Ryan Baily - Track & Field Coach - Colorado State Athletics

Ryan Baily

Title:
Assistant Coach - Multis, Pole Vault & Jumps
Email:
ryan.baily@colostate.edu

Ryan Baily enters his eighth season apart of the coaching staff at Colorado State ahead of the 2023-2024 season. Coach Baily has since been elevated to Associate Head Track & Field Coach.

In his role, Baily works with combined events athletes as well as vertical jumpers. In eight years with CSU, Baily has guided multiple athletes to a combined 19 school records, 23 Mountain West individual titles, eight All-America honors and two Honorable Mention All-America honors.

The 2022-2023 season, Baily guided another sweep of the indoor multis as Lexie Keller won the Pentathlon with a score of 4306 and Drew Thompson won the Heptathlon in 5281. Lexie Keller went on to earn her third All-American honor in the pentathlon at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships. Drew Thompson won the Outdoor Decathlon championship as well scoring a lifetime best of 7338. Coach Baily also guided Sharde Johnson to a first-place finish at the Mountain West Championships. Lexie Keller concluded her season at the USA National Championships in Eugene Oregon where she finished in 10th place and earned an invitation to compete for Team USA in the Thorpe Cup.

In 2021-22, Baily helped coach a number of athletes to both school records and championships. Eldridge Harris broke the school record for outdoor pole vault to win the Mountain West Championship and Celyn Stermer broke the school record for indoor pole vault. Allam Bushara broke the schoole record for indoor triple jump enroute to a Indoor Mountain West Championship in the event. Baily also coaches Lexie Keller as a heptathlete who placed third at the Indoor NCAA Championships and sixth in the Outdoor NCAA Championships. Keller also won the Heptathlon while setting a new meet record at the Mountain West Championship meet and set new school records as she recorded the second-best Heptathlon and Pentathlon in conference history.

The 2018-19 campaign brought a flurry of accolades. Hunter Powell won indoor heptathlon and outdoor decathlon in the Mountain West Conference, totaling five in six seasons. He also qualified for the NCAA Championships in the decathlon. MaryBeth Sant broke school records in both the 60m and 100m, while finishing fifth in the 60m at the Milrose Games among professional athletes. She also led off CSU's first-ever 4x100m All-American Relay. Nick Kravec capped his career off with a runner-up to Powell at the MWC Championships. The Ram's decathon squad finished the year as the top-ranked decathlon team in the NCAA.

Among the highlights for Baily’s athletes in 2017-18 was the performance of high jumper Autumn Gardner, who cleared 6-0.5 (1.84m) to break CSU’s previous program record at the NoCo Challenge (April 14). That performance ranks Gardner sixth in Mountain West history in the event, and distinguishes her as one of five high jumpers in the conference to leap higher than six feet this decade. In addition, Gardner finished as the NCAA’s No. 8-ranked performer in the event in 2018.

Under Baily’s guidance, the Rams have experienced one of the most successful stretches in the combined events in program history. During the 2016-17 indoor season, Hunter Price shattered the Mountain West and CSU records in the heptathlon, scoring 5,906 at the CSM Alumni Classic & Multis. Price broke his own records again at the NCAA Indoor Championships, piling up 5,996 points to place fourth and earn First-Team All-America status. No other heptathlete in MW history has finished as high as Price at the NCAA Indoor Championships.

The 2016-17 season continued with more success from Baily’s combined events athletes, as Josh Cogdill earned Second-Team All-America honors and Price earned Honorable Mention honors at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Cogdill placed 16th at the national meet, marking the highest finish for a CSU decathlete since 1982 (John Harrell – 10th). During the outdoor season, Price broke the CSU record and set the No. 2 all-time mark in conference history with a score of 7,801 in the elite invitational section of the Mt. SAC/California Invitational Combined Events.

Among Baily’s top multi-event athletes at CSU was Jessica Green, who placed 22nd in the heptathlon (5,032 points) at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. With her performance, Green became the first CSU athlete to earn any level of All-America honors in the women’s heptathlon since 2008. Baily also coached an All-American in his first season at CSU, guiding Justin Green to Second-Team honors (11th place – 5,348 points) in 2015.

Prior to his time at Colorado State University, Baily was the head track & field and cross country coach at Chadron State. In his five years at Chadron State, Baily’s men’s team placed as high as ninth nationally in indoor track & field and 16th nationally in outdoor track & field. Baily’s Chadron State teams broke 18 men’s and 22 women’s school records, and featured 22 All-Americans and a Division II national champion. His teams were also honored for their work in the classroom, as his men’s team earned the USTFCCCA’s Scholar Team of the Year award in 2011.

Baily has been recognized for his teams’ accomplishments several times, and is a seven-time Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Baily earned honors as recently as in 2013 (men’s outdoor), and also earned that honor twice in 2011 (women’s indoor, women’s outdoor) as well as in 2010 (men’s indoor).

