Six-time region and national assistant coach of the year Trent Edgerton joined the Auburn track and field staff in 2026 as the assistant sprints coach.
Edgerton comes to Auburn from Nebraska where he coached the men’s and women’s sprints for the previous two seasons. While at Nebraska, Edgerton he developed multiple All-Americans, a pair of Big Ten individual champions, two school record holders, and coached athletes to 2025 U20 Championship qualifying marks.
Last season, Edgerton’s coaches Big Ten individual champions in both the women’s and men’s 400m hurdles in Kelsie Belquist and James Ledbetter. Both established school records in the event in 2026 and All-America honors, highlighted by Belquist garnering fifth place at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Edgerton also directed the women’s 4x400m relay unit to second team All-America honors and a school record while the women’s 4x100m relay also qualified for nationals.
Before coming to Nebraska, Edgerton 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 middle distance groups, helping lead his athletes to multiple individual and team awards, records and qualifications.
At Texas State, Edgerton had three men achieve individual All-America honors at the 2024 NCAA Indoor Championships in the 200m, 400m and 60m hurdles, as well as a women's 4x100m relay that finished 15th at the 2024 NCAA Outdoor Championships. In total, Edgerton directly oversaw seven NCAA Championships bids in the sprints, hurdles and relays from 2022-24 at Texas State.
Edgerton’s athletes also 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.
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 their ninth NJCAA National Championship and the 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.