DALLAS – University of North Texas at Dallas announced two additions to the cross country and track and field programs with Tenisha Jones and Cedric Stewart. Jones was named Director of Operations, while Stewart was named Recruiting Coordinator. Each are also assistant coaches and join first-year head coach Darvis "Doc" Patton.
 
Jones brings a lifelong passion for track & field and athlete development to the coaching staff. A former collegiate athlete, Jones began competing in track at the age of four and continued through college, earning two Junior Olympic appearances (2004, 2005) and competing for Buffalo State College from 2007–2011. During her collegiate career, she was the 2007 SUNYAC Outdoor Triple Jump Champion and SUNYAC State Champion before an ACL injury in 2008 ended her competitive career.

Jones transitioned seamlessly into coaching and athlete development, beginning private training in 2014 with a focus on proper running mechanics and speed development. In 2019, she founded PASE Training, working with middle and high school athletes across the DFW Metroplex and Midland, Texas. Since 2022, she has coached with Legendary Elite Track Club, while also serving as a jumps and sprints coach at Southwest Christian High School in 2024. There, she coached a TAPPS Long Jump and Triple Jump State Champion and State Record holder, while contributing to 10 state titles and 16 school records.

In 2025, Jones served as the Jumps Coach at Texas Wesleyan University, where her athletes earned two indoor national qualifiers, one Indoor Triple Jump All-American honor, a SAC Championship, two SAC runner-up finishes, and two outdoor national qualifiers. Her coaching philosophy centers on technical excellence, injury prevention, and holistic athlete development.
 
Coach Cedric Stewart, a native of Kansas, has coached track and field for more than two decades. He has been a USATF & AAU coach since 2003, and he received his USATF level 1 coaching certification in 2007. He is also a member of the Southwestern Association of Track and Field Officials Apprentice program and holds AAU's positive coaching alliance level 1 & 2 certifications. Stewart has obtained multiple sports performance certifications including his CPT and PES through the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM). 
 
Coach Stewart founded Legendary Elite Track Club in 2007. Since Legendary's conception, Coach Stewart has been central in the production of multiple USATF / AAU Jr. Olympic National Championships and a host of elite level performances on the local, regional, and national stage. Stewarts coaching success has reached the international level as three athletes from Legendary have qualified for USA World Youth Teams. In July 2015, Stewart coached an elite USA youth athlete to a 3rd place finish in the 400M at the IAAF World Youth Championships in Cali, Columbia.
 
From 2009 until 2017 Stewart, affectionately known as "Coach C" worked as a Middle School and High School coach at Grace Prep Academy in Arlington, Texas. He also served as Grace Prep high schools Head Cross Country coach. In 2017 Stewart was offered a position as Head Track & Field Coach at Southwest Christian School in Fort Worth, Texas. In Stewarts time at SCS, the program reigned in an unprecedented number of individual & team state championships and the girls' team was State Champion Runner-Up 4 years in a row. In his final season at SCS, his team would break just about every school record in the books (both boys and girls) and would go on to set 7 state records at the TAPPS 5A State Championship meet (Girls - 100M, 200M, 4X100M, Long Jump, and Triple Jump. Boys - 200M. 4X400M).

Coach C also served as Head Sports Performance Coach while at Southwest Christians School. He designed and implemented weight-room and athletic performance programs for every sport in every season and was responsible for the progress of more than 250 athletes. The Henderson Cup Award is recognized by TAPPS for the overall champion in each classification. The Champion is determined by the points each school earns in the TAPPS Championships held throughout the school year. It is the highest honor in TAPPS. In the 2021-2022 school year, with Coach Stewart at the helm in athletics, Southwest Christian School won the TAPPS 5A Henderson Cup Award. This marks the 1st time in school history that the Eagles have won the Henderson Cup. Stewart's high school success catapulted him onto the college level where he spent his first season with the Rams of Texas Wesleyan University in 2024. He joined the UNT Dallas Trailblazers in 2025 where he currently serves as Associate Head Coach for Track & Field / Cross Country, as well as Recruiting Coordinator.