Ryan Baily

Biography

Ryan Baily began coaching Georgia’s multi-event athletes, pole vaulters and jumpers in December 2023 at Georgia after serving in the same role at Colorado State. Most recently, Baily’s group played a key role in clinching the program’s first NCAA women’s outdoor title. Elena Kulichenko posted a season best of 1.96 meters/6 feet, 5 inches to win her first outright high jump crown in her final collegiate competition. First-year triple jumper Skylynn Townsend surprised the field by taking sixth with the seventh-best mark in school history (13.52m/44-4.25) to help the Bulldogs leave the competition behind by 26 points at the meet’s conclusion. Kulichenko tied for the 2025 NCAA indoor title thanks to a clearance of 1.94m/6-4.25. This performance came two weeks after Kulichenko became the No. 12 all-time collegiate performer with a school record mark of 1.95m/6-4.75 that earned her runner-up honors at the Southeastern Conference Championships. While Townsend locked down the eighth-best indoor triple jump in UGA history (13.36m/43-10), Ella Rush was an NCAA indoor qualifier after scoring 4,217 points in the pentathlon and was third in the heptathlon at the SEC Outdoor Championships. The men also generated three SEC crowns and four First Team All-America certificates in 2015. Riyon Rankin built on his runner-up performance at the NCAA Indoor Championships to win the SEC outdoor championship with a personal best showing of 2.29m/7-6, which ranked tops in the nation and No. 3 in UGA hi