Little Rock Adds Brock Hime to Track and Field, Cross Country Staff

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Little Rock Director of Track and Field/Cross Country, Head Coach J.P. Behnke announced Thursday the addition of former Trojan runner Brock Hime to the coaching staff to guide the Trojan distance runners.
 
Hime is a 2014 UA Little Rock alumnus that was a Second Team All-Sun Belt selection for the 2012 cross country season after leading the Trojans to a conference championship. He recently completed his third year as head coach of Arkansas Tech's cross country program and second season as head coach of the Golden Suns' Track and Field program. In 2020, he was selected as the Central Region representative for the NCAA DII National Track & Field Committee.
 
"I'm excited to welcome Coach Hime back to Little Rock to lead our distance program," Behnke said. "It is impressive what he was able to accomplish as the head coach at Arkansas Tech and I am confident he will do great things with the Trojan cross country and distance program."
 
Hime has already begun his duties in the Capital City as the program's assistant track and field coach for distance and associate head coach for cross country.
 
Under Hime, Arkansas Tech cross country rose to new heights as he built the Golden Suns program into one of the top programs in the Great American Conference (GAC) and region. Hime coached Tech to three consecutive runner-up finishes in the GAC Championship meet, the first of which (2020) marking the highest-ever finish for a Golden Suns cross country team at a conference championship meet.
 
"I'm very excited to join Coach Behnke's staff, leading the mid distance and distance groups," Hime said. "To have the opportunity to come back to Little Rock, my alma mater, is very special to me. I plan to bring a lot of passion and enthusiasm to the distance group. We are going to work hard to win and win the right way. Little Rock is a beautiful city, who wouldn't want to come here?! Let's roll!"
 
Overall, during his time in Russellville Hime coached 37 all-conference honorees with 17 in cross country and 20 in track and field. His coaching resulted in a 2023 NCAA Indoor provisional national qualifier as well as the 2020 and 2022 GAC Freshman of the Year honors.
 
During the 2021 cross country season, Hime guided a Golden Suns team that claimed six all-conference accolades and they went on to finish 15^th at the NCAA Regionals
 
He added the role of head track and field coach starting with the 2020-21 academic year as Arkansas Tech began competing in its inaugural season of women's track and field. During that initial season of competition, Hime led ATU to a seventh-place team finish in the 10-team conference championship meet.
 
That was quickly surpassed as Hime led the Golden Suns to back-to-back fourth-place finishes in both 2022 and 2023, claiming a gold medal at the 2022 GAC Championships as Morganne Browning won the 3,000m steeplechase with a time of 11:22.17, ATU's first-ever conference champion in track and field.
 
Prior to arriving at Arkansas Tech, Hime spent a year as an associate head coach at Northwestern Oklahoma. Working with the distance runners on both the men's and women's programs, he guided the program's first-ever all-conference cross country runner as well as the school's first-ever women's all-conference 10K runner.
 
Hime was the head cross country and track and field coach and assistant athletic director at Providence Academy in Rogers, Arkansas from 2016-18 and began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant cross country coach at John Brown University from 2015-16.
 
He is a 2014 alumnus of UA Little Rock, where he was an all-conference cross country runner in 2012 as he helped lead the Trojans to the 2012 Sun Belt Conference Cross Country Championship. Before his time competing in the Maroon and Silver, Hime spent one season at Cowley Community College where he led the Tigers to the 2010 NJCAA cross country national champion nship and then won the half-marathon national championship, earning All-America honors in the process. He earned his master's in sport management from Southwestern Oklahoma State.
 
Hime is married to the former Regan Ward, who was an All-American and All-Southeastern Conference distance runner for the Arkansas Razorbacks that earned 11 letters and was part of 10 Southeastern Conference championship teams as well as the 2015 NCAA Indoor National Championship program. The couple has a daughter, Hattie.
 
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