Northern Kentucky University Athletics

Brooks Doughtie was hired as the first head coach of Northern Kentucky's Men's and Women's Triathlon programs in May 2024, and is entering his second season with the Norse. 

In 2024-25, NKU Women's Triathlon was honored as a CTCA Scholarship All-American Team, and student-athlete Alisha Detmer was honored as an All-American Honorable Mention. 

In the 2024 Women's Triathlon National Championship, Detmer won the third heat and finished in 116th place in the event. 

Doughtie made his way to Highland Heights after he spent the 2023-24 season as the Head Women’s Swimming and Head Women’s Triathlon Coach at Guiflord College that competed in NCAA Division III. While there, his women’s triathlon team placed third overall at the NCAA East Regional and two of his student-athletes advanced to the NCAA National Championships, where the team placed tenth in the nation. It was the first time the program finished in the top-10 in school history.

Prior to joining Guilford, Doughtie was an assistant swim coach for William Peace University from 2022-2023. He also spent three years club swim coaching for YOTA swim team in Raleigh, North Carolina as an assistant coach.

Doughtie led the North Carolina State Triathlon club team from 2012-15 and again in 2018-19. His squads finished in the top-three of the MACTC standings for the first time in program history. He began his coaching career in 2008, coaching triathlon and endurance athletics under his coaching business, All Out MultiSport.

He also has experience at the national level as Doughtie has coached for USA Triathlon at World Championships events, which included leading the Team USA squad as the head coach at the 2022 World Games in Birmingham, Alabama. He was also the head coach for USA Triathlon’s summer collegiate camp at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado from 2017-19. Doughtie has coached four USAT national champions in various multi-sport events during his time with the national team.

Doughtie graduated from North Carolina State University in 2004 with a bachelor’s degree in Natural Resources, where he was a cyclist on the Wolfpack Cycling team. He earned a master’s degree in exercise science from California University of Pennsylvania in 2015. He also has certification as a USA Swimming Coach to go with USTA Level 2 and USAT Youth and Junior certification.