Greg Stringer is in his fourth season at Ole Miss as a track and field assistant coach following a 10-year stint at Southern Mississippi where he worked primarily with the Golden Eagle jumpers. Working with jumpers, heptathletes and decathletes at Ole Miss, Stringer has already enjoyed a high level of success since his arrival in Oxford. Stringer's work with Ricky Robertson has paid great dividends for Ole Miss. After just two years, Robertson has become a four-time All-American and four-time SEC champion in the high jump. Three times he has finished runner-up at the NCAA Championships, including both the indoor and outdoor championships as a sophomore in 2011. In addition, Brian Knight was a 2010 All-American and scorer in the high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships, and Rachel Jenkins was runner-up in the long jump at the 2010 SEC Indoor Championships. Robertson competed internationally at the 2010 NACAC U-23 Championships, winning silver in the high jump. Stringer was also instrumental last season by helping Caleb Lee earn second team All-American honors in long jump competition, as well as in the development of Kentrell Sanders being selected as a member of the SEC All-Freshman team as a triple jumper. Also during the 2011 season, Mary Ashton Nall and Fabia McDonald were both heptathlon participants in the USA Junior Championships, and McDonald was tabbed the 2011 SEC Indoor Female Field Athlete of the Year after a school-record performance in the pentathlon. Stringer enjoyed immediate success during his first season at Ole Miss as he coached an SEC champion in 2009. Jumper Wale Odetunde won the triple jump at the SEC Outdoor Championships and became the first Rebel since 1992 to accomplish that feat. Odetunde was named to the All-SEC first team before going on to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In addition to the achievements of the Ole Miss veteran, Stringer also had three jumpers make an immediate impact in 2010. Brian Knight, Lee and Aria Gaines all scored at the 2010 SEC Championships. That group also competed against some of the nation's top athletes at the USA Junior Track and Field Championships. The trio didn't disappoint on the biggest stage, as Knight finished in fourth place in both the long jump and triple jump, Lee turned in a fifth place finish in the long jump and a seventh place showing in the triple jump and Gaines place ninth in the triple jump. Under Stringer's tutelage in 2008, Southern Miss jumper Ashley May competed in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in both the long jump and triple jump. In addition, May was named All-Region in both events as she turned in fifth-place finishes. Along the way, May set a new school record in the triple jump and placed third at the Conference USA Outdoor Championships. She also took second in the long jump in at the C-USA Indoor Championships with an NCAA provisional mark. Stringer consistently had performers provide ample scoring for the Golden Eagles in the jumps. In 2006, he produced the Conference USA long jump title winner in Tanika Liburd. His triple jumpers finished second (Simona Costache) and seventh (Aaliyah Shareef) in the C-USA meet. His men's performers scored a total of 11 points in the C-USA meet. In 2005, he had two performers win Conference USA titles in the women's triple jump (Aaliyah Shareef) and high jump (Krista Miller). Tanika Liburd finished second in the long jump. Liburd recorded an outstanding jump of 21-08.75 at the LSU meet, ranking her in the NCAA top five. In 2004, two performers won Conference USA titles in the men's high jump and the women's long jump, with other jumpers scoring points in the men's long jump and triple jump. His Lady Eagles scored additional points in the high jump and triple jump. Over his last four seasons at Southern Miss, he had 19 athletes qualify for the regional meet, with high jumper Cedric Norman winning the regional competition and finishing third in the national meet in 2003 and in 2004. Norman finished third at the regional meet and finished in a tie for ninth at the national meet. That same season, Norman recorded a personal-best jump of 7-06.00, ranking as the best jump in the world for several weeks. In 2005, Krista Miller finished first at the regional meet in the high jump, advancing to the national meet. She recorded a personal best and school record jump of 5-11.25. Miller was a three-time regional qualifier. High jumper Kate Juedes received all-regional honors after tying for seventh in 2003. Stringer was a two-year letterwinner for Marshall Bell at Southern Miss as a junior and senior in both indoor and outdoor track during the 1993 and 1994 seasons. He competed in the high jump, long jump and the decathlon. He took fifth place in the decathlon at the Metro Championships in 1993, helping the Eagles win their second straight Metro Conference title. Stringer followed that Metro performance with a sixth-place finish in the 1994 championships. During his junior college days, Stringer helped his team, Hinds Community College, to the Mississippi Junior College state championship in 1990 and 1991. While competing at Hinds, he was named the most valuable athlete in the field events in 1991. Stringer was a four-year letterwinner in track for Coach Frank Keenum at Terry High School. He was named the most valuable athlete in the field events for two consecutive years. He also lettered three years in basketball and was voted the best defensive player in the 1988-89 season. He received his undergraduate degree in 1995 in sport administration and coaching with an emphasis in biological science from Southern Miss. He received his master's degree in education administration in 1999 at Southern Miss. He is married to the former Angela Mickey of New Orleans, La. The couple has four children, Endia, Gregory, Erin Alexis and Gabrielle Elise. |
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