Ryan Grinnell (Assist. Coach

• B.S. in BuSinESS adMiniStration, BoiSE StatE, 2009

COACHING EXPERIENCE

• 2012-14, aSSiStant coach, caMPBEll univErSity • 2014-16, aSSiStant coach, utah StatE • 2016-19, aSSiStant coach, WaShinGton StatE • 2019-PrESEnt, aSSiStant coach, GEorGia

Ryan Grinnell was hired as an assistant coach Ryan in July 2019 after serving as an assistant coach at gRinnell Washington State since 2016. Grinnell, who competed under Kyprianou at multis, Jumps Boise State University from 2007-08 and trained at UGA from 2010-12, is helping his former coach guide the jumpers and combined event student-athletes.

As it was worldwide, the first year back in Athens for Grinnell was an interesting one. He immediately began working with Kyprianou and his crew in the summer and fall and helped 2020 Bulldog women and men work themselves up to No. 4 and No. 5 national rankings, respectively, before the indoor season was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Eight individuals who Grinnell helped guide advanced to the 2020 NCAA Indoor Championships, including four freshmen, and they were all designated All-Americans following the meet’s cancellation. His crew captured a pair of Southeastern Conference individual titles (heptathlon, triple jump) and finished the shortened year ranked No. 1 (6,114 points), No. 2 (6,019) and No. 3 (5,994) in the collegiate heptathlon.

Jumper Jasmine Moore experienced her first school year under the tutelage of Kyprianou and Grinnell and was a finalist for the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) National Women’s Field Athlete of the Year, earned the organization’s South Region Women’s Field Athlete of the Year honor, was named the SEC Women’s Freshman Field Athlete of the Year and finished with the country’s top triple jump (13.90 meters/45 feet, 7 ¼ inches) and nation’s fifth-best long jump (6.47m/21-2.75).

Grinnell played a part in Kyle Garland earning the SEC Men’s Freshman Field Athlete of the Year and also worked on the development of 2019 NCAA decathlon champion Johannes Erm. Erm completed 2020 as the No. 11 performer on the collegiate all-time list in the heptathlon with the world’s No. 4 performance of the year (6,114). Also of note, hurdler Imani Carothers twice clocked 8.18 in the 60-meter hurdles, which ranks fourth in the school record books, and scored with a seventh-place finish at the SEC Championships.

Grinnell, a native of Idaho Falls, Idaho, finished his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Boise State in 2009 and quickly re-joined Kyprianou, who had been hired as a Georgia assistant before the 2009 season, to train professionally in the jumps. Sporting a personal record of 17.22m (56-6) in the triple jump, which ranked in the world’s top 10 in 2013, the six-time NCAA First Team All-American in the triple, long and high jump was the bronze medalist in the triple jump at the 2013 USATF Championships.

Grinnell earned spots as a finalist at both the 2008 and 2012 U.S. Olympic Trials. During his undergraduate career at the University of Montana first and then Boise State, he won nine Western Athletic Conference (WAC) and six Big Sky Conference titles, was a six-time WAC high-point scorer and became the Broncos most decorated student-athlete in history.

Professionally, Grinnell got his coaching start at Campbell University in 2012 and was an assistant working with the jumps, throws and combined events for two years. From there, he guided the sprinters, jumpers, vaulters and combined event student-athletes at Utah State University from 2014-16. Grinnell helped lead the Aggies to a team runner-up conference finish, an individual Mountain West Conference (MWC) title and seven NCAA Second Team All-America certificates.

Grinnell spent 2016-19 coaching Washington State’s horizontal jumpers, hurdlers and combined event competitors. While in Pullman, Grinnell helped land arguably the Cougars’ top women’s recruiting class in 2019, instructed three Pac-12 champions and coached a number of team members to the NCAA West Prelims as well as the NCAA Championships. Under Grinnell’s instruction, a pair of Washington State team members earned First Team All-America certificates and another was named a Second Team All-American.