The Tribune

NYLES Stuart is now entering his fourth year at Life University and third year as its head coach.

Stuart is also owner of Marietta Performance Training, a sports performance facility that specialises in fitness and strength conditioning for track and field athletes.

During his first full year as head coach, several athletes earned All-Conference Honours with two advancing to an NAIA Championships event, one during cross country season (Elizabeth Skipper) and the other during indoor season (Monique Keene - long jump).

In the spring of 2016, Stuart led the Running Eagles to a second place finish at the indoor conference championships, earning coach of the year and having three athletes qualify to the indoor national championships, two in the 400m and one in the long and triple jump.

During the indoor championships, Nyles coached Bahamian triple jumper Bria Sands to earn the title of national champion. With the momentum from indoors, Bria was able to earn the NAIA Outdoor Championship title as well.

Before his role as head coach at Life University, Stuart served as an assistant coach, designing and administering the strength conditioning programme, along with coaching the horizontal jumps. In just the programme's second official year returning to NAIA track and field, Stuart was able to produce an NAIA indoor and outdoor championship qualifier - Bria Sands - who achieved All-American status placing as high as third.

As the head trainer of Marietta Performance Training (MPT), Stuart has trained dozens of high school athletes with an emphasis on injury prevention and sports performance.

In the past six years, Stuart has worked with coaches to produce just over 20 individual state titles, which currently ranks MPT as one of the most successful youth strength programmes in such a short amount of time in the state of Georgia.

Coach Nyles also has a history of success working with elite athletes such as Bianca Stuart who, in 2018, leapt to a distance of 6.74 metres, tying for the 21st best jump in the world.Lastly, from the fall of 2011 to 2013, Stuart served has the strength coach for Derrick Atkins, assisting him in regaining world-class performances of 10.06 and 10.08 seconds.