Angelina Ramos begins her second season at UNLV after she was tabbed to oversee the Rebel cross country program as well as serve as an assistant coach for track & field, with a focus on the middle and long distance groups.
In her first year with the Scarlet & Gray, Ramos helped guide Avi'Tal Wilson-Perteete to a third-place finish at the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championships and, in turn, USTFCCCA All-America First Team status. Additionally, Wilson-Perteete claimed both the indoor and outdoor 800m titles at Mountain West Championships.
In the classroom, the Rebel cross country team had five student-athletes earn Fall 2018 All-Mountain West Team honors, while 13 from track & field were named to the Spring 2019 All-MW Team. The squads also had 13 representatives claime the MW Scholar-Athlete Award with eight coming from track & field and five more from cross country.Â
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Ramos, who was hired in September 2018, came to UNLV after serving as an assistant track & field and cross country coach at Saginaw Valley State University in University Center, Michigan. She had been at SVSU since December 2014, where she helped produce eight All-Americans and 11 Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference top-three finishers, and guided the team to a top-10 regional finish – an improvement of five spots in two years. Six school records were set in both indoor and outdoor competition under her watch. In the classroom, her women's cross country team earned a cumulative GPA of 3.6-3.8 consecutively each semester from 2015-18.
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Additional to her coaching duties, Ramos wrote and implemented strength programs for all 42 distance and middle distance student-athletes, served as volunteer coordinator for home track meets and assisted in the execution and production of seven high school indoor track meets that generated funds for the program.
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Prior to her time stint at SVSU, Ramos was an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the track & field and cross country teams at Metropolitan State University in Denver for three years. She qualified MSU's first women's cross country team to the national meet in program history in 2013, which produced an eight-place finish. Also, had four cross country student-athletes earn All-American status, while 10 accomplished the feat in track & field.
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Ramos competed as a student-athlete at Florida State University where she ran cross country and specialized in the 800m and 1500 for the track & field team. She graduated in 2008 with Magna cum Laude honors with a bachelor of arts & sciences degree in English writing as well as pre-medical track (exercise science).
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She received her master's of arts & sciences in communication from the University of Colorado in 2010. While in Boulder, she was an assistant coach at Niwot High School where she led the girls' team to a regional championship and had two runner-up finishers at the Colorado 4A State Meet.
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Ramos has gained certification at the USATF Coaching Level 1, USA Weightlifting Level 1 and USTFCCCA Strength/Conditioning Certification Course 310. She is the co-founder of the USTFCCCA's Female Coaching Mentorship Program, which pairs 20 female coach mentors with 23 mentees.
