Kareem Streete-Thompson

During his eight years at University of Texas-San Antonio, Streete-Thompson helped the men to five Conference USA runner-up finishes and six third-place showings, while also helping guide the women to a runner-up finish at the 2022 C-USA Outdoor Championships as well as the 2026 American Outdoor Championships, and four third-place efforts.

Streete-Thompson arrived in the Alamo City following a successful three-year stint as an assistant coach at Texas. His primary duties included working with the Longhorns' sprinters and horizontal jumpers.

In his first year in Austin, Streete-Thompson coached Nick Phynn to a fourth-place performance in the triple jump at Big 12 Indoor Championships. He also helped Basil Fares score points in both the indoor triple jump and outdoor long jump. On the women’s side, Melissa Gonzalez finished eighth in the triple jump during the indoor campaign.

He built on that success in his second year, as Fares finished second at the Big 12 Indoor when he missed out on a gold medal by just one centimeter. He also was sixth in the triple jump indoors and went on to qualify for the NCAA Championships in the long jump. Outdoors, Phynn jumped to eighth place in the triple jump.

The 2016 season saw Steffin McCarter (long jump) and Asa Garcia (triple jump) earn All-America accolades at the NCAA Championships as freshmen and five of his six athletes scored points at the Big 12 Outdoor Championships.

Streete-Thompson came to Texas after spending the 2012-13 season coaching sprints, hurdles and horizontal jumps at Missouri.  

He was instrumental in the development and success of Southeastern Conference Freshman Runner of the Year Markesh Woodson, who was an indoor All-American in the 60 meters. Woodson clocked four 60m school records, the last of which was a 6.60 gold medal performance at the SEC Championships. He went on to place fifth at the NCAA Championships and followed that up with a 10th-place showing in the 100m at the NCAA Outdoors, the highest finish for a Tiger in the event at the national outdoor meet since 1987.  

Prior to his stint at Missouri, Streete-Thompson had a successful stay at Florida State. He focused on coaching the Seminoles women, primarily in the sprints, hurdles and relays events. He coached nine All-Americans, including the women's 400m relay team that finished second at the 2009 NCAA Outdoor Championships. That year also saw Florida State win the Atlantic Coast Conference triple crown and it went on to finish fourth in the team race at the NCAA Championships. The 2008 campaign saw the Seminoles place ninth at the NCAA Indoors and 20th at the national outdoor meet.

Streete-Thompson's coaching career began as a volunteer assistant at Florida, where he worked with the the Gators' jumpers and multi-event athletes for two years.

However, his success is not limited to events on the track, as he also has excelled as a jumps mentor. In fact, Streete-Thompson has worked with British long jumper Greg Rutherford, who has won gold medals at the 2012 Olympics in London and 2015 World Championships and the British record holder recently won a bronze medal at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

A graduate of Rice, Streete-Thompson put together a very impressive career professionally before moving into coaching.

He competed in three Olympic Games, qualifying in both the 100m and long jump for the Cayman Islands. Streete-Thompson also competed in seven World Championships and his highlights include a silver medal in the long jump in 2001 and qualifying for the 100m final in 1999. He holds numerous national records for the Cayman Islands and was the first athlete to win Pan-American, Central American and Caribbean and Commonwealth titles for his home country.

Streete-Thompson holds personal-best marks of 9.96 in the 100m dash and 28-3 ¾ (8.63m) in the long jump and he and Carl Lewis are the only athletes to ever to run under 10 seconds and jump beyond 28 feet.

While at Rice, he was an 11-time All-American who swept both NCAA titles in the long jump his senior year. He won seven out of eight Southwest Conference long jump titles and still holds four Rice program records: indoor 60 meters (6.61), indoor long jump (8.21m), outdoor 100m (10.16-tied) and outdoor long jump (8.63m). 

In 1998, he was enshrined into the Rice Athletics Hall of Fame and in 2022 he was inducted into the Southwest Conference Hall of Fame.

He completed his master's degree in sports management while at coaching at Florida State and is a USATF Level I certified coach.

Streete-Thompson is married to Nebraska Assistant Coach Jackie Richards and the couple has two children, Janae and Kaiya.