Kiamesha Otey - Men's Cross Country and Track & Field Coach - Middle Tennessee State University Athletics

Kiamesha Otey

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Kiamesha.Otey@mtsu.edu
Phone:
898-5879

Kiamesha Otey is entering her first year as an assistant coach with the Middle Tennessee track and field program. Otey comes to Murfreesboro with ten years of experience training athletes in sprints, multi events, and horizontal/vertical jumps.

Prior to MTSU, Otey coached hurdlers, sprinters, and jumpers at Richmond from 2019-2022. She coached two program-record holders (Kamryn Ross, 60H; Kayla Woods, LJ) that both qualified for the NCAA Regionals in 2021 and 2022.

At the University of South Florida, Otey coached 12 NCAA Outdoor Championships first-round qualifiers, 30 All-Conference performers, and five conference champions including the most decorated student-athlete in school history, Matthew O'Neal. O'Neal earned All-America honors four times (twice indoors and twice outdoors) and set school records in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump. He finished fifth at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials and competed internationally at the 2015 World University Games in Gwangju, South Korea where he finished eighth.

Prior to arriving at USF, Otey spent four seasons as an assistant coach at University of Alabama-Birmingham where she worked with the horizontal and vertical jumpers and multi-event athletes. Otey coached the school record holder in the high jump and several all-conference members in her time at UAB.

The New Kent, Va. native became a professional athlete in 2003 and participated in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic trials. In 2003, Otey became the USA Indoor Track and Field champion in the long jump with a leap of 6.33 meters (20-9.25).

While at the University of Virginia, Otey was a three time All-American, six-time All-Atlantic Coast Conference performer and a two-time ACC champion in the long jump. She holds the current ACC outdoor long jump record (6.54 meters/21-5.50). She ranks second in school history in the 60-meter and both the indoor and outdoor long jump, third in the 100-meter, and fourth in the 200-meter. Following a successful athletic career at Virginia from 1999-2003, Otey served as a volunteer assistant coach for the Cavaliers during the 2003-04 season.

Otey graduated from Virginia in 2003 with a degree in sociology. A New Kent High School alum, she still holds six school records, two VHSL Class A state records (100-meters - 11.93 and Long Jump - 19-6.25), and won 1999 state championship titles in long jump and the 100-meter dash.