Dan Pfaff

FullnameDan Pfaff

Nickname

Dan Pfaff

NationalityAmerican

Country United States of America

Dan Pfaff

Personal information
Full name	Dan Pfaff
Nickname	Dan Pfaff
Nationality	American
Sport
Country	United States of America
Sport	Athletics
Club	ALTIS

Dan Pfaff is a track and field coach, who has coached national, world, and Olympic championship athletes.^{[citation needed]}

Pfaff started as a high school coach,^{[citation needed]} and moved up to the college ranks starting at Wichita State University.^{[citation needed]} He then served as a graduate assistant at the University of Houston from 1980-81 under Tom Tellez.^{[citation needed]} Pfaff was then Women's Head Track and Field coach at UTEP from 1982-84.^{[citation needed]} From 1985-94, he was the head field events coach at LSU, during which time the program won multiple national championships, including back to back men's and women's national titles from 1989-90.^{[citation needed]} He then had assistant coaching stints at the University of Texas and the University of Florida.^{[citation needed]}.

Pfaff was hired to run the United States Olympic Training Center.^{[citation needed]} In summer 2009, he was made head of the Lee Valley Athletics Centre by United Kingdom Athletics (UKA), to organise the coaching and training of the UK's athletes in the run-up to the 2012 London Olympics. He also coached and trained 10 athletes within the UKA programme.^[1] Pfaff is currently one of the coaches for Altis, which is a professional track and field coaching staff as well as educational company. They are now based in Phoenix, Arizona. While Dan is listed as a coach, he is not involved in day-to-day coaching and currently resides in Austin, Texas.^[2]