After spending one year as an assistant coach, Dwight Brandon took over the reins of the Holy Family Men’s and Women’s Cross Country and Track & Field programs in 2016.
Men’s track & field has won three conference championships under Brandon, winning the program’s first two East Coast Conference (ECC) Indoor Championships in 2023 and 2024 before going on to win the program’s first Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference (CACC) Outdoor Championship in 2024.
Meanwhile, the women have won the program’s first two ECC Indoor Track & Field Championships in 2022 and 2023, while tying a program record with three straight second place finishes at the CACC Outdoor Championships from 2022-24.
Brandon is now a six-time Conference Coach of the Year:
- 2022 ECC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year
- 2022 CACC Women’s Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year
- 2023 ECC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year
- 2023 ECC Women’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year
- 2024 ECC Men’s Indoor Track & Field Coach of the Year
- 2024 CACC Men’s Outdoor Track & Field Coach of the Year
The women have also captured four consecutive CACC Sportsmanship Awards, while an HFU student-athlete has qualified for five consecutive NCAA Track & Field Championships, with Nishorn Pierre (2022 Outdoors, 2023 Indoors, 2024 Indoors) and Kouto Anyika (2024 Indoors) receiving All-America Honors.
Brandon has led the cross country teams to program records as well, with the women placing third at both the 2021 and 2023 CACC Championship and the men earning 118 points at the 2019 CACC Championship.
Brandon brought over 30 years of experience with him to Holy Family, having coached at the international, national and collegiate level.
In 2015 he coached the National Indoor Men’s 600m champion, who broke the national record and was second in the USA and third in the world (1:16.22).
Brandon most recently served as the Head Men’s and Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field Coach and an instructor in the Business Department at ASA College, where he developed 26 NJCAA All-Americans in three years.
While there he coached a championship quartet in the 4x400m relay at the Penn Relays, and members of his teams came in second in the men’s 400m, third in the men’s 200m, and second in the men’s 4x400 relay at the NJCAA National Championship.
His men’s and women’s cross country teams also finished second at the regional championship in 2014.
Brandon began coaching at the collegiate level at Richard Stockton College, where he was the Head Women’s and Assistant Men’s Cross Country/Track & Field Coach from 1984-1992. During his time there he helped developed several NCAA Division III All-Americans.
A year prior he started the Brandon Track Club (BTC), where during nine years he coached and accompanied two BTC Runners to represent the United States Track & Field Team in competition in Germany, Italy and France, while also leading teams to multiple national relay championships.
Brandon received his bachelor’s degree in business management and economics from Shaw University, before later earning his MBA in Marketing, Finance, and Accounting from California Pacific University.
