Bio

In John Hall’s 14-year coaching career, he has produced four junior college state champion hurdlers and two high school state champion hurdlers.  In the community college ranks specifically, he has coached two USATF Junior National Competitors. His athletes have produced five top-five times in the country.  He has produced four California JC State Champions and qualified 16 athletes to the California JC State Meet.  Hall’s high school athletes are credited with one IAAF Junior World Games Competitor (USA), five USATF Junior National Competitors, three National Leaders, two State Champions, and 16 hurdle event qualifiers in the California high school state meet.

In John’s first season, 2014, he produced a female 400H State Champion (Crystal Lizaola) running the second fast time in the nation, as well as a 4th place finisher in the State Meet in the 100H (Syrea Hicks).  In the past four years Hall has qualified at least one hurdler to the state meet, (Lizaola / Hicks 14’, Graham 15’, Alexander 16’, Alexander / Tyler 17’).  Coach Hall continues to improve the hurdling legacy at El Camino by adding performance marks to the top 10 all-time list.  Hall’s hurdlers are currently credited as 2^nd, 4^th, 7^th & 10^th in the Women’s 100H and 3^rd in the 400H all-time at El Camino.  In the men’s hurdles, Hall is credited with adding the #5 performance all-time in the 110H as well as the #3 all-time in the 400H.  Recently, John has also worked with elite level high school hurdlers.  In 2014 he coached boys 110HH State champion (Misana Viltz), Long Beach Millikan HS which went on to make the USA Junior World team USA, and a third place girls 300IH finisher (Kymber Payne). Hall coached four athletes that received NCAA Division I scholarships last season.  Crystal Lizaola (UC Irvine), Misana Viltz (UCLA), Kymber Payne (LSU), and Ebony Crear (Texas A&M). At the conclusion of the 2016 season El Camino’s Justin Alexander, state runner up, qualified for the IAAF USA Junior national world team competition in Bogodycz, Poland.  In 2017 Alexander returned to finish second at state again, credited with a 51.42 400H performance that ranked #3 in the country as well as the #3 all-time El Camino hurdle performance.  Alexander was also selected for another USA national competition over the summer, the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan in August. 

John will be completing his Ph.D. in Performance Psychology in 2018.

John currently is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Kinesiology at Long Beach City College and resides in Hawthorne with wife Adrienne, son Jett, and dog Zeus.