Jim Garnham Sr. Throws Coach Ninth Season Email: jgarnham@buffalo.edu Phone: 716-645-15 Office: 68 Alumni

Jim Garnham Sr. enters his ninth season as UB’s throws coach. He brings an impressive resume to UB having coached over 35 high school state champions, NCAA All-Americans and NCAA Regional and Championship meet qualifiers. During his time at Buffalo, he has turned the UB throws program into one of the best in the Mid-American Conference.

Under Garnham’s tenure, the Bulls have competed in postseason competition at the USATF Junior National, ECAC, IC4A and NCAA Championship meets. Nearly all his men’s and women’s throwers have posted league championship, school or personal records. At UB, he has had 35 throwers qualify for indoor or outdoor regional championships. In 2009, Alex Stamatakis won the MAC indoor shot put and finished second in the National Greek 23-and-under Championships. In 2007, Tina Villa won the MAC inddor shot put title while Stamatakis reached the NCAA East Regionals. Garnham guided Sarah Vance to the 2007 indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships as she posted school records in the shot put (52-8.75) and the discus (161-0). Vance is the first UB track and field athlete to qualify in two different events, shot put and hammer (198-1), for the NCAA Outdoor Championship. He also guided Faith Thompson to MAC records in the weight (65-6.75) and hammer (199-6) throws. Thompson also ranked 12th nationally in the hammer and 15th in the weight throw, qualifying for the USATF Indoor and NCAA Outdoor Championships. He coached Sheldon Battle, for one year, who competed as an unattached freshman as he went from high school marks of 57-0 (shot put) and 184-0 (discus) to 59-0 and 192-0 collegiately.

Garnham coached 30 years at the high school level, 10 years at Tonawanda High School and 20 years at Sweet Home High School. As a boys assistant coach at Tonawanda, he coached four state qualifiers and his throwers set records in the shot put (58-4)and discus (160-11) that still stand after more than three decades. At Sweet Home as a head girls and assistant boys coach he coached 17 state track and field champions and in the last 10 years there, between 1992 through 2001, he coached at least one state champion each year. He coached Stacey Schroeder, who won the High School Indoor National shot put championship (49-6) and Outdoor National discus championship and is still the New York State discus record holder (172-0), Others under his tutelage include Steve Mesler, an Indoor High School National Pentathlon Champion and member of the USA l bobsled team, two-time olympian Jim Garnham Jr., the former New York State record holder in the pentathlon, Ron Andrews (110 high hurdles) and Jared Vogler (400m hurdles).

Garnham also brings with him collegiate coaching experience, having served as an assistant at his alma mater, Buffalo State, from 1979-81. While with the Bengals, he coached 17 NCAA Division III All-Americans. His throwers set top marks in the shot put and discus throws that remain school records.

Off the track, Garnham was a technology instructor in the City of Tonawanda school system, teaching eighth graders for 33 years.

He earned his bachelor's degree in education from Buffalo State in 1968 and was a top member of the track and field team. Garnham won the Atlantic Coast NCAA Regional championship in the shot put in 1968 and finished fifth in both the javelin and discus throws.

THE GARNHAM FILE

EDUCATION B.S. in Education, Buffalo State, 1968 M.S. in Education, Buffalo State, 1973

ATHLETIC CAREER 1968 Atlantic Coast NCAA Regional Champion in shot put

COACHING CAREER 1968-78, Assistant Coach, Tonawanda High School 1979-81, Assistant Coach, Buffalo State College 1981-2001, Assistant Boys Track & Field Coach, Sweet Home High School 1999-2001, Head Girls Track & Field Coach, Sweet Home High School 2001-Present, Throws Coach, University at Buffalo