BRADY UP CLOSE

PERSONAL

Hometown: Alexandria, Louisiana
Wife: Ashley
Children: Noah
Education:
Southeastern Louisiana, 1994 (Bachelor's in Kinesiology)

COACHING HISTORY

1996-97: Louisiana State, Volunteer Assistant
1998-99: Utah State, Assistant Coach
1999-2017: Southeastern Louisiana, Head Coach
2017-Pres.: Texas A&M, Assistant Coach (Jumps, Multi-Events)

TEXAS A&M COACHING ACHIEVEMENTS

Two-Time USTFCCCA Women's National Assistant Coach of the Year ('20 (i), '21 (i))
Three-Time USTFCCCA South Central Regional Assistant Coach of the Year ('18 (o), '20 (i), '21(o))
37 All-SEC Finishers
38 All-Americans
6 NCAA National Champions

Last Updated 3/14/2022

Sean Brady joined the Aggie track and field staff in July of 2017 as an assistant coach, working with jumpers and multi-event athletes. Brady previously served as head coach at Southeastern Louisiana University for 17 years.

In his fifth year with the Aggies, Brady has collected three USTFCCCA South Central Regional Assistant Coach of the Year honors and two USTFCCCA Women's National Assistant Coach of the Year honors. Under his guidance, his athletes have collected 37 All-SEC honorees, 38 All-America mentions and six individual event national titles.

During the 2022 indoor season, his athletes produced five All-SEC recognitions, including champions Zach Davis (pole vault) and Lamara Distin (high jump). He also coached the conference's top freshman female pole vaulter who earned All-SEC freshman team honors. On the national level, he qualified Distin and Deborah Acquah to the indoor NCAA Championships where the pair combined to score 20 of the team's 24 points. Most notably, Distin won the national championship in high jump at 6-3.5/1.92m. The clearance marked the second greatest performance in Aggie history. Acquah placed third in the long jump and fifth in the triple jump. In coaching his athletes to be consistent, Distin high cleared 6'0" or higher in six of the seven meets she entered including the last three meets where she cleared 6'3" and higher.

Brady earned his second career USTFCCCA women's national assistant coach of the year honor after a more than impressive indoor season. At the 2021 NCAA Indoor Championships Brady's group of jumpers scored 34 points, nearly 60% of Texas A&M's team total of 57 points, a total good enough to grab runner-up honors in the NCAA team championship race. No other assistant coach had as many athletes produce that many points for their team at the NCAA Indoor meet. The jump squad qualified three athletes that totaled six entries for the NCAA meet. At the championships the group recorded four podium finishes, including two NCAA titles, one second place and one third place finish. His athletes bettered two NCAA meet records and set one collegiate record.

Most notably, Brady coached Gittens to the third highest individual point total in women's NCAA history at 26 points. Gittens became the first female ever to win a pentathlon and high jump title at the same NCAA Championship. Brady also coached Deborah Acquah to a second place finish in the triple jump, which equalled the NCAA meet record mark of 14.27m/46-10. In total, he produced seven All-America finishers, six women and one on the men's side.

At the 2021 SEC Indoor Championships he coached Gittens to a 23-point performance, which is the most by an SEC female since 2008.

Brady was named the 2021 USTFCCCA Indoor Women's National Assistant Coach of the Year for his efforts.

Highlighted by his third career USTFCCCA south central regional assistant coach of the year honor, the 2021 outdoor season was one for the record books. Brady's athletes produced six NCAA All-America honors, including Gittens winning the heptathlon title and Lamara Distin finishing runner-up in the high jump. On the conference level, he produced five All-SEC finishers, Acquah (long jump) and Gittens (heptathlon) claimed SEC event titles. At the SEC Outdoor Championships, his athletes scored 50 of the 82 points on the women's side, while at the NCAA Championships the jumps squad scored nearly 62 percent of the Aggies' women's 63 points to finish runner-up.

