{"id":2741,"date":"2010-01-04T12:25:02","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:25:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2010-01-04T12:25:02","modified_gmt":"2010-01-04T17:25:02","slug":"hart-named-world-coach-of-the-year-by-iaaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2010\/01\/hart-named-world-coach-of-the-year-by-iaaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Hart named World Coach of the Year by IAAF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" title=\"hart-dec09\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/hart-dec09.jpg\" alt=\"Clyde Hart\" width=\"225\" height=\"315\" \/>Before we get too far into 2010, we&#8217;ve got one more 2009 year-end honor to relay&#8230; Longtime Baylor track and field coach <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/c-track\/mtt\/hart_clyde00.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clyde Hart<\/a>, BBA &#8217;56, was named the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/c-track\/spec-rel\/112409aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">World Coach of the Year<\/a> by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).<\/p>\n<p>Hart, of course, is best known for helping Baylor become known as &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/cttoweb.com\/quartermileu.php\" target=\"_blank\">Quartermile U<\/a>&#8221; for its success in the 4&#215;400 relay and for coaching <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/2008\/08\/bears-leave-beijing-with-three-more-olympic-medals\/\" target=\"_blank\">Olympic gold medalists<\/a> (and Baylor Bears) Michael Johnson, BBA &#8217;90, and Jeremy Wariner. Now retired from his head coaching position at Baylor (but still involved as the program&#8217;s Director of Track and Field), Hart has resumed coaching duties for Wariner after a brief split and also coaches Sanya Richards, the world champion in the 400 meters and the IAAF&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iaaf.org\/athletes\/gala\/2009\/newsid=54949.html\" target=\"_blank\">Female World Athlete of the Year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Coach Hart!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before we get too far into 2010, we&#8217;ve got one more 2009 year-end honor to relay&#8230; Longtime Baylor track and field coach Clyde Hart, BBA &#8217;56, was named the World Coach of the Year by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). Hart, of course, is best known for helping Baylor become known as &#8220;Quartermile [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}