Sara Macey has been hired as an assistant coach for the Boston University men's and women's track & field teams in October 2022. Macey will oversee jumps and multis for the Terriers.
Macey was most recently the assistant coach of jumps and multi events at Cal Poly Pomona. In 2022, she coached the men's and women's teams to the CCAA Conference Championship title, Pomona's first in 24 years, and had both an indoor and outdoor All-American in the Triple Jump. She coached multiple Academic All-Americans (2020, 2019) and boasts a 100% graduation rate with all athletes in her programs dating back to 2017. In 2019, she coached a Conference Athlete of the Year and an All-American in the decathlon. Since her start in 2017, she has overseen 24 medalists across the jumps and multi events at CCAA Conference Championships.
On the national level, Macey served as an assistant coach for USA Track & Field at the Thorpe Cup in 2021 and 2022. Through this experience, she coached the men's and women's teams in the heptathlon and decathlon. She was selected as an assistant coach for the 2020 Thorpe Cup before the event was canceled due to the pandemic.
Her first coaching stint took place at Cerritos College where she was an assistant coach of jumps and multi events from 2013-2017. As a student athlete, Macey was on the track & field team at Long Beach State and served as a co-captain in 2011. She qualified for the NCAA Championship in the high jump in 2010 and 2012 and was the 2012 Big West Heptathlon runner-up as a junior. Macey graduated from California State University, Long Beach with a Bachelor of Liberal Arts in human development.
