Track & Field

- Title:
- Assistant Coach (Sprints)
- Email:
- tim.hall@tennessee.edu
- Phone:
- 865-974-4000
The Hall File
Coaching Experience
- 1996-2008: Charlotte
- 2008-13: Clemson
- 2013-14: Kentucky
- 2014-Present: Tennessee
Coached Athletes' Success
- 118Â All-Americans
- 4 Olympians
- 1 Olympic Gold Medalist
- 9 SEC Champions
- 10 NCAA National Champions
- 2 USA Indoor Champions
- 1 World Gold Medalist
- 1 World Bronze Medalist
- 1 USA Junior Champion
- 1 World Junior Champion
Associate head coach Tim Hall will mark his fifth season at Tennessee in 2018-19, working most immediately with both the men's and women's squads in the short sprints.
He was promoted to associate head coach in June 2018 after serving for four seasons as an assistant coach. During his time at Tennessee, the sprinters have set 11 program records and accounted for six NCAA titles.
The sprint group enjoyed another standout year in 2018. Mustaqeem Williams captured the 200m title at the SEC indoor championships, and the sprinters won 10 medals between the two conference championships. Hall was voted the USTFCCCA Regional Assistant Coach of the Year.
Hall was named the 2017 USTFCCCA National Assistant Coach of the Year for the outdoor season after leading the Vols to a great year on the track. Hall coached Christian Coleman to one of the best season's in collegiate track & field history. Coleman won the indoor 60m and 200m as well as the outdoor 100m and 200m NCAA Championships, joining VFL Justin Gatlin as the only two people to ever accomplish that feat. Coleman also became the only person to appear on all four collegiate top-10 lists, ranking in the top two on all four lists. Coleman holds the collegiate record in the 100m (9.82) and is tied for the record in the 60m (6.45). He ranks second in collegiate history in the indoor 200m (20.11) and the outdoor 200m (19.85).
Hall also guided Coleman to peak at the right time as he set all of those records during championship season. Coleman was named the 2017 USTFCCCA Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year and was later honored with the Bowerman Award as the top collegiate track and field athlete. After the historic 2017 season, Coleman turned pro and signed a seven-figure endorsement deal with Nike, but has continued to train with Hall. In 2018, Coleman broke the world record in the 60m (6.34) and won his first IAAF indoor world championship in the event two weeks later.
In addition to Coleman's four All-American honors, Hall also worked with five other student-athletes who earned All-American honors in 2017. Nathan Strother recorded the second-fastest 400m in school history and earned second-team honors during the outdoor season. Mustaqeem Williams took 10th at the NCAA Indoor Championship in the 60m. The men's 4x400m team also earned second-team All-America honors. On the women's side Shania Collins progressed throughout the year and earned second team honors as well. Collins posted a time of 22.81 in the 200m this year, the third-fastest 200m in school history. In his first thee years, Hall has now coached four of the top five 200m times on the women's side in school history.
Under Hall's direction, Felicia Brown was the 2016 USTFCCCA South Region Women's Track Athlete of the Year for both the indoor and outdoor seasons as well as the 2016 SEC Outdoor Track and Field Women's Co-Runner of the Year. She won the 200m championship at SEC Indoors, NCAA Indoors and SEC Outdoors.
On the men's side, Coleman set a Tennessee outdoor school record in the 100 meters with a 10.03 (+1.6) in the NCAA semifinal, and then claimed silver in the finals of both the 100m and 200m. During the indoor season, Coleman took gold in the men's 60 meters and silver in the 200 meters at the SEC Championship before earning a national championship in the indoor 200m. Coleman earned USTFCCCA NCAA Division I Men's National Athlete of the Week honors and was the Men's SEC Indoor Runner of the Year Award.
With Coleman's and Brown's national titles, Tennessee became the first school in NCAA Indoor Track and Field history to win both men's 200 meters and the women's 200 meters at the same championship meet. Additionally, Coleman (4x100m relay, United States) and sprinter Kali Davis-White (200m, Jamaica) qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics.
Hall made an instant impact in his first season at Tennessee in 2015 as he produced five All-American honors and helped Christian Coleman earn the SEC Freshman Runner of the Year Award.
During the indoor season, Hall helped guide Coleman to an SEC bronze in the 60-meter dash. Coleman would go on to earn first team All-America honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships, finishing 6th in a time of 6.62. Coleman was the first UT athlete to score at the NCAA meet in the event since 2008 and the first freshman to score since Justin Gatlin in 2001. For his efforts, Coleman was awarded the SEC Freshman Runner of Year.
Coleman would claim the award again in the outdoor season, becoming the SEC Co-Freshman Runner of the Year. He earned second team All-American in both the 100- and 200-meter dash.
On the women's side, Felicia Brown qualified for the NCAA Championships in the 200-meter dash. She was 10th overall, earning second team All-America honors. Under Hall's tutelage, Brown won the individual title in the 100-meter dash at the 2015 Penn Relays and also recorded the second-fastest 200-meter dash time in program history (22.76).
Prior to arriving on Rocky Top, Hall spent one season as sprints coach at Kentucky as the Wildcats put together a banner performance in the women's competition. He held a similar position the five previous years at Clemson and also spent 12 seasons coaching at Charlotte.
Hall has coached winners on the conference and national level, having produced SEC and ACC individual champions and multiple NCAA winners and medalists.
At Kentucky, Hall's sprinters helped vault the UK women into the top 10 on the national stage. Kentucky finished ninth at the NCAA indoor meet and a program-best seventh at NCAA outdoors.
Individually, Dezerea Bryant became the first Kentucky woman to win an NCAA sprint championship. At the 2014 NCAA indoor championships, she won the 200-meter dash in 22.69 seconds and also finished second in a photo finish in the 60 dash (7.12) to account for 18 team points.
In his time at Clemson, Hall has five Regional Coach of the Year honors and has coached two IAAF World Junior Champions, three NCAA Champions, six ACC MVP winners, 39 ACC Individual Event Champions and 71 USTFCCCA All-Americans.
Hall notably coached three-time NCAA champion hurdler Brianna Rollins, who set the American record in the 100-meter hurdles (12.26 seconds) in 2013. He has also coached a pair of 2012 Olympians, including Warren Fraser (Bahamas).
Hall was an assistant for Charlotte from 1996-2008, serving as associate head coach his final three years. While there, he coached the school's first-ever All-Americans in men's and women's sprints. ? Prior to his time with Charlotte Hall was the head coach for the Queen City Striders AAU Track Club for six years. In 1995, the Striders earned 36 medals at the AAU Junior Olympic Games under Hall's guidance. Hall graduated with a bachelor's degree in Psychology from South Carolina State in 1994. He was a three-time captain for the Bulldogs' track team and an All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference performer as well.
Hall is married to the former Adrean Byers. The couple has two children (TeAnna and Timothy Jr.) and one granddaughter (Zanyla).