Connor Hall enters his seventh season as an assistant coach with the MIT men’s and women’s track and field programs in 2024-25 as Hall coaches the pole vaulters.
In the 2023-24 season, Hall coached Hailey Surace and Katelyn Howard to both the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships.
In the 2021-22 season, Hall coached Luka Srsic to the NCAA individual championship outdoors, while Hailey Surace qualified for the NCAA indoor national championship in 2022-23.
Hall’s group shown bright in the 2018-19 season with four athletes qualifying for nationals indoors and two outdoors. Liam Ackerman had a breakthrough year with six personal bests, helping him to place fourth at the NCAA Indoor National Championship and third at outdoor nationals. Kari Stromhaug also gave a strong showing as she qualified for indoor and outdoor nationals and placed third and eighth, respectively.
Hall came to MIT after working as the pole vault coach at Cuesta Community College for the 2018 season, where his women's vaulters swept the top two spots in the State Junior/Community College Championship. For his work, he was named as the CCCAA 2018 Women's Track and Field Assistant Coach of the Year.
A co-captain of the Duke University track and field team in 2016-17, he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in environmental science in 2017. At the 2015 and 2017 ACC Outdoor Championships, he placed second in the pole vault and was second at the 2017 NCAA East Regional Championships. Hall finished 20th at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championship and has a personal-best vault of 17 feet, 6.5 inches (5.35m).
Hall worked as a Youth Development Volunteer for the Peace Corps in Swaziland from June 2017 to January 2018, along with serving as the director for Coach for College in Mekong Delta, Vietnam in the spring of 2016.
