Former Eagle Grayson Brookshire joined the cross country and track and field staff in January of 2024 as an assistant distance running coach. He is both a former high school and college teammate of head coach Clay Dixon.
Brookshire is a 2018 Morehead State graduate who majored in exercise science and minored in biology. He currently works at Lockheed Martin as a manufacturing planner.
In just a short time, he has carved out a decorated coaching career, mentoring nine individual state champions, seven national qualifiers, 22 individual region champions and 22 individual all-state honorees. Additionally, he has coached 19 athletes who have gone on to compete in cross country and track and field in college.
Brookshire was the head track and field coach and the assistant cross country coach at Paul Laurence Dunbar High School from 2021-23. While there, his athletes set three school records, won two regional titles and two city championships. In 2023, his girls’ team placed third at the Class 3A State Track and Field Championships after having finished fourth the previous year.
From 2018-21, he served as an assistant track and field and cross country coach at his alma maters, George Rogers Clark High School and Robert D. Campbell Junior High School. White there, he guided the sixth-grade girls’ cross country squad to a state title, tutored a middle school state cross country champion, set four school records and was named the area Coach of the Year three times.
During his tenure with the Eagles, Brookshire ran in 17 cross country meets and earned a spot on the Ohio Valley Conference Commissioner’s Honor Roll in four semesters. As a senior, he set a “pr” of 25:27.0 in the 8K, after placing 69th in a field of nearly 400, while helping the Eagles to a third-place finish.
On the track, he competed in distances from 800 meters to 5,000 meters, and even did the high jump. His best performances came as a freshman at the Redhawk Invitational, where he finished ninth in the 1,500-meter run in 4:08.66, and at the Centre Invitational, where he placed 10th in the 800m in 2:00.20. As a senior, he was 11th in the 3,000-meter run, with a time of 9:01.11, at the Hilltopper Relays.
At GRC, Brookshire earned two all-region honors and four all-conference accolades, while helping the Cardinals to three berths at the Class 3A State Cross Country Championships. He won the Kentucky River Conference cross country title as a senior, after finishing as the runner-up the previous two years. He also was named academic all-state three times.
He is certified as a United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) Sprints, Hurdles and Relay Event Specialist. He also is a USA Track & Field Level 1 Coach and is accredited by the National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) as a Coach Level 1.
