LARAMIE, Wyo. (September 6, 2019) – Wyoming track & field has added Ben Santos to its coaching staff as an assistant coach, it was announced Friday by head track & field coach Bryan Berryhill. Santos comes to Wyoming following a one-year stint at the University of Nebraska. Santos will coach sprints and hurdles.
 
"We're really excited to have Ben join our track and field staff," said Berryhill. "He has a lot of experience and knowledge at the Division I and Division II levels, as both an athlete and coach. Ben is extremely passionate about coaching and recruiting, and I think our current and future student-athletes are going to see that right away."
 
Santos spent the 2018-19 season as a volunteer assistant at Nebraska, working with the combined events and pole vaulters. Garrison Hughes and Tyler Loontjer leaped into the Nebraska indoor record book under Santos' guidance, while a Jared Seay posted the second-best heptathlon score, and Cale Wagner set the fifth-best score in school history. During the outdoor season, Erika Freyhof recorded the fifth-best mark in program history.
 
"I'm pretty excited to join the cowboys," Santos said. "They've had a recent track record of high performances. I hope to help the athletes, the rest of the staff and the administration to continue the trend of upward mobility in the conference. I want to thank coach Berryhill for giving me this opportunity."
 
Prior to his stint at Nebraska, Santos served as an assistant track and field coach at Fort Hays State University. He joined the FHSU coaching staff as a graduate assistant in 2015 and was elevated to an assistant in 2017. He spent his time as a graduate assistant and as an assistant helping the sprint and hurdle groups and helped the team break school records on 12 occasions. Santos was also a sprinter as an undergraduate at California State University-Northridge, where he reached the NCAA Division I Track and Field Championships once as a member of the 4x100m relay team in 2010.
 
While at Fort Hays State, Santos helped guide Malcom Gardner (200m), Amber Forbes (100m, 200m) and Kelly Wycoff (200m, 400m) to the Division II Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2018. Forbes earned a second-team All-American honor in the 100m and Wycoff made the final in the 400m and broke her previous school record and PR by almost one second to place fifth. During the 2017 season, Santos guided Dillando Allotey to the Division II Indoor Track and Field Championships in the 200m where he made the finals and garnered first-team All-American honors. In the spring of that year, Allotey and Wycoff made it to the outdoor championships in both the 200m and 400m and Wycoff earned All-American accolades in the 400m.
 
Santos graduated from California State-Northridge in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and earned a master's degree in health and human performance from Fort Hays State University in 2016.