2010 Men's and Women's Cross Country/Track and Field Media Guide

ASST. COACH SHELDON BLOCKBURGER
Jumps/Multi-Events
Fifth Season
Louisiana State University
Sheldon
Blockburger begins
his fifth season
as an assistant coach for The
University of Arizona. Blockburger
spent nine seasons coaching the
jumps, throws, short hurdles and
multi-events at Cal Poly-San Luis
Obispo prior to arriving at Arizona in the fall of 2005. During
his time at Cal Poly, Blockburger coached 15 All-Americans
and 20 Big West Conference jumping champions. At the 2004
NCAA Championships, Sharon Day and Kaylene Wagner each
high jumped 6-2.75” to place second and third respectively. At
the 2005 NCAA Championships, Day upset the reigning NCAA
Champion, Chauntee Howard, to win the championship with a
school record jump of 6-4”.
The 2009 season was a big success for athletes under
Blockburger’s tutelage both indoors and outdoors. Of the 11
UA athletes earning All-American accolades on the season, six
were coached by Blockburger.
Luis Rivera-Morales earned the first All-American finish of
his career with a sixth-place finish in the long jump at the
NCAA National Championships. Rivera-Morales also cleared
the 26-foot barrier for the first time in his career at the Pac-10
Championships, winning the event there. Throughout the
season, the only long jump event – indoors or outdoors –
that Rivera-Morales did not finish first in was the
NCAA Championships.
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2009-10 Arizona TRACK & FIELD Media Guide