Former Wayland Baptist All-American track athlete Rohan Thompson is the associate head coach of the Pioneer track and field program. In his three seasons on the WBU coaching staff, the Pioneers have won two Indoor and two 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.

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, Tamaya who is six, and a new son, Christian, who was born in December.