Former Wayland Baptist All-American track athlete Rohan Thompson is in his first year as head coach of the Pioneer track and field program. During his four previous seasons on the WBU coaching staff, the Pioneers have won two Indoor and three Outdoor National Track and Field Championships.

Coach Thompsons's sprinters set three school records during the 2008 indoor and outdoor seasons and won five national championships in individual and relay events. In 2009, Wayland's sprinters established four more school marks, swept the women's short sprints at the NAIA championships, and the 4x100-meter relay team captured its third consecutive national title.

In their first-ever outdoor national championship season, two of the 2010 Pioneer male sprinters won All-American honors, as did one jumper and both the 4x1 and 4x4 relay teams.

The former sprinter from Barbados himself won four NAIA All-American honors during his three years at Wayland. Coach Thompson worked as a graduate assistant for the program for one year after his collegiate elibility ended.

The 2006 recipient of the Bill Hardage Champions of Character Award at WBU, Coach Thompson is a two-time Daktronics/NAIA All-American Scholar Athlete and was a Pioneer co-captain during his senior season. He was named the track team's Most Valuable Male Athlete in 2005 and won Sooner Athletic Conference Championship honors in the 100 meters in 2004.

Coach Thompson and his wife, Tameka, have a daughter, Tamia who is six, and a son, Christian, who will be one in December.

Brian Whitlock is beginning his eighth season as head of the Wayland Baptist men's and women's cross country programs. The Pioneer men won the runner-up banner at the 2010 NAIA Cross Country Championships, the highest finish in the history of the program. Kennedy Kithuka became the first Wayland athlete to bring home the individual championship in 2010, and three other members of the team brought home All-American honors.

A 2001 graduate of Oklahoma Baptist University where he was a Sooner Athletic Conference Cross Country Champion and a NAIA All-American, Coach Whitlock immediately turned the WBU Cross Country program from an after-thought to a national contender when he took over the program in 2004.

In his first year at Wayland, Coach Whitlock was named the 2004 Sooner Athletic Conference and Region VI Men's Coach of the Year after leading Wayland to a second place finish. He was also named the 2006 Women's SAC Coach of the Year.

The Wayland cross country women, who were ranked nationally in 2006 for the first time in over a decade, also qualified for the national championships with a second place conference and regional finish.

In 2007, the Pioneer women won the conference and regional cross country titles and finished sixth at the NAIA Championships behind the performance of All-American Caroline Karunde, and last year they returned to the national forefront once again with yet another appearance at the national meet.

Whitlock won three NAIA Coach of the Year honors during his time as head of the Wayland Track and Field program. The Pioneer women's teams have won a combined four NAIA titles since 2007 and the men took its first-ever outdoor championship in 2010.