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The University of Mississippi Athletics
Track and Field
Scott, Andre
Andre Scott
- Title:
- Associate Head Track & Field Coach - Jumps, Women's Multi
- Year at Ole Miss:
- 11th
- Email:
- adscott@olemiss.edu
- Phone:
- 662-915-7538
- Alma Mater:
- Auburn (1998)
Andre Scott, a former All-American and SEC Champion jumper at Auburn, is in his 11th season at Ole Miss as the Associate Head Track & Field Coach under Connie Price-Smith in 2025-26, with his specialty areas being the jumps and the women’s multi events.
In nearly two decades of coaching both professional and collegiate athletes, Scott has been able to mentor some of the best American and Caribbean jumpers around – helping guide them to numerous All-American awards and several national records.
At Ole Miss, Scott has mentored seven All-Americans, but none more successful than his most recent pupil, high jumper Arvesta Troupe. The Fulton, Mississippi native scored Scott a national title in the high jump outdoors in 2025, the first NCAA high jump title in Ole Miss history. Troupe came to Ole Miss primarily as a high school basketball star and began his time as a Rebel as a walk-on, but entering his senior season in 2025-26 he ranks second all-time outdoors (2.27m/7-05.25) and third indoors (2.22m/7-03.25).
The 2025 season was the story of Troupe, who added two SEC silver medals and an NCAA Indoor bronze to his outdoor national title en route to becoming one of the best high jumpers in school history. But elsewhere, Scott's jumps crew nabbed five total NCAA East Region berths.
Senior Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley ended his Ole Miss career ranked 10th and 11th all-time in the triple jump, but also helped push the Rebel men's 4x100-meter relay to a 15th-place national finish for Second-Team All-America honors.
On the women's side, Scott's two top triple jumpers -- senior transfer Dieusi Armand and freshman Madison Martinez -- became the second and third-best in school history outdoors, trailing only Olympian Brittney Reese, at 13.02m/42-08.75 and 12.92m/42-04.75, respectively. Sophomore transfer Lizzie Hatton also notched an impressive mark in the long jump, ended the outdoor season fourth in Ole Miss history at 6.34m/20-09.75.
Among Scott's other notable Ole Miss pupils are:
• Women's combined athletes Sara Van Aken and Kieshonna Brooks, who in addition to ranking among the best multi athletes in school history are also two of the best jumpers to wear a Rebel uniform. Van Aken concluded her time as a Rebel third all-time in the pentathlon indoors (3,850) and fifth in the heptathlon outdoors (5,456), in addition to wrapping up fourth in the high jump indoors and sixth outdoors. Brooks, meanwhile, was fifth in both the pentathlon (3,803) and heptathlon (5,338) before Van Aken surpassed her in both -- with both marks ranking as national record in Brooks' native Saint Kitts and Nevis. Brooks concluded her career third in the 100-meter hurdles (13.42) as well as fifth in the long jump indoors (20-5) and sixth outdoors (20-7) -- the latter of which earned her a national ticket outdoors in 2021.
• All-around jumper and three-time All-American Allen Gordon, who scored 28 SEC points in his Rebel career as a legitimate threat across the high jump, long jump and triple jump. Gordon finished ninth in the long jump finals at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he became only the fourth Rebel to ever jump 26 feet at 7.93m/26-00.25.
• Kaira Simmons, who as a freshman in 2017 recorded the best mark in the long jump since Olympic gold medalist Brittney Reese wore an Ole Miss jersey in 2008. Simmons’ indoor PR of 6.27m/20-7 made her one of the 10th Rebel woman to ever clear 20 feet in the long jump.
• High jumper Branden Greene, who Scott mentored to an SEC title and a Second-Team All-America finish outdoors during his first season in 2016.
Scott spent the previous 11 seasons at Southern Illinois, the first 10 as an assistant and the last as associate head coach under Connie Price-Smith. In his time with the Salukis, Scott's jumpers won numerous All-America honors, broke every women's SIU all-time record, set a handful of national standards around the world and helped the Salukis win the 2009 Indoor and Outdoor Missouri Valley Conference Championships as well as the women's 2005 MVC indoor title and the 2015 men's title.
Some of Scott's most prestigious pupils during his tenure at Southern included Bahamian long jump record holder and 2012 Olympian Bianca Stuart, two-time All-American Malaikah Love, Bahamian high jump record holder Kenya Culmer and two-time All-American high jumper Kyle Landon.
The 2015 season was perhaps one of Scott's most prolific on a conference level, as his men won four of six possible MVC titles and Lauren Cheadle repeated as the indoor long jump champion. Landon became just the fifth Saluki in history to earn All-American honors in each of his first two seasons, finishing tied for seventh in the high jump at the indoor national meet. Landon remained perfect at the MVC meet in the high jump, sweeping the indoor and outdoor editions yet again to improve to 4-0. Luke James successfully defended his outdoor triple jump title, giving Scott and SIU its fourth-straight outdoor triple jump title and fifth overall in the previous four years. Sophomore Franklin Adams won his second career MVC title with an outdoor long jump crown.
