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Jim Sanchez is currently in his 22nd season at the University of Wyoming. During his tenure, Sanchez has earned the reputation as one of the top distance coaches in the West. Sanchez, who is the head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country team, also handles all distance and mid-distance events during the track and field season. He has excelled in leading the Cowboy distance crews to national prominence. Over the past nineteen years with UW Sanchez has coached 14 NCAA All-Americans, seven men and seven women (three in cross country, four in track and field for both sides), four Wyoming Hall of Fame Inductees (Patricia Miller-Davis, Jay Novacek, Kathy Van Heule-Romsa and Joseph Nzau), three Olympians (Joseph Nzau, Espen Borge and Ryan Bolton), six Academic Cross Country All-Americans and one Academic All-American Women’s Cross Country Team. Sanchez has also earned five Western Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year Awards in 1985, 86, 87, and 90 (men and women). His teams were consistently among the top finishers in the WAC with a combined two first place, seven second place, and eight third place finishes. Sanchez’s expertise is in altitude training and he’s been a major attraction at coaching clinics nationally and internationally. In June of 1987 he was invited by the Peruvian Track Federation and Olympic Committee to give a seminar in altitude training. Sanchez has coached All-American student-athletes from small towns (John Wodny, Cloquet, Minn.) to big cities (Nick Thiel, Chicago, Ill.) and from the local area (Brenda Gray, Glenrock, Wyo., Ryan Bolton, Gillette, Wyo., and Monte Still, Cheyenne, Wyo.) to the international field (Espen Borge, Norway and Joseph Nzau, Kenya). College Education: B.A. in Physical Education, Adams State College, 1976. M.A. in Exercise Physiol- ogy, Adams State College, 1982. Coaching Honors: Five-time WAC Cross Country Coach of the Year. Family: Jim is married to Veronica and they have two children, Amanda and Tyler.
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