Tyree Price - Track & Field Coach

Tyree Price

Title:
Assistant Coach, Jumps and Multi-Events
Email:
tyreepri@usc.edu
Phone:
(213) 610-5958

Veteran jumps coach and 2020 USTFCCCA South Region Women’s Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year Tyree Price was named the Trojans’ assistant coach for jumps and multi-events by Director of Track & Field Quincy Watts on July 22, 2021. He begins his second season as the leader of the USC jumps and multi-events programs.

In his first season with the Trojans he had a limited roster, but was still able to guide USC to some impressive results. Earnest Sears III had the second-highest jump in school history of 7-6.50 to win the Mt. SAC title and then he won the Pac-12 title with a clearance of 7-1.50. He advanced to the NCAA Championships, but finished tied for 10^th. Also scoring for USC at the Pac-12 Championships for the USC men’s team were Jalyn Jackson taking fifth in the long jump and triple jump (he advanced to the West Prelims in both) and Dallas Wise, eighth in the triple jump. On the women’s side, Temi Ojora won the USC-UCLA Dual Meet triple jump title with a jump of 43-0.25, then placed second at the Pac-12 Championships with a jump of 42-9.0 before having to shut it down due to injury. He was even able to get hurdler Jasmine Jones to place second in the long jump with a leap of 20-0.25 at the USC-UCLA Dual Meet to earn the Trojans 3 key points in a 1-point team victory.

Price spent the 2021 season at Columbia as an assistant focused primarily on jumps. Columbia and the Ivy League did not compete in track and field during the 2021 season due to COVID-19.

Price spent the previous seven seasons at Bethune-Cookman where he served as the jumps coach. During his time at Bethune-Cookman his men’s jumpers posted the top six high jump marks in school history, the top seven long jumps and top seven triple jumps. Also, during that time, the women jumpers had the five top high jumps in school history, seven of the top eight long jumps and the top five triple jump marks in program history.

During the 2019-20 school year, Price was named USTFCCCA Women’s South Region Assistant Coach of the Year, the first non-ACC or SEC coach to earn the honor. He guided Monae’ Nichols to PRs in the long jump at 21-1.50 (6.44m) and triple jump at 42-0.50 (12.81m, earning second-team All-America honors. He also guided his athletes to score 42 of the team’s 82 points at the MEAC Championships. Nichols won conference titles in the long and triple jumps and was named Co-Field Athlete of the Meet. He also led Thea Shaw to a MEAC title in the pentathlon.

The 2018-19 seasons saw Quamecha Morrison finish second in the high jump at the NCAA Indoor National Championships and Nichols qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In 2017-18, Price took the reins of the short sprint/relay group to go along with his duties of jump coach. Under his guidance the sprint group showed improvement across the board, while the men’s 4x100m just missed going to the final round of the NCAA Outdoor Championships with a time of 39.64 was just .03 away from moving forward and the women’s 4x100m advanced to the to the NCAA Semifinals where it posted a time of 44.49.

In the 2016-17 season triple jumper Michael Tiller had the top jump at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds and placed 12th in the event at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Tiller became the first Wildcat since Ronnie Ash, a 2016 Olympian, to qualify for indoor and outdoor national meets and finished his career with his fourth and fifth Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference titles in the event.

In 2015-16, his athletes swept the MEAC Indoor men’s high jump at the Conference Championship. Also, Tiller and Kelton Williams went onto represent Bethune-Cookman at the USATF Indoor Championships in the high jump and triple jump. Summer Brown came on strong with an MEAC Outdoor Championship in the long jump and a fourth place finish in the triple jump.

In 2013-14, Wildcats horizontal jumpers made a significant impact under Price’s tutelage. Freshman Kenneth Fisher collected both MEAC Indoor and Outdoor long jump titles and at the Outdoor Championships, Fisher teamed up with Demetrius Rooks and Nicholas Williams to make a B-CU long jump sweep on the podium.

Four of Price’s jumpers qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Preliminary Rounds, with Fisher moving on to the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In addition, Fisher set a school record and earned second place at the USA Track & Field (USATF) Junior Championships, garnering him a place on Team USA for the IAAF World Junior Championships.

Prior to Bethune-Cookman, Price spent six seasons as the head track and field and cross country coach at South Carolina State. At SCSU he coached 51 NCAA Regional qualifiers, 2 NCAA Indoor qualifiers, 5 NCAA All-Americans, 8 NCAA Outdoor Qualifiers, 4 USA Junior National qualifiers, over 125 MEAC All-Conference athletes, over 70 MEAC Commissioner’s All-Academic Team honorees, 30 MEAC Champions, two MEAC record holders, 41 SCSU school record holders, 11 B-CU school record holders, and one IAAF World Juniors (Team USA) performer.

Price joined the SCSU staff after serving four seasons as the head men’s cross country/track & field coach, and three seasons as the head women’s cross country/track & field coach at Fort Valley State University. At FVSU, he produced 37 NCAA Division II National qualifiers (2004-07), 23 NCAA Division II All-Americans, 5 NCAA Division II Individual National Champions, 27 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SIAC) Champions, 139 All-SIAC Conference athletes, the 2005 USTFCCCA South Region Track Athlete of the Year, the 2006 USTFCCCA South Region Track Athlete of the Year and the 2006 USTFCCCA South Region Field Athlete of the Year.

Prior to his stint at Fort Valley, Price served three seasons as the assistant head coach at Morris Brown College in Atlanta. He also severed as an assistant with “In the Black Track Club”, which produced the 14th ranked 4x400m relay in the world, as well as the sixth place finisher in the triple jump in the 2001 USA Indoor Championships.

Price was a member of the SC State University track & field team for four years (1995-98), and also was a member of the SC State University football team (1995). Price received his Bachelor’s Degree in Biology/Pre-Med from South Carolina State in 1998. In addition to his degree from SC State, the Summerville, S.C. native has a Master’s of Science Degree in Sport Management/Sport Administration from Southern New Hampshire University in 2015, he also received his Certification in Strength and Conditioning (NCACE) in 2018, and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.