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In his 12th season
as the Falcons women’s track and field
coach, Michael Allen has guided three of the
last four women’s track and field teams to
the state championship, including the last
two years. The year they didn’t win the
state championship (2007), they placed
second. In his 11 seasons, Michael Allen has
coached 14 individual state champions. With
the state title in 2006, 2008 and 2009,
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 two 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 50
South Coast Conference individual champions
in the last three seasons and won the
conference and Southern California
Championship four times in the last five
years. Along with the other accomplishments,
87 of the 105 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. |
