Amin Nikfar - Track and Field Coach - Texas A&M Athletics

Amin Nikfar

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
anikfar@athletics.tamu.edu

Amin Nikfar joins the Aggies from North Carolina after leading the Tar Heels throws group for the past six seasons. During his time in Chapel Hill, he guided his athletes to 14 All-America honors, highlighted by a runner-up finish from Tommy Kitchell in the shot put at the men’s 2025 NCAA Outdoor Championships, and a pair of third-place finishes at the women’s outdoor nationals, courtesy of Madison Wiltrout in the javelin and Jill Shippee in the hammer throw, in 2022 and 2021, respectively. His groups also stood out on the conference level, securing nine individual ACC titles across the indoor and outdoor seasons.

Prior to UNC, Nikfar served as an assistant coach at Stanford where he was named the 2019 USTFCCCA West Region’s Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year for his work with his four women’s NCAA Outdoor Championship competitors. He also spent time coaching at Southeastern Louisiana, the University of New Orleans, St. Francis High School and adds a pair of volunteer coaching roles at Northern Arizona and his alma mater, California.

Before his retunr to his home state, Nikfar spent three seasons — one as associate head coach and two as an assistant — at Southeastern Louisiana University where he coached throws and the high jump from 2015-18. Nikfar’s athletes at Southeastern Louisiana earned four All-America honors. He coached 11 NCAA East Prelims qualifiers, nine Southland Conference champions and 15 conference podium finishers.

Nikfar also coached the Lions’ Alex Young to NCAA and USA Championship titles in the hammer throw in 2017. That same year, Young won the U.S. hammer and weight throw titles and an NCAA weight throw championship under Nikfar’s guidance. Young was also an IAAF World Championships qualifier and NCAA hammer runner-up and continues to work with Nikfar in his professional career training.

Nikfar has worked with a number of other programs since graduating from the University of California, Berkeley in 2006. He served as a volunteer assistant coach during his final two years at Cal and was a volunteer assistant coach at Northern Arizona University from 2006-2009. After a brief coaching hiatus, Nikfar returned to coach throws at St. Francis High in Mountain View, California in 2014 and went on to coach throws, jumps and multis for one season at University of New Orleans. In New Orleans, Nikfar’s athletes combined for nine school records and a Southland Conference championship.

Nikfar, a shot put standout, competed in the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Olympic Games and appeared in two IAAF World Championships. He was a nine-time Iranian national champion and broke national records six times. He was the 2004 Asian Indoor Athletics champion, and his collegiate-best mark still ranks No. 8 on the Cal’s all-time list. His lifetime best of 65-9.5 (20.05 meters) from 2011 remains an Iranian national record.