Rod Tiffin

Biography

Arguably one of the top track and field coaches in the nation, Rod Tiffin has excelled as the head coach at Samford University and is entering his 14th season at the helm of the Bulldogs' program. A 16-time Southern Conference Coach of the Year, Tiffin has turned Samford's track and field program into a Southern Conference powerhouse. Tiffin has already earned 15 SoCon championships during his tenure, including the program's first four-peat where the men's and women's squads swept both in Southern Conference Indoor Championship titles and the Southern Conference Outdoor titles. For the women the 2021 SoCon Indoor crown marked their sixth in a row, while the men sucessfully completed their defense of the 2020 SoCon Indoor title. Under Tiffin's tutelage, high jumper, Justin Stuckey qualified for the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Nationals making first team All-America indoors and second team All-America during the outdoor campaign. Stuckey also qualified for the 2020 Olympic Trials which had been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to numerous team awards and championships, Tiffin was instrumental in the success of Karisa Nelson, who became Samford's first-ever NCAA national champion at the Division I level, when she won the outdoor mile in 2017. Tiffin coached previously at the University of Alabama. His primary responsibilities included long, triple and high jumpers, multi-event athletes, and throwers. While working with Alabama Head Coach Harvey Glance, Tiffin's fi