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24-time WAC champion signs multiyear contract
6/24/2025 11:45:00 AM | Track and Field
Flood to lead GCU track and field program into 16th season and beyond
Grand Canyon track and field head coach Tom Flood agreed to a multiyear contract, keeping the Lopes' founding architect at the helm of a program that he has led to 24 Division I conference championships and a Division II national title.
Flood, set to enter his 16th GCU season in 2025–26, has built the Lopes into a perennial championship contender since launching the program in 2010. He is GCU's second-longest tenured active head coach.
"Coach Flood has established a standard of sustained excellence that has become synonymous with GCU track and field," GCU Vice President of Athletics Jamie Boggs said. "He cares deeply about his student-athletes, the program and GCU, and you can see this in his results. We're very thankful and excited to have Tom's leadership guiding the program's continued rise."
Under Flood, GCU has won 24 WAC team championships with him earning 26 WAC Coach of the Year honors.
"I feel truly blessed, and I'm extremely thankful for the opportunity for the last 15 years to have started, built and developed a highly successful track and field program at GCU," Flood said. "While I am very proud of all that this program has accomplished since 2010 — including a national title, two top-three national team finishes, 26 conference titles, 100-plus All-Americans — I feel that this program is just now hitting its stride."
Flood has overseen a program that has produced more than 220 individual conference champions and advanced 18 athletes to compete at NCAA Division I Championships.
In 2025, GCU won individual championships in 14 events and claimed the WAC Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships title. Lopes senior sprinter Justin Raines advanced to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 200-meter dash, while senior teammate Cam Wilmington qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 400-meter hurdles.
During the consistent championship success, some of the more impressive stretches of team dominance include streaks of seven consecutive WAC men's indoor championships (2016-23), four consecutive WAC women's indoor championships (2016-19), four consecutive men's outdoor championships (2021-24) and three consecutive women's outdoor championships (2018-21).
Flood already has a spot in the GCU Hall of Fame as head coach of the 2012 NCAA Division II men's indoor national champions, leading the program to that title in just its second season of existence. Flood and the team were inducted in February.
"While I may not still be coaching for another 15 years, I'm really excited to direct, lead and be a part of the continued success and to watch the continued growth of both the track and field program and GCU," Flood said.
Flood's coaching reputation has been recognized on the national and world stage with a selection to coach USA Track and Field sprinters and hurdlers at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Serbia.
Flood began his coaching career at Colorado State and previously trained elite sprinters and hurdlers in Arizona. A former Arizona State jumper, he remains deeply rooted in the Phoenix community and aligns with GCU's mission.
Flood, set to enter his 16th GCU season in 2025–26, has built the Lopes into a perennial championship contender since launching the program in 2010. He is GCU's second-longest tenured active head coach.
"Coach Flood has established a standard of sustained excellence that has become synonymous with GCU track and field," GCU Vice President of Athletics Jamie Boggs said. "He cares deeply about his student-athletes, the program and GCU, and you can see this in his results. We're very thankful and excited to have Tom's leadership guiding the program's continued rise."
Under Flood, GCU has won 24 WAC team championships with him earning 26 WAC Coach of the Year honors.
"I feel truly blessed, and I'm extremely thankful for the opportunity for the last 15 years to have started, built and developed a highly successful track and field program at GCU," Flood said. "While I am very proud of all that this program has accomplished since 2010 — including a national title, two top-three national team finishes, 26 conference titles, 100-plus All-Americans — I feel that this program is just now hitting its stride."
Flood has overseen a program that has produced more than 220 individual conference champions and advanced 18 athletes to compete at NCAA Division I Championships.
In 2025, GCU won individual championships in 14 events and claimed the WAC Men's Indoor Track and Field Championships title. Lopes senior sprinter Justin Raines advanced to the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 200-meter dash, while senior teammate Cam Wilmington qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 400-meter hurdles.
During the consistent championship success, some of the more impressive stretches of team dominance include streaks of seven consecutive WAC men's indoor championships (2016-23), four consecutive WAC women's indoor championships (2016-19), four consecutive men's outdoor championships (2021-24) and three consecutive women's outdoor championships (2018-21).
Flood already has a spot in the GCU Hall of Fame as head coach of the 2012 NCAA Division II men's indoor national champions, leading the program to that title in just its second season of existence. Flood and the team were inducted in February.
"While I may not still be coaching for another 15 years, I'm really excited to direct, lead and be a part of the continued success and to watch the continued growth of both the track and field program and GCU," Flood said.
Flood's coaching reputation has been recognized on the national and world stage with a selection to coach USA Track and Field sprinters and hurdlers at the 2022 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Serbia.
Flood began his coaching career at Colorado State and previously trained elite sprinters and hurdlers in Arizona. A former Arizona State jumper, he remains deeply rooted in the Phoenix community and aligns with GCU's mission.
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