Fort Collins High School
2012
Track & Field Coaching Staff
There are 15 coaches on staff at Fort Collins High School and they have more than a century of combined coaching experience. In addition, most have competed at the collegiate level in track & field or another sport. If you are looking to have yourself or your son or daughter coached by a highly experienced and qualified staff, then competing in track & field as a Lambkin is the right choice.
Conrad Crist has been the head coach at Fort Collins High School since 2010. He spent the previous six years as head coach at Windsor High School prior to returning to where his coaching career began, which was right here at FCHS as an assistant to coach Pat Busteed. His focus will be coaching the sprints and jumps.
Coach Crist participated in four different sports in high school, track and field, cross-country, basketball and football. He attended Western State College his first year in college where he enjoyed intramural sports, snowboarding, hiking, fishing and running, but one thing he missed from high school was the organization of competitive sports. His sister was at Colorado State University on a cross country and track scholarship and shared with him how much she loved the school and coaches. Crist took his sister's advice and transferred to CSU where he met with Coach Hessel and decided to try out for the track team as a walk-on athlete. However, after months of training he became prone to injury and even partially tore his patella tendon on his jumping knee. His mind wanted to compete, but his body was telling him different. Crist realized it would be best to stop training and focus on school. In a conversation with his father, Wes Crist, who was a coach in the Poudre School District for over 35-years, suggested he start coaching. His dad told him coaching is more rewarding than competing and he has found out his father was right. He started coaching under Mark Long at Webber Junior High School and quickly found out coaching was a passion his. Crist enjoyed watching students accomplish their goals and achieve things they never thought were possible. Coaching has been one of the most rewarding experiences of his life. Crist completed his practicum here at Fort Collins High School in 2002 and 2003 and was an assistant to Head Coach Pat Busteed for the track and field program. He learned a tremendous amount about coaching and training in his two seasons at FCHS. Crist graduated from CSU at the age of 23 and was hired as a P.E. teacher at Windsor High School in 2003. The head track and field coaching position was offered to him later that fall. At such a young age, he was hesitant about taking the head coaching position and being a leader of young individuals, but he received a ton of support from the community and administration. There were only 27 students in his first year as head coach in 2004. Yet, he built Windsor's track and field team to 130 participants, one of the leading class 4A track and field programs in Colorado, and was awarded the Northern League Coach of the Year in 2009 by implementing what learned from Coach Busteed and his father. He views this as one of his greatest accomplishments as a high school coach. Now that he is at FCHS, he will continue his coaching philosophy with the student-athletes at our school. Crist, along with his assistants, make the track and field team a place where students feel accepted, challenged and supported. He plans to carry on the lasting track tradition. Everything for Crist has come full circle and he is proud to be a Lambkin once again.
2000-2001 Assistant Track Coach at Weber Junior High School, Coached Long Jump, Triple Jump and High Jump
2002-2003 Assistant Track Coach at Fort Collins High School, Coached Long Jump, Triple Jump and High Jump
2004-2009 Head Track Coach at Windsor High School, coached mainly sprints, jumps and relays
2009 Northern League Coach of the Year Award
2010 Front Range League Coach of the Year Award
2011 Front Range League Coach of the Year Award
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Assistant Coach
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Sprint Coach
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Middle Distant Coach
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High Jump Coach |
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Distance Coach
Coach Luckasen has been a part of Fort Collins High School cross country and track & field since the late 70s when it was the norm to wear super tight running shorts, but he made it look good and sported it with a Fu-Manchu. Lucky helps out where ever possible, but his contributions to the track and field program have been valuable for so many years. We hope the Fu-Manchu makes a comeback, but we'll pass on the shorts.
Coach Rice was the first of three Fox sprint siblings to come through Fort Collins High School and they all made a great impact on the track program. Laurie, Megan, and Brian all earned state titles, and two team state championships were brought home for the Lambkins under the Fox era. Coach Rice still holds two FCHS school records in the 100m and 200m sprints. Laurie earned a full track scholarship to attend Penn State University. There, she was a two-time team captain, a member of the school record setting 4x100 meter team, and a part of the 4x100 meter relay that competed at the National Championship meet in 2003. After graduating, she came back to Fort Collins where she has been coaching at FCHS for the past six years and shares her sprinting knowledge with her athletes. Laurie is a Language Arts teacher at Collins.
Pole Vault Coach
Jumps Coach
Hurdle Coach
JV Sprint Coach
Throws Coach