Coach Rodney Heath starts his 7th season as Head Coach for the Lakota East Boys & Girls Track & Field team. Coach Heath has over twenty (20) years of track and field experience and has produced several athletes who have become individual GMC, District, Regional and State champions. During his career, he has coached multiple athletes who have gone on to compete as student-athletes in college. During his six years with Lakota East, Coach Heath earned the GMC Coach of the Year award twice. He has won one (1) OATCCC girls indoor state championship (2019), four (4) girls team district championships (2017, 2018, 2019, 2021), one (1) girls team regional championship (2019), and one (1) girls team state championship (2019). During the 2019 outdoor season, Coach Heath assembled a girls 4x100m relay team of Dawn Hilton, Kaylyn Heath, Azariyah Bryant, and Serena Clark who went on to break the OHSAA State record across all divisions and are the current state record holders in this relay (45.82).  

 Coach Heath is married to Kimberly. They have three children: Autumn (Purdue University alum), Kaylyn (University of Kentucky) and Rodney Jr. (University of Kentucky). All three of their children graduated from Lakota East and have won individual state champion titles. Autumn is a member of Purdue's current school record-holding women's 4x100m relay team. Kaylyn and Rodney Jr. are currently student-athletes in college.