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Tyler Griffin was announced as the assistant coach for men's and women's cross country and women's indoor and outdoor track and field on September 25, 2019.

Griffin comes to Chattanooga from Kent State where he was the head coach for cross country and an assistant for track and field.
 
In two seasons with the cross country team, he coached seven individual region qualifiers and had one named an All-MAC performer.
 
The 2018 men’s indoor track and field team finished runner-up at the conference championships. He coached two All-MAC performers and five Top 10 performances at Kent State. In outdoor track, he had two All-MAC performers and coached 11 to Top 10 All Kent State performances and two NCAA Region qualifiers.
 
Before joining the Kent State staff, Griffin spent four plus years as an assistant track & field/cross country coach at his alma mater, Mount Union, where he developed training programs for student-athletes competing in the 800m run, all the way up to the 10,000m.  With Griffin’s aid, the Purple Raiders men’s cross country team captured three consecutive Ohio Athletic Conference Championships (2012-14) and were Division III National Championship qualifiers in 2014 and 2016.  Mount Union’s women’s cross country team captured the OAC title in 2014 and qualified for the national championship that same year.
 
With a strong distance program, thanks in part to Griffin, Mount Union’s men’s track and field team captured the 2014 NCAA Division III Outdoor Track and Field National Championship, the first in program history.  Mount Union track and field was dominant at the conference level during Griffin’s tenure, winning the men’s and women’s OAC Championships in indoor and outdoor track and field in four consecutive years.
 
In his career as a student-athlete at Mount Union, Griffin was a nine-time OAC Champion, eight of which came in track and field and one in cross country in 2010.  Griffin’s greatest individual feat came in 2009 when he was crowned NCAA Division III Outdoor National Champion in the 1,500m run.
 
A native of Massillon, Ohio, Griffin received a bachelor’s degree in history from Mount Union in 2011 and holds a USA Track & Field Level 1 Coaching Certification.