Tana McKay

Biography

McKAY UP CLOSE PERSONAL Hometown: Littleton, Colorado Education: Colorado State (BS in Equine Science); Texas A&M (MAgr in Equine Behavior) Children: Tanner and Tayden COACHING CAREER 1998-99: Texas A&M (graduate assistant) 1999-00: Texas A&M (co-head coach) 2000-: Texas A&M (head coach) Record: 158-100 COACHING HONORS 2012 Big 12 Coach of the Year 2017 NCEA Coach of the Year 2024 SEC Co-Coach of the Year 2024 Inducted into the NCEA Hall of Fame COACHING NOTABLES 65 NCEA All-America Honorees 12 Team and Discipline National Championships 3 NCEA Overall Team National Championships 2018 NCEA Reining National Champions The only head coach in program history, Tana McKay is in her 27th season at the helm of the 12-time national champion Texas A&M equestrian team. During her time in Aggieland, she has taken the team from club sport status -- overseen by the animal science department -- to arguably the most decorated athletic-department-sponsored equestrian program in the country. The Aggies have won nine western riding team national championships in addition to capturing the overall NCEA National Championship title in 2012 and 2017 and the first-ever overall Varsity Equestrian National Championship in 2002. The Aggies won the first ever NCEA Reining National Championship during the 2018 NCEA Championships. McKay guided A&M to four consecutive western national titles from 2009-12, and her squads won four of the five western crowns awarded in the history of the Varsity Equestrian Nati