Harvey Glance Selected to Coach 2008 Olympic Team in Beijing
3/16/2007 12:00:00 AM
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. ?? The United States Track and Field Association has selected University of Alabama head men’s track and field coach Harvey Glance to be an assistant coach for Team USA’s 2008 Olympic team. He will coach the sprints and hurdles for Team USA at the Beijing Olympic Games.
Glance, who is a 16-time All-American, three-time Olympic Team qualifier and 1976 gold medal winner, is in his tenth season as the head coach at the University of Alabama. As a head coach Glance has instructed 171 All-Americans, 12 national champions, 75 Southeastern Conference Champions and six Olympians.
In addition to his Olympic Gold medal, he has also won gold medals at the Pan American Games, the World Cup, the Goodwill Games and the World Championships.
Glance was the men's head coach at the 1999 Pan American Games in Winnipeg, Canada, where the U.S. led in total medals won with 295. He also was an assistant sprints/hurdles coach for Team USA at the 2003 World Championships in Paris, France and the assistant sprints/hurdles coach at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Beijing.
In 1996, Glance was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame and in 2002 he was named one of the Top 100 athletes in the State of Alabama's Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century. He is also No. 23 on Sports Illustrated’s list of 50 Greatest Sports Figures from the state of Alabama.
In Olympic competition, Team USA track and field athletes have won 317 gold medals and 736 medals overall, by far the most won in any sport by any country. In 2004, track athletes won eight gold and 25 medals total at the Athens Olympic Games, the highest medal tally since the 1992 Olympic Games (30).
