Cross Country Coaching Staff
Tim Boyce
Head Cross Country Coach
boyc3710@pacificu.edu
Tim Boyce is now in his second season leading both the Pacific men's and women's cross coutnry and track & field programs.
Boyce spent seven years as the head cross country and track and field coach as SUNY Oswego in Oswego, N.Y. During his tenure, Oswego State athletes competed in 10 NCAA Division III Championships, charted over 100 school record performances and won numerous State University of New York Athletic Conference and New York State Collegiate Track Conference individual titles.
Among Boyce's individual standouts include distance runner Susan McWilliams, who finished her career as a three-time All-American (once in cross country, twice in track and field).
While flourishing as a head coach in New York, Boyce began his coaching career here in Oregon. Boyce began his coaching career as the head distance coach at Lane Community College in Eugene. He was twice named NWAACC Southern Region Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year and coached numerous NWAACC individual champions in both cross country and track and field.
Following Lane, Boyce spent one and a half years as an assistant coach at Willamette under current Oregon State head coach Kelly Sullivan. He was a member of a coaching staff recognized as the Northwest Conference's Women's Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year.
Boyce is a master's level certified official by United States Track and Field (USATF), and he has also been certified by the governing body as a Level II Coach.
Boyce is a native of Marcellus, N.Y., where he was a three-time Section III champion in track. He is a graduate of Bradley University, where he competed in both cross country and track, and received his master's degree from Oregon. Boyce and his wife, Kim, reside in Beaverton.
Bridget Johnson
Associate Cross Country Coach
Bridget Johnson, a talented mutli-event athlete and coach, is in her first season as Pacific's associate head coach for the cross country and track and field programs.
Johnson spent the last two seasons as an assistant coach at Western Oregon University in Monmouth. With a focus on the high jump and multi-event disciplines, Johnson helped coach Great Northwest Athletic Conference (GNAC) champions in both the heptathlon and decathlon and a national qualifier in the high jump during the 2007 indoor season.
A talented athlete, Johnson was a two-time NCAA Division II All-American in the heptathlon after finishing fourth at the 2006 national meet and sixth at the 2005 championships. She was a two-time GNAC champion in the heptathlon, the 2006 champion in the 100-meter hurdles and was named to the GNAC All-Academic Team.
Johnson is the Western Oregon record holder in the heptathlon, scoring 5,080 points at the 2006 NCAA Championships. Her personal best of 147 feet in the javelin is second best for the Wolves and she ranks in the school's top-10 in the 100-meter hurdles, long jump and shot put. On the WOU indoor record list, Johnson ranks in the top-10 in the pentathlon, 60-meter hurdles, 200 meters, high jump, long jump and shot put.
Johnson set the McArthur Stadium record in the heptathlon of 4,915 points in 2007 as a member of Team XO, a post-college club based in Eugene. She has been an active post-collegiate competitor for the last three seasons.
A native of Portland, Johnson graduated from Western Oregon in 2006 with a degree in health promotion and earned her master's degree in health promotion and education from WOU in 2008. She has earned Level I coaching certification through USA Track & Field.