Ricardo Torres joined the Valpo track & field coaching staff in August 2025. He serves as an assistant track & field coach, specializing in the sprints, jumps and hurdles.
Torres arrived at Valpo after gaining seven years of power-conference experience as part of the track & field staff at Baylor University in Waco, Texas.
Torres served as a graduate assistant coach for the Bears over the last two years after spending two years as a volunteer assistant coach and three as a student equipment manager for the track & field program.
Torres was part of the coaching efforts (working under and alongside Baylor associate head coach Stacey Smith) that helped Alexis Brown become an outdoor Big 12 champion and an indoor and outdoor All-American in the long jump in 2024 and Baylor’s first national champion in the indoor long jump in 2025, when Brown also broke the program record and swept the indoor and outdoor Big 12 long jump titles. In 2025, freshman Janae de Gannes finished as a Second Team All-American in the long jump at Outdoor Nationals. Freshman Iyanna Webb finished the season with All-Big 12 honors in the triple jump, both indoors and outdoors, as well.
During his time as a volunteer assistant coach, Torres primarily worked with jumps, sprints, and distance and assisted Smith in coaching the following: one outdoor second team All-American in women’s long jump (Alex Madlock, 14th place at nationals, 2021), one long jump Big 12 champion & indoor All-American (Johnny Brackins 2022), one women’s long jump All-American and All-Big 12 athlete (Caira Pettway 2022) and two All-Big 12 athletes in women’s triple jump (Alex Madlock and Koi Johnson). He also helped coach Moorea Long to All-Big 12 indoor honors in high jump. In 2023, he was a part of aiding Koi Johnson in reaching Second Team All-American status in triple jump, where she finished 17th at nationals and she also earned indoor and outdoor All-Big 12 honors in triple jump and indoor All-Big 12 recognition for indoor long jump. He helped Johnson reach All-Big 12 honors in the indoor triple jump in 2024. Additionally, he coached two All-Big 12 high jumpers in Moorea Long and Aïcha Moumin.
Torres graduated from Baylor in May 2025 with a master’s in exercise physiology.
