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Three-time national champion sprinter Greg Sholars was part of a 4x100 relay team that recorded a 25-race unbeaten streak, earning National Championship honors in 1986 and 1987, and also won the title in 1989 with a record time of 38.23 seconds. Sholars earned All-America honors in those seasons as well. He was a sprinter on the U.S. National Team in 1984, 1988 and 1989 and was a member of the World University Team in 1989. His 1984 time of 9.9 in the 100 still stands as a record in Texas high school sprints. Currently working as a financial advisor for Merrill Lynch, Sholars was also an Olympic Trials qualifier in 1988 and 1992. Sholars began his post-collegiate track career coaching at The University of Louisiana-Monroe as a graduate assistant before serving as an assistant coach at the University of North Texas. He was an assistant strength coach and coordinator of speed and conditioning at the University of Florida from 1990 through 1992, when he moved back to the Lone Star State to work at the University of Texas. At UT, Sholars was the assistant women's track and field coach and the head women's cross country coach. He also handled recruiting coordination duties while there. In 1995, he assumed the head coach of track and field as well as cross country at Texas Tech, being promoted to director of the men's and women's programs in 1997. During that time, he has coached conference champions in the Southeastern Conference, the Southwestern Conference and the Big XII. Sholars' athletes themselves have reached world acclaim, as his former student-athletes have competed in the 1996 Olympics as well as the 1995, 1997 and 1999 World Track and Field Championships.