Austin Gamble is entering his second season with the Texas State track and field program. He was hired in Nov. 2018 as the Bobcats' throws coach.
In his first year with the Bobcats, Gamble coached two NCAA Regional qualifiers (Brandon Busby – men’s discus throw, T’Mond Johnson - men’s shot put) and seven All-Sun Belt Conference selections (two indoor, five outdoor), including three Sun Belt Champions over four events in Johnson (indoor and outdoor men’s shot put), Busby (outdoor men’s discus throw) and Jaylon Jorge (outdoor men’s hammer throw). The Bobcats hoisted two conference championship titles with the women winning the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Indoor Championship and the men winning the 2019 Sun Belt Conference Outdoor Championship.
Johnson won his third consecutive gold medal in the men’s shot put for both indoor and outdoor. In the indoor championships he recorded a 19.01-meter (62-4.50) toss and threw a 19.70-meter (64-7.75 mark at the outdoor championships. The Killeen, Texas native was also tabbed the Sun Belt Conference Most Outstanding Field Performer.
Busby and Jorge both won their first Sun Belt Conference Championship in the outdoor season with Busby launching the discus 54.66 meters (179-4) and Jorge logging a 57.15-meter (187-06) mark in the hammer throw.
Gamble was a two-sport athlete at Duke where he graduated with two bachelor’s degrees, one in Anthropology and the other in Visual Arts, in 2014. He was a three-year starter at linebacker for the Blue Devils and helped them reach the 2012 Belk Bowl, the program’s first bowl appearance in 17 years.
With the Duke track and field team, Gamble participated three times in the NCAA Outdoor Championships and earned All-America honors in the discus in 2013. That year also saw him break the school record in the discus at 58.07m and go on to earn Outdoor All-ACC honors. As a freshman, the Florida native claimed the discuss title at the Penn Relays and went on to take third at the ACC Championships to earn all-conference accolades.
Following his time at Duke, Gamble trained at the World Athletics Center in Phoenix for two years under John Godina, a two-time Olympic medalist in the shot put for the United States.
Gamble arrives in San Marcos after spending the past two years as a graduate assistant coach at Hardin-Simmons and earning his Master’s degree in Counseling and Human Development. During his time in Abilene, Texas, he helped the track and field teams record two runner-up finishes at the American Southwest Conference Championships.
Before his time in Abilene, Gamble was an assistant coach and the strength and conditioning coach at St. John Paul II Academy in Boca Raton, Florida.
