Jerel Langley serves as Associate Head Coach - Recruiting Initiatives/Vertical Jumps, Combined Events for University of Oklahoma's Track and Field program in Norman, Oklahoma. Langley enters his ninth season at OU in charge of the pole vault and combined events, while also coaching the high jump (2016-24) and men’s hurdles (2017-19). In eight years at OU, his athletes have 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.
Career Coaching Numbers: 2 Olympians 2 NCAA National Champions 1 European U23 Championship Medalist 1 Commonwealth Games Medalist 1 World Championship Competitor 47 NCAA All-American Honors 16 Big 12 Champions 3 Big XII Freshman of the Year 2 Big XII Meet Records 28 Total Conference Champions 2 USTFCCCA Midwest Region Field AOY 2 Individual Country National Records 4 Individual Country National Champions 10 OU School Records 1 Midwest Region Assistant Coach of the Year Honor Langley has 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.
