Chereé Hicks

Head Coach, Track and Field
E-mail: chhicks@nmu.edu
Telephone: 906-227-1913
 

Chereé Hicks begins her first year as the head track and field coach at Northern Michigan University.

Hicks spent 11 years as an assistant track and field coach at the University of Miami, Syracuse University and Portland State University and holds a USATF Level II certification in throws and jumps. She was an NCAA runner-up in the shot put and discus as a student-athlete at Syracuse and an Academic All-American and All-American in discus at California State University, Northridge.

Hicks spent seven seasons at Miami as an assistant coach, focusing on throws under head coach Amy Deem, who recently served as the head women's track and field coach for Team USA at the Olympic Games in London. Hicks coached an athlete who qualified for the NCAA Championship in four of her seven years. She also coached the first discus All-American in Miami history, Khadija Talley.

Before Miami, Hicks spent three seasons at Syracuse, where she coached her student-athletes to eight individual Big East Championships, 17 Big East All-Conference honors and five school-records. She was instrumental in the development of Johvonne Hernandez, who in 2004 set a Big East record and earned All-America honors in the hammer throw.

During the 2002 season, Hicks was the assistant coach at Portland State.

As a student-athlete in 2000, Hicks finished second in the shot put at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, and was runner-up in both the shot put and discus at the NCAA outdoor meet. That season, she set a Big East Indoor Championship record in the shot put and Big East Outdoor Championship records in both the shot put and discus. In addition, she placed fifth in the shot put at the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials.

Hicks earned a bachelor’s degree in public relations from Syracuse in 2000 and ended her Syracuse career as the school-record holder in both the indoor and outdoor shot put and in the discus. A member of the 1997 USA Junior National team, she competed her freshman season at California State Northridge where she was an Academic All-American and an All-American in the discus.