• 2020-21 academic year is his third at XULA
• XULA
announced his hiring Aug. 8, 2018
• Led XULA to five Gulf Coast Athletic Conference team championships
his first two seasons: men's cross country in 2018 and 2019, women's cross country in 2018 and 2019 and women's outdoor
track and field in 2019
• Four-time GCAC Coach of the Year while at XULA:
women's cross country in 2018 and 2019, women's outdoor track and field in 2019 and men's cross country in 2019
• At the 2019 GCAC track and field meet, XULA's women scored 268
points to break the GCAC women's meet record for the second consecutive year . . . And XULA's 198 points were the most ever by a GCAC men's runner-up
• XULA women's track and field
produced its best team finish ever at 2019 NAIA outdoor nationals: 13 points and a tie for 23rd place out of 106 teams . . .
Seven team members earned All-America awards by virtue of top-8 finishes in individual events or relays
• Previously worked 11 seasons (2006-17)
as the head coach of men's and women's track and field and cross country at Southern University
at New Orleans (SUNO)
• SUNO coaching highlights:
— First-place individual or relay finishes 11 times at
NAIA National Championships — four by the men (two outdoors, two indoors)
and seven by the women (five outdoors, two indoors)
— Top-15 team finishes 11 times at
NAIA National Championships — five by the men (one outdoors, four indoors)
and six by the women (three outdoors, three indoors)
— In his final season
at SUNO (2017), the Lady Knights were third nationally outdoors, and
the Knights placed third indoors
— 25 student-athletes earned a combined
116 NAIA All-America honors
— 78 first-place finishes from 2011-17 at
GCAC Championships — 43 by the men, 35 by the women
— Recruited and coached athletes
who scored 56 1/2 of 64 points in SUNO's 2018 run to the NAIA women's track and field national title outdoors
— Won NAIA South Region Coach of the Year
in men's and women's outdoor track from the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association in 2017
— NAIA Region XIII Coach of the Year in men's track in 2008
• Highlights as a SUNO student-athlete:
— Won the NAIA outdoor national title in the 100-meter-dash in 2006
— Earned a silver medal at the 2002 World Junior Championships in the 400 relay —
on a team that featured Olympic gold medalist and world-record holder Usain Bolt as the anchor . . .
Plummer ran the third segment, and he, Bolt, Winston Hutton and Orion Nicely medaled
with a time of 39.15 seconds
— Competed in the 60-meter dash at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships
