- Name: Vickie Croley
- Season #: 30
- Education: BPE McMaster University, BEd Western University
- Coaching Certification: Level 4
- Hometown: London, ON
- Profession: University Coach
- Past Athletic History: OUA Medalist and CIAU competitor (5th place) while a student-athlete for McMaster
- Coaching Highlights: See below
- E-mail: vcroley@uwo.ca
Vickie is in her 30th year as the head coach of the Track and Field team at Western University.
She graduated from McMaster in 1985 with an Honors Bachelor of Physical Education and a B.A. in Education from Western in 1987. During her career, Vickie competed in the hurdles, long jump and relays where she was an OWIAA medallist and CIAU competitor. She was an assistant coach at York University from 1989-93 where she coached the jumps. She is a fully certified Level 4 coach and is also a NCCP Learning Facilitator and Evaluator..
She is also a coach with the London-Western Track and Field Club. Her coaching responsibilities with the club currently include coaching post collegiate elite athletes as well as the Western University athletes during the spring and summer months.
While Head Coach of the Women’s Track and Field Team, teams have placed in the top 3 at the OUA Championship 21 times including winning two Championships and placing in the top 3 at the USports Championships 7 times and winning 1 Championship in 2002. While Head Coach of the Men’s Track and Field Team, teams have placed in the top 3 at the OUA Championship 19 times and 6 times at the U SPORTS Championships winning the school’s first U SPORTS Championship in 2012.
Croley’s coaching resume also boasts appointments as a Team Canada Coach for the Commonwealth Games (2022, 2014), World Student Games (2019, 2005, 1991), the North American Central American Caribbean Combined Events Championships (2009), North American, Central American, Caribbean Track & Field Championships Jumps & Combined Events Coach (2002), Canada verses Netherlands Combined Events Coach (1999), World Championships Combined Events Coach (1995), Canada verses Northern Ireland Jumps Coach (1992), and Canada Summer Games Combined Events Coach (1989).
Croley has been awarded with several coaching awards; the Ontario Sport Alliance Female Coach of the Year twice, a three-time Petro Canada Coaching Award Recipient, Three-time CIS Track and Field Coach of the Year, four-time OUA Track and Field Coach of the Year, and two-time OUA Women’s Coach of the Year for all sports. Croley is also in both the McMaster Sports Hall of Fame and the Western University Sports Hall of Fame. In 2017 she was recognized as a YMCA Women of Excellence in Western Ontario. Croley was the lead coach of Olympic Bronze medallist Damian Warner at the Rio 2016 Olympics and Damian's Hurdles Coach when he won Olympic Gold and set an Olympic record in at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics
Updated July 2022
