Floyd Turner begins his fourth season as an assistant coach for the Chaparrals’ track and field teams in 2025-26. His expertise is coaching the throwing events. He also begins his first year as an assistant coach for the Men' and Women's Cross Country teams in Fall 2025
Turner served as assistant coach for the track and field teams in 2024 and 2025 and helped COD's men win their fourth and fifth straight NJCAA Division III titles in 2024 and 2025, scoring the most team points in ten years in winning the 2025 championship. He also helped guide the COD women's track team to their second National Championship in 4 years in 2025.
Under Turner’s tutelage in 2024, Isaias Lopez finished second in the hammer throw and third in the discus, while decathletes Mohammed Ali and Jake Gagne finished fourth and fifth, respectively, in the decathlon.
In 2023, hammer thrower Dustyn Kocsis placed fourth and decathletes Thomas Kling and Gabriel Parker placed third and fourth, respectively, as COD won its third straight NJCAA D3 crown.
For nine seasons, Turner coached as an assistant for both men’s and women’s programs at St. Francis. He coached 49 NAIA national qualifiers, 21 All-Americans, two individual national champions and 12 school record holders.
He spent four seasons (2010-2013) as an assistant at Concordia University Chicago, the 2009 season at Iowa Central and served as a student assistant at his alma mater (Iowa Wesleyan) in 2008.
He also is the founder and head coach of the Turner School Of Throws — a USATF youth throws club for athletes ages 9-18, and is a certified USTFCCCA throwing event specialist and USA Weightlifting Level I coach.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science ad wellness at Iowa Wesleyan in 2008. He won four consecutive NAIA championship discus titles (2004-07).
Turner was the 2003 IHSA Class A state title holder in both the discus and shot put at Walther Lutheran High School In Melrose Park.
He is the father Morgen, Angel, and Floyd III.
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