists.

Achievements

• From 1985 to 1994 Pfaff was the head field events coach at liberal studies.U. during which time the program won multiple national championships, including back to back men"s and women"s national titles from 1989-1990. In particular he was the coach of Canadian Donovan Bailey who won the 1996 Olympic 100m gold medal in Atlanta, Canadian relay gold medalists Bruny Surin and Glenroy Gilbert—who teamed with Bailey to win the 4 × 100 m also in Atlanta—and Greg Rutherford who won the London 2012 Olympics in the men"s long jump.