University of California, Santa Barbara

Cody Fleming enters his fourth season as the Director of Cross Country/Track and Field and 10th season overall at UC Santa Barbara, after serving as the Associate Head Coach from 2012-2017. 

Since returning as Director, Fleming has guided the Gauchos to one Big West Team Title, 13 Individual Big West Championships and two NCAA All-American performances. 

2021 was a banner year for the Gauchos, winning the Big West Men’s Cross Country Championship. 

Prior to becoming the Director of the program, Fleming’s athlete’s won 18 Big West Conference individual titles in six different events, produced a total of 45 Big West top three event placings, set six school records, and qualified for the NCAA West Regional Preliminary Rounds 33 times. Fleming’s athletes have won a combined ten Big West Championships alone in the men's javelin and decathlon since his arrival in 2011. 

He has guided six Gauchos to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the Javelin, Heptathlon, Decathlon, Hammer, and High Jump.

He has coached the only athlete in Big West Conference history to win the hammer, shot put and discus at the same Big West Championship Meet- Irene Kujore, 2013. 

Prior to arriving at UCSB, Fleming spent three years coaching at the University of Nevada where he coached 13 NCAA Regional qualifiers, 14 WAC medalists, one WAC Champion, three NCAA Outdoor Championship qualifiers, and one NCAA Outdoor All-American. 

Prior to Nevada, Fleming coached at Lane Community College where he worked with one of the top up and coming javelin talents in the United States, Cyrus Hostetler. Hostetler was the 2008 NWAACC Champion and record holder in the javelin with a throw of 73.63m (241’7). Hostetler had the best community college throw in the nation and went on to represent Lane Community College at the 2008 Olympic Trials where he finished 18th. Hostetler had the 14th best throw in the United States in 2008. 

As an athlete, Fleming competed at the University of Oregon where he was a member of the Duck’s 2005 Pac-10 Championship team, finishing fourth in the decathlon that year at the conference meet. Prior to Oregon, he attended Lane Community College where he won the NWAACC title in the discus and was runner-up in the decathlon.  

Fleming holds a CSCS certificate from the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). He is a Corrective Exercise Specialist through the NASM and has a Throws Specialist certification from the USTFCCCA. Fleming also coached his wife Annett, who competed for her native country, Germany, in the heptathlon. Fleming recorded two 6000 plus point scores in 2015 with a best of 6051. She was named the team captain for Germany in the 2015 Thorpe Cup. Annett still currently holds the University of Hawaii school records in the heptathlon and pentathlon. In addition, he mentored Derek Masterson, a former UCSB decathlete, to top-ten finishes at the 2014 and 2015 USA Outdoor Championships and 2014 Pan Am Cup. 

Recently, Fleming coached UCSB Assistant Coach Hope Bender to a second place finish at the USATF Indoor Championships in the pentathlon with a score of 4445, the #18 All-Time performance in US history. 

Fleming graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Journalism and received an M.Ed. from the University of Missouri in Educational and Counseling Psychology.