Three-timeย USTFCCCA West Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year (2020, 2023, 2025)
Has coached athletes to Seven NCAA Championships, Five NCAAย Silvers, andย Sixย NCAA Bronzes
2004 Olympic Games Silver Medalist
An Olympic medalist and NCAA Champion who has gone on to coach an Olympic medalist and multiple NCAA Champions, Toby Stevenson has put 11 different Huskies onto the NCAA Championship podium in just seven years as Associate Head Coach. Stevenson works with the Husky pole vaulters, jumpers, and multi-event athletes as well as the sprints group. He has won a trio of West Region Womenโs Assistant Coach of the Year awards: 2020 and 2023 indoors, and 2025 outdoors
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A conference and national champion pole vaulter at Stanford, Stevenson reunited in Seattle with former Cardinal teammates Maurica and Andy Powell. He came to Washington following a four-year stint in Kentucky.
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Stevensonโs athletes have generated 39 First or Second Team All-America honors in the pole vault, jumps and multis, with 28 of those coming in just the past three seasons. He has coached 11 different Big Ten or Pac-12 Champions and three collegiate record-holders in Olivia Gruver, Amanda Moll, and Hana Moll.
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Stevensonโs well-rounded group of jumpers, vaulters and multis were instrumental in UW winning the 2023 and 2024 Pac-12 Menโs Track & Field Championships, the first two in program history, as they posted 40 combined points in 2023 and 43 points in 2024.
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A third West Region Womenโs Assistant Coach of the Year honor went to Stevenson in 2025, as Hana and Amanda Moll rewrote the NCAA pole vault records, and Sofia Cosculluela also reached the podium at NCAAs in the heptathlon. Hana won the 2025 NCAA Outdoor pole vault title and Amanda was third, while Cosculluela took sixth, accounting for 19 of the 31 team points that the women scored in their fourth-place NCAA finish.
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Working in tandem with assistant Tim Reilly, Stevenson helped Amanda Moll become the first collegiate woman ever to clear 16-feet, which she did twice in 2025 on her way to winning the NCAA Indoor title. Hana set a new NCAA Outdoor Record of 15-8 1/2 while claiming the NCAA Outdoor title, breaking Amanda's former record. Each sister was named USTFCCCA National Women's Field Athlete of the Year in 2025, Amanda indoors and Hana outdoors, and they were both Bowerman Award semifinalists. They rank 1-2 in NCAA history indoors and outdoors, and they also went 1-2 at both the 2025 Big Ten indoor and outdoor championships.
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Also in 2025, Stevenson helped senior transfer Scott Toney break the School Record in his one season as a Dawg, as Toney made 18-9 1/2 in July. Toney won the 2025 Big Ten Indoor Championship, becoming the first Husky in any sport to win a Big Ten title. Toney made both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets in 2025. Stevenson also coached three men past the 50-foot mark in the triple jump in 2025, with Trevontay Smith and Tim Luebbert placing 4th and 5th at the Big Ten Championships.
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During the 2023 and 2024 seasons Stevenson had a remarkable nine different athletes reach the NCAA podium and earn First Team All-America honors, including 2024 NCAA Indoor pole vault champion Hana Moll, the first freshman to win the title. Those nine athletes represented six pole vaulters, two multi-event athletes, and one long jumper.
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UWโs vault squad continued to dominate at a conference and national level in 2024. Hana and Amanda Moll burst onto the collegiate scene, with Hana winning the indoor national title, and then outdoors UW finished 3-4-5 with Hana in third, Nastassja Campbell in fourth, and Amanda in fifth. Those three also swept the Pac-12 Championship podium. Amanda and Hana then were 5th and 6th at the U.S. Olympic Trials. UW won the final four Pac-12 womenโs pole vault titles under Stevenson.
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In the menโs vault, Max Manson and Mathis Bresko both reached the NCAA Indoor Championships, then Manson and Simon Park finished 2-3 at Pac-12s, as UW took five of six podium spots across both genders in the vault. Manson tied for eighth at NCAA Outdoors for his first All-America First Team.
