Garvin Ambrose Position: Volunteer Assistant Coach Experience: 4th Season Specialty: High Jumpers

Garvin Ambrose enters his fourth season as the volunteer assistant high jump coach. Under Ambrose's guidance, UIC's high jump athletes have been quite successful, with Andy Wall taking second in the high jump at both the 2009 Horizon League Indoor and Outdoor Championships and Mike Savegnago taking third at the 2008 league outdoor championships.

Ambrose was a three-year member of the Southeast Missouri State University track and field team and competed for the football team in 2001. He was a two-time Ohio Valley Conference champion in the high jump with a personal-best mark of 6'11". Ambrose also competed in the long jump, triple jump, 4x100-meter and 4x400-meter relays.

Ambrose received a B.A. in criminal justice from SEMO in 2001, followed by a law degree from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Mich., in 2005.

When Ambrose is not volunteering as the Flames' high jump coach, he works as an Assistant State's Attorney with the Cook County State's Attorney Office in the Juvenile Justice Bureau.

His is married to Toya Ambrose, head coach of the UIC Dancing Flames.