Transforming Lives
Together, we can create a brighter future for The Coach Proctor Foundation!
Transforming Lives
Together, we can create a brighter future for The Coach Proctor Foundation!
About The Coach Proctor Foundation
Our Mission
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Directors
The mission of The Coach Proctor Foundation is to provide student-athletes with research-based training and development as well as resources to use their academic and athletic abilities to be productive members of society
Meet The Directors
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Directors
The Coach Proctor Foundation founders/directors are Charles and Mironda Proctor. Both are high school track coaches in Columbia, South Carolina. Together, they bring a plethora of experience, credentials and accolades in the world of track and field.
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Board Members
Our Story in Pictures: The Coach Proctor Foundation's Journey to Make a Difference
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Board Directors
Meet The Coach Proctors
Charles and Mironda Proctor have been involved in the sport of track and field since they were children. Through this foundation, they hope to provide children with experiences, training, education, and mentorship to help them use their talents to compete - on the track, in their career and in life.
Meet Coach Charles Proctor
Head Boys Track Coach | Ridge View High School
Coach Charles Proctor is a product of Richland Northeast High School, where he was a stand-out athlete. The state champion went on to earn a Division I scholarship at Coastal Carolina University. Coach Proctor holds USATF Level I and Level II certifications in sprints, hurdles, and relay. He is also an NETA certified personal trainer.
Coach Proctor currently serves as the boys Track and Field coach as well as the SCTCCCA 5A Vice President. His coaching philosophy is to provide athletes with the tools needed to succeed in the classroom, socially as well as on the track throughout the teaching process. He believes that coaching is more than providing workouts, therefore he places importance on not just teaching the athletes proper skill but in a way that will make the athlete understand and retain the information that will enable them to perform to the best of their ability.
Coach Proctor has coached at Richland Northeast High School, WJ Keenan High School, and currently serves as the Head Boys Coach at Ridge View High School. During his coaching career he has produced numerous region and state champions as well as scholarship athletes. His team accomplishments include but not limited to, six team region titles and two team state runner up titles (2017 and 2019). He has also coached many notable individuals that had great success on the state and national level.
His boys team won the 4A SCHSL State Championship and he was named 4A Boys Coach of the Year.
Charles Proctor is also the owner of CP Elite Training Group, which is comprised of a variety of athletes from middle school through college, which focuses on general fitness, technique, plyometrics and strength and conditioning.
He lives by the mantra TRUST THE PROCESS, knowing that everyone’s process is different not only on the track but in life!
Meet Coach Mironda Proctor
Director of Athletics | Richland Northeast High School
Mironda N. Proctor, originally from Sumter, South Carolina, has been a part of interscholastic athletics for over 14 years. Her journey in track and field began as a standout athlete at Sumter High School, earning her a scholarship to compete at South Carolina State University, where she majored in Biology Education.
Upon graduating, she immediately started her teaching and coaching career. After coaching for a number of years on the middle school level, she began her first head coaching stint at AC Flora High School in 2014.
While there, her girls' team won the Region 4-3A championship in 2015 and had a number of athletes with top finishes at the state meet. She spent time as an assistant at Dreher High School as well as WJ Keenan High School, where both teams were successful on the state and national levels. After spending two years as an athletic director, Coach Proctor returned to her high school alma mater to be the head coach of the girls' program. While there, she traveled with a number of athletes to the Nike Indoor and Outdoor championship, in addition to attaining top region and state finishes, including a 2021 Nike Indoor National Champion. Coach Proctor currently serves as the Director of Athletics at Richland Northeast High School. She is certified in USTfCCCA Strength and Conditioning, USATF Level II in Sprints Hurdles Relays and Jumps.
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Events
The Coaches Roundtable
Catered to developmental coaches, this clinic will cover various topics that will assist coaches in adding key components to their coaching toolbox, along with networking with other like-minded coaches.
