PERSONAL |
Hometown |
Fairfax, Okla. |
Alma Mater |
Little Rock (B.S., 2015)
Southwestern Oklahoma State (M.Ed., 2017) |
Family |
Regan, spouse
Hattie, daughter |
COACHING EXPERIENCE |
Years |
School - Position |
2023-pres. |
Little Rock - Assistant Coach - Distance (M/W T&F)
Little Rock - Associate Head Coach (M/W XC) |
2020-23 |
Arkansas Tech - Head Coach (Women's XC/T&F) |
2019-20 |
Arkansas Tech - Head Coach (Women's XC) |
2018-19 |
Northwestern Oklahoma - Associate Head Coach (M/W XC/T&F) |
2016-18 |
Providence Academy - Head Coach (M/W XC/T&F) |
2015-16 |
John Brown University - Volunteer Assistant Coach (XC) |
Former Trojan All-Sun Belt cross country runner Brock Hime returned to the Capital City and joined Little Rock's Team beginning with the 2023-24 season as the program's assistant track and field coach for distance and as the associate head coach for cross country.
A 2014 UA Little Rock alumnus that was a Second Team All-Sun Belt selection for the 2012 cross country season after leading the Trojans to a conference championship. He recently completed his third year as head coach of Arkansas Tech’s cross country program and second season as head coach of the Golden Suns’ Track and Field program. In 2020, he was selected as the Central Region representative for the NCAA DII National Track & Field Committee.
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Under Hime, Arkansas Tech cross country rose to new heights as he built the Golden Suns program into one of the top programs in the Great American Conference (GAC) and region. Hime coached Tech to three consecutive runner-up finishes in the GAC Championship meet, the first of which (2020) marking the highest-ever finish for a Golden Suns cross country team at a conference championship meet.
Overall, during his time in Russellville Hime coached 37 all-conference honorees with 17 in cross country and 20 in track and field. His coaching resulted in a 2023 NCAA Indoor provisional national qualifier as well as the 2020 and 2022 GAC Freshman of the Year honors.
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During the 2021 cross country season, Hime guided a Golden Suns team that claimed six all-conference accolades and they went on to finish 15
th at the NCAA Regionals
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He added the role of head track and field coach starting with the 2020-21 academic year as Arkansas Tech began competing in its inaugural season of women’s track and field. During that initial season of competition, Hime led ATU to a seventh-place team finish in the 10-team conference championship meet.
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That was quickly surpassed as Hime led the Golden Suns to back-to-back fourth-place finishes in both 2022 and 2023, claiming a gold medal at the 2022 GAC Championships as Morganne Browning won the 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 11:22.17, ATU’s first-ever conference champion in track and field.
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Prior to arriving at Arkansas Tech, Hime spent a year as an associate head coach at Northwestern Oklahoma. Working with the distance runners on both the men’s and women’s programs, he guided the program’s first-ever all-conference cross country runner as well as the school’s first-ever women’s all-conference 10K runner.
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Before beginning his collegiate coaching career, Hime was the head cross country and track and field coach and assistant athletic director at Providence Academy in Rogers, Arkansas.
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Hime was the head cross country and track and field coach and assistant athletic director at Providence Academy in Rogers, Arkansas from 2016-18 and began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant cross country coach at John Brown University from 2015-16.
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He is a 2014 alumnus of UA Little Rock, where he was an all-conference cross country runner in 2012 as he helped lead the Trojans to the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Cross Country Championship. Before his time competing in the Maroon and Silver, Hime spent one season at Cowley Community College where he led the Tigers to the 2010 NJCAA cross country national championship and then won the half-marathon national championship, earning All-America honors in the process. He earned his master’s in sport management from Southwestern Oklahoma State.
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Hime is married to the former Regan Ward, who was an All-American and All-Southeastern Conference distance runner for the Arkansas Razorbacks that earned 11 letters and was part of 10 Southeastern Conference championship teams as well as the 2015 NCAA Indoor National Championship program. The couple has a daughter, Hattie.