Savatheda Fynes Coke, a successful Track and Field Olympian, joined the NJIT Track and Field coaching staff for the 2010-11 season.
Fynes Coke won two Olympic medals, gold at the 2000 Sydney Games and a silver at the 1996 Atlanta Games as a member of the 4x100 meter relay team (Bahamas).
At the 1999 World Athletics Championships in Seville, Spain as a member of the 4x100 meter relay team; Fynes Coke was a gold medalist.
She also won a bronze in the 100m at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in London, England and at the World Athletics Championship in Athens, Greece in 1997.
In college at Michigan State University, Fynes Coke, an all-American won the NCAA 100-meter outdoors, 200-meter outdoors and the 55-meter indoors. She also ran the 4x100 and 4x400 relays for Michigan State University.
She has served as a sprint coach at Columbia High School in Maplewood, NJ and for the East Orange Track Club.
