HIGH POINT, N.C. – High Point University head track & field coach Mike Esposito has announced the hiring of Scott Hall as the program's associate head coach.
 
Hall brings four decades of elite track & field experience to the HPU program and an impressive student-athlete alumni list that includes 150+ NCAA Championship qualifiers, 97 NCAA All-Americans, 80+ conference champions, 16 NCAA Champions and six Olympians.
 
"Scott's extensive experience at all levels of track & field will be a fantastic asset for our program," Esposito said. "He's a very high character person and he will make an incredible impact with our student-athletes. We are excited to have Scott on board."
 
Recognized as one of the top combined events coaches in the United States, Hall served as Chair for Combined Events on the USATF Olympic Development Committee from 1999-2012. He has also been named to seven Team USA international coaching staffs as either a coach or manager.  In 2012, Hall served as Coach of the Liberian Olympic team for the London Games.
 
Under his direction, athletes have earned berths on more than twenty US national teams and six of those athletes have also gone on to compete in the IAAF World Championships, Pan American Games or the Olympic Games.
 
In the collegiate ranks, Hall's most recent coaching stints have included stops at Wake Forest (2003-12), North Carolina A&T and Salisbury (2013-15).
 
At Wake Forest, Hall mentored 11 ACC individual champions, eight All-Americans and one NCAA individual champion. He garnered USTFCCCA Div. I National and East Region Men's Sprints/Hurdles Coach of the Year honors in 2006 as a member of the Demon Deacon Staff.
 
In his most recent stint at Salisbury, Hall worked with 12 All-Americans, six NCAA Div. III individual champions and two Div. III Athletes of the Year.  He was part of the 2014 & 2015 Capital Athletic Conference Indoor & Outdoor Coaching Staffs of the Year and the 2014 Capital Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year.
 
Prior to his time in the Tar Heel State, Hall spent close to two decades as the director of men's & women's track & field and cross country at Northern Colorado University (1986-2003), a perennial top-20 program. A two-time North Central Conference Track & Field Coach of the Year, Hall also garnered NCC Cross Country Coach of the Year accolades in 2000. He also was named the NCAA II North Central Region Women's Cross Country and Track & Field Coach of the Year in 2000.
 
While in Greeley, Hall also taught as an assistant professor of kinesiology at Northern Colorado.
 
Hall served as an assistant track & field coach at Idaho State in 1982-85 and also worked as head coach of the Pocatello Track Club while at ISU from 1983-85.
 
Hall graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1980 with a degree in physical education. He earned his M.P.E. in athletic administration from Idaho State in 1981 and completed his doctorate in mechanical kinesiology at Northern Colorado in 1993.

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