Women's Track & Field
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
Kiley Bastien is entering her sixth year as a volunteer assistant coach for the University of Michigan track and field team in 2024-25, working primarily with the pole vaulters.
In 2024, Cate Visscher saw a seventh place finish at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships with a mark of 4.07m, making her just the sixth Wolverine on the women's team to clear 4.00m.
In the 2023 season, Henry Sheldon and Cole Sheldon tied for ninth in pole vault at at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships.
Bastien helped mentor the best-ever Wolverine women’s pole vault duo in 2021 as Jessica Mercier won the Big Ten Indoor Championships title and finished runner-up outdoors, and Mia Manson finished fourth in the Big Ten outdoors. She watched as Mercier tied Bastien’s own school record with a clearance of 4.25m (13-11.25) at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships, where she and Manson became the first pair of Michigan teammates to clear 4.15m (13-7.25) in the same competition.
Under her guidance, Mercier has a Big Ten title, two silver medals, and another fourth-place finish.
Bastien (née Tobel) was a standout pole vaulter for the Wolverines during her undergraduate career in 2010-14. She was a four-time All-American in the pole vault and three-time Big Ten runner-up, and still owns at least a share of both the program’s indoor and outdoor records in the event. She was also a CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2014.
She is married to former Michigan standout and Olympian Steven Bastien.