While the head coach at Western State (2005-09), Baily earned that same honor in 2008 (men’s indoor) and twice in 2007 (women’s outdoor, men’s outdoor). Additionally, Baily was named the USTFCCCA North Central Regional Coach of the Year in 2008. Among the top performances by his Western State squads was its showing at the 2007 RMAC Outdoor Championships, where each of his women’s and men’s teams placed second.

A native of Scottsbluff, Neb., Baily was a conference champion in the decathlon at Chadron State. He was named the Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year while attaining his bachelor’s degree in education (2003), and added a master’s degree in education in 2005 from the University of the Cumberlands. In addition, Baily holds a USA Track & Field Level I certification. Baily resides in Fort Collins with his wife, Janel, and the couple’s two children, Jayden and Trenton.

Summary of Collegiate Coaching Experience
- 2014-2020; 2021-Present – Associate Head Coach, Colorado State (fifth season)
- 2009-14 – Head Coach, Chadron State (five seasons)
- 2005-09 – Head Coach, Western State (four seasons)
- 2003-05 – Graduate Assistant Coach, University of the Cumberlands (two seasons)

Mountain West Championship Meet Record
Women's
2022
Lexie Keller - Heptathlon - 5834

Mountain West Records
Men’s
2017
Hunter Price – Heptathlon – 5,996

School Records
Women’s
2023
- Celyn Stermer - Indoor Pole Vault 4.13m or 13'-6.5''

2022
- Lexie Keller:
Indoor Pentathlon – 4321
Outdoor Heptathlon – 5834 (Mountain West Conference Meet Record)
- Celyn Stermer - Indoor Pole Vault – 4.12m or 13’-6.25"

2019
- MaryBeth Sant – 60m - 7.18
- MaryBeth Sant – 100m - 11.41

2018
- Autumn Gardner – High Jump (Outdoor) – 6-0.5 (1.84m)

2016
- Karly Reimel – Pole Vault (Indoor) – 13-5.75 (4.10m)
- Karly Reimel – Pole Vault (Outdoor) – 13-6.25 (4.12m)

2015
- Jazmyn Webster – High Jump (Indoor) – 6-0 (1.82m)
- Jazmyn Webster – High Jump (Outdoor) – 6-0 (1.82m)

Men’s
2022
- Allam Bushara - Indoor Triple Jump – 16.07m or 52’-8.75’’
- Eldridge Harris - Outdoor Pole Vault – 5.19m or 17’-0.25’’

2017
- Hunter Price – Decathlon – 7,801
- Hunter Price – High Jump (Indoor) – 7-0.5 (2.14m)
- Hunter Price – Heptathlon – 5,996

2016
- Hunter Price – Heptathlon – 5,623
- Collin Scheer – High Jump (Indoor) – 7-0.5 (2.14m)

2015
- Justin Green – Heptathlon – 5,600

All-Americans
Women’s
2023
-Lexie Keller;
Indoor Pentathlon - 4217- 10th(Second Team)

2022
- Lexie Keller:
Indoor Pentathlon – 4321 – 3^rd (First Team)
Outdoor Heptathlon – 5722 – 6^th (First Team)

2016
- Jessica Green – Heptathlon – 22nd (Honorable Mention) – 5,032

Men’s
2017
- Josh Cogdill – Decathlon – 16th (Second Team) – 7,258
- Hunter Price – Decathlon – 21st (Honorable Mention) – DNF/6,434
- Hunter Price – Heptathlon – Fourth (First Team) – 5,996

2015
- Justin Green – Heptathlon – 11th (Second Team) – 5,348

Mountain West Champions

Women’s
2023
-Sharde Johnson - Outdoor High Jump 1.73 - 5'8''
-Lexie Keller - Pentathlon 4306

2018
- Autumn Gardner – High Jump (Outdoor) – 6-0 (1.83m)

2016
- Isobel Brown – High Jump (Indoor) – 5-10 (1.77m)
- Jessica Green – Heptathlon – 5,552
- Karly Reimel – Pole Vault (Outdoor) – 13-6.25 (4.12m)

2015
- Jazmyn Webster – High Jump (Indoor) – 6-0 (1.82m)

Men’s
2023
- Drew Thompson - Decathlon - 7338
- Drew Thompson - Heptathlon - 5281
- Eldridge Harris - 5.15 - 16-10.75''

2022
- Eldridge Harris Outdoor Pole Vault - 17'-.5''
- Allam Bushara - Indoor Triple Jump - 16.07m - 52'8.75''

2019
- Hunter Powell – Heptathlon (Indoor) – 5437
- Hunter Powell – Heptathlon (Outdoor) – 7386

2017
- Josh Cogdill – Decathlon – 7,508
- Josh Cogdill – Heptathlon – 5,546
- Hunter Price – High Jump (Indoor) – 7-0.5 (2.14m)
- Hunter Price – Long Jump (Outdoor) – 25-6.25 (7.77m)
- Trenton Wallace – High Jump (Outdoor) – 6-11.75 (2.12m)

2016
- Josh Cogdill – Decathlon – 7,149
- Hunter Price – Heptathlon – 5,623

2015
- Josh Cogdill – Decathlon – 7,294
- Justin Green – Heptathlon – 5,600