High Point University Athletics

Scott Hall was named HPU track & field associate head coach in August 2015.
Hall brought 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 three Olympians.

In his five years at HPU, he has added to these accolades rewriting school records in throws (11), jumps(4) and combined events(3). During the 2020 indoor season, freshman Chris Van Niekerk captured the Big South title in the shot put and set the school record of 17.38m.  Pablo Romero won his fourth Heptathlon crown with a school-record 5382 points, leading a podium sweep with teammates Gabriel Stainback-2nd and Benjamin Johnsen 3rd.  Anika Weisbrod won her first Big South title in a school-record performance of 3497 points with Madison Reynolds in 4th.

In 2019, Pablo Romero and Gabriel Stainback repeated as Big South heptathlon and decathlon champions respectively during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Combined Events athletes Anika Weisbrod and Madison Reynolds each set program records during the 2018-19 seasons, with the latter securing 4,753 points for a runner-up finish in the Big South women's heptathlon. Rob Greer won his first Big South Javelin crown and HPU swept 3 of the top 4 places.  Britton Mann scored in all of the Big South throwing events setting records in indoor shot, weight, and hammer.
  
Hall guided javelin throwers Christine Rickert and Christian Spaulding to the NCAA Championships, where Rickert finished 12th and earned second-team All-America honors, the first HPU female track, and field student-athlete to do so. Spaulding was named honorable mention All-America.

In 2018, freshman Gabriel Stainback claimed his first Big South decathlon title and went on to win the silver medal at the USATF U-20 championships with 6871 points.  Makenzi Holmes-DiGiovine claimed her third Big South podium finish in the discus and made her second NCAA First Round appearance. 

In 2016, Rickert and Spaulding were joined by Makenzi Holmes-DiGiovine (discus) and Will Narramore (long jump and triple jump) at the NCAA East Prelims, while in 2017, n 2018, while Makenzi Holmes-DiGiovine (discus) made her second appearance.

In 2017, Jamie Schnuck (women's hammer throw) and Drew Francoeur (men's javelin) qualified for the NCAA First Round in Lexington, KY. As both athletes also earned podium finished in the Big South Championships.  Freshman Pablo Romero claimed his first Big South heptathlon title indoors and finished as runner-up outdoor in the decathlon.  Makenzi Holmes-DiGiovine also completed back-to-back discus titles in 2016 and 2017.

In his first HPU season, Christine Rickert won her third 2016 Big South title in the javelin, while Will Narramore won the long jump crown.  Christian Spaulding was runner–up at Big South Championship.  He along with Rickert, Homes-DiGiovine, and Narramore earned spots in the NCAA First Round.  There, Rickert and Spaulding qualified for the NCAA Championship Finals earning All-American honors for the finish.

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. In this capacity, he worked elite US multi-event athletes and their personal coached in an effort to produce medals in World Championship and Olympic Games.  This involved directing elite and developmental training camps, coordinating with USOC to initiate projects that allowed elite athletes and their coaches access to cutting edge sports science.  Additionally, Hall 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.  

Athletes under his direction have earned berths on more than twenty US National teams including six of that have also gone on to compete in the IAAF World Championships, Pan American, or Olympic Games.  Among those include Brad Mears captured the 1999 Pan Am Games shot put title in Winnipeg.

In the collegiate ranks, Hall's most recent coaching stints have included stops at Wake Forest (2003-12), North Carolina A&T (2012-13), and Salisbury (2013-15).

Before arriving at High Point, Hall 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 an NCAA III Salisbury University. While at Salisbury, he coached athletes to 12 All-Americans honors, including Luke Campbell who claimed six NCAA Div. III individual championships and two NCAA III Athletes of the Year honors.  Campbell currently competes professionally and represented Germany in the 2019 World Championships in Doha.

After leaving Wake Forest, Hall spent one year on Duane Ross’s first staff at North Carolina A&T. 
Primarily working with field event athletes, his group set five school records that year.  

At Wake Forest, Hall mentored 11 ACC individual champions, eight All-Americans and one NCAA individual champion, Michael Bingham, who won the 400m indoor crown with the fastest time in the world that year.  Bingham also represented Great Britain in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games earning a bronze medal in the 1600m relay.  Brent LaRue went on to represent Slovenia in the 400hurdles in the London 2012 Games placing 4th in the semifinals.  Hall garnered USTFCCCA Div. I National and East Region Men's Sprints/Hurdles Coach of the Year honors in 2006 as the Deacon men’s team recorded its’ highest finish (3rd) in the ACC Championships behind Florida State and Clemson with his athletes scoring 100 of the 106 teams points.  During his stint in Winston-Salem, Hall also directed the professional careers of elite combined eventers Chris Boyles, Lila V Nelson, Chris Helwick, and Jangy Addy.

Prior to his time in the Tar Heel State, Hall spent close to two decades as the Director of Track and Field/Cross Country at the University of Northern Colorado (1986-2003), building it into a perennial top-20 NCAA II program. In this role, Hall coached athletes to 89 All- America honors while nine won national individual NCAA II championships. 
 Hall was named two-time North Central Conference Track & Field Coach of the Year and Hall also garnered NCC Cross Country Coach of the Year and USTFCCCA North Central Region accolades in 2000 after winning the conference title and Finishing 6th in the NCAA II Championship meet.  He also was named the North Central Region Women’s Track & Field Coach of the Year in 2000.  Additionally, Kim Schiemenz won her second heptathlon national title, was named NCAA II athlete of the year, and finished 12th in the 2000 US Olympic Team Trials. Schiemenz and decathlete Mike Bennett (3 NCAA II Titles) were also inducted into the NCAA II Hall of Fame.

While in Greeley, Hall also served as an assistant professor of kinesiology at Northern Colorado teaching graduate and undergraduate classes in sports science.
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.   He also taught and coached at Northfield-Mt. Hermon School (MA) in 1982 where the girl’s team won the New England Championship title.  Hall began his collegiate coaching career as a Graduate Assistant Coach at Idaho State in 1980-81.

Hall graduated from St. Lawrence University in 1980 with a degree in physical education where he competed as a sprinter/hurdler/jumper and served as team captain on teams that won three indoor and three outdoor ICAC Championship titles. He earned his M.P.E. in Athletic Administration from Idaho State in 1981 and completed his doctorate in Biomechanics at Northern Colorado in 1993.

2015-present               High Point University- Associate Head Coach
2013-15                       Salisbury University- Assistant Coach
2012-13                       North Carolina A&T- Assistant Coach
2003-12                       Wake Forest – Asst. Director of Track and Field/Cross Country
1987-2003                   Northern Colorado- Director of Track and Field/Cross Country
1986-87                       Northern Colorado- Head Men’s Coach
1985-86                       Northern Colorado- Assistant Coach
1983-85                       Pocatello Track Club- Director/Head Coach
1982-82                       Idaho State- Assistant Coach
1981-82                       Northfield- Mt Hermon School- Head Coach
1980-81                       Idaho State- Graduate Assistant Coach