FIU's track and field program has a new head coach--Steve Rubin, who was formerly head coach at Washington University in St. Louis.
In just two years at Washington University, Rubin produced eight All Americans and 22 qualifying athletes for the NCAA Championships. The women’s indoor and outdoor teams recorded top-25 finishes at the NCAA’s this past season. The women also posted the first-ever University Athletic Association conference triple crown in cross country and indoor and outdoor track. The men won the conference in outdoor track, improving on a fourth-place finish recorded the year before Rubin was hired.
"I am extremely excited about the opportunity to return to the South Florida community,"; said Rubin, who was assistant track and field coach at the University of Miami for nine years. "I am excited about joining a track and field program with enormous potential as well as one of the fastest growing universities in the nation."
Rubin, who is replacing former track and field head coach Jessica Carter, graduated from Emory University where he was a standout performer in sprints and the horizontal jumping event.