Erica Ferguson has joined the Stanford track and field staff, as announced by J.J. Clark, Stanford’s Franklin P. Johnson Director of Track and Field and Cross Country.
She will coach jumps and combined events alongside sixth-year coach Arthur Ignaczak.
Ferguson comes from University of Connecticut, where she coached for five seasons, most recently coaching the men’s and women’s jumpers and assisting with combined events. From 2019-21, Ferguson coached sprints and hurdles.
“I am honored and very excited to be joining the Cardinal staff and very thankful for Coach J.J. Clark for this opportunity,” Ferguson said. “I plan to bring my excitement and love for the sport to The Farm and I am eager to start working with a great group of student-athletes and continue to add to the success that Stanford is known for. Go Cardinal!”
Huskies athletes set three school records under Ferguson and her athletes made 28 additions or improvements to UConn’s top-10 lists. She coached her athletes to 27 Big East Conference individual championships and 118 all-conference honors. Eighteen advanced to the NCAA East Prelims, two to the NCAA Championships and one to the U.S. Olympic Trials.
Ferguson coached sprints, hurdles, jumps, and multis at La Salle from 2014-19 and developed the strength and conditioning programs for those events. Her athletes set 42 school records and won four conference championships.
At Stanford, Ferguson begins her 15th season in college coaching, which began at Susquehanna University in August, 2010, and continued at Cheyney, where she also helped coach middle distance runners in addition to sprints and hurdles, and Maine, where she coached sprints and jumps.
Ferguson, who has coached at Stanford’s track and field camps since 2021, earned her undergraduate degree at Mansfield University in communication with a minor in music, and earned her master’s in sports management from California University of Pennsylvania.
She is a native of Yeardon, Pennsylvania, and attended West Catholic High School in Philadelphia.