Robyne Johnson, a coaching veteran at the Division I level for 17 years, is the director of men’s and women’s track and field and cross country at Boston University. A four-time participant at the US Olympic trials in the triple jump, Johnson has served as the United States Elite Athletes Development coordinator for the event since 2000.

Of Robyne Athletic Director Mike Lynch has said “We are extremely excited to have Robyne as our director for both our men’s and women’s track and field teams. Her wealth of coaching experience at the national and intercollegiate levels makes her an ideal leader to advance our programs in both the America East conference and in the region.”

From 1995 to 2003, Johnson served as an assistant coach at the University of California Berkeley, where she was responsible for the training, conditioning and recruitment of both male and female horizontal jumpers and the female sprinters. During her time there, she coached 11 All-Americans, including seven Pac-10 champions.

Prior to her experience at Cal, Johnson spent two years at Rider University, serving as the associate head coach for track and cross country. At Rider, she coached three conference champions and started the university’s first ever women’s track and field program. Johnson also served as an assistant coach at Penn State, where she coached three All-Americans, one Big Ten champion, nine ECAC Champions and six school record holders.

On the national level, Johnson was an assistant coach for the US team that captured its first title at the 1998 World Cup in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a member of the USA Track and Field Coaches Association and she also was an assistant coach for the 2003 Pan American Games.

Johnson was a five-time All-American in the triple jump at the University of Texas at Austin and she was a key contributor to the Longhorns’ outdoor national championship squad in 1982. She was ranked in the top 10 in the nation in the women’s triple jump for 10 years. In 1992, she was ranked seventh in the world in the event, and she competed in the Olympic trials in 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000.

In addition to her bachelor’s degree in history from Texas, Johnson holds a master’s of science degree in education from California State University Hayward and she has six years of collegiate teaching experience in physical education.