ORANGEBURG, S.C. — South Carolina State has named Tim Langford as the new head coach for men’s and women’s track and field/cross country.

Langford spent the past 10 years as head men’s coach at Charleston Southern University and brings a resurgence of excitement to SC State.

During his tenure at Charleston Southern, he led the Bucs to several years of national championship appearances. He also served as the Big South Conference Track Coaches’ Committee Chair and the NCAA Executive Committee Representative, one of the youngest coaches to hold either position in the NCAA. 

“I am really excited about the opportunity to join a university with such great athletic history as South Carolina State,” said Langford

Prior to coaching at Charleston Southern, he spent two seasons at High Point University in High Point, N.C., as the Assistant Cross Country & Track & Field coach and helped the Panthers attain their first ever Division I Conference Championship in cross country. 

Langford coached 9 Individual National Qualifiers, 16 NCAA Indoor Qualifiers, 2 Olympic Trials Qualifiers, 4 USA National Qualifier, and 9 USA Junior National Qualifiers, and produced the first men’s Indoor All-American Sprinter in Big South Conference history in his career as a coach.

He helped lead CSU to eight Big South Conference records (60m, 100m, 200m, 4x400m relay, 4x100m Relay, Long Jump), and earned Big South Conference Track Coach of the Year Honors in 2006, 2007, 2010 and 2012. Langford also was named the 2010 NCAA Southeast Region Indoor Track Head Coach of the Year.

A 2000 graduate of Radford University, he set Big South Conference records in high jump and became the school’s first conference champion in track & field.