July 16, 2015
SAN DIEGO - Former San Diego State great LaTanya Sheffield was named an assistant coach for Team USA at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the USATF announced yesterday. Sheffield will coach the sprints and hurdles for the U.S. women.
Sheffield, who also served as an assistant coach for the U.S. women’s team at the 2013 World Championships in Moscow, the World Indoor Championships in 2006 and 2008, and the Pan American Games in 2007 and 2011, was a two-time All-American at SDSU, including a 1985 NCAA champion in the 400-meter hurdles. She went onto represent the U.S. at the 1987 World Championships and was an Olympic finalist in 1988. Sheffield was also a two-time gold medalist at the Olympic Sports Festival (1987 and 1993) and won a bronze medal at the 1987 Pan American Games.
Sheffield, who was inducted into the Aztec Hall of Fame in 1993, has been an assistant coach at Long Beach State each of the last three years, working primarily with the sprints, hurdles and relays.