Warren Lanier - Head Coach

Coach Warren is a TL Alum ('96) who was a member of TL's dominating Track and Cross Country teams of the mid-90s. He began his coaching career in 1999 as a pole vault coach for La Jolla HS and then for Torrey Pines HS for the '00 and '01 seasons. While in San Diego he was co-founder and director of Coast Athletics' multi-week Pole-Vault summer training camp.  He returned to TL as the Head Coach for Track & Field in 2011, and in 2017 he took over the Cross Country team as well. 

Raised in and around Coach Kees' distance running and fitness community, he first began running in middle school. At TL he had the single best team experience of his life with the '93 TL Cross Country team.  Though he would go on to become primarily a pole vaulter in college, he has carried his love of Cross Country for 30 years and is tremendously proud to be entrusted with TL Cross County.

A 'recovering attorney,' Warren is now a professional strength and conditioning coach, training individuals from his home gym. He holds coaching certificates for Track & Field as well as Olympic Weightlifting.

Warren is married to the love of his life, Charity, and they have one son, Sidney, who loves running with the team and will be a Dipsea kid for the first time in 2023.