As one track superstar leaves, a track legend enters.
In the same week Icon Management announced that Octavius Freeman signed with them, thus ending her tenure as a collegiate athlete, UCF announced they would be hiring hall of fame track coach Jeanette Bolden.
Bolden led UCLA to three track NCAA national championships in 20 years and also won a gold medal at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games.
“UCF is a fresh and vibrant university and has a lot of opportunities for young people. I plan to continue the upward arc of the program. Coach Caryl invested a lot in the team, and I just want to continue the successful path that she started to pave…I have been at UCLA all my life and I am grateful for the opportunities I had there,” Bolden said in a press release.
Bolden led the USA women’s track team to 23 medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games before she was inducted into the United States Track and Field Hall of Fame in December 2010.
“To hire a Hall of Fame coach, who has won an Olympic gold medal, coached Olympic champions and led teams to multiple NCAA Championships shows the level of commitment we have to women’s track and field here at UCF,” Athletic Director Todd Stansbury said in a press release.
