Entering into his fourth season with the Track and Field team Assistant Coach Stan Sims continues to carry over his hard working mentality that made him such a successful head coach for the cross country teams at Kennesaw State University. His leadership led the Cross Country team to numerous Peach Belt Conference Championships and in 2005 an Atlantic Sun Conference Women's Championship. After a decade of running the cross country program Sims jumped at the chance to help a brand new Track & Field team come to KSU in 2005. Serving as an Assistant Coach Sims imparts his inspirational coaching style on the young athletes to create an environment of respect and sportsmanship on the team.

A graduate of the University of Florida the respected mathematics professor has played a central part in the team's evolution. Bringing over his experience in cross country Sims mostly works with the same athletes he coaches on his own team in long distance events such as the 5k, 10k and the steeplechase. His experienced runners have been able to make a significant impact on the team's record in its short history. Promoting endurance and strategy in his runners Sims has created one of the cornerstones of the program that is always guaranteed to produce results. Runners like Scott Burley, Peikko Solla, Erin Sutton and Siobhan Wolcott are direct products of Sims coaching. Their abilities in the past seasons have proven to be invaluable in the success of the program.

Before there was a Track & Field team at Kennesaw State Sims would often take his Cross Country team to the open invitationals as a "spring training exercise". Competing in only distance events the Owls would routinely out perform the competition. With no throwers or sprinters on his team the Owls had no chance of placing high in the overall meet. Still they were well known for their dominance in the 5k and 10k wherever they went. This unorthodox style of management became one the central reasons for the creation of the Track & Field team in 2005 as Kennesaw entered into the Atlantic Sun Conference.

Sims dedication to his athletes is unparalleled to any assistant coach in the conference. His only concern is that his runners realize their full potential in each competition and that they turn that potential into victories.

When not coaching Sims is professor of mathematics Kennesaw State University. He and his wife Marlene make their home in Kennesaw. Devin West