Brooks Rexroat arrives at Bluefield State University after serving as associate head track and field coach at Lees-McRae College (NCAA Division II). During the Covid-impacted 2020 and 2021 seasons, athletes in his event groups broke 20 school records and earned 24 all-conference honors, two national qualifying marks, 47 Conference Carolinas Presidential Honor Roll awards, and two USTFCCA team academic achievement awards. He was the lead recruiter for a 2021 freshman class that included athletes who heard 13 national top-200 marks during their high school careers, including state champions from Texas, Alabama, and Florida. His work there included mentorship of all-American hurdler Britney Augustin and two-time NCAA Division II national qualifier Za’Isha Fraser (triple jump).
Prior to joining the staff at LMC, Rexroat helped lead the expansion of running sports from a distance-heavy program to a full track and field squad at Brescia University (NAIA) in Kentucky. His athletes there set 36 school records and turned in eight all-conference performances and a national qualifying mark in the decathlon. Landon Holt, the 2019 River States Conference Track and Field Athlete of the Year, accomplished a provisional national qualifying mark in the decathlon, the program’s first ever national qualifying mark in a non-distance event.
Rexroat began his collegiate coaching career with three seasons at Tennessee Tech University (NCAA Division I), where he led the women’s power event groups for Head Coach Tony Cox. The Golden Eagle sprint, jump, and hurdle groups set 10 school records and earned 20 Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner’s Medal of Honor awards.
Rexroat competed collegiately as a hurdler, sprinter, and jumper at Morehead State University (NCAA Division I). He was a 2001 Verizon/CoSida Academic All-Region performer for the Eagles under head coach Dan Lindsay and sprint coach Bob Stacey. High jumper Katherine Lynn became the school’s first ever OVC champion in a power event (high jump).
Rexroat holds USA Track and Field Level II Certification in sprints, relays, hurdles, and throws. He was a participant in the 2007 USA Track and Field Team USA Olympic Podium Project/High Performance Coaching Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada.
He holds a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing from Southern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication/Print Journalism from Morehead State University. A 2016-2017 William J. Fulbright U.S. Teaching and Research Scholar in the Russian Federation Rexroat has a decade of classroom teaching experience at universities and colleges including the University of Cincinnati, Marshall University, and Johns Hopkins University. A Cincinnati, Ohio native, he lives in Bluefield with his wife Rachael and their dog, Eeyore.