Saturday | December 14, 2024
Muller Road Middle School | Columbia, SC
Registration Fee: $100
Lunch is provided by Booster Fundraising
Meet the Clinic Presenters
Coach Kirk Walsh
How to Build a Highly Connected Team (that happens to win)
Coach Kirk Walsh served as Head Cross Country and Track Coach at Cuthbertson Middle School (2012-2016), Head Cross Country Coach at Cuthbertson High School (2017-2023) and Track Distance Coach (2021-2023). In 7 high school cross country seasons, the ladies won 5 Team State Championships with 2 Runner-Up finishes, while the men finished State Top-5 in 3 consecutive seasons. During that 7-year span, 18 Cavaliers were All-State, with 3 Individual State Champions and the 2022 NC Gatorade Player of the Year. The ladies were ranked the #1 team in Nike's 12-state Southeast Region from 2019-2022 and finished 8th in the U.S. at Nike Cross Nationals in 2022. In 3 track seasons leading the distance squad, the distance ladies contributed to 3 Outdoor Team State Championships and 2 Indoor Team State Championships, while the men were a part of 2 Outdoor and 2 Indoor Team State Championships. During that 3-year span, the distance ladies won 5 National Champion Relays, set the American Record in the 4x800, earned 31 All-State performances, and won 8 Individual and 4 Relay State Championships.
Coach Tyree Price
"Training Jumpers"
Coach Price , named the USTFCCCA Women's South Region Assistant Coach of the Year in 2020, Price most recently comes to Fort Worth after spending the past two seasons at USC. He had a stellar two years with the Trojans, highlighted five First-Team NCAA All-Americans, 14 NCAA West Regional Qualifiers and 17 All-Pac-12 Student-Athletes. Coach Price also Coached Professional Italian Jumper, Emmanuel Ihemeje, to 2nd place at the Italian Championships and 8th place finish at the 2023 IAAF World Championships is the Triple Jump.
Price coached Allie Jones, the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships Runner-up finish in the pentathlon. Jones broke the USC school record in the heptathlon and finished fourth overall at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. She also was crowned a Pac-12 Champion in the heptathlon with 6,234 points. Johnny Brackins Jr. placed 5th at the 2023 NCAA Indoor Championships in the men’s long jump. Two of Price's athletes (Johnny Brackins Jr., Jones) qualified for the USATF Outdoor Championships. Price also guided two athletes to the 2023 USATF U20 Outdoor Championships, and Johnny Brackins Jr. to 2022 USATF U20 Long Jump Championships, and saw him finish
6th place at the World Athletics U20 Championships and was part of the Bronze Medal 4x100m Team USA relay team. Coach Price’s jumpers placed 1-2 in the Men’s High Jump and Men’s Long Jump at the 2023 Pac-12 Championships.
Price spent a year at Columbia University as an assistant coach, working with jumps and multis. Columbia and the Ivy League did not compete in track and field during the 2021 season due to COVID-19.
Prior to Columbia, Price was at Bethune-Cookman University for eight seasons, serving as an assistant track and field coach and an athletic compliance assistant.
During the 2019-20 school year, Price was named USTFCCCA Women's South Region Assistant Coach of the Year, the first non-ACC or SEC coach to earn the honor. He guided Monae' Nichols to PRs in the long jump at 6.44m (21-1.50) and triple jump at 12.81m (42-0.50) earning Second-Team All-America honors. Nichols won conference titles in the long and triple jumps and was named Co-Field Athlete of the Meet.
The 2018-19 seasons saw Quamecha Morrison finish second in the high jump at the NCAA Indoor National Championships and Nichols qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. In the 2016-17 season triple jumper Michael Tiller had the top jump at the NCAA East Preliminary Rounds and placed 12th in the event at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Price spent six seasons (2007-2013) as the head track and field and cross-country coach at South Carolina State prior to Bethune-Cookman. At SCSU he coached 51 NCAA Regional qualifiers, 2 NCAA Indoor qualifiers, 5 NCAA All-Americans, 8 NCAA Outdoor qualifiers, 4 USA Junior National qualifiers, over 125 MEAC All-Conference athletes, over 70 MEAC Commissioner's All-Academic Team honorees, 30 MEAC Champions, two MEAC record holders, 41 SCSU school record holders, 11 B-CU school record holders, and one IAAF World Juniors (Team USA) performer.
