The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Track & Field / Cross Country
- Title:
- Assistant Coach: Field Events
- Email:
- Ty@utexas.edu
- Phone:
- 512-471-6042
Ty Sevin (SAY-van) is in his fifth year on staff with the combined Texas Track & Field program. After serving as an assistant coach his first four years, Sevin was promoted to associate head coach heading into the 2017-18 campaign as he continues to oversee training for Texas field events.
Last season in 2017, Sevin’s group made a large impact at the Big 12 Conference Championship both indoors and out in the throws and pole vault.
Haley Crouser became the first woman to win a Big 12 title in the javelin for the Longhorns as she bested the field by nearly 10 feet in a dominant performance. She was the first woman to win a conference title in the event overall for Texas since 1989. Crouser would go on to finish eighth at the NCAA Championships to earn first team All-America honors.
Throwers scored big for the women’s team at the conference championship meets with Elena Bruckner and Lauryn Caldwell combining to score 11 points over three events outdoors and 10 points indoors in two events. Both had record-breaking years as Caldwell improved her own school record in the hammer throw twice at the UTSA Invitational. Bruckner, one of the top recruits in the nation out of high school, broke the school record in the discus during the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays.
For the men, Barrett Poth qualified for the NCAA Championships both indoors and out. He would finish 11th outdoors and moved up to third on the all-time list at Texas during the indoor season.
Kally Long and Shay Petty both qualified for the indoor championship meet with Petty finishing 10th and Long taking 11th. Long also qualified for the national championship outdoors. Long posted new personal bests to rank second in school history indoors and out.
Sevin made an impact on the program immediately upon his arrival on The Forty Acres as the 2014 season saw one of Sevin’s athletes bring a national title and collegiate record home. Kaitlin Petrillose won the NCAA indoor title in the pole vault with her clearance of 4.60 meters (15-1.00), becoming the first collegiate woman to clear 15 feet indoors. She won the Big 12 Conference title indoors and out with meet records. Under Sevin’s continued coaching over the next two seasons, Petrillose would close her career as the best female pole vaulter in Big 12 history. She won all seven Big 12 Conference Championship meets she competed in broke the meet record indoor and out multiple times.
In his second season with the Longhorns the pole vaulters and throwers continued to succeed on the conference and national level.
In 2015, Sevin coached Ryan Crouser to Big 12 Conference titles in the shot put and discus. He won the shot put both in and out while setting a conference meet record indoors in the shot put. Crouser went on to finish second at the NCAA Indoor Championships in the shot put and took fifth outdoors as well as fifth in the discus.
At the Big 12 Conference Outdoor Championships his athletes won in four of the seven events he coached. Thanks to wins in the men’s shot put, discus and pole vault, Sevin’s men’s group helped score 58 points at the meet, which represented nearly 40 percent of the entire team’s score to help win the conference championship. The women scored an impressive 21 points in the pole vault indoors at the conference meet as Kaitlin Petrillose swept the titles in and out.
The success of the pole vaulters and throwers continued in 2016 for Sevin.
Crouser dominated the shot put indoors, going undefeated on his way to a fourth career NCAA title. Crouser also tied the collegiate record indoors at the Big 12 Championship. Sevin also coached Reese Watson to a conference title indoors in the pole vault and saw Petrillose close her career with her seventh Big 12 title in the pole vault. The women combined to score 21 points again in the pole vault with Kally Long and Shay Petty finishing 3-4. In addition to Crouser winning the shot put, Alan Zapalc posted a runner-up finish in the men’s weight throw.
Outdoors during 2016, Sevin’s group scored in every throwing event but one at the Big 12 meet and had mutliple scorers in the men’s and women’s pole vault.
He also had two All-Americans in the women’s pole vault indoor and out during the 2016 season. Texas also was the only school to have two men and two women qualify for the NCAA Championships in the pole vault outdoors.
Sevin has coaching experience at the collegiate, national and international levels. He spent the 2012-13 season as head track and field coach at the University of New Orleans, also guiding the cross country program in its inaugural season.
Over the years, Sevin has established himself as one of the elite field event coaches in the country with the U.S. National Team. In 2015 he served as a member of Team USA as the assistant coach for men’s throws at the IAAF World Championships. His athletes have won 10 U.S. national championships and set a pair of American records as well as a Canadian record. Sixteen of them have qualified for the Olympics, IAAF World Championships and Pan American Games, including Brad Walker, the American outdoor record-holder in the pole vault, who advanced to the final of the event at the 2012 London Games. Sevin also coaches three-time Olympian Kara Patterson-Winger, who competed in the women’s javelin at the London Olympics on a completely torn anterior cruciate ligament.
Sevin has 10 years of experience coaching in the college ranks from previous stints. Leading up to his time with the U.S. National Team, Sevin served as head coach at McNeese State (2005-07), where he led the Cowboys to a top-25 finish and mentored Brad Gabeaur to a pole vault title at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships. He began his coaching career as an assistant at Oklahoma State (1997-99), Texas A&M (1999-2001, 2004) and Michigan State (2004-05).
A four-time U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier, Sevin’s accomplished athletic career included three years at LSU, where he competed in football and track & field from 1990-92. He was a member of the Tigers’ 1990 NCAA outdoor championship track team, earning all-SEC honors the same year in both the decathlon and javelin. He went on to compete for Texas A&M during the 1993-94 track and field season, earning All-America accolades and a Southwest Conference championship in the javelin as well as degrees in economics and history in 1994.
Sevin and his wife reside in Austin with their two children.
THE SEVIN FILE
EDUCATION
• B.S. & B.A., Texas A&M University (1994)
COACHING EXPERIENCE
• University of Texas – Associate Head Coach, 2017-Present
• University of Texas – Co-Interim Head Coach, Fall 2016
• University of Texas – Assistant Coach, 2013-17
• University of New Orleans – Head Coach, 2012-13
• United States Olympic Training Center Chula Vista – U.S. National Coach 2011-12
• McNeese State University – Head Coach, 2005-07
• Michigan State University – Assistant Coach, 2004-05
• Texas A&M University – Volunteer Assistant Coach, 2003-04, 1999-2001
• United States Olympic Training Center Chula Vista – Resident Coach, 2001-03
• Oklahoma State University – Women’s Assistant Coach, 1997-99
• Texas A&M University – Stength & Conditioning Coach, 1995-97
• IAAF World Outdoor Championships
– Beijing 2015: Assistant Coach Team USA, Men’s Throws
Personal Coach: Kara Winger - javelin
– Daegu 2011: USATF Resident Team Coach
– Berlin 2009: USOC OTC Resident Team Coach
• IAAF World Jr. Championships
– 2014 Eugene: Assistant Coach Team USA, Men’s Throws
• Olympic Games
– Rio 2016: Personal Coach: Kara Winger - javelin
– London 2012: USATF OTC Resident Team Coach
Personal Coach: Kara Winger - javelin
– Beijing 2008: USOC OTC Resident Team Coach
ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE
Texas A&M University – 1993-94
• SWC Champion: Javelin (1994)
• All-America Accolades: 1
Louisiana State University – 1990-92
• All-SEC: Decathlon, Javelin (1990)
• Member 1990 NCAA Championship team
• Also played football for Tigers
USATF
• Member Team USA (1993, 2002, 2003)
