TERRE HAUTE, Ind. – Indiana State Cross Country/Track and Field Program Director and Head Coach Angela Martin announced the addition of Julian Harvey to the Sycamores' coaching staff Wednesday. Harvey will coach the sprints group for Indiana State.
 
"From the moment Coach Harvey stepped on campus for his interview, it felt like he was a part of our family," Martin said. "His personality and work ethic fit the goals of our staff. He was a tremendous athlete and knows what it takes to compete at the highest level. He has had increasing success as a coach and I know that our sprint squad will continue to grow under his tutelage."
 
Harvey comes to Terre Haute from Wagner University, where he was an assistant track and field coach for the Seahawks from 2021-23 and worked with the sprints, jumps, hurdles and relay groups. During his time on Staten Island, Wagner captured back-to-back NEC Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Championships, while the Seahawks also earned their best NEC Women's Indoor Track and Field Championship finish in program history with a runner-up result at the 2023 NEC Indoor Championships. Harvey was part of the NEC Men's Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Coaching Staffs of the Year in both 2022 and 2023.
 
"I am incredibly grateful for the opportunity to be a part of the staff here at Indiana State University," Harvey said. "ISU has an exuberant amount of success on and off of the track and I am eager to get started working with the administration, staff and student-athletes.  I'd like to thank Sherard Clinkscales, Angie Lansing, Angela Martin and the rest of the search committee for entrusting me in this role.  Lastly, I would like to thank all my coaches and family for your unwavering support during this amazing journey. Go Sycamores!"
 
Harvey's tenure at Wagner saw 14 school records set, while 13 Seahawks earned NEC titles, in addition to four NEC team championships. 67 Seahawks who trained under Harvey earned NEC honors, while one Wagner student-athlete, Jason Marchese, qualified for the 2023 NCAA East First Round, reaching the quarterfinals of the 400m hurdles. Wagner's indoor and outdoor men's 200m, men's 400m, men's 800m and men's 4x400m school records were all set by athletes Harvey coached. In addition to those records, Harvey also coached Wagner's school record holders in the men's 500m (indoor), men's 600m (indoor), men's 400m hurdles (outdoor), women's 4x400m relay (indoor), women's sprint medley relay (indoor), women's pole vault (indoor) and men's long jump (outdoor).
 
In addition to his coach duties with the Seahawks, Harvey oversaw daily operations including budgets, staff meetings and scholarship allotment. He also helped apply a new social media strategy to team accounts which increased student-athlete visibility and improved Wagner's recruiting ability.
 
Prior to his time at Wagner, Harvey began his collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Wisconsin where he worked with the Badgers' sprints and jumps groups while working under the pole vault and multis coach during the 2019-20 season. In addition to his coaching duties with the Badgers, he also coordinated campus tours and visits for incoming recruits.
 
Harvey joined the coaching ranks following a decorated career at SIUE. He earned Second Team All-American distinction in 2018 after placing 12th in the long jump with a mark of 7.75m (25-05.50) at the NCAA Championships while also collecting Honorable Mention All-American status in the high jump. He qualified for the NCAA Championship in the high jump after clearing 2.15m (7-01.00) and finishing third at the NCAA West Regional. At the 2018 OVC Championships, he went on to be named Co-Field Athlete of the Year and OVC Championship MVP after placing first in the long and triple jumps, second in the high jump and third in the 100m.

In 2017, Harvey won the long jump at the OVC Indoor Track and Field Championship with a leap of 8.17m, the longest jump by an American during the season and No. 1 in the world at the time. Harvey would go on to receive two All-America accolades in the long jump and high jump, respectively. At season's end, he was named the Midwest Region Field Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA.

In all, Harvey was a three-year team captain, a six-time NCAA Division I All-American, an 11-time OVC champion and four-time Athlete of the Year selection. In 2016, he was selected as U.S. Olympic Trials Qualifier. In addition to competing on the track, Harvey was a five-year member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) at Southern Illinois and served as a conference representative from 2014 to 2018. He was also selected by the OVC to represent the conference at the NCAA Leadership Development Summit in 2016.
 
Harvey owns a pair of degrees from SIUE, earning his Bachelor of Arts in Psychology in 2018 and a Master of Science in Sport and Exercise Psychology in 2019.
 
 
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