The Id-Deen File

Coaching Experience

2004-06: Richmond
2006-15: George Mason
2015-Present: Tennessee

Coached Athletes' Success

26 All-Americans
9 All-Americans at UT in First Year
1 World Champion
1 World Junior Champion

Abigi Id-Deen enters his second season as an Assistant Coach for sprints at Tennessee. In his first year on Rocky Top, Id-Deen worked with the long sprints and relays.

Id-Deen coached Nathan Strother to first-team All-American honors in both the indoor and outdoor seasons. Strother claimed a runner-up place in the 400m race at the Indoor National Championship and took fifth at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. Felicia Majors also earned a first team All-American nod with an eighth place finish at the NCAA Outdoors. She finished ninth in the country in the 400m at the Indoor National Championship.

Id-Deen also coached the 4x400m women's relay team to an eighth place finish and first-team All-American honors at the Indoor NCAA Championships. The women's 4x100m relay team earned first team All-American honors as well. The men's 4x400m relay squad earned second team All-America honors outdoors after taking fifth and first team honors at the NCAA Indoor Championship.

Prior to working at Tennessee, Id-Deen spent nine years at George Mason, beginning his stint there as an assistant coach. In 2011, after producing 10 All-Americans in the Patriot sprints and jumps and helping the men's teams to Colonial Athletic Association titles in 2010 and 2011, Id-Deen was promoted to his most recent position of associate head coach. At Tennessee, Id-Deen will work in conjunction with second-year Vols sprint coach Tim Hall and will specialize in coaching the long sprints, long hurdles, and long relays. Hall will remain on staff to focus on coaching the short sprints, hurdles, and relays.

Following his promotion at George Mason, Id-Deen earned the USTFCCCA Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year Award after helping the Patriot men to their third consecutive CAA title. Eleven of his athletes qualified for the NCAA East Region Championships that year, with two eventually moving on to the National Championships. Also in 2012, Id-Deen coached LaVell Handy to the Most Outstanding Field Performer Award at the CAA Championships. Handy qualified for the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the long jump and took part in the Olympic Trials at the end of the season.

More success followed Id-Deen in 2013 as he saw the men's 4x400-meter relay team earn All-American honors at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Sprinter David Verburg earned second team All-American during the indoor season and went on to pick up first team honors during the outdoor campaign in the 400-meter dash. Verburg would go on to the USA Championships where his 400 time of 44.75 earned a place at the World Championships in Moscow, Russia. The outdoor season also saw the women's 4x400 team pick up second team All-America honors while at the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Oregon.

In 2014, Id-Deen again brought home hardware as the Patriot women's squad claimed the Atlantic 10 Indoor and Outdoor Championships. Three of his athletes seized individual titles at the A-10 Outdoor Championships, as did both the men's and women's 4x400 relay team.

In total, Id-Deen coached 21 NCAA All-Americans, six NCAA All-American relay teams, 48 individual conference champions, and 18 conference relay champions in his nine seasons at George Mason.

Prior to joining the staff at George Mason, Id-Deen spent two years as a member of Richmond's track and field staff, working primarily with the sprints, jumps and hurdle events. In those two years, he guided his first recruiting class of sprinters at Richmond to nine school records. His athletes broke 17 school records in total and also picked up five All-Conference selections during his tenure at Richmond.

He coached Ashley Bell to three A-10 Conference Championship titles in the long jump, triple jump and 200-meter dash during his first year at Richmond. Her efforts earned her the conference's Outstanding Field Athlete Award at the indoor championships. In his second year, he helped Jasmine Major to a pair of A-10 titles in the indoor 55-meter hurdles and the 100-meter hurdles. Major was named the Atlantic 10 Indoor Championships' Most Outstanding Rookie and set a school record in the 100-meter dash.

He also coached freshman Jessica Young to the World Junior Championships and five school records, including the 60, 200, and 400-meter dash indoors, and the 200 and 400-meter dash outdoors. Young was the first female sprinter in Richmond history to provisionally qualify for the NCAA Indoor Championships in the 400-meter dash. During the outdoor season, she was the first female sprinter to qualify for the NCAA East Regional Championships in the 200 and 400-meter dash.

Before becoming a member of the Spiders' staff, he served two years as a volunteer assistant under coach Willie Jones at Phoenix College (Ariz.), primarily working with the sprints and jumps.

Id-Deen competed in track & field at Central Arizona College from 1997-99 prior to transferring to Arizona State. He set a long jump personal best of 24-06, ran the 200 meters in 21.32 and set a personal mark of 47.50 in the 400 meters. He graduated from ASU in 2002.

He and his wife, Kia (formerly Kia Davis) were married in August of 2014; Kia is a 2008 Olympian for Liberia, where she holds six-national records.