Colin Inglis has been at the helm of the cross country and track and field programs at York since 1999 and has overseen remarkable success by his teams.
Inglis has won numerous coaching awards throughout his tenure. He is a three-time OUA men's track & field coach of the year (2007,2009, 2015) and was also the CIS men’s track and field coach of the year in 2014. In addition, he received the OUA women’s track and field coach of the year award in 2003.
He has recently led the men’s and women’s track and field programs to multiple podium finishes. The men’s team won the 2014 CIS championship, its first team banner in 30 years, and overall the program has been on the podium in each of the last three seasons, also winning bronze medals in 2013 and 2015. The women’s team, meanwhile, posted its best result since 1996 with a bronze-medal finish at the CIS championships in 2015.
Inglis was also the meet director for the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing the entire track and field competition for the world’s third-largest multi-sport event, which was hosted on the York University campus at Pan Am Stadium.
Since his arrival, Inglis has produced 188 OUA all-stars and 92 all-Canadians in cross country and track and field, and student-athletes on his teams have broken several meet, school and national records.
A Level 3 NCCP coach in the sprints, hurdles and jumps, Inglis is working toward his Level 4 certification. Before coming to York, Inglis served as an associate head coach at the University of Windsor, where he helped lead the Lancers to three OUA track and field titles and two CIS women’s track and field championships in 1996 and 1999.
Inglis also served as Power Speed Coach for Canada at the 1999 Pan-American Junior Championships in Florida, the 2000 U21 NACAC in Mexico, the 2001 Francophone Games in Ottawa and the 2002 U21 NACAC in Texas.
As an athlete, Inglis was a three-time all-Canadian, 1992 MVP of the York track and field team and a New Brunswick team representative at the 1989 and 1994 Francophone Games. Inglis graduated from York University with a bachelor of science in Kinesiology & Health Science in 1992 and continued his education at the University of Maine, receiving a bachelor of education in 1994.
In addition to his coaching duties, Inglis serves as a practicum teacher in York’s School of Kinesiology & Health Science.
