UCLA Track & Field Adds Arman "Gino" Hall to Coaching Staff
September 09, 2024 | Track & Field
LOS ANGELES โ Arman "Gino" Hall, an Olympic Gold Medalist, three-time NCAA Champion, and 17-time All-American, is joining the UCLA track & field program as an assistant coach, The Sherie L. and Donald G. Morrison UCLA Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Joanna Hayes announced Friday.
"I couldn't be more excited to welcome Gino to our staff," said Hayes. "His exceptional coaching skills, combined with his Olympic-level athletic experience, align perfectly with our program's goals. I look forward to seeing him work with our student-athletes."
Hall was most recently an assistant coach at Arizona State for the 2023-24 season, helping the Sun Devils reach a top-10 ranking in both the men's 200m and men's 400m. Prior to his time in Tempe, he was named the 2023 USTFCCCA NJCAA Division I Women's Assistant Coach of the Year at New Mexico Junior College after helping the Thunderbirds to team National Championships on both the men's and women's sides.
Earlier in his career, Hall made coaching stops at Miami Killian High School (2021-22), Arizona State (2019-21), and Florida (2017-18).
Hall's decorated career as a sprinter includes a 2016 OIympic Gold Medal in the 4x400, a 2013 gold medal at the World Championships in the 4x400, two gold medals at the 2012 World Junior Championships (4x400, 4x100), and a pair of gold medals at the 2011 World Youth Championships (400m, medley relay).
As a student-athlete at Florida, Hall helped Florida to three SEC Championships and was the 2014 SEC Indoor Men's Runner of the Year. He claimed three NCAA titles (400m, 4x100, 4x400) during his time in Gainesville, and finished his career with five individual marks inside the program's all-time top-10 lists.
In 2023-24, Hall helped a pair of Sun Devil sprinters break program records (Kaleb Simpson, 100m; Adriana Tatum, 100m, 200m), while the men consistently sported a top-10 USTFCCCA squad ranking all year.
In his one season at NMJC, Hall's sprinters and hurdlers combined for four national titles across the men's and women's outdoor seasons. In total, Hall coached nine national champions and 28 first-team All-Americans across the sprints and hurdles at both the indoor and outdoor NJCAA National Championships. His student-athletes rewrote the school record books that year, gaining 14 new program records. Under his tutelage, every single sprinter and hurdler PR'd in at least one event during the 2022-23 campaign.
Prior to NMJC, Hall helped Miami Killian High School to a Florida State Championship for the 2021-22 school year. He served two years as a volunteer assistant at ASU in his first stint in Tempe, and got his start in the coaching ranks as a volunteer assistant at his alma mater in 2017-18.
Hall earned his Bachelor of Arts in cultural studies from Florida in 2016.