Xavier University of Louisiana women's track and field

Kaisha Weeks

  • Title
    Men's and Women's Cross Country / Track and Field Assistant Coach
  • Email
    kweeks1@xula.edu
     •  2020-21 academic year is her second at XULA . . . First day on the job was Sept. 5, 2019
     •  XULA announced her hiring Sept. 6, 2019
     •  In her first XULA season (2019-20):
     — Men's and women's cross country repeated as Gulf Coast Athletic Conference team champions, and XULA also produced the individual champions: Samuel Abdellatif (men) and Taylor Price (women)
     — Women's indoor track and field, competing for the first time since 2004, produced two qualifiers for NAIA nationals: Emerald Carter (60-meter hurdles) and Ariel Ford (400)
     •  Joined XULA after coaching the sprinters and hurdlers at Oviedo (Fla.) High School
     •  The Oviedo boys won three events at the 2019 Class 4A state meet, and the girls 400 relay qualified for regionals for the first time in more than 10 years and broke the school record
     •  Also was an assistant coach at her alma mater, Lake Brantley (Fla.) High School, where she coached her girls to school records in the 400 relay and the individual 100 and 200 at Class 4A state meets
     •  A 2007 graduate in communications from Southern University in Baton Rouge, La.
     •  A seven-time Southwestern Athletic Conference track and field champion for Southern — hurdles, sprints, relays and javelin
     •  A four-time NCAA regional qualifier in the 100 hurdles and was All-Louisiana in 2006 in the 100 hurdles and 400 relay
     •  Inducted Nov. 3, 2017, into the Southern University Sports Hall of Fame
     •  Younger sister of Rickie Weeks and Jemile Weeks, who played a combined 20 seasons of Major League Baseball