Adeniji Promoted to Assistant Coach

EUGENE, Ore. – Dr. Ola Adeniji, who previously served as a volunteer assistant for Oregon track and field with the sprints/hurdles group, has been promoted to assistant coach ahead of the 2023-24 season.
 
Adeniji first came to Oregon in 2018 and, working alongside associate head coach Curtis Taylor, has helped coach the Ducks’ sprinters and hurdlers to seven still-standing school records. Among those marks was a then-collegiate record of 7.05 by Kemba Nelson in the women’s 60 meters.
 
Nelson and Micah Williams swept the 2021 NCAA titles in the 60 meters. Oregon became the second team to ever sweep the NCAA titles in the event, and the first since LSU in 2018. Nelson also added a national runner-up finish in the 100 meters and bronze finish with the 4×100-meter relay in 2022.
 
At the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships, Jadyn Mays moved into a tie for the fourth-fastest performer in collegiate history in the 60 meters with her time of 7.07 in the semifinals. She was fifth in both the 60 and 200 at the indoor national meet. Mays ran to a third-place national finish 60 meters in 2022, posting a time of 7.09 to qualify for the final.
 
In 2019, Adeniji’s second year in Eugene, Cravon Gillespie was the NCAA runner-up in the 100 and 200 meters. He set the school record of 19.93 in the final of the 200. Gillespie’s time of 9.93 in the 100 was the Oregon record until Williams ran 9.86 at the 2022 NCAA West Preliminary. Earlier in the year, he posted a wind-aided 9.83 at the Mt. SAC Relays.
 
Adeniji has coached 17 individual Pac-12 champions in the sprints and hurdles, and been part of six Pac-12 team titles. In 2023, Williams won a second-consecutive league title at 100 meters while the Women of Oregon won the 4×100-meter relay for a third-consecutive season to go along with individual titles from Mays in the 100 and Shana Grebo in the 400-meter hurdles.
 
As the high-point scorer on the women’s side, Mays earned Athlete of the Meet honors at the 2023 Pac-12 Championships. Along with her efforts in the 100 and with the 4×100 relay, Mays was the runner-up (22.42 PB) in the 200 meters.
 
At the national level, the Men of Oregon won the 2021 NCAA Indoor title and were runners-up at that year’s outdoor meet. This past season, the UO women had a podium finish and brought home a fourth-place trophy at the NCAA Championships in Austin.
 
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