John Frazier Garners USTFCCCA Award
June 06, 2016 | Track & Field
EUGENE, Ore. – UCLA men's track and field coach John Frazier was named the USTFCCCA West Region Men's Assistant Coach of the Year, the organization announced Monday.
Frazier , who is the men's head coach under Director of Track & Field Mike Maynard, has been instrumental in the resurgence of the dominant UCLA throws program. In 2016, senior Nicholas Scarvelis, sophomore Braheme Days and freshman Dotun Ogundeji qualified for the both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor National Championships.
Scarvelis won his third straight Pac-12 shot put title and then later went on to win the NCAA West Prelim title and also qualified in the discus. Days was third in the region in the shot put while Ogundeji will also compete in the shot put and discus at the national meet.
Earlier this year Scarvelis uncorked the fourth longest throw in school history at 67-7.50 and in doing so also hit the Olympic qualifying mark. Days closely followed with the sixth best throw at 66-3.75. Ogundeji launched a personal best 62-11.50 at the NCAA Prelims.
On the women's side junior Torie Owers recorded the seventh best throw in school history at 57-5 while freshman Stamatia Scarvelis broke into the top-10 in her first year of collegiate competition with a throw of 54-11.50.
The Bruins head to Eugene for the NCAA Championships which begin on Wednesday, June 8 at Historic Hayward Field.
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