University of Wyoming Athletics

Ben Santos begins his fifth season with Wyoming track & field in 2024-25. Santos coaches the sprinters and hurdles. Santos joined Wyoming following a one-year stint at the University of Nebraska.

During the 2019-20 indoor season, the quartet of Tyler Dahl, Jacob Harthun, Brandon McGuire and Jace Marx recorded the 10th-best 4x400m relay time in school history at the Mountain West Championships, as they crossed the line in 3:16.69. Caige McComb placed fourth at the MW Championships in the 60m hurdles, earning five team points for the Cowboys. Both Wyatt Moore and Brandon McGuire recorded sub-7.00 second times in the 60m dash during the season, with Moore's time of 6.89 being just 0.07 seconds off Wyoming's all-time top-10 list. 

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.
 
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.