Now in his 16th season as the Falcons women’s track and field coach and men’s assistant coach, Michael Allen added his fourth state championship to his resume, as the Falcons won the 2013 title. Allen has now guided four teams in the last eight years to the state championship, including the three of the last six years. They also won their second straight Southern California Championship in 2013. In 2012, Allen and the women’s team finished in a tie for second place at the state championships, while winning the Southern California Championship. In his 16 seasons, Michael Allen has coached 20 individual state champions. With each state title in 2006, 2008 and 2009, Allen was named the state’s Women’s Coach of the Year. In his tenure as the women’s track and field head coach, Allen has led his teams to a pair of second place finishes at the State Championships as well as three third places, two fourth places, and two fifth place finishes to go along with the three state titles. In his first year at the Norwalk campus, Allen also served as one of the defensive line coaches on the football team.

There have been 43 new school records broken during Allen’s tenure, including April Brown, who became just the second person to win the 100-meters at the State Championships two seasons in a row back in 2002-03. This season alone, freshman Alexus Dalton set three new school records, while she won the state championship in the heptathlon and high jump, and placed second in the long jump In addition, Allen has coached 75 South Coast Conference individual champions in the last seven seasons, won the conference five times and Southern California Championship six times in the last nine years. Along with the other accomplishments, 99 of the 105 different running and field marks in the school’s all-time top five have come during Allen’s time.

Allen came to Cerritos after spending eight years (1991-98) at Banning High, where he helped lead the Pilots to the 1991 LA City Championship. Prior to coaching at Banning, Allen coached at Los Angeles Harbor College from 1980-87 and guided them to five Western State Conference championships and a 45-0 dual meet record.

Allen, who was an All-Marine League selection in football and track and field at Banning High, was also a two-time All-Conference selection in both sports at LA Harbor. Allen went on to earn All-Conference honors for two years at Long Beach State, while he also qualified for the NCAA Championships two years in a row. Allen earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Physical Education from Long Beach State and also works full-time for the County of Los Angeles Probation Department.

Allen and his wife Vicki and one child (Aja) and live in Long Beach.