Jerry Price enters his 14th season as an assistant track and field coach at NSU in 2023-24, second as associate men's head coach, specializing in technical sprints, hurdles, 4x100 relay, and multi events.
Over the course of his decorated career at Norfolk State, Price has helped develop some of the most accomplished student-athletes to attend the university. Those competitors include Bobby Price (2019 MEAC Long Jump champion, NCAA East Region qualifier, and current NFL player) and Kai Cole (current 60-meter co-record holder, member of 2021 4x100 relay team that qualified for NCAA Finals in Eugene, Ore.)
Price has mentored eight school record holders during his time at NSU: Keith Nkrumah (60m, 110mh), Taejah Robertson (100mh), Kellyann James (outdoor heptathlon), Trequan Barnes (300m), Malika Pride (indoor 400m), Indya Richards (60mh), Camren Wynder-Hill (indoor hepathlon).
Price had an immediate impact in his first year at NSU, as he helped long jumpers Darris Shelton and Champagne Bell and 110m hurdler Aramis Massenburg all reach the NCAA Outdoor National Championship in 2011. All three went on to earn honorable mention All-American status from the USTFCCCA.
Massenburg, who advanced to two straight NCAA East Preliminary rounds under Price’s tutelage (2011-12), started a string of three straight years in which the Spartans had a men’s 110 hurdler reached the NCAA outdoor nationals. Keith Nkrumah advanced in both 2012 and 2013, earning honorable mention All-America honors in 2012 and second-team honors after placing 11th in 2013.
Also in 2013, Bell advanced through the NCAA East prelims all the way to nationals, again earning honorable mention All-America honors in the long jump.
Price has also tutored NSU high jumpers Jacob Milton and Garth Warner. Milton won all seven MEAC high jump titles (indoor and outdoor in 2017, ’18 and ’19 and indoor ‘20) in which he competed and advanced to three straight NCAA East Preliminary Round competitions. Warner was also a two-time regional qualifier. In the hurdles, Price has also mentored Jaylen Banks, the 2019 MEAC champion in the 400-meter hurdles and a two-time NCAA regional qualifier.
Price has been on staff for a total of 10 MEAC team championships at NSU, one for the women (2011 outdoor) and nine men (2011-13, 2022-23 indoor, 2011-12, 2022-23 outdoor).
Price has more than 30 years of coaching experience. Prior to NSU, Price was the head boys and girls track coach at Matoaca High School in Chesterfield, Va., from 1999-2009. His teams there won a total of eight district championships. Price coached numerous award-winning athletes at Matoaca. Among them were former Spartans Massenburg and Shanneka Claiborne (sprints), who both won MEAC championships in their respective events.
Prior to Matoaca, Price was the assistant boys and girls track coach at James River High School, also in Chesterfield, from 1996-99. He got his start in coaching as an assistant at Leesville High School in Leesville, La., from 1988-90.
Price has also served since 2006 as president and head coach of the Diamond Track & Field Club in Colonial Heights, Va.
A standout football player and track athlete in high school, Price graduated from Alabama A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1984.
