Track and Field
- Title:
- Associate Head Women's Coach
- Email:
- dana.boone@ttu.edu
- Phone:
- (806) 834-8115
Associate Head Women's Coach - Women's Sprints & Hurdles
Email: dana.boone@ttu.edu
Awards & Accomplishments:
- 1Â NCAA Champion
- 84Â NCAA Qualifiers
- 12 Conference Team Championships
- 51 School Records
- 2 NACAC Gold Medalists
- 2 USTFCCCA Midwest Coach of the Year Awards
Boone enters her third season as the associate head women's coach, working with the women's sprints & hurdles division at Texas Tech. Groomed from a championship cloth, Boone has worked at some of the more prestigious programs in the country and now brings her talent to a Lady Raider program vying to earn their place as a championship caliber program.
During the 2017 season, Boone took four Lady Raiders to Eugene, Oregon, to compete on the national stage in the women’s 4x400 relay. Sara Limp, Maygen Smith, Marika Brown and Taylor Rockwell comprised the qualifying relay that placed 10th at regionals in order to move on to Historic Hayward Field, where they would then take a No. 19 finish.
This outdoor season, the Lady Raiders reached a highest ranking of No. 23. This top-25 spot came after the NCAA West Preliminaries, where Boone coached 12 event qualifiers in the 400H, 100m, 400m, 4x100 relay and 4x400 relay.
Boone also coached 11 All-Big 12 outdoor performances and 10 All-Big 12 indoor performances during the Lady Raiders’ 2017 campaign. Marika Brown took the highest finish at No. 4 in the outdoor women’s 400m dash, pacing a 53.99 race. Brown was also an All-Big 12 indoor athlete in both the 200m and 400m races on top of her contributions to both the indoor and outdoor 4x400 relay. Â
Concluding the 2017 season, Boone was invited to attend the first-ever NCAA Minority Leadership Academy for track & field.
In her first year working with the Lady Raiders, Tech qualified three sprints events to the NCAA West Preliminaries. Freshmen Tiffani Johnson (100 meters) & Sara Limp (400 meters) ran in their respective individual events, then joined Viershanie Latham and Amani Nesmith on the 4x100-meter relay at the meet. The women's team tallied 16 entries into the NCAA West Prelims, four to the NCAA Outdoor Championships and one to the NCAA Indoor Championships.
Limp also earned All-Big 12 honors individually indoors in the 200-meter dash & outdoors in the 400-meter dash, as well as on both 4x400-meter relays and the 4x100-meter relay in 2016. Boone's event group totaled 26 PR's during the 2016 season.
The Lady Raiders were ranked as high as No. 19 in the 2016 outdoor campaign. The women's team also racked up three individual Big 12 titles, while placing fourth at the indoor championships and fifth at the outdoor meet.
Boone came to Lubbock after four seasons as the head coach at Texas State. During her time there, she led the Bobcats to four conference championships, while also racking up conference Coach of the Year honors behind each title.
In each of her four years at Texas State, Boone's teams qualified 20 or more athletes for the NCAA West Preliminary. In 2015, 29 athletes in 24 events represented the Bobcats at the regional. Boone also took three athletes to the NCAA Indoor Championships and two athletes in three events, as well as a 4x400-meter relay team to the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
"I could not have found a better coach to guide our women's sprints & hurdles program," Kittley said. "Dana has coached at the highest level, and also caries valuable head coaching experience. I can't wait to see Dana elevate our women to greater heights. There are few coaches out there who can match what she has done at the collegiate level." Boone brings a vast amount of high-level coaching experience to Texas Tech, which featured positions at Oklahoma, LSU, Texas, Texas State, Tulane, Middle Tennessee and South Carolina. During her coaching career, she has had 59 All-America honorees.
She spent six years at Oklahoma where she coached sprints, hurdles and relays and served as an assistant coach for two seasons before her promotion to associate head women's coach in 2007.
Boone was named the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year after training five NCAA All-America First Team and six NCAA All-America Second Team student-athletes between the indoor and outdoor seasons, including NCAA 100-meter dash champion Candyce McGrone (11.08). Boone also coached Ti'Anca Mock in the long jump to a NCAA runner-up finish (6.64m). The sprint group accounted for 23 of the 41 points at the NCAA Championships with just two athletes in 2011. The women's team finished fourth at the NCAA meet, which was the highest finish in program history.
Boone's athletes helped the Sooners enjoy the program's best finishes at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships, place sixth and fourth, respectively. While at Oklahoma, her group set 14 new school records in the sprints/hurdles and jumps. The men also won the Big 12 titles in 2007 and 2010, while also taking the Midwest Regional Championship in 2007. Those championships helped her earn the USTFCCCA Midwest Regional Men's Coach of the Year; she was the only female to win the award that year. Boone wrapped up her time at OU with 48 NCAA qualifiers.
Boone also served as the USATF World Junior Championship women's head coach in 2014 and the USATF Junior Pan American assistant coach (jumps) in 2011. She is also USATF Level II Certified in the Sprints, Hurdles & Jumps.
