Track & Field
Greer, Tony
Tony Greer
- Title:
- Assistant Track and Field Coach - Pole Vault
Tony Greer joined the MSU Track and Field Staff in the spring of 2024.
During the 2025 season, Greer oversaw three entries to the MSU All-Time Top Five list and helped combined events athlete Peyton Bair to two national titles. Bair won the indoor heptathlon and decathlon titles at the NCAA Championships and jumped the fourth-highest mark in program history indoors. Aaron Fortenberry improved on his all-time marks, sitting at third all-time indoors and fourth all-time outdoors.
In his first season on staff, he helped coach MSU standout Emma Hunt to another pole vault program record and former JUCO standout Aaron Fortenberry to two all-time top five marks. He also helped coach decathlete Peyton Bair to a second-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, as well as a 12th-place finish at the USATF Olympic Trials.
Prior to his time at MSU, he served as the head coach at The Vault Track Club, based in Clinton, Mississippi. During his time with the USATF-affiliated pole vault club, he trained elite high school and collegiate pole vaulters. His athletes have earned various accolades under his tutelage. Most notably, the 2008 USATF National Junior Olympic Champion in the intermediate boys’ pole vault, Mississippi’s first 16’ high school vaulter, seven state champions, and the Mississippi boys and girls pole vault record holders have trained under Greer.
He has extensive experience coaching at the collegiate level, most recently assisting on the Hinds CC track and field coaching staff. During his time at Hinds, he coached Aaron Fortenberry to a NJCAA Indoor Championship runner-up finish in the pole vault and a No. 1 JUCO ranking nationally. Before this, Greer coached at Belhaven University in 2014, Millsaps College in 2013, and Clinton HS from 2008-2012.
Greer competed for Mississippi College from 1980-1980, earning a Varsity Letter and Academic All-GSC honors.
During the 2025 season, Greer oversaw three entries to the MSU All-Time Top Five list and helped combined events athlete Peyton Bair to two national titles. Bair won the indoor heptathlon and decathlon titles at the NCAA Championships and jumped the fourth-highest mark in program history indoors. Aaron Fortenberry improved on his all-time marks, sitting at third all-time indoors and fourth all-time outdoors.
In his first season on staff, he helped coach MSU standout Emma Hunt to another pole vault program record and former JUCO standout Aaron Fortenberry to two all-time top five marks. He also helped coach decathlete Peyton Bair to a second-place finish at the NCAA Outdoor Championship, as well as a 12th-place finish at the USATF Olympic Trials.
Prior to his time at MSU, he served as the head coach at The Vault Track Club, based in Clinton, Mississippi. During his time with the USATF-affiliated pole vault club, he trained elite high school and collegiate pole vaulters. His athletes have earned various accolades under his tutelage. Most notably, the 2008 USATF National Junior Olympic Champion in the intermediate boys’ pole vault, Mississippi’s first 16’ high school vaulter, seven state champions, and the Mississippi boys and girls pole vault record holders have trained under Greer.
He has extensive experience coaching at the collegiate level, most recently assisting on the Hinds CC track and field coaching staff. During his time at Hinds, he coached Aaron Fortenberry to a NJCAA Indoor Championship runner-up finish in the pole vault and a No. 1 JUCO ranking nationally. Before this, Greer coached at Belhaven University in 2014, Millsaps College in 2013, and Clinton HS from 2008-2012.
Greer competed for Mississippi College from 1980-1980, earning a Varsity Letter and Academic All-GSC honors.
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