Brooks Rexroat joined the Northern Kentucky University Track and Field coaching staff in the Spring of 2024, bringing with him more than a decade of experience as an assistant and head coach at the NCAA Division I and II Levels. Prior to joining the Norse staff, Rexroat led the vertical jumps and combined events groups on Coach Nadia Pompey-Alexander’s staff at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri.
Prior to his time at Lindenwood he spent two years as the head track and field and cross country coach at Bluefield State University (NCAA Division II) in West Virginia. In Bluefield, Rexroat was charged with implementing a new track and field program to join the school’s existing cross country squad. Under his direction, the running sports programs boasted three individual USCAA All-Americans in cross country, finished a school-best third-place at both the men’s and women’s 2022 USCAA Cross Country Championships, and claimed the men’s and women’s team titles at the 2023 USCAA Track and Field Championship in dominant fashion, with the men winning by 60 points and the women winning by 30. The program set nearly 100 school record marks in indoor and outdoor track and field and re-wrote the cross country record books in every race distance. Bluefield State cross country standout Theo Schell, who has continued to run competitively in his post-collegiate years, finished 14th in the steeplechase at the 2024 German National Championships/Olympic Trials competition.
From 2020-2021, Rexroat served as Coach Ley Fletcher’s Associate Head Track and Field Coach at Lees-McRae College, where he orchestrated a recruiting class that included the school’s first ever NCAA Division II indoor track and field all-American, three athletes who would become national championship qualifiers during their time competing for the Bobcats, and earn one top-50 world ranking (triple jump) during the 2021 season. Athletes in his training groups earned six USTFCCCA All-Southeast region performances, broke 24 school records, earned 24 all-conference performancs, and set the Conference Carolinas championship meet record in the triple jump.
Rexroat led the sprint, jump, hurdle, and combined-event groups at Brescia University in Kentucky from 2018-2020, producing a NAIA national championship meet qualifier in the decathlon and leading athletes to 36 school records with one team member named the River States Conference Outdoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year.
Additional stops in Rexroat’s coaching career include stints as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I institutions Tennessee Tech (2005-2008) and Morehead State (2015-2016). During his time at Tech, Rexroat mentored the team’s first ever Ohio Valley Conference champion in a non-distance event (high jump). Athletes in his training group broke eight school records, won two conference titles, and earned four all-conference nods. The Golden Eagles earned one OVC Team Academic Achievement Award and racked up 40 OVC Commissioner’s Honor Roll winners and 19 OVC Medal of Honor winners during those seasons.
Originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, he competed in combined events, hurdles, jumps, sprints, and relays at Morehead State University and was a 2002 Verizon/COSIDA Academic All-Region performer. He earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in print journalism at MSU, and later earned a Master of Fine Arts Degree in Creative Writing at Southern Illinois University Carbondale.
In addition to his coaching work, he has served as a professor of English at Xavier University, Northern Kentucky University, Marshall University, and Brescia University. During the 2016-2017 academic year, he was selected by the U.S. Dept. of State and Institute of International Education as a U.S. Fulbright Teaching and Research Scholar to the Russian Federation, where he taught and conducted research at the Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University in Novosibirsk Oblast, Siberia.
Rexroat holds USA Track and Field Level II Certificates in sprints, hurdles, relays, throws, and jumps/vault, and is an alumnus of the Team USA Olympic Podium Project/High Performance Summit. Rexroat lives in Covington, Kentucky with his wife Rachael and daughter Elliott.
