Assistant Coach Shelly-Ann Gallimore

Shelly-Ann Gallimore enters her 15th season as an assistant coach with West Virginia University’s track and field coaching staff after working with the Mountaineers for two seasons as a graduate assistant. Her duties include designing and administering training plans for the horizontal and vertical jump groups, as well as assisting with meet management for all home track meets. Under her tutelage, she has coached a USA Junior Trials qualifier, several NCAA Regional qualifiers in the high jump and NCAA Championship qualifiers in the triple jump. In 2021, Gallimore helped Abigale Mullings finish in fifth place at the 2021 Big 12 Championship in the high jump competition, with a height of 1.66 meter. She also coached Peter-Gay McKenzie to a 33rd place finish at the East Preliminary Championship in the long jump competition. Despite the 2020 outdoor track and field season being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Gallimore helped the jumpers reach new heights during the indoor portion of the 2019-20 season. A pair of Mountaineers finished the indoor season ranked inside the program all-time top-five list. Sophomore Myseha Nott made a name for herself in her first year at WVU, finishing the season tied for fourth place in the triple jump (12.46m). Additionally, sophomore Peter-Gay McKenzie finished the indoor season ranked No. 5 in the long jump (5.93m). Gallimore coached Faith Penny to All-Big 12 indoor and outdoor accolades in the high jump in 2019. Penny registered career-best marks at the indoor and outdoor championships to earn the honor. Shamoya McNeil also qualified for the NCAA East Preliminary Round in the triple jump and finished 28th overall.

In 2018, Gallimore helped Shamoya McNeil earn All-Big 12 honors in the triple jump at the Big 12 Indoor Championship. McNeil earned a mark of 12.85 meters, good for the Bronze medal.

Gallimore also guided one Mountaineer to the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships and two to the NCAA East Preliminary Regionals. McNeil competed in Eugene, Oregon, against the nation’s best, finishing 22nd overall in the women’s triple jump and earning All-America Third Team recognition. McNeil was joined by Danique Bryan at regionals. Earlier in the year, Bryan set a school record in the triple jump, earning an outdoor career-best mark of 13.68 meters. Together, Bryan and McNeil rank 1-2 on the program’s all-time triple jump list. During the 2016 season, eight Mountaineers qualified to compete at the NCAA East Preliminary Round, two of which were Gallimore’s jumpers, McNeil and Hannah Stone. McNeil competed in the triple jump, placing 30th overall and Stone placed 27th in the high jump. That same year, McNeil set a career best and the second-best mark in the triple jump in WVU indoor history at the Big 12 Indoor Championship, marking 12.82 meters and set the third best mark in outdoor history, marking 12.76 meters. Gallimore played an integral role

in assisting eight Mountaineers earn all-big 12 honors at the Big 12 Outdoor Championship and seven at the indoor championship. In 2015, Gallimore coached McNeil to a qualifying triple jump mark of 12.81 meters, and a season best at the NCAA Preliminary rounds. McNeil was ranked at No. 24 in the event going into the championship. In 2014, Gallimore coached Stormy Nesbit to First Team All-America status and an eighth place showing in the triple jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Eugene, Oregon. She also helped Marseille McBeam and Hannah Stone to top-five finishes in the High Jump at the Big 12 Championship. She helped Nesbit break the school record in the triple jump as she earned a 13.07-meter jump at the 2012 ECAC Championships. Three long jumpers (Chelsea Carrier-Eades, Nesbit, Meghan Mock) placed second through fourth at the Big East Outdoor Championships, and high jumper Sydney Cummings earned a career-best height of 1.77 meters at the NCAA East Regional, the fourth-best height in WVU history. In 2011, she was instrumental in helping high jumper Katelyn Williams and long jumper Meghan Mock earn their first ever All-America honors through close supervision and strength and conditioning modifications. In 2010, Gallimore aided multi-event student-athlete Chelsea Carrier-Eades with her jumps as she earned her first-ever All-America status in the pentathlon and Mid-Atlantic Field Athlete of the Year honors during the indoor season.

During the outdoor season, Gallimore saw junior Katelyn Williams to the NCAA Outdoor Championships, as the first high-jumper to represent WVU at the national championships since 1990.

In 2009, she aided Williams to the 2009 Canadian Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Toronto, where she cleared 1.71-meters, while Natasha Redman jumped a personal-best 1.75-meters at the Duke/Asics Invitational to qualify for the NCAA Regionals. Gallimore, a native of Kingston, Jamaica, was successful as a student-athlete winning a 2001 NCAA Championship in the triple jump. The All-American also was a two-time SEC champion in the triple jump for Auburn. After her 2004 graduation, Gallimore spent time as a volunteer coach at her alma mater. Gallimore also has years of international experience under her belt. She placed seventh in the triple jump at the 2000 World Juniors as part of the Jamaican National Team. Gallimore earned her bachelors’ degree in marketing from Auburn and her master’s degree in physical education from West Virginia in 2008.