Zach Glavash - Track and Field Coach - Texas Tech Red Raiders

Zach Glavash

Title:
Assistant Coach - Sprints and Hurdles
Email:
coach.glavash@ttu.edu

At Texas Tech...
2 Team National Championships - Men 2019 Outdoor, 2024 Indoor
2 NCAA Champions
USTFCCCA Men's Assisatnt Indoor National Coach of the Year (2024)
USTFCCCA Mountain Region Coach of the Year (2023 Indoor)

Zach Glavash will be entering his seventh season at the start of the 2024-25 year.

Glavash continued to propel Tech's sprints program upward, helping Terrence Jones cap off an incredible year as a Red Raider in 2024. Jones propelled Tech to its first NCAA Indoor team title, scoring 20 points alone out of the 50.5 team total. Jones defended his 60m title, while claiming his first 200m title. Prior to that, he won the Big 12 200m title. Also under his wing, Shaemar Uter placed sixth in the 400m indoor final, leading to crucial points in the process. By the end of the indoor season, Glavash was named the USTFCCCA Men's National Assistant Coach of the Year. Prior to the NCAA indoor meet, Tech captured its second-straight Big 12 indoor title, with 75 out of 154 points coming from the sprints/hurdles side.

During the 2023 season, Terrence Jones became the first national champion for Tech in the 60m at the 2023 NCAA Indoor meet with a time of 6.46. Jones would go on to be Tech's anchor on the winning 4x100 team at the Big 12 outdoor meet, while placing second in the 100m and 200m, only behind his teammate Courtney Lindsey. Jones capped off his season finishing third at the NCAA Outdoor meet in the 200m. In the back-to-back Big 12 indoor and outdoor titles for the men, Glavash's group accounted for 100 of the 179 points outdoors and 87 of 159 indoors. The women's crew ended the 2023 season inside the top-25 both indoors and outdoors, highlighted by nine All-Americans and three Big 12 champions.

In 2022, under the tutelage of Glavash, Terrence Jones broke the school record in the 60m producing a time of 6.45 seconds which also was a world leading time. All said, the sprints and hurdles group came away with six 1st Team All-Americans and six Big 12 Champions.

Before the remainder of the 2020 season would be cancelled because of COVID 19, Glavash helped produced a Big 12 champion on the women’s side in Gabrielle McDonald, who captured the 60m hurdles title. Fast forward one year Jacolby Shelton took home the 60m hurdles Big 12 indoor title as Courtney Lindsey captured first in the 100m at the Big 12 outdoor meet.

Meanwhile three indoor USTFCCCA All-Americans came out of Glavash’s side in 2020 and it was followed in 2021 with 12 outdoor USTFCCCA All-Americans.

Glavash wrapped his first year coaching alongside Calvin Robinson in 2019, assisting in the development of a men's sprints, relays and hurdles group produced six Big 12 indoor and outdoor titles in addition to the first-ever NCAA Championship in Texas Tech history. Glavash's group contributed 36 of Tech's 60 total points in the title run. His team, consisting of The Bowerman finalist Divine Oduduru, racked up 10 All-America performances between indoor and outdoor. On the women's side, Tech earned All-America status in three outdoor events, including two from hurdler Alaysha Johnson (100H and 400H).

Glavash, who earned both a bachelor's and master's degree at Texas Tech, was promoted to an assistant coaching role at Texas in 2017 after serving one year as a volunteer assistant for the Longhorns. That same year, Glavash helped the Longhorn men's team to a sweep of the Big 12 Championships. His sprints group contributed a combined 65 points between the conference's indoor and outdoor championship meets. On the women's side, the Longhorns won five of their seven events at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships in 2016.

Glavash has proven to be one of the best recruiters in the country. Notable Longhorn runners Glavash recruited to Texas include Micaiah Harris, who won the Big 12 indoor 400m as a freshman, as well as Senoj-Jay Givans, whose personal-record 9.96 in the 100m ranks as the ninth fastest in collegiate history.

While at Texas, he also coached several successful jumpers. O'Brien Wasome won the 2017 Indoor NCAA Championship in the triple jump under Glavash's watch with a school-record 55'-2.25" (16.82m). He also coached Steffin McCarter to First Team All-America status in the long jump. McCarter's fifth-place finish at nationals came just days after winning the Big 12 Championship in the event.

Glavash made his way to Austin by way of Knoxville, where he spent two years as an assistant for Tennessee. While there, he served a critical role in recruiting efforts while also coaching the sprints and relays group.

While at Tennessee, Glavash recruited and signed Christian Coleman, one of the sport's all-time greatest. In his time as a Volunteer, Coleman went on to break the NCAA records in the 60m and 100m en route to winning the 2017 Bowerman Award. Coleman owns the UT record in the indoor 60m and 200m as well as the outdoor 100m and 200m. At the 2017 SEC Championships, he became the first-ever athlete to record a sub-10 second 100m and sub-20 second 200m on the same day. Coleman owns four of the world's ten known wind-legal sub-10 second 100m times. Glavash also signed to Tennessee sprinter Nathan Strother, who holds the school record in the 400m, and Mustaqeem Williams, who won the SEC Indoor 200m Championship in 2018.

Glavash began his full-time coaching career in the Mid-American Conference, where he coached the Eagles of Eastern Michigan for two years. He helped produce four MAC Champions during his tenure in Ypsilanti. Prior to his role at EMU, he worked as a volunteer assistant for Texas A&M's sprints, hurdles and relays group. He was a part of their men's and women's NCAA Championship teams during the 2010-11 season.

Glavash's journey as a coach originally started at Texas Tech after he finished his bachelor's in human development in 2008. He worked for Kittley as a graduate assistant while earning his master's in exercise and sport science through the 2010 season.

Prior to joining Kittley and his staff at Tech, Glavash was an accomplished runner under the longtime Red Raider head coach. In his one year in Lubbock, Glavash won the 800m at the 2007 Big 12 Outdoor Championships, eventually going on to become a Second-Team All-American after finishing ninth at the NCAA Championships. During the indoor season, he was a First-Team All-American in the 800m after recording a school-record 1:46.80. He also holds the program record in the 1,000-yard.

"He was just a tremendously tough kid," Kittley said, recalling his time coaching Glavash. "He's gritty, and I think you're going to see that when he's recruiting and the same when he's coaching."

Glavash also ran two years in the Big Ten while competing at Illinois. He won a conference title in the indoor 600-yard as a sophomore before going on to win the outdoor 800m. He was an Academic All-Big Ten selection in 2005.

Glavash lives in Lubbock with his wife, Myriam, and his firstborn son, Christian King, whom he joyfully welcomed into the world in September 2019.