Jeff Becker

Jeff Becker is entering his first year with the Butler Community College Cross Country/Track and Field program. Along with his coaching duties, Becker will teach classes in the Physical Education Department at Butler.

Becker received his education from Fort Hays State University in Hays, Kansas. He received a Bachelor’s degree in Physical Education (1999) and a Master’s degree in exercise science (2001). Becker is also a USATF Level 1 certified coach.

Becker started his coaching career as a student assistant coach at FHSU while working on his Master’s degree. After graduating he took an assistant coaching job at Highland Community College (KS) for one year. After his year at HCC he took the head coaching job at Colby Community College (KS), a position he held for five years. Becker most recent position was at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, NM. While at NMJC, Becker worked primarily with the Middle and Long Distance runners.

During his coaching years, Becker has coached 60 NJCAA All-Americans including 17 National Champions. Becker also coached the current NJCAA meet record holder in the Women’s 10000m run (Betty Rotich, Colby CC, 2007), and three of the last four NJCAA Indoor Female Runners of the Year (Betty Rotich Colby CC, 2007 and Caroline Jepleting NMJC, 2009, 2010). Becker was also named the 2009 NJCAA Women’s Indoor Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year.  Along with the individual success, Becker’s teams also achieved success. In 2010 NMJC was the Women’s Indoor Track and Field National Champions.  

Eugene Frazier

Now entering his fifth season as assistant track and cross country coach at Butler Community College and his 10th year as a college coach, Eugene Frazier is continuing to establish himself as one of the young, up and coming coaches in the track and field world.

Coach Frazier coaches the sprints, jumps and hurdles for the men and women teams. He is building a reputation for being able to recruit and develop student- athletes from all across the country. Throughout his career, Frazier has coached over 30 All- Americans and more than 15 individual national champions.

Frazier joined the Butler track team at the start of the 2006 season. With little time, Frazier had an immediate impact, coaching two individual national meet qualifiers, helping the women’s team finish third at both the indoor and outdoor national meets

In 2007, Frazier continued to show his ability to develop athletes. He produced two NJCAA indoor national champions, the men’s 600m and the men 4x400m relay and a tie for 1st (3rd on misses) in the high jump with a school record jump of 7’1/2. Riding this momentum into outdoor season, the Butler men’s team was able to come away with four Kansas Jayhawk Conferences champions in the 110h, 400 intermediate hurdles and the 4x100 and 4x800 relays. The women won six KJCCC titles in the 100 hurdles, 400 intermediate hurdles, heptathlon, 400, 4x100 and 4x400 relays, finishing second overall as a team. Frazier coached five women and six men to NJCAA All American status.

Frazier’s third season at Butler, 2008, was one for the history books; the women started the year off with four individual indoor KJCCC titles in the pentathlon, high jump, 60 and 400, winning their first-ever team indoor conference championship. He also coached an indoor NJCAA champion in the 400 as the team finished third at indoor nationals.

Continue their winning ways into the outdoor season, the women won six individual KJCCC titles in breaking school records in the long jump (20’1/4) and triple jump (39-3) and won an individual NJCAA championship hepthathlon. As a team, the women again won the KJCCC and Region VI team titles and placed fourth nationally.

Not to be out done by the women, the men also made history with a conference and regional indoor champ in the 60 and a runner-up team finish, the highest in school history, and a third place finish at indoor nationals. The men followed this with outdoor performances that were even better, winning three conference titles in the 200, 400 intermediate hurdles and decathlon. They also claimed their first-ever KJCCC team title, and a fourth-place finish nationally.

Frazier coached at Kansas City, Kansas Community College for six years before coming to Butler. He is a graduate of Alabama State University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice. As an athlete, Frazier was a 1995 Southwest Athletic Conference runner-up in the 100 and 200, and in 1996, won SWAC conference titles in the 60, 100 and 4x100 relay. After graduating in 1998, Frazier returned to his hometown of Kansas City where he ran for the Nike Central track Club. He was a USATF 60 meter qualifier, with personal best times of 6.65 in the 60 and 10.24 for 100.

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