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Jerel Langley
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- Assistant Coach (Multi/Jumps)
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Langley enters his first season at Florida State for the 2026-2027 season overseeing the jumps and multi-events. Langley joins the Seminoles after spending the last nine seasons at the University of Oklahoma. In eight years at OU, his athletes achieved two national titles, 17 NCAA First Team All-America honors, 10 Second Team All-America honors, six honorable mention honors, two indoor All-America distinctions in 2020, 16 individual conference championships and 10 school records.
Langley mentored Vernon Turner to a 2024 Paris Olympics appearance, a national championship, six First Team All-America honors, two school records and the No. 4 high jump in the NCAA All-Time indoors and the No. 1 jump in NCAA history for a freshman.
Pippi Lotta Enok claimed her first national title in the heptathlon during the 2023 season. She set a school record of 6,165 which sits as the 17th-best performance in NCAA history. That summer, Langley had the opportunity to coach Enok to a bronze medal in the heptathlon for her native country, Estonia, at the European U23 Championships.
Three of his athletes have been named Big 12 Freshman of the Year: Turner in 2018, Lavinja Jurgens in 2020 indoors and Olivia Lueking in 2022 outdoors. During the 2022 indoor season, Turner and Lueking were named the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Field Athletes of the Year. His men’s high jump group claimed the 2022 No. 1 event squad ranking at the conclusion of the outdoor season.
Seven student-athletes claimed 16 Big 12 titles, including Turner (high jump x5), Lueking (pole vault x3), Kristo Simulask (heptathlon x2, decathlon x2), Jurgens (high jump), Bryce Douglas (60-meter hurdles), Enok (pentathlon) and Sydney King (PV). His athletes have also excelled in the classroom, collecting 21 USTFCCCA All-Academic honors and 39 Big 12 First-Team and six Second-Team All-Academic honors. Everette Favor was also named the 2017 Big 12 Scholar Athlete of the Year while also making an appearance in his first national championship in the pole vault. Langley has coached 34 NCAA West Prelim qualifiers in events ranging from the pole vault, high jump, 110-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles, long jump and javelin. He also serves as recruiting coordinator and helped bring together a 2017 Men’s recruiting class that was ranked No. 8 in the country by Track and Field News.
Prior to Oklahoma, Langley was an assistant coach at Miami for three years, earning eight All-America honors, including four in women’s pole vault. While at Miami and previously at Eastern Michigan, Langley mentored 2016 Olympian in the women’s pole vault, Alysha Newman. Newman’s achievements included four Canadian national records (indoor, outdoor, junior and senior), five time All-America honors, ACC outdoor record holder, Pan-Am junior champion and record holder and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist.
Langley worked with the women’s throws, pole vault and combined events at Eastern Michigan. He began his career as a graduate assistant at Kennesaw State, where he earned his Master’s degree in applied exercise and health science.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in sports management in 2008 from Gardner-Webb University. As a student-athlete, Langley was part of a team that won the 2006 Atlantic Sun Outdoor men’s team championship. Langley earned All-East region honors in the javelin in 2008 and was named to the 2008 USTFCCCA All-Academic team. He was a two-time NCAA East Region finalist, a two-time East regional qualifier and earned All-Atlantic Sun Conference honors four times. He held the Atlantic Sun conference record in the javelin and was a three-time Atlantic Sun All-Academic honoree.
The Cumming, Georgia, native is married to former teammate, Ashley, and they have a son, Jaxon, and a daughter, Aubrey.
Langley mentored Vernon Turner to a 2024 Paris Olympics appearance, a national championship, six First Team All-America honors, two school records and the No. 4 high jump in the NCAA All-Time indoors and the No. 1 jump in NCAA history for a freshman.
Pippi Lotta Enok claimed her first national title in the heptathlon during the 2023 season. She set a school record of 6,165 which sits as the 17th-best performance in NCAA history. That summer, Langley had the opportunity to coach Enok to a bronze medal in the heptathlon for her native country, Estonia, at the European U23 Championships.
Three of his athletes have been named Big 12 Freshman of the Year: Turner in 2018, Lavinja Jurgens in 2020 indoors and Olivia Lueking in 2022 outdoors. During the 2022 indoor season, Turner and Lueking were named the USTFCCCA Midwest Region Field Athletes of the Year. His men’s high jump group claimed the 2022 No. 1 event squad ranking at the conclusion of the outdoor season.
Seven student-athletes claimed 16 Big 12 titles, including Turner (high jump x5), Lueking (pole vault x3), Kristo Simulask (heptathlon x2, decathlon x2), Jurgens (high jump), Bryce Douglas (60-meter hurdles), Enok (pentathlon) and Sydney King (PV). His athletes have also excelled in the classroom, collecting 21 USTFCCCA All-Academic honors and 39 Big 12 First-Team and six Second-Team All-Academic honors. Everette Favor was also named the 2017 Big 12 Scholar Athlete of the Year while also making an appearance in his first national championship in the pole vault. Langley has coached 34 NCAA West Prelim qualifiers in events ranging from the pole vault, high jump, 110-meter hurdles, 400-meter hurdles, long jump and javelin. He also serves as recruiting coordinator and helped bring together a 2017 Men’s recruiting class that was ranked No. 8 in the country by Track and Field News.
Prior to Oklahoma, Langley was an assistant coach at Miami for three years, earning eight All-America honors, including four in women’s pole vault. While at Miami and previously at Eastern Michigan, Langley mentored 2016 Olympian in the women’s pole vault, Alysha Newman. Newman’s achievements included four Canadian national records (indoor, outdoor, junior and senior), five time All-America honors, ACC outdoor record holder, Pan-Am junior champion and record holder and Commonwealth Games bronze medalist.
Langley worked with the women’s throws, pole vault and combined events at Eastern Michigan. He began his career as a graduate assistant at Kennesaw State, where he earned his Master’s degree in applied exercise and health science.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in sports management in 2008 from Gardner-Webb University. As a student-athlete, Langley was part of a team that won the 2006 Atlantic Sun Outdoor men’s team championship. Langley earned All-East region honors in the javelin in 2008 and was named to the 2008 USTFCCCA All-Academic team. He was a two-time NCAA East Region finalist, a two-time East regional qualifier and earned All-Atlantic Sun Conference honors four times. He held the Atlantic Sun conference record in the javelin and was a three-time Atlantic Sun All-Academic honoree.
The Cumming, Georgia, native is married to former teammate, Ashley, and they have a son, Jaxon, and a daughter, Aubrey.
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