Damien Brigham begins his first season as an assistant coach for the Alabama A&M men's and women's track and field program.
Prior to arriving at Alabama A&M, Brigham served as the assistant coach for the men’s and women’s track & field program at Coastal Carolina. Prior to Coastal Carolina, Brigham was an assistant coach at Paramount High School in Paramount, Calif. While there he focused on developing training cycles for the sprinters, jumpers, and hurdlers, as well as weight room workouts and managing home meets.
During the 2014-15 seasons, he worked as a graduate assistant at Concordia University in Irvine, Calif. His emphasis was training relays, hurdles, jumps and multi-events. Among his duties was the planning of training schedules and workout modules for individual athletes, along with preparing strategies, plans and programs for athletic improvement. Also, coordinating all recruiting trips and activities on recruitment trips, while maintaining discipline and strict compliance code of conduct, as determined by the university and NCAA, of student athletes.
From 2011-14, Brigham was an assistant track coach at McNeese State in Lake Charles, La. While there his focus was training sprints, relays, hurdle races, multi-events and horizontal jumps, preparing strategies and programs to help student athletes improve.
Brigham previously served coaching stints at Paul Quinn College, Stillman College and at American International, coaching several All-Americans including Olympic representative Adolphus Jones and Meritza Williams. In 2008, he was responsible for starting the Track Program at Texas College in Tyler, TX.
The native of Dallas, Texas is a 2005 graduate of Jackson State where they were conference champions . He has competed professionally as a sprinter for Brooks Running Shoe Company and was a participant in the '03 and `04 Olympic trials and world championship trials. Brigham is the father of two daughters, McKenna and Laila.
