Bio

Keoni enters his fourth year as the director of track and field/cross country (non-coaching) where in that time the size of the team has almost doubled.  He was previously the head track and field coach from 2007-2020 where his men’s track and field team always finished second or third and the women’s track and field team finished second or third every year except for one.  Coach McHone was the head cross country and distance/throws coach from 2000-2006 before taking over as the head coach for both programs and then focused on his coaching efforts on the sprints/hurdles/jumps/multi-events starting in 2007. 

Keoni accumulated 63 NWAC Track and Field individual champion performances while the head track and field coach and 196 NWAC All-American performances (top 3) in his time at Clackamas.  He personally coached ten school records in all event areas including cross country and nine other school records were broken while the head track and field coach.   He coached athletes that currently hold NWAC Championship meet records in the women’s 200, men’s hammer throw, heptathlon javelin, heptathlon day 2, and co-coached the women’s triple jump meet record holder while having coached the second best men’s discus and heptathlon, respectively.  His heptathletes won the NWAC heptathlon four times and were runner-up three times between 2011-2019.  He personally coached the fastest men’s 100 and men’s 400 hurdles times at the NWAC Championship in the last twenty-five years.  Coach McHone personally coached two NWAC cross country championship teams and finished either second or third for men and women between 2001-2007 and had three individual champions as well.  His cross country athletes earned NWAC All-American on 18 other occasions from 2001-2007.   He was voted a three-time NWAC Coach of the Year and thirteen-time Southern Region Coach of the Year. 

Coach McHone came to Clackamas by way of Western Oregon University where he was a graduate assistant for two years where he coached men to run 10.54 in the 100, 21.38 in the 200, 40.90 in the 4 x 100, and six men under 10.86 in a single season.  His second season coaching at WOU resulted in school records in the men’s 4 x 100, women’s 4 x 100 and women’s 4 x 400.  There he was mentored by John Knight who is in the NAIA and WOU Coaching Hall of Fame and Berny Wagner who was a U.S. Olympic Team Coach and coached Dick Fosbury. 

Keoni competed at WOU where he earned NAIA All-American status in the 4 x 100 and competed at Nationals in the 4 x 100 two other years and was also a three-time Cascade Conference champion in the 4 x 100.  One of the seasons he won the 100, 200, 4 x 100 and 4 x 400 at the conference meet and was also in the conference final in the 100 and 200 four years in a row.  Coach McHone was also a two-time team captain, Men’s Newcomer of the Year and awarded Best in Sport for WOU Track and Field. 

Coach McHone is a USATF Level I and USTFCCCA certified coach.  He has presented at clinics on power training for the throws, long jump approach development and air mechanics, hurdle development for beginners, sprint speed development, motor learning techniques for track and field, high jump approach and its effects on technique over the bar, mental imagery strategies for physical performance, and concepts for sprints pedagogy.