Bio entering 2024-25 season
Alrick Munroe joined the Aztec coaching staff in the 2013-14 season as a volunteer and was promoted to assistant coach in 2018. He coaches the long sprints, long hurdles and the 800-meter run.
With over 20 years of track and field coaching experience, Munroe has helped San Diego State win five Mountain West team titles, accomplish numerous school records and produce multiple All-Americans. Under Munroe’s direction, the Aztecs have sent four 4x400m relay teams to the NCAA Championships since 2018. Prior to that, SDSU had not sent a 4x4 squad to the NCAAs since 2006.
In 2024, Munroe oversaw a tremendous year from Shaquena Foote in the 400m that included an NCAA Outdoor Championship qualification, honorable mention all-America, sweep of the indoor and outdoor 400m individual titles and an indoor 400m school record. In total, he had four earn all-Mountain West honors in the indoor season and six in outdoor season. Foote also ran legs on Munroe's 4x400m squad winning its seventh straight MW title and qualifying for the NCAA West Preliminaries. He also helped Rhea Hoyte (400m hurdles) and Alex Lomeli (800m) qualify for their third consecutive and second consecutive NCAA West Preliminary, respectively.
In 2023, Munroe had five more student-athletes earn All-Mountain West honors through both indoor and outdoor seasons helping the Aztecs to a pair of runner-up finishes at the conference championships. The mid-distance events saw three individuals qualify for the outdoor NCAA West Regionals along the 4x4 relay team. Among them was Shaquena Foote who etched her name into the SDSU record books setting the freshman records for the 60m, indoor 200m, and both the indoor and outdoor 400m. She also qualified for the NCAA Regionals and the Mountain West Championship in the 400m as well as running legs on the MW Champion 4x1 and 4x4 relay teams. Rhea Hoyte also won a MW title in the 400m Hurdles and the relay squad moved into tenth on the SDSU all-time list.
In 2022, Munroe saw eight new program top ten marks set throughout the 2022-23 season along with two Mountain West event champions including another 4x4 title for the fifth consecutive year on the Aztecs’ way to the MW Team Championship. The relay team of Jalyn Harris, Danae Dyer, Aisha Watt, and Sakura Roberson would cap off the tremendous season with Second Team All-America honors, the second time in three years under Coach Munroe a relay team earned the national award.
In 2021, Munroe saw seven total All-Mountain West performances including a fourth straight 4x4 conference title for his relay team. The quartet of Maya Brosch, Jalyn Harris, Rhea Hoyte, and Nyjari McNeil would qualify for the NCAA Regionals in the 4x400m with Brosch (400mH), Hoyte (400mH), and McNeil (800m) adding individual events to their ledger as well.
In 2020, Munroe helped Nyjari McNeil set an indoor school record in the 800m run (2:08.30) and saw the Aztec 4x400m relay team shatter their school record (3:33.81) and qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships for the first time in school history. The Aztecs were set to be the only non-power five school to have a 4x4 squad compete at NCAAs, but the meet was canceled due to COVID-19. The Aztecs also set a new program record in the distance medley relay in the 2020 season, beating the previous mark by over 11 seconds.
In 2019, Munroe helped guide the SDSU 4x400m relay team to a pair of Mountain West Championships, an 11th place finish in the NCAA Outdoor Championships and a new school record (indoor). He also saw Nyjari McNeil set three SDSU freshman records (400 indoor & 800 indoor & outdoor) and ran the second fastest 800 time (2:05.27) in SDSU’s outdoor history.
In 2018, Munroe coached Lisa-Anne Barrow to a first-place finish in the 400-meter dash at the Mountain West Outdoor Championships and saw her post a time of 51.86, the third-fastest time in school history. That season, Munroe also helped guide the Aztecs to a first-place finish in the 4x400 meter relay.
Munroe has experience training and coaching in the Jamaican sprinting system, as he was a Jamaican National Championships 100-meter finalist and an Olympic trials qualifier. He is an experienced speed and conditioning coach at all levels, including for women's lacrosse, NFL and professional baseball players.
Munroe originally came to The Mesa after working as an assistant track and field coach and athletic facility director at McDonogh School in Owings Mills, Md., for 13 seasons. At the high school, Munroe helped lead the team to 21 Maryland track and field Independent Schools State Championships, while coaching over 50 high school All-Americans and eight high school national champions in sprints, hurdles, jumps and relays. His former athletes at McDonogh include Autumne Franklin, a four-year letterwinner at Harvard who competed in the 2016 U.S. Olympic Trials (6th, 400H) and the 2017 USATF Championships (12th, 400H), and Darius Hayward-Bey, who was drafted in the first round of the 2009 NFL Draft and played for Oakland, Indianapolis and Pittsburgh.
As an athlete at Wayland University, Munroe won seven individual NAIA National Championship titles in sprints and jumps, was the NAIA indoor and outdoor MVP in the same academic year and a two-time Academic All-American in track and field. He was named to Wayland Baptist's Hall of Honor in 2008.
Munroe also served in the United States Navy for four years.
Alrick Munroe
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