Nigel Summers joined the GSU staff in the summer of 2015 with a role that includes assisting the student-athletes in sprints, hurdles, relays and horizontal jumps.
Summers is a former assistant coach of both the female and male track teams at McNair High School in Atlanta. The boys team earned regional and sectional championships in the spring of 2015 and broke the school record in the 4x400m relay. Nine members qualified for the state meet and palced top-three multiple events.
As a student-athlete at Alabama A&M, Summers was a sprinter in the 400m, 200m, and 4x400m relay. He was All-SWAC as a freshman in cross country, indoor and outdoor track. He repeated All-SWAC honors in outdoor track in 2006 and 2007. He earned his degree in business administration in 2009 with a concentration in logistics and supply chain management.
Summers is one of the founders of the Track Georgia youth club here in Atlanta. That group competes in USATF, CCYTL, GRPA and AAU events. He is one of the first coaches to win both the Boys and Girls GRPA (Georgia Recreation and Park Association) spring championships. He qualififed 55 competitors for the state meet, the most of any team. Summers coached the national record holder in the 200m sprint and the 400m run. His runners also had the fastest national time in both the 4x100 and 4x400m relays.
His background in performance training specializes in speed, agility and explosion. He has helped multiple students earn college scholarships.
Summers is an Atlanta native and graduated from Pebblebrook High School (2004) in Mableton and was a three-time state track meet qualifier.
