Trent Edgerton

Trent Edgerton was named the sprints coach at Nebraska in August of 2024. He spent three seasons as the assistant coach at Texas State where he designed and executed the training program for men’s and women’s sprints, hurdles, relays and mid-distance groups, helping lead his athletes to multiple individual and team awards, records and qualifications. 

Edgerton’s athletes helped Texas State claim the 2024 Women’s Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championship, while individually, he led five Bobcats to conference performers and newcomers of the year awards. Under Edgerton, Texas State athletes shattered 14 school records and earned NCAA Outdoor National Qualifications in the men’s and women’s 4x100m relays and the 100m hurdles. 

Prior to Texas State, Edgerton spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as an assistant coach at Barton Community College in Great Bend, Kansas. Edgerton’s primary responsibilities included coaching the hurdlers, sprinters, and mid-distance and cross country athletes.

Edgerton helped the Cougar men’s outdoor team to its ninth NJCAA National Championship and school’s 58th NJCAA National title. He helped produce an individual national champion in Denzel Feagin in the 200m and five national runner-ups, including the 4x100m and 4x400m relays. On the women’s side, Edgerton helped guide Lashanna Graham to the Central Region Women’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year while she claimed the Outdoor National Title in the 400m hurdles. 

Edgerton piled up the postseason awards securing his second straight National Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year as well as adding his third straight Region VI Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year (two Indoor, one Outdoor) and Central Region Men’s Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year to his trophy case. 

Graduating Howard University in 2014, Edgerton was an assistant for the Sports Information Department during his collegiate time before earning a degree in Sports Management with a minor in Economics.