Brooks Rexroat joined the track and field staff prior to the 2023 season. 
 
Rexroat comes to Lindenwood University with more than a decade of experience as an assistant and head coach at the NCAA Division I and II Levels. He spent the past two years as the head track and field and cross-country coach at Bluefield State University, a Division II institution in West Virginia.
 
At 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.
 
From 2020-2021, Rexroat was the 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 and three athletes who would become national championship qualifiers during their time competing for the Bobcats. Athletes in his training groups earned 6 USTFCCCA All-Southeast region performances and set 24 school records.
 
Rexroat led the sprint, jump, hurdle, and multi-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 Athlete of the Year.
 
Additional stops in Rexroat’s coaching career include stints at OVC institutions Tennessee Tech (2005-2008) and Morehead State (2015-2016). During his time at Tech, Rexroat mentored the team’s first ever conference champion in a non-distance event (high jump). 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.
 
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. He and his wife Rachael live in Saint Charles, Mo.