Arkansas men’s track and field team adds Miami’s Rob Jarvis as assistant

July 30, 2024 at 2:41 a.m.

by Bob Holt

Arkansas head men’s track and field coach Chris Bucknam looks on, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, following the Razorbacks’ sweep at the 2024 SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships inside the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville. (Hank Layton/NWA Democrat-Gazette)
Arkansas head men’s track and field coach Chris Bucknam looks on, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, following the Razorbacks’ sweep at the 2024 SEC Indoor Track and Field Championships inside the Randal Tyson Track Center in Fayetteville. (Hank Layton/NWA Democrat-Gazette)


FAYETTEVILLE -- Rob Jarvis is traveling to Paris on Tuesday to be at the Olympics with triple jumper Russell Robinson.

Robinson, a former walk-on, won an NCAA indoor title this year and finished second at the United States Olympic Trials with Jarvis as his coach at the University of Miami.

When Jarvis returns home from the Olympics, he'll start his new job as a men's assistant at the University of Arkansas coaching field events.

Razorbacks Coach Chris Bucknam announced Jarvis' hiring on Monday to replace Travis Geopfert, who left Arkansas to become head coach of the men's and women's programs at Kansas State.

Jarvis had been an assistant at Miami, coaching men's and women's field events, since 2017.

"We got the guy we wanted in Rob," Bucknam said.

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