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Prestin Artis flew to the top spot in the Pac-12 in the long jump, becoming UWโs first conference champ in the event since 2006. He also achieved UWโs first 26-foot jump since 2008 at the NCAA Indoor meet, placing fifth overall for First Team All-America honors. Matching Artisโs fifth-place NCAA Indoor finish was Bruno Comin Pescador in the heptathlon, the best finish ever by a Husky in that event. Outdoors, Jami Schlueter took 10th in his first NCAA Championship decathlon, the third-straight year that Stevenson coached a decathlete to NCAAs.
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During a stellar 2023 season, Campbell and Sara Borton scored at both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor meets. Borton was fifth and Campbell sixth indoors, then outdoors, Campbell was the NCAA silver medalist, and Borton was sixth. Jacob Englar took third at NCAA Outdoors with the best meet of his career. Indoors, Comin Pescador and Ida Eikeng had matching eighth-place finishes in the heptathlon and pentathlon, respectively.
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Also in 2023, Ollie Thorner made his second-straight NCAA decathlon, and won the first Pac-12 decathlon title by a Husky since 2011. Campbell and Borton shared the Pac-12 pole vault title, while Englar was the menโs vault runner-up at Pac-12s and Tim Luebbert took third in the triple jump.
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Stevenson with Nastassja Campbell, who was the 2023 NCAA Outdoor runner-up in the pole vault and 6th at the USATF Championships.
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Stevenson has now coached the four best womenโs heptathletes in UW history, with seven All-America honors between them. Heโs also coached three of the top-seven decathletes in school history.
Ida Eikeng wrapped her phenomenal career after setting and resetting the UW school records in both the heptathlon and pentathlon. Eikeng took the silver medal at the 2022 NCAA Outdoor Championships and was fifth at the 2021 Championships. She upped her heptathlon PR to 6,114 points and was poised to chase another high podium spot in 2023 but suffered an ankle sprain during high jump warm-ups at nationals. Indoors, Eikeng earned her first hardware in the pentathlon, and set the school record at 4,266 points.
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Along with Eikengโs NCAA runner-up finish in 2022, Stevenson helped sophomore decathlete Ollie Thorner reach his first NCAA Championships, where he was 15th in the decathlon. In the pole vault, Makenna Barton successfully defended her Pac-12 Championship, and Ashleigh Helms placed right behind her in second. Barton went on to and make her first NCAA Championships as a senior.
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The 2021 season saw Eikeng first break the heptathlon school record held by her teammate, Hannah Rusnak, in a stellar NCAA Outdoor performance that got her on the podium in fifth-place for First Team All-America honors. Also at NCAAs was senior Lyndsey Lopes, who captured the Pac-12 heptathlon title and then finished 12th at nationals. Washington swept the Pac-12 pole vault titles in 2021, with Chase Smith finally earning his first conference crown, and Makenna Barton getting an upset win with a PR make of 13-9 ยผ.
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Although only the indoor season was contested in 2020, Stevenson's athletes still had tremendous, record-setting achievements, resulting in Stevenson winning the USTFCCCA West Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year award.
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In her final season of collegiate eligibility, Olivia Gruver won the USTFCCCA Women's National Field Athlete of the Year after she posted the No. 2 pole vault clearance in NCAA Indoor history, making 15-5 at the USATF Indoor Championships to win the Bronze. Gruver went into the NCAA Indoor Championships as the clear No. 1 seed but the meet was canceled due to COVID-19. Track & Field News also named Gruver the Women's National Athlete of the Year for all track or field athletes.
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Also set to compete at 2020 NCAA Indoors prior to the cancelation was Chase Smith in the men's pole vault, and Hannah Rusnak in the pentathlon. Rusnak smashed the Husky school record in the pentathlon and was ranked No. 6 going into nationals with her PR of 4,190 points, set in a win at the MPSF Championships.
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Stevenson's first year in Seattle had huge highlights including an NCAA Record in the women's pole vault by Olivia Gruver and a Pac-12 title in the women's heptathlon, the first for a Husky in 27 years. Gruver had come to Washington with Stevenson from Kentucky, after she had won consecutive NCAA Outdoor pole vault titles as a Wildcat.
