Brooks LeCompte will enter his second season as the Director of Cross Country/Track & Field at the University of Evansville in 2023-24. His first season was a season of growth at UE, as the Purple Aces reached new heights individually on the cross country course, track, and in the field.
In cross country, nine of the 11 returning Purple Aces set personal-best marks in either the 8-K (men) or 5-K or 6-K (women) races last fall under LeCompte’s running program. LeCompte helped Melanie Helder earn honorable mention all-Missouri Valley Conference honors in her first season at Evansville, becoming just the third female Purple Ace to earn all-Valley honors. He also helped multiple Purple Aces cut minutes…not just seconds…off of their personal-best time on the course.
In track and field, Evansville attacked the school record book, breaking a program record over 25 different times over the course of both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Individually, two-thirds of the returning student-athletes (10 of 15) set a new personal-best mark last spring in LeCompte’s first season at the head of the UE track and field program.
University of Evansville Director of Athletics Dr. Ziggy Siegfried named LeCompte as the Director of Cross Country/Track & Field at UE on July 5, 2022. LeCompte had helped collegiate runners achieve record-breaking performances and personal-best times at LSU, Elon, UNC-Wilmington, and most recently at Western Kentucky University prior to coming to Evansville.
At Western Kentucky, LeCompte served as the head cross country coach and assistant track & field coach from January, 2020 until joining UE. Starting just months before the COVID-19 pandemic, LeCompte immediately made his mark at WKU, helping the mid-distance and distance runners for the Hilltoppers earn numerous personal-best times in the indoor track season, including helping Dedrick Troxell finish fourth in the indoor mile at the 2020 Conference USA Track & Field Championships.
In his first full year at WKU during the 2020-21 school year, LeCompte added two freshmen to the WKU program which placed in the top 10 in the Outdoor C-USA Track & Field Championships. He also helped build a third-place Distance Medley Relay Team at the 2021 Indoor C-USA Championships.
On the cross country course, LeCompte helped numerous WKU runners post personal-best marks, including helping senior Savannah Heckman develop from an individual who placed 95th as a freshman at the Conference USA meet into a second-team all-C-USA runner by her final season. In fact, the women's team at WKU posted its best C-USA team finish since 2016 in LeCompte’s final year with the program.
LeCompte began his collegiate coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at LSU under his mentor and two-time U.S. Olympian Khadevis Robinson. While at LSU, LeCompte assisted various Tigers to a number of school records in 2017. He helped guide LSU's Ruby Stauber to a fifth-place, All-American performance in the indoor 800-meters. He also helped Christian Johnson to his first All-SEC performance in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.
During his coaching career, LeCompte has also served as an assistant cross country and track and field coach at both Elon and UNC-Wilmington.
A native of Lake Charles, Louisiana, LeCompte earned his bachelor's degree in Health and Human Performance from McNeese State University in 2008, where he also competed in track and field and cross country. Brooks and his wife, Kelly, have one daughter, Emma, and two sons, Jayden and Kai.
