Track and Field
Kansas State began competing in track and field in 1904. The team has won twenty conference championships. Its athletes have also achieved considerable national success.
Through the end of the 2011–2012 season, K-State athletes have won individual NCAA national championships 33 times. Twenty Kansas State athletes have attended 14 Olympic Games and have won eight medals, most recently at the 2012 Summer Olympics where Erik Kynard, Jr. took silver in the high jump.
The current head coach is Cliff Rovelto. Rovelto has won a number of coach of the year awards during his tenure at Kansas State, and served as head coach for the U.S. Track & Field team at the 2011 Pan American Games and assistant for the team at the 2005 World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki.
Former coach Ward Haylett, who is enshrined in the National Track & Field Hall of Fame, left a strong imprint on the Kansas State program. Haylett was head coach at the school from 1928–1963.
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