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Gruver took her historic collegiate career to a new height in her first season as a Husky in 2019 when she broke the NCAA Outdoor Record at the Stanford Invitational, clearing 15-6 1/4. That broke the Pac-12 Conference record by five inches. Gruver had to manage an injury leading up to the NCAA Championships but still finished third at nationals to earn First Team All-America honors for the fifth time.
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Hannah Rusnak made an incredible leap in 2019 in her first year working with Stevenson. Rusnak improved her heptathlon PR by 800 points, breaking the UW school record on three occasions. The first time Rusnak broke the school record, she did so by nearly 400 points, and she raised it twice more from there up to a total of 5,779 points scored in a ninth-place finish at the NCAA Championships. Rusnak won the first Pac-12 Heptathlon title for the Huskies since 1992, going from 10th as a freshman to first as a sophomore.
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Stevenson had another NCAA Outdoor qualifier in 2019 as Chase Smith reached his first outdoor nationals in the men's pole vault, tying for 15th.
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Stevenson won the 2020 West Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year award for indoors, the only season contested that year.
ย Coaching Champs At Kentucky And Stanford, And Winning Olympic Silver
Stevenson's time at Kentucky concluded with a banner year in 2018. He coached Olivia Gruver to a second-straight NCAA Outdoor title in the womenโs pole vault,ย and guided Tim Duckworth to the NCAA title in the decathlon outdoors and the heptathlon indoors, becoming just the second man to win both titles in the same year. Duckworth went to No. 7 in NCAA history with a decathlon score of 8,336 points in winning the 2018 national title, while also jumping the NCAA decathlon long jump record of 26-3 ยฝ. His heptathlon best of 6,188 points is the British National Record.
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Stevenson also coached Ellen Ekholm to consecutive NCAA Outdoor appearances in the high jump, placing 10th in 2018 and making a PR of 6-0 in April. Another SEC title came from Justin Kretchmer who won the 2015 menโs high jump title and made the 2017 NCAA Outdoor meet.
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The first college coaching stop for Stevenson was at his alma mater, Stanford, where he most notably helped start Katerina Stefanidi down the path to an Olympic Gold Medal. From 2010-12, Stevenson guided Stefanidi to three straight Pac-12 titles in the pole vault, and she capped off her senior year winning the NCAA Outdoor title. Stefanidi went on to capture Olympic Gold at the 2016 Rio Games for Greece and she followed that up with gold at the 2017 World Outdoor Championships, reaching rare air with a make of 16-feet, 1-inch.
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Also at Stanford, Stevenson helped high jumper Dartis Willis reach the NCAA Outdoor Championships as just a freshman in 2012 and high jumper Jules Sharpe made the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2011. Sharpe had a best of 7-3 working with Stevenson while Willis made a high of 7-1 ยฝ in 2012.
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Stevenson reached rarefied air himself, as he was the 10th man in history to clear the 6.00-meter mark in the pole vault. He qualified for Team USA for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, and won the Silver Medal with a clearance of 19-4 ยผ. He also qualified for World Championships in 2005 and 2009. Stevenson also still owns the facility record at Washingtonโs own Dempsey Indoor, as he cleared 19-0 ยพ in 2004.
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The successful pro career came after a record-setting collegiate career at Stanford. He won the 1998 NCAA Championship and was runner-up in 2000, helping the Cardinal win its first outdoor track team title in 66 years. Stevenson was a six-time All-American and won the 2000 Pac-10 title clearing 18-9 ยผ for a meet record that still stands today. He was inducted into the Stanford Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.
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In-between college coaching stops, Stevenson lived in Sweden where he was the Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director of the Hammarby Track & Field Club in Stockholm, overseeing a large staff and handling budgeting, expenses, travel, compliance standards and other daily operations to help develop elite athletes.
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Stevenson also was the President of the Pacific Association Foundation from 2011-13, in charge of fundraising and establishing grants for individual members and clubs within the Pacific Association of USATF.
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He earned his Bachelorโs degree in Economics in 2000 and an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics in 2014.
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Stevenson won a second West Region Women's Assistant Coach of the Year honor in 2023.
