Coach Bob Ramsey joins the Sagehens after a lengthy tenure at various SCIAC schools. Since joining the SCIAC, his sprint and jump athletes have won over a third of the conference championships and podium places, and he has coached multiple All-Americans and National qualifiers.
Ramsey joins Pomona-Pitzer after five years at SCIAC foe Whittier College, the last two as head coach. His athletes rewrote the Poet record books in sprints and jumps and earned the school’s first women’s All-American honors on the track. The Whittier women set school records in eight events and hold 37 places in the school All-Time lists, winning six SCIAC championships and 18 All-Conference honors. Sprinter Jasmyn Crawford earned All-American honors in the 100m and holds the SCIAC record and a place on the NCAA D3 All-Time list in the 200m, while helping the 4x100 relay become All-Americans in 2022. The Poet men set three records and hold 27 places on the All-Time lists, while winning four SCIAC championship and 12 podium places under Ramsey’s leadership. His long jumpers went 1-2 in 2022, both jumping over 23’0”, with Mateo Gomez becoming the first jumper to advance to nationals in decades with an All-Time SCIAC mark and school record jump of 24-06.25.
During the 2021 COVID hiatus, Ramsey coached at his alma mater, NCAA Div. II Azusa Pacific University. Ramsey helped the women win the National title and worked with two national champions and All-Americans in eight events. Two of those athletes went on to repeat as national champs, and both competed at the 2024 US Nationals in the Long Jump.
From 2016-2019 Ramsey coached at Sixth Street rival Claremont-Mudd-Scripps. His athletes earned two NCAA D3 National titles, ten All-American honors and qualified for seventeen spots at Nationals. They won thirteen individual conference championships and hold five CMS records and 29 places on the CMS All-Time Lists. Ramsey was honored as the 2017 D3 West Region Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year.
Prior to Claremont, Ramsey coached at Glendora High School for six years. His track athletes routinely advanced to CIF-SS Finals & Masters and the California state meet. In Cross Country, his teams advanced to multiple times to CIF-SS Finals & the State Meet, winning the Southern Section Div. II Boys Championship and finishing second in California in 2009.
Along with coaching, his professional life has been divided between academics (his doctoral studies were at Claremont Graduate University) and church leadership. Ramsey currently helps lead a church in Pasadena and taught college-level literature for 15 years.
Ramsey grew up in El Monte and was a first-generation college student. He and his wife Wendy live in nearby La Verne. Their son Chris (a Pomona College admit) and his wife Allison, both former Div. I track athletes, live in Poulsbo, WA with their sons Theodore and Elias. Their daughter Katie and her husband Andrew, neither of whom ever ran a competitive step, live in Orange.