The 2014 season was also another strong year for Scott's jumpers, who won six MVC outdoor titles. James kept the streak alive in the outdoor triple jump, Culmer broke the six-foot plateau to win the indoor title and earn a trip to the indoor national meet, Cheadle and Adams both won their first career long jump titles, and Landon completed the indoor-outdoor sweep of the high jump as a freshman. Landon was the story of the year, as he qualified for the national meet and ended up finishing an incredible third in the nation, the highest finish for any Saluki male outdoors since 1992.
From 2006-09, Scott was able to coach Stuart, a native of Nassau, Bahamas, who went on to set the Bahamian outdoor long jump record of 6.81m/22-4.25 in 2011 and break it again at 6.83m/22-5 in 2015. She competed for Team Bahamas at both the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Games.
In Stuart's four years under Scott's tutelage, she won seven MVC titles in the long jump (four indoor, three outdoor), broke the school record an impressive seven times and set MVC all-time indoor and outdoor records. She earned All-America honors twice in her Saluki career (2008 outdoors, 2009 indoors) and was the first Saluki female jumper to earn All-America status indoors -- the second Saluki female jumper ever.
From 2009-12, Love also flourished under Scott's guidance. She finished as a two-time All-American in the pentathlon, a two-time second-team All-American, nine-time MVC champion, the all-time MVC record holder in the pentathlon and the all-time SIU record holder in four events (pentathlon, heptathlon, indoor and outdoor triple jump). She won a staggering five MVC titles in 2011 alone.
Scott came to Southern Illinois in 2004 after spending two seasons as the jumps coach at Pittsburgh. There he coached one All-American, two Big East and Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) triple jump champions and four NCAA Regional qualifiers.
Among the numerous professional athletes Scott has coaches include his wife, Colleen Scott, a triple and long jumper for Jamaica. Scott has also coached Trecia Smith, a Jamaican national record holder in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump, who finished fourth at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Prior to 2000, Scott spent a year as a volunteer coach at his alma mater, Auburn, where he was a seven-time all-American triple jumper and three-time SEC champion as both a jumper and a sprinter. At Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida, Scott was named the Boys Track and Field Gatorade Player of the Year in 1994.
Scott graduated from Auburn in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in health promotion. He and his wife have one son, Sterling.
In nearly two decades of coaching both professional and collegiate athletes, Scott has been able to mentor some of the best American and Caribbean jumpers around – helping guide them to numerous All-American awards and several national records.
At Ole Miss, Scott has mentored seven All-Americans, but none more successful than his most recent pupil, high jumper Arvesta Troupe. The Fulton, Mississippi native scored Scott a national title in the high jump outdoors in 2025, the first NCAA high jump title in Ole Miss history. Troupe came to Ole Miss primarily as a high school basketball star and began his time as a Rebel as a walk-on, but entering his senior season in 2025-26 he ranks second all-time outdoors (2.27m/7-05.25) and third indoors (2.22m/7-03.25).
The 2025 season was the story of Troupe, who added two SEC silver medals and an NCAA Indoor bronze to his outdoor national title en route to becoming one of the best high jumpers in school history. But elsewhere, Scott's jumps crew nabbed five total NCAA East Region berths.
Senior Iangelo Atkinstall-Daley ended his Ole Miss career ranked 10th and 11th all-time in the triple jump, but also helped push the Rebel men's 4x100-meter relay to a 15th-place national finish for Second-Team All-America honors.
On the women's side, Scott's two top triple jumpers -- senior transfer Dieusi Armand and freshman Madison Martinez -- became the second and third-best in school history outdoors, trailing only Olympian Brittney Reese, at 13.02m/42-08.75 and 12.92m/42-04.75, respectively. Sophomore transfer Lizzie Hatton also notched an impressive mark in the long jump, ended the outdoor season fourth in Ole Miss history at 6.34m/20-09.75.
Among Scott's other notable Ole Miss pupils are:
• Women's combined athletes Sara Van Aken and Kieshonna Brooks, who in addition to ranking among the best multi athletes in school history are also two of the best jumpers to wear a Rebel uniform. Van Aken concluded her time as a Rebel third all-time in the pentathlon indoors (3,850) and fifth in the heptathlon outdoors (5,456), in addition to wrapping up fourth in the high jump indoors and sixth outdoors. Brooks, meanwhile, was fifth in both the pentathlon (3,803) and heptathlon (5,338) before Van Aken surpassed her in both -- with both marks ranking as national record in Brooks' native Saint Kitts and Nevis. Brooks concluded her career third in the 100-meter hurdles (13.42) as well as fifth in the long jump indoors (20-5) and sixth outdoors (20-7) -- the latter of which earned her a national ticket outdoors in 2021.
