Jon Hughes - Track & Field Coach

Jon Hughes

Title:
Track & Field Volunteer Assistant Coach

Jon Hughes is in his third season as a volunteer assistant coach at Baylor. He is tasked with helping assistant coach Jon Capron with the men's distance squad and intermediate hurdlers. During the 2016 cross country season, Hughes helped Capron lead the men's team to one of its most successful seasons with a meet victory at the Ken Garland Invitational and a fifth-place finish at the NCAA South Central Region Championships - the program's best finish since 2010. Hughes helped guide freshman Devin Meyrer to All-Region honors with a 16th-place finish at the regional meet to earn the highest finish for a BU men's runner since 2006 and the first All-Region honor since 2013. On the track in 2016 during the outdoor season, Hughes helped three athletes (Robert Dutton, Kiana Hawn and Antwuan Musgrove) earn All-Big 12 honors in the 400-meter hurdles. Hawn went on to earn a spot in the NCAA Championships with the sixth-fastest time in school history (57.48) at the Texas Relays and event titles at both the Ricardo Romo Invitational and the Michael Johnson Invitational. Indoors, Hughes aided in coaching the men's distance relay squad to All-Big 12 honors. In his first year in Waco, Hughes aided Capron in coaching newcomers Hawn and Nick Ucherek to All-Big 12 performances in the 400-meter hurdles, while during the 2015 cross country season the men recorded a sixth-place showing at the regional meet. Currently, Hughes is working on a Master's in Sports Pedagogy from Baylor. He is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Condition Association. Hughes earned his bachelor's degree in Nutritional Sciences/Nutrition and Fitness from Missouri in 2014. In college, he was a four-year member of the Tiger track and cross country teams. Hughes is a native of Center, Mo.