Report: UA hires UNI’s Bucknam as track coach
University of Northern Iowa head track and field coach Chris Bucknam will take over the Arkansas track and field, and cross country programs, according to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier.
Chris Bucknam
Here’s more:
This morning, The Courier received a copy of an e-mail sent to student-athletes in the Panther track and field program.
“The reason I’m writing is to inform you that I am resigning as the UNI head coach and accepting the men’s head coaching position at the University of Arkansas,” Bucknam wrote in the e-mail. “I interviewed on Monday and was offered and accepted the position (Thursday) at noon.”
The University of Arkansas announced a press conference today for 3:30 p.m. for a major announcement concerning the track and field, and cross country teams.
The timing is key here. Longtime Arkansas assistant Dick Booth, who had been recommended to Long by his athletes and McDonnell, traveled to Eugene, Ore., on Wednesday to help Nkosinza Balumbu in the U.S. Olympic Trials.
UPDATE (10 a.m.): Booth, we just learned, will stay at Arkansas as field events coach.
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