Cameia Alexander - Women's Track and Field - Vanderbilt University Athletics

Cameia Alexander

Assistant Coach • Sprints, Hurdles

Coaching Highlights 
• 3 NCAA DI East First Round qualifications
• 1 SEC bronze medal
• 3 SEC scoring performances
• 3 NCAA DIII silver medals (Virginia Wesleyan)
• 1 NCAA DIII bronze medalist (Virginia Wesleyan)
• 8 All-America selections (Virginia Wesleyan)
• 20 USTFCCCA All-Region selections (Virginia Wesleyan)

Cameia Alexander works primarily with sprinters and hurdlers. The 2024-25 season is her second as an assistant coach for the Commodores.

Achievements at Vanderbilt – Assistant Coach (2023–Present)
In her first season at Vanderbilt, Alexander’s coaching efforts contributed to three qualifications for the NCAA East First Round and a bronze medal finish by the distance medley relay at the SEC Indoor Championships. She helped to coach Allyria McBride, who split 52.49 seconds in that DMR. Outdoors, McBride scored in the 400-meter hurdles at the SEC Championships and improved her third-ranked mark on Vandy’s all-time performers list. She qualified for the NCAA East First Round in the event and would go on to advance to the semifinals at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. With Alexander’s guidance, Haley Bishop improved her 200 meters time by more than a second over the course of the indoor and outdoor season and qualified for regionals in the event.

Prior to Vanderbilt
At Virginia Wesleyan – Director of Track and Field (2021–23), Assistant Director (2020–21)
Before coming to Nashville, Alexander was the director of cross country and track and field at Virginia Wesleyan University from 2021 to 2023. From 2020 to 2021, she served as the assistant director of sprints, jumps and hurdles for the Marlins. 

During her time in Virginia Beach, she coached six USTFCCCA All-Region athletes, fourteen indoor and outdoor Old Dominion Athletic Conference champions and eight-time All-American Geni Roberts. Roberts was the runner-up in the long jump at the 2023 NCAA DIII Indoor Championships and third in the triple jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. At the 2023 ODAC Indoor Championships, Alexander led the men’s team to a fourth-place finish and the women’s team to sixth overall.

In 2021 she coached four USTFCCCA All-Region athletes and seven-time indoor and outdoor ODAC champion, conference record holder and NCAA qualifier Landry Moffo in the 60 and 110-meter hurdles.

Over three seasons with the Marlins, Alexander coached student-athletes to achieving 25 school records, 24 ODAC individual titles, three ODAC all-time records and 20 all-region and seven All-America honors.

At Troy – Assistant Coach (2016–20)
Before her stop at Virginia Wesleyan, Alexander spent four seasons as an assistant coach at Troy University where she worked with the sprinters and hurdlers. There, she coached four Sun Belt Conference champions and 10 NCAA East Region qualifiers.

Personal
Alexander, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, earned a bachelor’s in health and human services from Troy University in 2016 and her master’s in rehabilitation counseling with a clinical and mental health psychology certificate in 2019. As a student-athlete, she competed in the 60, 100 and 200 meters and sprint relays.

Coaching Experience
• Assistant Coach, Vanderbilt (2023–present)
Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, Virginia Wesleyan (2021–23)
Assistant Director, Virginia Wesleyan (2020–21)
Assistant Coach, Troy (2016–20)