Adrain Mann was welcomed as assistant coach for sprints and hurdles as well as the recruiting coordinator for the UNLV Track & Field program, head coach Carmelita Jeter announced prior to the 2024-25 track & field season.
Mann, a multiple All-American honoree and Olympic Trial qualifier, comes to Las Vegas after spending the last nine seasons at the University of Florida as an assistant coach for the Gators’ sprints and hurdles group. Prior to working at Florida, he also coached at the University of Miami, Clemson University and LSU.
“We’re very excited for Coach Mann to join the Rebel Family,” Jeter said. “His 15 years of experience in the SEC and numerous national championship titles will bring an energy and expectation that will roar through our team and staff. I'm so excited for year two here at UNLV and can't wait to see our continuous improvement.”
During Mann's first season with the Scarlet & Gray, UNLV found success in the indoor season, as Kennedi Porter earned silver in the 60m (7.32) and 200m (23.26) at the conference indoor championships. The program earned themselves five medals during the outdoor season, as Porter was named the 2025 MW Women's Track Performer of the Meet after sweeping the MW sprints for the second straight season, picking up personal-best times in the 100m (11.24, 4th-best in program history) and 200m (22.95, 5th-best in program history). The women's 4x100m relay, the team of Chineyre Okoro, Porter, AnnaKay Maitland and Jaydea Carter teamed to win the event for the first time since the 2011 season with a time of 47.40 seconds. Lacarthea Cooper also moved up to fourth on the all-time 400m indoor program list with a persona-best time of 53.34 seconds.
While at Florida alongside head coach Mike Holloway, Mann’s teams earned 16 individual NCAA championship titles, nine NCAA championship team titles, set five collegiate records, 22 SEC titles and 128 USTFCCCA All-America honors. One of the top individual moments of Mann’s time on staff came at the 2016 NCAA DI Outdoor Championships where a pair of his athletes, Eric Futch and TJ Holmes, became the second pair of teammates since 1983 to finish 1-2 in the 400m hurdles at the national championships.
Outside of NCAA events during his time with the Gators, Mann helped his runners earn a top-five finish at the IAAF World Championships, one of each top-three medals at the USATF Outdoor Championships, a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Championships and two US Olympic Trial finalists. A handful of historic feats were also achieved under his guidance, Florida’s men’s 4x100m relay became the first collegiate relay to break the 38-second barrier.
In his eight seasons coaching prior to Florida, Mann helped sprinters and hurdlers earn 17 individual national championships, 144 USTFCCCA All-America accolades and 56 individual conference titles. During his five years at LSU under Dennis Shaver, the women’s program won two team titles at the NCAA Outdoor Championships (2008 and 2012) while also picking up six SEC titles. The men found runner-up finishes at the Big Dance during those same years, and finished in the top-four programs in all but two SEC Championship meets.
His two years at Clemson found plenty of success in 26 USTFCCCA All-Americans, two individual national titles and 15 ACC gold medals. He had a large part in helping the women’s program sweep the ACC Championships in 2013, winning both the Indoor and Outdoor Championships. While at Miami, he mentored Artie Burns and Christian Cook to USTFCCCA All-America honors in the 110m hurdles at the 2015 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Mann graduated from Florida in 2001 with a bachelor’s degree in computer science.
As a student-athlete, Mann earned consecutive All-America accolades in the 400m hurdles at the 1999 and 2000 NCAA Outdoor Championships. He also took part in the team’s 4x400m relay that finished within the top-six placements at the 1998 NCAA Outdoor Championships as well as the 1998 and 2000 NCAA Indoor Championships. Following the 2000 NCAA Championships, Mann competed in the 400m hurdles at the United States Olympic Trials.
