Jeff Bennett

JEFF BENNETT

Assistant Coach

405.425.5900

jeff.bennett@oc.edu

Jeff Bennett

Bennett joins Oklahoma ChristianJeff Bennett has been appointed associate dean of students at Oklahoma Christian University.Bennett retired a year ago after a 28-year career in public education in the Oklahoma City area.He also retired in June as a lieutenant colonel after serving 32 years in the U.S. Army National Guard.Courtesy of The Journal Record, August 8, 2003.

Assistant Coaches: Jeff Bennett, Wayne Strohman, Mark Thompson

Jeff Bennett
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Jeff Bennett, perhaps Oklahoma Christian's most acclaimed athlete, serves as the associate dean of students.In 2002, after a 28-year career in public education, he returned to OC as the field events coach.

A native of Vinita, Okla., Bennett was a member of 1972 U.S. Olympic team, placing fourth in the decathlon with 7,974 points at the Summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.He set a personal record of 8,121 points when he won the American Amateur Union's national decathlon championship in 1973.

Bennett won NAIA national championships in the decathlon in both 1969 and 1970.In 1968, he was the NAIA national champion in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles and was runnerup in the pole vault in 1970.

The four-time NAIA All-American still holds Oklahoma Christian records in the 400 hurdles (51.44) and the decathlon (8,071 points).He was inducted into the NAIA Hall of Fame in 1976 and was a charter honoree of the OC Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.

A 1970 Oklahoma Christian graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Education degree in Biology, Bennett also served as the school's assistant track and field coach from 1974 to 1985.He and his wife Lisa have two daughters, Lauren and Raley.