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.
Coach Stewart was a multi-sport athlete in high school competing in basketball, football, track & field, and tennis. He went on to play college basketball at Cowley County Community College in Arkansas City, Kansas before transferring to the University of North Texas at Denton with studies in Music Education and Composition. In 2002 Stewart joined the Rio Grande Valley Dorado's Arena Football team. He eventually made his way back to the sport of track and field while training with Pioneer Elite.
Stewart is an accomplished musician as well as a minister of the gospel. He has served in numerous areas of ministry including youth and teen minister at Agape Christian Fellowship and Destiny Center, Children's and Youth Pastor and lead pianist at North Dallas Fellowship, and Worship Pastor and lead pianist at Life Community Church. He and his family currently attend Trinity Church in Cedar Hill, Texas. Cedric and his beautiful wife of 30 years, Shawn, reside in Cedar Hill and have 7 children (Jaylan, Kimberlyn, Cedric II, Makenzie, Cameron, Kobe and Ezra). Mr. Stewart is one of the highest seniority Locomotive Engineers for Herzog Transit and has operated the Trinity Railway Express in the DFW area since 1998.
