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Mr. Lance Veazey
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Home Phone: 337-501-4198 Lance Veazey Head Coach Alma Mater: Louisiana-Lafayette Dan McDonald Lance Veazey, UL’s track and field coach the past five seasons, tendered his resignation earlier this week and will be accepting an athletic director position at a private secondary school in Houston. “It’s been difficult at times,” Veazey said. “It seemed like there was one thing after another with everything that’s happened. We went through two seasons when the track was under construction and then the problems with the hurricanes. It’s been very challenging times to say the least.” The university has not officially announced Veazey’s resignation, but UL interim athletic director David Walker said that the department will likely act quickly to fill the position since less than two months remain before the beginning of the fall semester. Veazey’s tenure as UL’s head coach began under tragedy, when long-time Cajun mentor Charles Lancon died of a heart attack on April 13, 2002. Veazey had served as an assistant under Lancon for five seasons in his second stint on the Cajun staff, having served as a student assistant until his graduation in 1992. The program was hit by more tragedy in Veazey’s early years with the untimely deaths of athletes John Melvin and Ben Rodgers. “All of that, and coming after coach Lancon, it was very difficult,” Veazey said. “We had some success, but I do think that this will let some new life breathe into the program, allow them to go another direction and give them the opportunity to be successful.” Veazey helped UL dominate both the American South and Sun Belt Conferences in track as an assistant. UL’s men and women both won indoor and outdoor titles in the final year of his first stint in 1993, and after coaching at Blinn College, Texas, and Southeastern La. he returned in 1997 and helped UL win its eighth straight conference outdoor title in 1998. UL won the 2004 Sun Belt cross country title after finishing second in both the league men’s indoor and outdoor meets that spring. The Cajuns, though, were last of 10 teams outdoors in both men’s and women’s competition in 2006 and recently finished ninth of 10 men’s teams and 11th of 11 women’s teams in the 2007 Sun Belt outdoor meet at Cajun Track. “It was strictly my decision,” Veazey said. “Mr. Walker and all the administrators have been very supportive, and Mr. Walker and I sat and talked about what’s the best plan for the program. He’s asked for a lot of my input on where we should go and I totally respect that.” Among possible candidates for the job are former UL and LSU assistant Boo Schexnayder, now in private business; former Blinn College and current Texas Tech assistant Steve Silvey, holder of 15 national titles while at Blinn; and New Iberia product and former Cajun pole vaulter Lon Badeaux, currently an assistant at Arkansas State. Posted June 21, 2007 —————————————- Lance Veazey enters his third season as the head coach for Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns track and field program. Prior to the 2002 season, Veazey was hired after the passing of longtime head coach Charles Lancon. Last season, Veazey led the men’s squad to a second place finish in the 2004 Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships in Jonesboro, Ark. For their efforts, Veazey was named the Sun Belt Conference Indoor Track and Field Coach of the Year. A WINNING TRADITION Veazey’s 10-plus years of experience at the collegiate coaching ranks made him more than qualified for the position. He has been a part of many successful seasons for the Cajuns program. Most notably, in his final year of his first stint as a student assistant for the Cajuns in 1993, he helped lead then-USL to the �quadruple sweep” when the men and women both captured indoor and outdoor crowns. Then, in his first year back with the Cajuns in 1998, the men’s squad continued the most successful streak in Sun Belt history by winning its eighth-straight conference outdoor title. But Veazey is used to success, after working with many of the nation’s top athletes during his young, but accomplishment-filled coaching career. Veazey, who served as a student assistant with the Cajun program from 1990 through 1993, came to UL Lafayette after serving for two years at Blinn Junior College in the same capacity. At the time, Blinn was the hallmark of national track and field success. He returned to the Cajuns in the summer of 1997 after serving two years as assistant track and field coach at Southeastern Louisiana. BEFORE LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE Before that, he served on the staffs at both Blinn Junior College and the University of Texas (both nationally-prominent programs) and has accumulated an impressive list of accomplishments in a short amount of time. During his stint at Blinn, he coached on eight NJCAA national championship squads, coached a total of 15 junior college All-Americans, guided seven NJCAA individual national champions and five national junior college recrod holders. He has also coached the world’s number-one-ranked junior long jumped and triple jumper, the nation’s number-one-ranked collegiate triple jumper, the 1994 World Junior Championships silver medalist in the triple jump, the 1995 World Championship silver medalist in the long jump and the 1996 Olympic silver medalist in the long jump. Veazey helped guide Louisiana-Lafayette’s track turnaround as part of head coach Charles Lancon’s staff for three years as a student assistant, before leaving in 1993 to accept an assistant post at Blinn. While there, he worked with jumping events and recruiting, helping Blinn continue its phenomenal success in the juco ranks, while also instructing kinesiology classes. From there,he went to Austin for one year as assistant coach at Texas, where he helped coach the horizontal jumpers and also worked with recruiting, while helping guide the Longhorns to the 1995 Southwest Conference outdoor championship one of a string of six straight league titles for the Texas squad. He went to Southeastern Louisiana in 1995, where he was in charge of jumping events for both men and women as well as working with sprinters and hurdlers and in recruiting as well as meet administration and other aspects of that program. PERSONAL Veazey received his bachelor’s degree with honors from Louisiana-Lafayette in 1992 after earning an associate degree from Blinn in 1990. He later finished work on his master’s degree at Prairie View A&M while coaching at Blinn, finishing his master’s degree in 1994. Courtesy RaginCajuns.com
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