Success continued through the 2021 summer as Gittens made her Olympic debut at the Tokyo Games. Competing for Trinidad & Tobago, Gittens finished 10th in the long jump with a mark of 6.60m/21-8. In June, Distin won the Jamaica high jump national championship.

During the 2020 indoor season he guided three Aggies to six national top-15 marks on the women's side, including Gittens as the only female athlete at the Division I level to qualify for the NCAA Championships in three individual events. Three school records were shattered while a dozen new marks were added to the all-time Aggie top-12 performer list.

Between the men's and women's teams his athletes scored 53 points at the 2020 SEC Indoor Championships. His women's athletes scored 44 of the team's 58 points, including a 21 point performance by Gittens who was recognized with the Cliff Harper Award as the top point scorer on the women's side.

In his first season at Texas A&M, the jumps group produced a pair of national champions, five conference champions along with nine first-team All-America honors from six athletes.

Those accomplishments earned Brady the women’s South Central Assistant Coach of the Year in 2018.

Will Williams won the NCAA Indoor long jump title while Tahar Triki claimed the NCAA Outdoor triple jump title. They each won their respective SEC titles and were joined by Jacob Wooten, indoor pole vault, Audie Wyatt, outdoor pole vault, and Tyra Gittens, heptathlon.

Gittens also earned the SEC Outdoor Freshman Field Event Athlete of the Year honor along with the South Central women’s Field Athlete of the Year. Triki was named the South Central men’s Field Athlete of the Year.

Each of the conference champions also earned first-team All-America honors along with LaJarvia Brown in the triple jump. Athletes in the jump group also received six second-team All-America honors and one honorable mention.

During the indoor campaign in 2018, Wooten broke the pole vault school record twice with heights of 18-3 (5.56) and 18-4 ½ (5.60) while Williams bettered an Aggie 12-year-old long jump record with a 26-10 ½ (8.19) leap in winning the national championship.

Outdoors, Gittens won the SEC heptathlon with a school record score of 6,074 points and came within three inches of the Aggie record in the long jump with a 21-2 ¾ (6.47) performance. Meanwhile, a wind-aided mark of 27-1 (8.25) by Williams in the SEC meet generated the best all-conditions long jump in school history.

In 2009, Brady was named South Central Region men’s co-Coach of the Year along with Arkansas’ Chris Bucknam, the same season he earned his first Southland Conference Coach of the Year accolade.

The 2009 Southeastern Louisiana team had 10 athletes who qualified for NCAA postseason competition in 15 different events. The Lions also had the Southland Conference Athlete of the Year and Outstanding Field Performer of the Year that season.

In 2014, Brady earned men’s indoor and outdoor conference Coach of the Year honors as the Lions claimed a sweep of the Southland team championships.

Southeastern Louisiana recorded its highest team finishes at the NCAA Championships under Brady. The Lion men placed 12^th in the 2016 NCAA Indoor Championships and tied for 33^rd in the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships.

Over the course of 17 seasons at Southeastern Louisiana, Brady’s program had 132 athletes qualify for NCAA regional competition and 35 athletes competed in the NCAA Outdoor Championships. A total of 19 Lions earned All-America honors between indoor and outdoor seasons.

On the conference level, Brady had 58 individual champions in the Southland Conference meets. The Lions also had six Southland Conference Athletes of the Year, 10 conference Newcomers of the Year and two athletes received Freshman of the Year honors.

Brady was a volunteer assistant with Coach Henry at LSU in 1996 and 1997, and became an assistant coach with Utah State in 1998.

A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Brady graduated from Alexandria Senior High School, where he was a district and regional champion in the pole vault. He competed in the pole vault at Southeastern Louisiana for three seasons after spending two years at Northwestern State, where he was a defensive back on the Demon football team.

After earning a degree in Kinesiology at Southeastern Louisiana in 1994, Brady earned a post graduate degree from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland while teaching athletics classes in the sports science curriculum and training professional athletes.

Brady holds certification from USA Track & Field as a Level I and II coach. He and his wife, Ashley, have one son, Noah.