Robert Abdullah

Biography

Robert Abdullah was named the full-time Sprints and Hurdles coach at Princeton in August 2016. In 2019, the long jump was added to his coaching duties and in 2021, the triple jump. In 2022, Coach Abdullah was recognized by the USTFCCCA and his peers as the Mid-Atlantic Regional Assistant Coach of the Year for the indoor and outdoor seasons. We believe Princeton’s success will continue. In 6 years, Coach Abdullah has coached 38 Ivy League Champions, 63 All-Ivy League Performers and 16 NCAA Regional Qualifiers. In addition, his athletes have broken the school record 25 times, 10 Ivy League Championship and 9 All-time Ivy League records. Coach Abdullah’s athletes have cracked the All-time Ivy League Championship and All Meet Performance List 59 times, along with putting 59 athletes on the Princeton Top 10 List. Prior to becoming the Sprints and Hurdles Coach, Robert served as a volunteer coach for the Tigers for 12 years, working primarily with the hurdlers and assisting Coach Marc Anderson, the longtime sprints coach, until his retirement in 2016. As a hurdles coach, Abdullah coached 8 of the top 11 outdoor hurdlers at Princeton, along with 9 of the top 10 indoor hurdlers. Coach developed Joey Daniels, a 5-time Ivy League Champion, record holder and All-American into a world class hurdler for Canada. Christian Brown, the 2022 Ivy League 60mH Champion also became the Ivy League’s all-time great, beating Joey Daniels’s 60m indoor hurdle record. For the past 6 years, Coach Abdulla