Quinton Harley enters the 2019-20 indoor and outdoor track and field seasons in his first year with Upper Iowa. Harley has a vast amount of experience in coaching track and field. He has been on staff as an assistant or volunteer coach for five different institutions. Prior to his coaching career, Harley was a five-time All-American athlete in high school. Harley ran the 400 at Lake Erie College for two seasons where he won the 2011 400m hurdle championship in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and earned NCAA DII All-American First Team honors. Harley transferred to compete at East Carolina University for his remaining two years and was named as an honorable mention NCAA Division I All-American in 2013.
Harley has a bachelor's degree in sport studies, which he earned from East Carolina in 2013. Harley received his master's degree in physical education in 2018 from the University of Nebraska-Kearney, where he served as a graduate assistant to the Track and Field team for two seasons.
Harley got his start in coaching as a volunteer coach at ECU upon gradation. After one season with the Pirates, he was hired as an assistant at Xavier University of Louisiana. Harley spent one year at Xavier before moving onto Adrian College in Michigan, where he spent a year as an assistant prior to his two years at Nebraska-Kearney. After obtaining his Master's Degree, Harley joined the staff at Ohio Wesleyan University as an assistant. Harley will continue his journey at Upper Iowa as an assistant track & field coach specializing in sprints, hurdles, relays and horizontal jumps.
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"Very excited for the opportunity to work alongside Coach Rucker and the rest of our staff as we continue to lay the groundwork for the Upper Iowa track and field and cross country programs. I'm especially looking forward to growing and developing the sprints, hurdles, and relay groups as we look to become more and more of a presence in the competitive Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference." - Quinton Harley on the opportunity at Upper Iowa.
"I'm excited to have Quinton as a part of our staff. During the entire search process his name kept coming up to the top of the list. We are very fortunate to have someone of his caliber here from both a coaching standpoint and what he was able to accomplish as a student-athlete. He was a NCAA All-American at both the Division I and II levels. He's already shown great leadership and he has an outstanding track IQ. He is prepared to work with the athletes and get them to accomplish their goals." - Head Cross Country and Track and Field Coach, Nate Rucker on Quinton's hire.
