John Radetich Position: High Jump Coach Experience: Third Season

John Radetich is entering his third season with the Oregon State women's cross country and track teams as the high jump coach.

Radetich helped coach high jumper Jordan Bishop in 2009 to be the first All-American for the Oregon State track program since Carl Van Clair. Radetich was a coach at Linn Benton Community College and Oregon State in the 1970s. He also has coached at South Albany High School, West Albany High School and Philomath High School. Radetich worked for the Boys and Girls Club of Albany for 29 years and had over 300 grade school and middle school track athletes in his program each year.

Radetich was one of three seven-foot high jumpers enrolled at Oregon State while getting his degree, which was the first school to have three seven-foot high jumpers enrolled at the same time. He was the Pac-8 high jump champion in 1970. After college, he was the first high jumper to clear seven feet using both the straddle and the flop techniques. In 1973, Radetich set the indoor world record in the first professional track and field meet in Potatello, Idaho, which was the first world record for the Fosbury Flop.