Bio

John Hall joined the ECC track and field coaching staff in 2014. In his first season, he produced
CCCAA State Champion (Crystal Lizaola) in the 400-meter hurdles while running the second fastest time in the nation. He also coached Syrea Hicks, who was the fourth-place finisher in the CCCAA State Championships in the 100-meter hurdles.

In the past six years Hall has had 11 hurdlers, both men and women, qualify for the CCCAA State Meet, (Lizaola / Hicks: 2014, Graham: 2015, Alexander: 2016, Alexander / Tyler: 2017, Foster / Workman: 2018, Mates: 2019, Washington: 2019, Workman 2019).

Coach Hall has continued to improve the hurdling legacy at El Camino by adding several performance marks to the top 10 all-time list. Hall’s hurdlers are currently credited as second, fourth, seventh and 10th in the Women’s 100H and third in the 400H all-time at ECC.

In the men’s hurdles, Hall is credited with adding the new school record, the No. 6 and No. 7 performance all-time in the 110H. Hall’s runner also claimed the No. 3, No. 8, and No. 10 all-time marks in the 400H.

Coach Hall has also worked with elite level high school hurdlers. In 2014 he coached the boys’ 110HH California State champion, Misana Viltz at Long Beach Millikan High School. Viltz went on to make the USA Junior World team.

Hall also coached Kymber Payne to a third-place finish in the girls’ 300 IH. Hall coached four athletes that received NCAA Division I scholarships in the 2014 season; Crystal Lizaola (UC Irvine), Misana Viltz (UCLA), Kymber Payne (LSU), and Ebony Crear (Texas A&M).

Christopher Graham finished fourth in the 110HH at the CCCAA state championship and later competed for Mid America Nazareth university where he went on to win an individual national championship (NAIA) in the 110HH.

At the end of the 2016 season, ECC’s Justin Alexander, a CCCAAm 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 No. 3 in the country as well as the No. 3 on the all-time El Camino College hurdles performance list. Alexander was also selected for the 2017 World University Games in Taipei, Taiwan. Alexander would go on to transfer to the University of Arizona following the 2017 season.

Jasher Foster, the ECC record holder in the 110HH (14.11), transferred to UC Berkeley (Cal) following his 2018 undefeated campaign that concluded with a CCCAA State Championship, adding to Hall’s list of NCAA Division I transfers.

Foster also finished fifth in the 400H at the state championships, one spot behind El Camino’s Qwintin Workman. Workman went on the win the Southern California regionals in 2019 and finished second at the State meet. El Camino College had 3 hurdlers qualify for the state meet in 2019; Workman 400H (Second place), Washington 110H (Third place), and Mates 110H (Seventh place) and 400H (fourth place).

John will be completing his Ph.D. in Performance Psychology in 2021.

John currently is a tenured faculty member in the Department of Kinesiology at Long Beach City College and resides in Hawthorne with his wife Adrienne and sons Jett and Beau.