A two-time Olympic Gold Medalist in the 110-meter hurdles in 1984 and 1988, Roger Kingdom joined the UCF staff in January 2018.
He served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Arizona Cardinals, joining the team in 2014. Kingdom is a former world and American record holder and one of only two runners to ever win consecutive Olympic titles (Los Angeles, Seoul) in the 110-meter hurdles.
Kingdom is a five-time United States outdoor champion (1985, 1988-90, 1995) and won gold medals at the Pan American Games (1983, 1995), the World Cup (1989) the World University Games (1989) and the Goodwill Games (1990). He set a world record of 12.92 seconds in the 110-meter hurdles in Zurich, Switzerland in August of 1989, a mark that stood until 1993.
A Vienna, Ga., native, Kingdom was inducted into the USA Track and Field Hall of Fame in 2005. He has also been inducted into the USTAF Georgia Hall of Fame in 2011, the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Western Pennsylvania Hall of Fame in 2002.
Kingdom attended the University of Pittsburgh on a football scholarship and played two seasons while also excelling on the school’s track team where he won the NCAA outdoor national championship in the 110-meter hurdles in 1983 and the NCAA indoor national championship in the 55-meter hurdles in 1984.