Devin West

Biography

Tennessee head coach and director of track & field Duane Ross announced the hiring of Devin West as a recruiting coordinator and assistant coach in the fall of 2024. West comes to Knoxville with more than 15 years of experience coaching at the collegiate level and has developed a reputation as one of the best recruiters in the sport. He most recently served as an assistant coach at UCLA during the 2023-24 campaign after two seasons coaching sprints and hurdles with the University of Georgia men's and women's track programs. West was named an assistant coach for sprints and hurdles at Georgia in July 2021, giving West a second stint with the Bulldogs. While in The Peach State, West helped coach Elija Godwin to a national championship at the 2023 NCAA Indoor meet. Godwin also earned a gold and bronze medal at the 2022 World Athletics Championships, as well as his first SEC individual title in the 400m at the 2023 indoor conference meet with West's guidance. West, a native of Berkeley, Calif., also spent 2015-17 at Georgia as the recruiting coordinator and sprints assistant and arrived back in Athens during the 2021 summer after overseeing the sprints and hurdles program at Air Force for the 2020-21 academic year. Starting his collegiate athletic career on both the football and track teams at St. Mary's College and then graduating from Kennesaw State University, West has both recruited and coached some of the country's best during stints at several Power 5 programs. Throughout h