Angelina Ramos - Cross Country Coach - Ball State University Athletics

Angelina Ramos

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Angelina.ramos@bsu.edu
Phone:
765-285-5133

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS
Ball State (2021-Present)
Five All-MAC athletes
11 MAC Champions
Four NCAA regional qualifiers
Five NCAA qualifiers
Five All-Americans
NCAA indoor team top 32 finish
NCAA outdoor team top 17 finish
Nine school records
USTFCCCA Team Academic Award

University of Nevada Las Vegas (2018-2021)
2020 Mountain West Indoor Conference team championship
First-Team All-American

Saginaw Valley State University (2015-2018)
11 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference top-three finishers
Eight All-Americans
Six school records

Metropolitan State University (2012-2014)
14 All-Americans
NCAA women’s cross country team national qualifier

MAJOR AWARDS/HONORS
USTFCCCA Trailblazer Mentorship Award

Angelina Ramos, who has spent the previous three seasons as an assistant coach at UNLV, was hired in the same capacity at Ball State, head coach Adrian Wheatley announced Sept. 17, 2021. In her role, Ramos focuses on distance running and is the program's recruiting coordinator.

In her first year in Muncie, the Cardinals earned a pair of top-three finishes as a cross country team at the Butler Twilight and the John McNichols Invitational. Ball State placed seventh at the Mid-American Conference Championships.

Elka Machan finished fourth at the MAC Championship meet and earned First Team All-Conference honors with a personal-best 6k time of 20:46.9. After finishing inside the top-seven once again, Machan became the first Cardinal to earn two first-team nods on the all-conference team since Alison Bishel in 2007 and 2009.

Kayla Jones captured the MAC outdoor track title in the 800-meter run after running a time of 2:07.61. Earlier in the year, Jones nearly set the program record in the 800 with a time of 2:06.54, just .14 off the mark set by Angie Stewart in 1997.

Jones was one of five All-MAC selections at the annual outdoor meet, the second-most by a Ball State team since the league begin tracking data in 2006.

Six Cardinals earned Academic All-MAC status in Maddie Aul, Karleigh Conner, Ashley Craycraft, Elka Machan, Kylee Mastin and Vivian Van Eck.

Ball State was named a recipient of the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Team Academic Award. The Cardinals posted a 3.785 team GPA, which was the 14th-highest in the country. The cross country team's impressive mark was the highest GPA among all Ball State programs en route to a record-setting fall term that saw a department-wide 3.41 GPA.

Through her various stops, Ramos has tutored 24 All-Americans between the distances of 800m and 10k en route to winning conference championships in three different leagues. She's also worked with multiple Olympic trials qualifiers at events ranging from 800m all the way through 26.2 miles.

At UNLV, Ramos was crucial in helping the Runnin' Rebels to the 2020 Mountain West Indoor Conference team championship. She also guided Avi'Tal Wilson-Perteete to be a First-Team All-American in the 800m during the outdoor season.

As the primary practice planner for distance runners, Ramos helped all 10 of her focused athletes achieve a personal-best time in either cross country or track.

She also served as the recruiting coordinator, as well as managed operations and the buget.

Ramos started at UNLV after serving as an assistant track & field and cross country coach at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Michigan. She had been at SVSU since December 2014, where she helped produce eight All-Americans and 11 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference top-three finishers, and guided the team to a top-10 regional finish – an improvement of five spots in two years. Six school records were set in both indoor and outdoor competition under her watch. In the classroom, her women's cross country team earned a cumulative GPA of 3.6-3.8 consecutively each semester from 2015-18.

Additional to her coaching duties, Ramos wrote and implemented strength programs for all 42 distance and middle distance student-athletes, served as volunteer coordinator for home track meets and assisted in the execution and production of seven high school indoor track meets that generated funds for the program.

Prior to her time stint at SVSU, Ramos was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the track & field and cross country teams at Metropolitan State University in Denver for three years. She qualified MSU's first women's cross country team to the national meet in program history in 2013, which produced an eight-place finish. Also, had four cross country student-athletes earn All-American status, while 10 accomplished the feat in track & field.

Ramos competed as a student-athlete at Florida State University where she ran cross country and specialized in the 800m and 1500m for the track & field team. She graduated in 2008 with Magna cum Laude honors with a bachelor of arts & sciences degree in English writing as well as pre-medical track (exercise science).

She received her master's of arts & sciences in communication from the University of Colorado in 2010. While in Boulder, she was an assistant coach at Niwot High School where she led the girls' team to a regional championship and had two runner-up finishers at the Colorado 4A State Meet.

Ramos has gained certification at the USATF Coaching Level 1, USA Weightlifting Level 1 and USTFCCCA Strength/Conditioning Certification Course 310. She is the co-founder of the USTFCCCA's Female Coaching Mentorship Program, which pairs 20 female coach mentors with 23 mentees.