Lions Track and Field/Cross Country Coaching Staff
Head Coach, Sean Brady
Southeastern Track and Field alumnus Sean Brady begins his fifth season as head coach continuing to build on a successful foundation.
With solid recruiting classes each season during his tenure, Southeastern has improved on its performance in the Southland Conference Championships in each of Brady’s first four seasons, including the Lions’ highest-ever finish (sixth-place) at the 2004 SLC Outdoor Championships and a seventh-place showing at the 2006 SLC Indoors. The 2005 outdoor squad earned its first-ever regional (23rd) and national (53rd) rankings.
On the women’s side, the Lady Lions finished ninth overall at the 2004 SLC Outdoor Championships, scoring their most points since 2000, finishing seventh at the 2005 SLC Indoors, posting their highest finish since 2000.
And with a solid job done by Brady and his staff on attracting student-athletes to Southeastern, the record books have been under constant assault with nearly 40 records broken since 2002 - many of them previously set back in the 1980’s.
In the past four seasons, 20 student-athletes have qualified for the NCAA Mideast Regionals, two athletes (Chris Carter and Shakeitha Henfield) have participated in the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, and six athletes have captured Southland Conference individual championships with 31 earning All-SLC honors.
In his first season, Brady was instrumental in the performance of Courage Idusuyi, who placed first in both the long- and triple jump at the 2002 Southland Conference Outdoor Championships. In fact, Brady guided four All-SLC selections in his first season as Idusuyi, Janice Ezegbunam (women’s high jump) and Asbel Ngetich (Cross Country) each earned All-SLC honors.
A former assistant at LSU and Utah State, Brady spent three years at Southeastern, competing in the pole vault and earning a personal-best 16 feet, 5 inch mark as a senior.
He served two seasons as an assistant coach for Pat Henry at LSU before moving to Utah State in 1998 where he coached a pair of Big West Conference champions. While at LSU, Brady coached several world class sprinters on the men’s team while assisting with meet preparation.
After earning his degree in Kinesiology at Southeastern in 1994, Brady went on and earned his Post Graduate degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland where he taught athletics classes in the sports science curriculum while helping train professional athletes.
Brady graduated from Alexandria (La.) Senior High School where he was a district and regional champion in the pole vault. He went to Northwestern State University, where he was a member of the school’s football team before transferring to Southeastern in 1991.
The son of James and Karen Brady, both Southeastern alums, Sean Brady holds certification from USA Track and Field as a Level I and II coach.
His father, a former track and field letterwinner in the 1960’s, was named the 1995 Southeastern Alumnus of the Year and currently serves as a federal judge.
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