Tony Wallace, a former Oklahoma Christian standout, joined the OC track and field coaching staff before the 2015 season.
Wallace graduated from OC in 1992 with a youth ministry degree. He competed in track and field for four years for the Eagles, first as a hurdler and long jumper and later as a decathlete. He finished 13th in the NAIA in the decathlon as a sophomore, seventh as a junior and reached the decathlon’s final event, the 1,500 meters, as a senior before suffering an injury that ended his competition.
He worked full-time in campus ministry from 1994 to 2008 in Missouri and Alabama, and now serves as a roofing contractor and the college/outreach minister for the Deer Creek Church of Christ in Edmond.
Wallace also has had a second career as a coach, beginning at Northwest Missouri State from 1994 to 1998, then continuing at Missouri-Rolla from 2000 to 2002. He worked as an assistant coach at Mobile Christian School in Mobile, Ala., helping that program win four state prep championships, and later did the same at Deer Creek High School in Edmond, also playing a role in four state titles.
At OC, he was a primary coach of Landon Huslig, a five-time NCAA Division II All-American. Two of those honors came in the 400-meter hurdles in 2017 and 2018, with Huslig winning OC’s first Division Ii title the latter year. Wallace also helped coach McKenzie Stanford to both indoor (second-team) and outdoor (first-team) All-America honors in 2018.
Wallace and his wife, Ginger, live in Edmond. Their son Austin was a decathlete at OC who won the National Christian College Athletic Association title as a sophomore in 2014 and their daughter Alanna also attended OC.
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