Price spent four seasons (2003-2007) as head track and field and cross-country coach at Division II Fort Valley State University. At FVSU, he produced 37 NCAA Division II National Qualifiers, 23 NCAA All-Americans, 5 NCAA Individual National Champions, 27 SIAC Champions, 139 All-SIAC athletes, 2005 & 2006 USTFCCCA South Regional Athlete of the Year, 2006 USTFCCCA South Regional Field Athlete of the Year, and won 2006 South Regional Coach of the Year.
Price was a member of the SC State University track & field team for four years (1995-98), and also was a member of the SC State University football team (1995). Price received his bachelor's degree in biology/pre-med from South Carolina State in 1998. In addition to his degree from SC State, the Summerville, S.C. native has a master's degree in sport management/sport administration from Southern New Hampshire University in 2015, he also received his Certification in Strength and Conditioning (NCACE) in 2018, and is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.
Coach Tim Langford
"Training the Combo Sprinter"
With Langford’s help, the 2021 Outdoor OU men’s and women’s track and field team recorded 75 regular season event victories, three Big 12 titles, three school records, 14 NCAA Championships Qualifiers, as well as many personal records. Additionally, the team collected a Big 12 Athlete of the Year Nomination, NCAA National Runner-Up, and Big 12 Athlete of the Week (Isaiah Levingston), 13 All-Americans, 11 Olympic Trials Qualifiers, and 68 Academic Honors.
The men’s squad placed third at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships with Isaiah Levingston taking first in the 400 Hurdles, while the women took sixth with Sydney King on top in pole vault and Lauren Jones in the hammer throw.
The 2020-2021 Indoor season resulted in 37 event victories, one Big 12 title (Kristo Simulask, hep), one school record (Essence Thomas, TJ), seven NCAA Championships Qualifiers, six All-Americans, and three Big 12 Athlete of the Weeks (2x Payden Montana, Cooper Campbell).
Langford led the OU men’s and women’s track and field squads to a successful 2020 indoor season, including 49 event victories, two individual Big 12 titles, three school records, four NCAA indoor qualifiers and multiple conference and national accolades.
Under Langford's leadership, OU's men's and women's teams claimed fourth and fifth place, respectively, at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, while senior Jackson Webb (60m dash) and freshman Lavinja Jurgens (high jump) claimed individual Big 12 titles. Jurgens was also named Big 12 Women's Outstanding Freshman of the Year.
Additionally, the 2020 indoor campaign saw school records from freshman Mikeisha Welcome and junior Essence Thomas in the women's triple jump and sophomore Kristo Simulask in the men's heptathlon. Welcome's record outing earned her USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Week honors on Dec. 17, while Thomas earned a pair of Big 12 Athlete of the Week accolades during the season.
At SCSU, Langford helped the Bulldogs produce four NCAA indoor and outdoor All-Americans, 28 regional qualifiers and one NCAA indoor national champion in Tyrell Richard in the 400 meters in 2019. Additionally, he served as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference track coaches' committee vice chair.
A 2000 graduate of Radford University, Langford was an all-conference honoree in the high jump, triple jump, long jump and 4x100- and 4x400-meter relays, as well as a back-to-back Big South conference champion in the high jump in 1998-99.
Following his successful collegiate career, Langford joined the coaching ranks and made stops at High Point University and Charleston Southern. As head men's track and field and cross country coach at Charleston Southern, Langford helped develop nine NCAA Championship qualifiers, three All-Americans and collected four Big South Track Coach of the Year honors. In 2010, he was a nominee for USTFCCCA Southeast Region Indoor Men’s Head Coach of the Year.
Langford, a native of Lynchburg, Va, is married to the former Lisa Holmes. They have one daughter, Brittany, and one grandson, Bryson. Langford is also a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
Coach Earl Chestnut
"Importance of Youth Development"
Coach Chestnut started in Track and Field at the recreational level for 3 years. He has have been a part of AAU and USATF for 12 years. He also coached Pop Warner football for 4 years. Coached football and track at Cardinal Newman for 2 years. XPE AND shredmill certified for 5 years. Founder and owner of Max Speed Performance and Fitness for youth ages 5-19 for 5 years. 9 years of speed development training. Level 1 certified in Track and Field. I’ve been a vendor and participant in the SCCAC for 2 years.
Additional Sessions
Nutritional Health and Wellness for the High School Athlete
Recruitment and NCAA Clearinghouse
Booster Fundraising