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Mark Robison       Pictures       Videos        mark_robison@byu.edu
Mark Robison is entering his fourth year as the men's head track coach. This is his 19th year at BYU, where he spent three years as a graduate assistant and 12 years as a full-time assistant coach. He will continue the Robison tradition as head coach, being the son of the legendary coach Clarence Robison who coached at BYU for 40 years.

Mark Robison spent five years coaching in the high school ranks, including three years at Idaho Falls High School. His areas of specialty since coaching at BYU have included the jumps, throws and combined events.

Robison graduated from Provo High School, where he earned All-State honors in track for two years as a distance runner. His running career continued at BYU, where he ran the 800 meters and 1,500 meters. He also competed one year in cross country. Robison earned a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1982 (co-valedictorian) and an MS in physical education from BYU 1986. At the completion of his master's degree, he spent five years as a part-time student at the University of Utah working on a Ph.D. in sports psychology, but did not finish his dissertation.

During Robison's time at BYU, the Cougars have won 13 Indoor Conference Championships and 13 Outdoor Championships in 15 years. He has coached 89 Indoor and Outdoor Conference champions. Of the athletes that have competed under his guidance, 20 have earned All-America honors.

Robison will strive to continue the tradition of champions at BYU. He will rely on the assistance of talented and experienced coaching staff to help him. Two-time Olympian Ed Eyestone brings a vast knowledge of distance running to the program. Leonard Myles-Mills, one of the top-ten sprinters in the world, also adds a wealth of experience. Volunteer coach Larry Berryhill has spent a large portion of his life helping BYU track be successful.

Robison follows in the tradition of BYU track established by his father, Clarence Robison, Willard Hirschi and Sherald James, and has benefited from their personal tutelage during his time with the team.

He is married to Jaye Lynn, and they are the parents of six children: Nathan, Nicole, Aaron, Isaac, Alex and Cameron. Both Nathan and Aaron run on the men's cross country and track teams.
   
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Ed Eyestone       Pictures       Videos        ed_eyestone@byu.edu
Head Cross Country and Assistant Track Coach

Fifteen years after earning 10 All-American awards and four NCAA Championships as a Cougar, Ed Eyestone returned to BYU as the head coach of the men's cross country team and as an assistant coach for the men's track and field team.

When the 6-1 prep star from Ogden, Utah, first started at BYU, he proved that his will to win was always stronger than the obstacles that stood before him. In 1980, he had to be sprayed with water after he collapsed from heat exhaustion while running in the 10,000-meter race at the NCAA Championships in Austin, Texas. Earlier that same season at a dual meet in Eugene, Oregon, he literally crawled toward the finish line, struggling to finish the 5,000.

As a senior in 1985, however, Eyestone won both the NCAA 5,000 and 10,000 meters back-to-back on that same Texas track where he had struggled as a freshman.

After winning every collegiate cross country race he entered that year, Eyestone was crowned the 1984 NCAA cross country champion. Only two other athletes, Gerry Lindgren and Suleiman Nyambui, have ever won the rare triple crown of national titles in the 5,000, the 10,000 and cross country all in the same year.

Eyestone won the first of his NCAA 10,000-meter titles in 1984, on a return trip to Eugene. His cross country championship came at Penn State, where his mother Virginia had graduated with a doctorate just two years earlier.

In 1985, he set an NCAA record of 27:41.05 in the 10,000 at the Mt. SAC Relays. His other All-America citations came from two top-ten finishes (eighth in 1982 and ninth in 1983) at the NCAA Cross Country Championships, a fifth-place finish in the NCAA indoor two-mile (1983), a sixth-place finish in the NCAA Outdoor 10,000 (1983) and second-place finishes in the NCAA Indoor 3,000 in both 1984 and 1985.

Eyestone never seemed to stop running. He was an Olympic marathon runner twice, first in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea, and then in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, the same area where he earlier served an LDS Church mission. Eyestone has a career-best marathon time of 2:10.59, and he has been named U.S. Road Racer of the Year five times.

He earned two degrees from BYU, a bachelors in psychology and a masters in exercise science. A GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American with a cumulative GPA of 3.69, he won the prestigious NCAA Top-Six Award.

His coaching experience includes twelve years as the co-director of the Wolf Creek Running Camp and a three-year stint as an assistant coach at Weber State University (1996-98). Ed has spent the last nine years as a commentator for ESPN's Race of the Month and is currently a columnist for Runners World magazine.

Eyestone is married to the former Lynn Lambert of Provo, and they have five daughters.
   
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Leonard Myles-Mills       Pictures       Videos        
Assistant Track Coach

Two years after competing for BYU, Leonard Myles-Mills returns as an assistant coach with the men's track and field program. Myles-Mills' position includes coaching the sprinters and relay teams.

Myles-Mills earned three All-America citations while running at BYU from 1996-1999. In his junior and senior seasons, he won back-to-back National Championship titles in the 100-meters. He also ran on BYU's All-American 400-meter relay team that finished third at the1999 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.

"Leonard is a wonderful leader," said BYU track coach Mark Robison. "As a collegian, he accomplished everything you could accomplish, both indoors and outdoors. He brings a wealth of international experience with him as well. The kids like him and respect him, and he is a tremendous asset to our program."

Myles-Mills, a native of Dansoma Accra, Ghana, has represented his country in international competition since he qualified for the national team in 1998. He took third that year in the 100-meters at the African Championships in Senegal, which qualified him to compete in the World Cup in Athletics in Johannasburg, South Africa. In 1999, he won first place at the All-African Games, also held in Johannasburg.

Myles-Mills recently competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. He qualified for the semi-finals in the 100m. He also competed in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney. He qualified for the semi-finals of the 100-meter race, finishing in ninth place.
   
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