Along with his role as being a part of the men’s and women’s cross country coaching staff, Michael Allen has spent the last 12 years as the Falcons women’s track and field coach. In addition to last year’s second straight women’s track and field state title, the Allen has led the team to three state titles in the last four years, as well as three Southern California Championships and three South Coast Conference Championships in the last four years. In the year they didn’t win the state title, they placed second.  In his 11 seasons, Michael Allen has coached 14 individual state champions. With the state title in both 2006 and 2008, Allen was named the state’s Women’s Coach of the Year. In his tenure as the women’s track and field head coach, Allen has led his teams to a second place finish in the State Championships as well as two third places, a fourth place, and two fifth place finishes to go along with the three state titles. In his first year at the Norwalk campus, Allen also served as one of the defensive line coaches on the football team.

There have been 30 new school records broken during Allen’s tenure, including April Brown, who became just the second person to win the 100-meters at the State Championships two seasons in a row back in 2002-03. In addition, Allen has coached 49 South Coast Conference individual champions in the last four seasons and won the conference and Southern California Championship three times in the last four years. Along with the other accomplishments, 91 of the 110 different running and field marks in the school’s all-time top five have come during Allen’s time.

Allen came to Cerritos after spending eight years (1991-98) at Banning High, where he helped lead the Pilots to the 1991 LA City Championship. Prior to coaching at Banning, Allen coached at Los Angeles Harbor College from 1980-87 and guided them to five Western State Conference championships and a 45-0 dual meet record.

Allen, who was an All-Marine League selection in football and track and field at Banning High, was also a two-time All-Conference selection in both sports at LA Harbor. Allen went on to earn All-Conference honors for two years at Long Beach State, while he also qualified for the NCAA Championships two years in a row. Allen earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education from Long Beach State and also works full-time for the County of Los Angeles Probation Department.

Allen and his wife Vicki and one child (Aja) and live in Long Beach.