KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Pittsburg State track and field coaching staff has been voted the MIAA’s men’s and women’s coaching staff off the year for the 2023-24 indoor track and field season.
 
Pittsburg State captured both the men’s and women’s titles at the Association’s indoor track and field championships for the third straight year.
 
This year, both programs won the team titles with record-breaking total points. The Gorillas men clinched the 2024 indoor title with a 212 team points, beating the previous record of 208.5 which Pitt State set at the 2023 indoor championships. The Gorillas women took home the team championship with 221 points, crushing the previous record set Lincoln in 2013 by 30.5 points. Both programs also had five individual MIAA champions at the event.  
 
Overall, it was the men’s eighth title in the last ten years and the women’s eighth title in the last nine years.
 
The Gorillas are led by Head Coach Kyle Rutledge and Associate Head Coach and Meet Director Brian Mantooth. Assisting Rutledge and Mantooth are coaches Ben Barrows, Jesse Miller, Jason Crow, Louis Rollins, and graduate assistant Kyle Stevison.
 
Pitt State and its MIAA counterparts will now prepare for the 2024 NCAA Division II Indoor Track and Field National Championships, hosted by the Gorillas in Robert W. Plaster Center March 8-9 in Pittsburg, Kan.