University of Memphis Men's Track & Field

Kevin Robinson took over Memphis track and field/cross country programs in 2007 after he served as an assistant coach for the Tigers. His numbers across 18 years at the helm speak for themselves: Category American Conference C-USA Total All-Conference performers 274 352 626 NCAA Preliminaries/Regional qualifiers 172 166 338 Conference individual champions (C-USA/The American) 70 97 167 U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches (USTFCCCA) All-Academic honorees 79 103 182 NCAA All-Americans 41 69 110 NCAA Runners Up 5 5 NCAA Champions 1 1 Other highlights from Robinson’s tenure include: 316 All-Academic Honorees 39 Outdoor School Records 36 Indoor School Records 2007 Conference USA Outdoor Track and Field Championship (men) 2007 Conference USA Coach of the Year (men’s outdoor) Six conference Athletes of the Year (indoor/outdoor combined) Eight conference Freshmen/Newcomers of the Year (indoor/outdoor combined); the most recent Adar Sheere at 2019 American Athletic Conference outdoor meet Six conference Performance of the Meet recipients (indoor/outdoor combined); the most recent Luke Vaughn at 2018 American Athletic Conference outdoor meet Three conference High Point Scorers (indoor/outdoor combined) With a keen eye over the throwers, Robinson helped propel throwers Gabriel Koletsi (javelin) and Sascha Salesius Schmidt (shot put) qualify for their first NCAA Championships in 2025. Koletsi also broke the school record in the javelin with a 73.09-meter launch, one of seven records

Emron Gibbs joined the Memphis Track & Field program as an Assistant Coach in August 2021 before moving into his current role as assistant coach and director...

Sebek O’Jike Maat (Coach O) returned to his alma mater, the University of Memphis, in 2022 and currently serves as Assistant Coach for the men’s and women’s sprint, hurdle, and relay groups. Since his return, Maat’s athletes have established themselves among the best in program history, producing 10 school records, 13 NCAA East Preliminary qualifiers, and 18 conference medalists in just three seasons. Most recently, his groups set new standards in both men’s and women’s relays, highlighted by program records in the men’s 4x400m (3:06.02, 2025) and women’s 4x400m (3:32.27, 2025). His event groups have also delivered record-breaking individual performances, including Madison Fleming winning the American conference title in the 60m hurdles (8.17, 2024). She also holds the school record in the 100m hurdles (13.18, 2024). Prior Ochonogor’s 400m hurdles breakthrough (49.87, 2025), and multiple sprint and jump marks led by Jadaja Baxter now sit atop the University of Memphis record boards. Before returning to Memphis, Maat spent four seasons at Eastern Kentucky University, where he coached sprints, hurdles, jumps, and multis. He was elevated to the title of associate head coach in 2022 after leading EKU athletes to eight school records, 22 top-five all-time program marks, five NCAA East Preliminary entries and eight conference titles, as well as a 2022 USA U-20 Qualifier in the 100-meter hurdles. A native of Memphis, Tennessee, Maat began his tenure at EKU following three years as a

Xavier Kennedy joins the Memphis Tigers after coaching at Brewton-Parker College from 2021-2023. In Kennedy’s first season as an assistant coach, he oversaw the sprints, jumps and hurdles event groups at BPC before being promoted to head coach, in June 2022. In the first season at BPC, Kennedy helped lead the program to its first conference title in the history of the program. The men’s program was crowned Indoor Southern States Athletic Conference Champions, which was also the inaugural indoor championship for the conference. Kennedy also helped coach Brandon Schultz, who broke the NAIA National Record in the indoor 60-meter hurdles in 7.80 seconds, as he became back-to-back NAIA 60-meter hurdle National Champion. During his time at BPC, Kennedy coached nine NAIA National Qualifiers, a pair of NAIA-All Americans and a dozen SSAC Conference Champions. Kennedy was also a part of the program's success that had (66) all-conference athletes, (1) Freshman All-Conference Cross Country athlete, (11) academic all-conference cross country athletes and (6) academic all-conference track & field athletes. He helped coach athletes to 51 school-record breaking performances during his time coaching at BPC. Kennedy got his start in coaching with the Southeast Striders Track & Field Club for six seasons in Conyers, Ga. Kennedy has pursued many facets of track and field as he was a DI long and triple jumper at Troy University, an NCSA Track and Field evaluator and a GATFXCCA Clinician in 2023.