Track & Field Coaching Staff
Tim Boyce
Head Track & Field Coach
boyc3710@pacificu.edu
Tim Boyce has brought years of successful coaching experience at the NCAA Division III level to Forest Grove for his first season head coach of the Pacific track and field program. Boyce was elevated to head coach in June 2007 after six months as an assistant coach.
Boyce spent seven years as the head cross country and track and field coach as SUNY Oswego in Oswego, N.Y. During his tenure, Oswego State athletes competed in 10 NCAA Division III Championships, charted over 100 school record performances and won numerous State University of New York Athletic Conference and New York State Collegiate Track Conference individual titles.
Among Boyce's individual standouts include distance runner Susan McWilliams, who finished her career as a three-time All-American (once in cross country, twice in track and field).
While flourishing as a head coach in New York, Boyce began his coaching career here in Oregon. Boyce began his coaching career as the head distance coach at Lane Community College in Eugene. He was twice named NWAACC Southern Region Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year and coached numerous NWAACC individual champions in both cross country and track and field.
Following Lane, Boyce spent one and a half years as an assistant coach at Willamette under current Oregon State head coach Kelly Sullivan. He was a member of a coaching staff recognized as the Northwest Conference's Women's Cross Country Coaching Staff of the Year.
Boyce is a master's level certified official by United States Track and Field (USATF), and he has also been certified by the governing body as a Level II Coach.
Boyce is a native of Marcellus, N.Y., where he was a three-time Section III champion in track. He is a graduate of Bradley University, where he competed in both cross country and track, and received his master's degree from Oregon. Boyce and his wife, Kim, reside in Beaverton.
Andrea Bulat
Assistant
Track & Field Coach - Throws
One of the all-time great throwers in one of the top track and field programs in the nation, former Kansas javelin standout Andrea Bulat is in her third year as Pacific's assistant coach in charge of throws.
Bulat played a critical role in helping to mentor Brooke Barker and DeeDee Arnall in 2006, with both athletes earning automatic qualifying marks for the NCAA Division III Championships in the javelin. Arnall finished second at the national meet, while Barker finished runner-up in the grueling heptathlon.
A four-year letterwinner at Kansas, Bulat finished her career as the school record holder in the javelin with the new IAAF implement adopted in 1999. Her best throw of 168 feet, 4 inches is second best in school history with any implement, and was good enough to finish second at the 2001 NCAA Division I Championships In Eugene.
A three-year NCAA meet competitor, Bulat finished 11th in the 2000 javelin final and 16th in the 1999 meet. In addition, Bulat was the 2001 Big-12 Conference and Kansas Relays champion.
Bulat also emerged as an international caliber competitor for her native Canada. Bulat has twice been the Canadian junior champion and once the senior champion. She finished second place at the 2000 Canadian Olympic Trials and third place at the 2004 trials. She has also represented her home country in dual meet competition in Ireland and the Caribbean, at the World University Games and the Francophone Games.
A native of Windsor, Ontario, Bulat participated in cross country, basketball, softball, track and volleyball at F.J. Brennan High School. She was a two-time bronze medalist at the Canadian Junior Championships and a three-time gold medalist at the Ontario High School Championships. Upon graduation, Bulat received the Royal Arcanum Award for the outstanding high school female athlete in the city of Windsor. She was also named F.J. Brennan's Student Athlete of the Year four out of her five years.
Bulat graduated from Kansas in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in education with an emphasis on pre-physical therapy. She is currently in her second year as a graduate student in Pacific's School of Physical Therapy. She has been certified as a personal trainer through the American Muscle & Fitness Personal Trainer program.
Brandon Holliday
Assistant
Track & Field Coach - Sprints & Hurdles
Brandon Holliday brings four years of experience with one of the nation's track programs to his first season as a Pacific assistant coach. Holiday will focus on work with the Boxers' hurdlers and sprinters.
Holliday spent four years competing for the University of Oregon and figured significantly into the team's successes as the Ducks built back into a national power in the sport. Holliday was the 2002 Pac-10 Conference champion in the 400-meter hurdles and qualified for the NCAA Division I Championships in 2003 and 2004. His best time of 50.52 seconds, ran during the 2004 Pac-10 Championships, is the sixth best in Oregon history.
Holliday also played a key role in one of the top 1,600-meter relay teams that the Men of Oregon have ever produced. The team that included Holliday, Travis Anderson, Kedar Inico and Matt Scherer placed fifth at the 2004 NCAA Championships and earned Holliday All-American honors. Their time of 3:03.49 was then the school record.
As a prep performer at Beaverton High School, Holliday finished third in the 2000 OSAA 4A Championships in 110-meter hurdles, 13th in the high jump and anchored the Beavers' fifth place 1,600-meter relay team. In 1999, Holliday finished third in the state meet in the 300-meter hurdles.
Holliday's coaching credential includes work as a volunteer assistant coach at both Oregon and Beaverton High School.
Holliday graduated from Oregon in 2006 with a degree in human physiology. In addition to his coaching work, Holliday is employed as a orthopedic technician at Willamette Orthopedic Group in Salem.
Nicole Irons
Assistant
Track & Field Coach - Jumps & Pole Vault
Nicole Irons is in her first season as a Pacific assistant coach after four standout seasons in the pole vault at the NAIA level. Irons will work specifically with the Boxers' pole vaulters, long jumpers and triple jumpers.
Irons was a four-year standout in the vault at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, where she holds the school's second-best all-time mark in the event. She was a four-time Cascade Conference champion and qualified for the NAIA National Championships all four season from 1998 to 2001.
At the NAIA Championships, Irons placed in the top-10 three times and earned All-American honors in 2000 and 2001.
Following her competitive career, Irons spent one season assisting the coaching staff at Southern Oregon in the vault. She also spent one season as an assistant coach for the vault at Post Falls (Idaho) High School.
In addition to the pole vault, Irons has excelled in both the triathlon and mountain biking. She also played four years of semi-professional women's football with the Oregon Thunder and Eugene Edge.
A native of Post Falls, Idaho, Irons graduated from Southern Oregon in 2002 with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry. When not coaching, Irons is employed as a department supervisor and analytical chemist at TestAmerica, an environmental testing agency in Beaverton.