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Men's Track & Field
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- ja125@rice.edu
2024 Virginia Tech Hall of Fame Inductee
Artis-Gray enters his third season in 2025-26 with the Rice men's track and field team. With the Owls, Artis-Gray coaches the sprints and jumps.
His second season at South Main saw several sprinters shine during the conference championships. At the AAC Indoor meet, Christian Edgar secured his first trip to the podium, finishing third in the 60m hurdles. Edgar later finished fourth in the 100m hurdles at the AAC Outdoor meet. The Owls added more sprint points at outdoors with Drayden Dickmann's sixth-place finish in the 100m and fifth places finishes from the 4x100 and the 4x400 relay teams.
In his first season with the Owls, Artis-Gray had several athletes score points for Rice at the AAC Championships.
Prior to Rice, Artis-Gray was a head coach at Bryant & Stratton College. There, Artis-Gray led Nackera Allen to a 100m USCAA title in 2022 & USCAA runner-up in the men’s Triple Jump in 2023.
Before Bryant & Stratton, he spent four seasons at East Carolina. As an assistant coach working with jumps & multi’s at ECU, Artis-Gray coached seven NCAA East Region Qualifiers and two AAC champions in the women’s triple jump & women’s pentathlon. In the AAC, he’s coached four AAC silver medalists and one AAC bronze medalist in the men’s & women’s horizontal jump events.
Artis-Gray has a history of coaching some of the best high school hurdlers & jumpers in the country from 2014-2017 at Western Branch High School in Virginia, including one individual National Champion in the boy’s triple jump (2017) & six National Titles in the Girls Shuttle Hurdle Relay, setting the outdoor high school national record.
Artis-Gray is the only coach in history to finish 1st & 2nd in the Shuttle Hurdle relay event at the 2014 New Balance nationals & the first coach to place 3 teams on the podium in 2017.
Jeff Artis-Gray is a 2013 graduate of Virginia Tech & former 5x NCAA Division 1 All-American in the Sprints & Jumps. Artis-Gray currently still holds four school records at Virginia Tech in the 60mh, 110mh, & Indoor/Outdoor Long Jump. He was crowned ACC champion in the Long Jump in 2013 & amassed 10 top 3 finishes at the ACC championships during his career.
