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Ford Mastin - Head Coach
 

OBU Track Coach Ford Mastin's is a four-time NAIA National Coach of the Year since starting with the Bison in the 1996-97 campaign.

The highlight season came in 2007 when the women won the Indoor National Championship and the men won the Outdoor National Championship. Along with the Championships came National Coach of the Year awards to bring Mastin's total to four - one in 1998, one in 2005, and two in 2007.

On the national level, the Lady Bison have won two National Championships, one runner-up, and two third place finishes. The Bison have won one National Championship, three runners-up, five third place finishes, and five fourth place finishes in Mastin's 12 years.

In the Sooner Athletic Conference, The Lady Bison Track teams have a winning streak of 12 years in a row. The women's cross country team has won nine out of the last 12 SAC titles. The Men's Track team have won 10 out of the last 12, while the Men's cross country teams have won eight out of the last 12.
  
Since arriving in 1996-1997, the OBU cross country and track programs have produced more than 300 All-American awards under Mastin, who was named OBU's Most Promising Teacher in 2001.

Mastin, who has a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Theological seminary and a master of education degree from East Central University, is a 1977 graduate of OBU. He lettered in track from 1973-1977 and was captain and Most Valuable athlete in his senior season.

His coaching career began at Texas Christian University as assistant track and head cross country in 1979. He became teacher and coach at Happy Hill Academy in 1980-1981. From 1982-1996, Mastin served as track, cross country, and assistant football coach at Prague High School in Oklahoma. While there, he coached 13 All-State award winners. He was named Oklahoma Track Coach of the year and USA Track and Field representative of Olympic development in Oklahoma in 1994.

Ford and his wife, Terri, have three children, Linsey, Trevor, and Kaeley.


 
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Zach Johnson - Assistant Coach
 

A graduate of Velma-Alma High School, Johnson earned a degree from OBU in 1999 and a master's degree from Oklahoma State University in 2003.  He was a two time NAIA Track & Field All-American and won the marathon at the 1999 Outdoor Track & Field Championships. 

He earned three All-America Scholar Athlete awards as well as All-Sooner Athletic Conference honors three times during his OBU career.

Johnson joined the OBU coaching staff in 2004.  He was voted Sooner Athletic Conference and NAIA Region VI Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2005, 2006 and again in 2007. He works with the distance runners during the track and field season.