Coaching Accolades at Fort Hays State University
Entering 19th Season in 2025-26 |
| • 36 All-MIAA performers |
| • 5 MIAA Champions (Alexandra Hart - 2022 outdoor HJ, 2021 outdoor HJ & 2021 indoor HJ; Xavier Robinson - 2021 outdoor 4x100m; Morgan Witzel - 2009 outdoor HJ) |
| • 1 NCAA DII National Champion (Alexandra Hart - 2021 indoor HJ) |
| • 13 individual All-Americans (Nolan Churchman - 2025 outdoor decathlon, 2025 indoor heptathlon; Keamonie Archie - 2024 outdoor LJ; Alexandra Hart - 2022 outdoor HJ, 2022 indoor HJ, 2021 outdoor HJ, 2021 indoor HJ; Summer Kragel - 2020 indoor HJ; Kolt Newell - 2019 outdoor HJ, 2019 indoor HJ, 2018 outdoor HJ; Danielle Berry - 2015 outdoor HJ; Morgan Witzel - 2010 outdoor HJ) |
| • 2 athletes on an All-American relay team (Drew Tolar - 2025 outdoor 4x100m; Xavier Robinson - 2021 outdoor 4x100m) |
| • 104 NCAA DII national qualifying marks from 31 athletes |
| • 24 USTFCCCA All-Region honors |
| • 25 NCAA DII National Championship meet participants |
Ty Haas is entering his 19th season with the FHSU Tiger Track and Field program in 2025-26. He oversees the horizontal and vertical jumpers in addition to working with the multi-athletes.
Haas graduated from FHSU in 2005 with a degree in Education. He competed four years for the Tigers as a high jumper. He currently works full time at Holy Family Elementary School and was an assistant track coach at TMP-Marian High School for two seasons before joining the Tiger staff.
In 2025, Haas coached Nolan Churchman who broke three school records, including the indoor long jump (24-4.25, 7.42m), the indoor heptathlon (5,534) and the outdoor decathlon (7,360). One year earlier he helped lead Keamonie Archie to the school record in the outdoor long jump with a mark of 24-9.25 (7.55m).
Haas coached Alexandra Hart to the NCAA Division II Indoor high jump national championship in 2021 when she cleared 6-0 at the national meet, tied for the 7th-best performance in DII history and ranked 13th in the USA at the time. Hart finished her freshman year with 10 wins in 11 high jump competitions, earning a pair of MIAA titles and two All-American trophies. She also broke the program's outdoor record with a clearance of 5-9.75 when she won the 2021 MIAA outdoor championship. He also helped guide Morgan Witzel to an MIAA Championship in 2009 and coached Xavier Robinson to a league title in the 4x100m relay in 2021.
He has helped lead seven Tigers to All-American status, including Witzel, Danielle Berry, three-time honoree Kolt Newell, Summer Kragel, four-time honoree Hart, Xavier Robinson, Keamonie Archie and Nolan Churchman in addition to numerous all-conference and national qualifying performers. In all, Haas has coached one national champion, five MIAA champions, 12 All-American honors, 21 USTFCCCA All-Region team members, 21 NCAA meet participants, 97 national qualifying performances and 33 All-MIAA athletes.
Haas helped Yanoudji Diarra, a former sprinter and graduate assistant coach, break her native country's triple jump record as a relative newcomer to the event while competing for the Hays Track Club. Originally from Mali, Africa, Diarra was invited to compete for her country in both the 2020 African Games and the 2020 African Olympic trials before both meets were postponed due to COVID-19. He also coached Rohey Signhateh, who broke the triple jump and long jump record of her native country of Gambia, Africa.
Haas has coached three international competitions for Gabriela Saravia. She competed at the 2011 Pan-America Games, 2013 South American Games, and 2013 Juegos Bolivarianos Games, where she placed third in the latter. She also established new Peruvian indoor national records in 2011 and 2014 while competing under Coach Haas.
During the 2014 indoor and outdoor season, Haas coached professional athlete Josh Honeycutt. Honeycutt was ranked as high as 9th in the world in the triple jump during the outdoor season with a lifetime best of 55-2.75. He also attained a new personal best in the long jump with a leap of 24-6.25. Honeycutt was 6th in both the USA indoor and outdoor national championships. Haas also coaches post collegiate athlete, Briar Ploude, who attained an outdoor personal best of 7-2.5 in the high jump, ranking as high as 16th in the world during the outdoor season. Ploude represented the United States at the Karlstad Grand Prix in Sweden. Haas has also previously coached Kaitlyn Davis, the former KCAC record holder in the high jump.
While at TMP-Marian, he oversaw the sprinters and jumpers. His 2008 team earned Kansas Class 3A runner-up honors. He coached Kim Haberman to the best performance in the state, regardless of classification. She won five state titles under his tutelage. He coached a total of 11 all-state performers in two seasons at TMP-Marian.
Haas received a USTFCCCA technical certification in 2013. He resides in Hays with his wife, Jolene, a former Tiger sprinter, and their three children, Declan, Mila and Beckett.
