Trent Edgerton, Barton Track & Field and Cross Country Assistant Coach

Bio

Trent Edgerton is in his third season as assistant coach of the Barton Track & Field program. Edgerton’s primary responsibilities range from coaching the hurdlers, sprinters, mid-distance and cross country athletes.

Coming off his most successful season, Egerton 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. In total, Edgerton’s crew generated 49 of the 101 winning points.

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. Graham captured one of two outdoor titles for the Lady Cougar runners. Kayan Green claimed the outdoor 800m title to complete the weep after winning the indoor 800m championship.

Edgerton piled up the postseason awards once more securing his second straight National Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year as well as adding a Region VI Women’s Indoor Assistant Coach of the Year and Central Region Men’s Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year to his trophy case.

Earning the 2019-20 National Men’s Assistant Coach of the year, Edgerton helped lead the Cougar men to a third straight runner-up indoor finish and a 4th place finish on the women’s side. Completing his first year in the Barton program, Edgerton’s primarily group of Cougars accounted for 53 of Barton’s 99.5 points including three individual national championships and a pair of National Field Athletes of the Year, Annia Ashley and Shakwon Coke.

Arriving to Barton from Texas A&M University, Edgerton spent the past three seasons as a volunteer assistant working with both the men’s & women’s sprints and hurdle athletes.

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.

A 2009 graduate from Archbishop John Carroll High School in Washington, D.C, Edgerton returned to his roots to lead Carroll for three seasons which included the sprint powerhouse’s 2016 New Balance national 4x100m relay title and 4x400m relay runner-up.