UA to announce Chris Bucknam as track coach today
By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)
Northern Iowa track coach Chris Bucknam reacts as the team wins the 4-by-400-meter relay in the finals at the Missouri Valley Conference outdoor championships, in Cedar Falls, Iowa in this May 2005 file photo.
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FAYETTEVILLE — Northern Iowa Coach Chris Bucknam will be named Arkansas’ new track and field and cross country coach at a news conference Friday afternoon.
Bucknam will replace John McDonnell, sources at the university confirmed. The university announced it will hold a news conference at 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Raymond Miller Room.
McDonnell, 69, announced his retirement in April after winning 42 national championships in cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field.
Two Iowa newspapers reported Friday morning that Bucknam e-mailed his men’s and women’s teams, telling them he was resigning after accepting the Arkansas job Thursday. Bucknam led the men’s team to a tie for 11th place at the 2008 NCAA Outdoor Championships earlier this month.
He has won 28 conference titles in men’s and women’s track and field and cross country since becoming the Northern Iowa head coach in 1984. Northern Iowa’s best national finish under Bucknam was a ninth-place finish in the men’s race at 2007 indoors.
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Originally published 11:08 a.m., June 27, 2008
Updated 11:54 a.m., June 27, 2008
