Kris Allison
Assistant Coach
Women's Track & Field
Kris Allison is in his fourth season working with the pole vaulters of the Texas Lutheran track and field program. Allison spent the previous three seasons with Texas Lutheran as a consultant to the team.
In his time consulting Texas Lutheran, Allison coached Jessica Raglon to two American Southwest Conference Championships (2005, 2007) and two ASC Runner-up Finishes (2006). Raglon just missed the qualifying mark for the NCAA DIII National Track & Field Championships in each of her first three season at TLU.
Allison also spent four seasons coaching the Texas State (formerly Southwest Texas State) pole vaulters in San Marcos, Texas. In the four seasons, Allison had 24 Bobcat vaulters score points at the Southland Conference Championships, six NCAA Midwest Regional Qualifiers, one Southland Conference Champion, and one NCAA National Qualifier.
Allison took a hiatus from Texas State in 2004 to volunteer his expertise with the vaulters at the University of the Incarnate Word (UIW) in San Antonio, Texas. Francisco Leon took the silver medal at the NCAA Division II National Championships and set four Peruvian national records. Allison also volunteered with UIW in 2003, and Francisco Leon placed 4th at the NCAA Division II National Championships earning All-American honors and competed at the Pan American Games for his home country of Peru.
Trinity University also shared Allison’s coaching from 2001-2004 and had athletes win three SCAC Conference Championship titles.
Additionally, Allison is the head coach of the Lone Star Pole Vaulting Club based in New Braunfels, Texas.
In his seven years running the Lone Star Pole Vaulting Club, Allison has coached 13 Texas high school state champions in the pole vault. Allison had one of his female vaulters set the girls' state record seven times en route to becoming the first high school girl in the state of Texas to clear both 12 feet and 13 feet, winning 5A State twice in the process. Allison has had one male high school athlete jump 17-0, with two others over 16-0, while one female jumped over 13 feet and seven other females over 12. He has had several of his youth club vaulters compete in the Nike Indoor and Outdoor Championships, USATF Junior Nationals, the USATF and AAU National Junior Olympics, and the Great Southwest Championships, with his athletes earning three national championships. Several of Allison’s Master’s vaulters regularly compete and medal at the National Senior Games and USATF Master’s National Championships.
From 2002-2003, Allison coached former Olympic Trials finalist and NAIA national champion Lesa Kubishta, whose personal record was 14-4.
Allison is a USATF Level 1 and PVSCB certified coach as well as a USATF certified official. In July 2004, he served as the head pole vault clinician at the prestigious USATF/USOC Women's Junior Elite Training Camp at the U.S. Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, Cali.
As a Division III student-athlete himself, Allison was a two-time SUNYAC Champion in the pole vault at the State University of New York at Cortland. He graduated from SUNY-Cortland in 1998.
Allison currently resides in New Braunfels, Texas with his wife Kristalyn. He is currently at work co-authoring a coach’s training manual for the pole vault with Dr. Tinker Murray of Texas State University-San Marcos and Dr. James Eldridge of UT-Permian Basin. Additionally, he is currently training two Olympic hopefuls for the 2008 games.
