Colorado University Athletics
Track and Field
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Lex Butler is in his second year as a volunteer assistant coach at Colorado, joining the staff in the fall of 2012.
Butler is the CU indoor 60-meter hurdle record holder. His time of 7.75 seconds was set at the 2000 Big 12 Indoor Championships when he won the conference title. A few weeks later, he earned All-American status at nationals with a ninth-place finish in the preliminary rounds.
The Mansfield, Texas native remains one of the top hurdlers of all time at Colorado. He owns the top nine times in the indoor 60-hurdles and is third in the indoor 55-hurdles (7.31). Outdoors, Butler is the third best CU performer in the 110-hurdles; owning the fifth through ninth fastest times to date. While at CU, he was named the CU Athlete of the Week on two occasions, earned several all-conference honors and was a letterwinner from 1998-2002. Butler went on to coach at the U.S. Naval Academy from 2003-2007.
While at Mansfield High School, he competed in track and played football. Butler graduated with the MHS 110-hurdles record (13.70) and the regional record (13.72).
Butler graduated from CU in 2002 with a bachelor’s degree in political science and earned his master’s in 2008 from George Washington University.
