Kurt Henry joined the Texas A&M coaching staff in 2021 and was retained by new head coach Leroy Burrell in the summer of 2026. During his time in Aggieland, Henry’s sprint and hurdle groups have delivered an NCAA national championship, SEC titles and nine school records.
A coaching veteran of the high school, NAIA and NCAA ranks, Henry has developed 15 national champions and 92 All-America honorees over his career, adding seven conference championships and 29 conference medals.
Henry rejoined the Texas A&M staff as a full-time assistant in August 2021 under then head coach Pat Henry, and his sprint and hurdle groups have since rewritten the record books in the women's 60m, outdoor 200m, 4x100m relay, 60m hurdles and 100m hurdles, along with the men's 60m hurdles, 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles. His group stayed productive in 2026, producing 10 NCAA All-America honors at the national championships. Jaiya Covington earned First Team All-America recognition in both the indoor 60m hurdles and outdoor 100m hurdles, while Ja'Qualon Scott added First Team honors in the indoor 60m hurdles and Second Team recognition in the outdoor 110m hurdles and 400m hurdles. Camryn Dickson collected five All-America honors of her own, highlighted by First Team recognition in the indoor 200m, outdoor 200m and 4x100m relay.
The year before, in 2025, Henry's groups played a pivotal role in the Aggies' 10th NCAA national title and first SEC men's indoor conference championship. Covington won the NCAA indoor 60m hurdles title in a school-record 7.90 seconds, becoming the first Aggie woman to win the event, while Scott placed second in the NCAA outdoor 400m hurdles with a school-record 48.29. Jasmine Montgomery and Dickson combined for 11 more All-America honors and three SEC medals, pushing the group's season total to 17 NCAA All-America honors.
Henry's hurdlers went 1-2 at the SEC Indoor Championships in the 60m hurdles in 2024, when Connor Schulman tied the school record at 7.59 before Scott claimed it outright with a 7.58 to place third at the NCAA Championships. Scott went on to set a school record of 13.15 in the outdoor 110m hurdles, later lowering it to 13.09 at the Olympic Trials, while Semira Killebrew set a school record in the 60m at 7.16.
In 2023, Henry's group produced 13 NCAA All-America honors, sending both 4x100m relay teams to the national championships and four hurdlers, Covington, Schulman, Bryce McCray and James Smith II, to All-America recognition. That built on his 2022 debut season back at Texas A&M, when Laila Owens, Kaylah Robinson, Lance Broom and Smith combined for eight NCAA All-America honors, with Smith earning First Team recognition in the 400m hurdles.
Before returning to Texas A&M, Henry spent two seasons as an assistant at his alma mater, New Mexico, from 2019-21, working primarily with the sprints, hurdles and sprint relays. His athletes won Mountain West titles in the 200m and 400m, and the men's 4x400m relay also claimed a conference championship, part of six Mountain West event titles and 13 scoring finishes during his tenure.
Henry arrived at New Mexico after two seasons at Wayland Baptist, where he developed 34 NAIA All-Americans, including 14 national champions, across the sprints, jumps, relays and hurdles from 2017-19. His athletes set national indoor records in the men's 400m and 4x400m, and he helped lead the Pioneers to three indoor NAIA national team titles, earning USTFCCCA Outdoor Regional Assistant Coach of the Year honors for both the men's and women's teams in 2018 and 2019.
Prior to Wayland Baptist, Henry got his first taste of Aggieland as a volunteer assistant at Texas A&M from 2014-17, working with the men's sprint group while also helping with the jumps and hurdles. In 2017, he coached Will Williams to First Team All-America honors in the long jump both indoors and outdoors. Williams finished second at the NCAA Indoor Championships (7.89m, 25-10.75) and third outdoors (7.96m, 26-1.5), the same season the Aggies won the NCAA men's indoor national title and finished as outdoor runner-up.
Henry began his coaching career in his home state of New Mexico, serving as an assistant alongside his brother, head coach Kenny Henry, at Cibola High School from 2008-10, before taking over as head coach at Sandia High School from 2010-12 and Albuquerque High School from 2012-14.
As a student-athlete, Henry ran sprints at New Mexico from 2005-09, earning Mountain West All-Conference honors in 2006 and 2007 as part of a 4x400m relay that won the Lobos' first men's conference title in the event in 20 years.
A native of Albuquerque, New Mexico, Henry earned his bachelor's degree in University Studies, with an emphasis on physical education and communication, from the University of New Mexico in 2009. He and his wife, Ashley, welcomed a son, Hudson Mark Henry, on Jan. 9, 2026.
Track and field runs deep in the Henry family. He is the nephew of former Texas A&M head coach Pat Henry, and his father, Matt Henry, and uncle, Mark Henry, both coached at New Mexico from 2000-07. His grandfather, Gwinn "Bub" Henry, served as an assistant track and field coach and alumni director at New Mexico, and his great-grandfather, Gwinn Henry, was the school's head football coach from 1934-36.
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PERSONAL |
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Hometown |
Albuquerque, New Mexico |
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Education |
New Mexico, 2009 |
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ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE |
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2005-09 |
New Mexico |
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COACHING EXPERIENCE |
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2009-11 |
Cibola HS (N.M.), Assistant Coach |
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2011-14 |
Sandia HS (N.M.), Head Coach |
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2014-17 |
Texas A&M, Volunteer Assistant |
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2017-19 |
Wayland Baptist, Assistant Coach |
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2019-21 |
New Mexico, Assistant Coach |
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2021-Current |
Texas A&M, Assistant Coach |