• All-around jumper and three-time All-American Allen Gordon, who scored 28 SEC points in his Rebel career as a legitimate threat across the high jump, long jump and triple jump. Gordon finished ninth in the long jump finals at the 2021 U.S. Olympic Trials, where he became only the fourth Rebel to ever jump 26 feet at 7.93m/26-00.25.
• Kaira Simmons, who as a freshman in 2017 recorded the best mark in the long jump since Olympic gold medalist Brittney Reese wore an Ole Miss jersey in 2008. Simmons’ indoor PR of 6.27m/20-7 made her one of the 10th Rebel woman to ever clear 20 feet in the long jump.
• High jumper Branden Greene, who Scott mentored to an SEC title and a Second-Team All-America finish outdoors during his first season in 2016.
Scott spent the previous 11 seasons at Southern Illinois, the first 10 as an assistant and the last as associate head coach under Connie Price-Smith. In his time with the Salukis, Scott's jumpers won numerous All-America honors, broke every women's SIU all-time record, set a handful of national standards around the world and helped the Salukis win the 2009 Indoor and Outdoor Missouri Valley Conference Championships as well as the women's 2005 MVC indoor title and the 2015 men's title.
Some of Scott's most prestigious pupils during his tenure at Southern included Bahamian long jump record holder and 2012 Olympian Bianca Stuart, two-time All-American Malaikah Love, Bahamian high jump record holder Kenya Culmer and two-time All-American high jumper Kyle Landon.
The 2015 season was perhaps one of Scott's most prolific on a conference level, as his men won four of six possible MVC titles and Lauren Cheadle repeated as the indoor long jump champion. Landon became just the fifth Saluki in history to earn All-American honors in each of his first two seasons, finishing tied for seventh in the high jump at the indoor national meet. Landon remained perfect at the MVC meet in the high jump, sweeping the indoor and outdoor editions yet again to improve to 4-0. Luke James successfully defended his outdoor triple jump title, giving Scott and SIU its fourth-straight outdoor triple jump title and fifth overall in the previous four years. Sophomore Franklin Adams won his second career MVC title with an outdoor long jump crown.
The 2014 season was also another strong year for Scott's jumpers, who won six MVC outdoor titles. James kept the streak alive in the outdoor triple jump, Culmer broke the six-foot plateau to win the indoor title and earn a trip to the indoor national meet, Cheadle and Adams both won their first career long jump titles, and Landon completed the indoor-outdoor sweep of the high jump as a freshman. Landon was the story of the year, as he qualified for the national meet and ended up finishing an incredible third in the nation, the highest finish for any Saluki male outdoors since 1992.
From 2006-09, Scott was able to coach Stuart, a native of Nassau, Bahamas, who went on to set the Bahamian outdoor long jump record of 6.81m/22-4.25 in 2011 and break it again at 6.83m/22-5 in 2015. She competed for Team Bahamas at both the 2012 London Olympics and the 2016 Rio Games.
In Stuart's four years under Scott's tutelage, she won seven MVC titles in the long jump (four indoor, three outdoor), broke the school record an impressive seven times and set MVC all-time indoor and outdoor records. She earned All-America honors twice in her Saluki career (2008 outdoors, 2009 indoors) and was the first Saluki female jumper to earn All-America status indoors -- the second Saluki female jumper ever.
From 2009-12, Love also flourished under Scott's guidance. She finished as a two-time All-American in the pentathlon, a two-time second-team All-American, nine-time MVC champion, the all-time MVC record holder in the pentathlon and the all-time SIU record holder in four events (pentathlon, heptathlon, indoor and outdoor triple jump). She won a staggering five MVC titles in 2011 alone.
Scott came to Southern Illinois in 2004 after spending two seasons as the jumps coach at Pittsburgh. There he coached one All-American, two Big East and Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) triple jump champions and four NCAA Regional qualifiers.
Among the numerous professional athletes Scott has coaches include his wife, Colleen Scott, a triple and long jumper for Jamaica. Scott has also coached Trecia Smith, a Jamaican national record holder in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump, who finished fourth at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Prior to 2000, Scott spent a year as a volunteer coach at his alma mater, Auburn, where he was a seven-time all-American triple jumper and three-time SEC champion as both a jumper and a sprinter. At Seminole High School in Sanford, Florida, Scott was named the Boys Track and Field Gatorade Player of the Year in 1994.
Scott graduated from Auburn in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in health promotion. He and his wife have one son, Sterling.
| COACHING CAREER | ||
| Year(s) | School | Position |
| 2015-Pres. | Ole Miss | Associate Head Coach / Jumps / Women's Multi |
| 2004-15 | Southern Illinois | Assistant Coach / Jumps / Women's Multi |
| 2002-04 | Pittsburgh | Assistant Coach / Jumps |
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