Brock Moreaux

Brock Moreaux enters his third season as the Cross Country Coach and Assistant Coach for the distance program with South Carolina Track & Field.

In his second season at the helm of the cross country team, he oversaw the Gamecocks in scoring 296 points at the Southeast Regional for the most points since the 2000 campaign. Under his tutelage, Teresa Cherotich earned Second Team All-SEC in addition to SEC All-Freshman Team. The Gamecocks achieved 10 new Top 20 program marks under Moreaux in 2024, including seven new 6K marks. In his two seasons leading the cross country squad, Moreaux has coached three All-SEC honorees. In 2023, Moreaux coached Judy Kosgei to a spot in the NCAA Cross Country Championship, marking the first ever Gamecock to run at the championship event. Kosgei finished fourth at the regional meet to earn All-Region honors and placed 19^th overall at the NCAA Championship, landing on the All-American squad.

The 2025 indoor season featured a total of 18 new distance Top 10 marks under Moreaux’s guidance, including five new program records. Six individuals were named All-SEC athletes under Moreaux in his second season, including Salma Elbadra who was responsible for three of the new program records. During his first two indoor seasons, Moreaux has coached a total of 13 All-SEC honorees, including the men’s DMR squad of Anass Essayi, Jaouad Khchina, Joshua Kosgei and Bryson Miller who won the DMR gold medal at the SEC Championship in 2024 – the program’s first DMR gold medal.

During the 2025 outdoor campaign, Moreaux’s distance squad was responsible for 16 new Top 10 program identifiers, including three new program records. Moreaux coached Elbadra to a phenomenal indoor season and piggybacked that into the outdoor season where she earned SEC Newcomer of the Year. The Morocco native claimed the gold medal in the outdoor 1500m at the SEC Championship, earning First Team All-SEC. Under his guidance, Elbadra also earned Second Team All-American honors. So far in his first two years, Moreaux has coached a pair of All-American honorees (Essayi & Elbadra) in addition to four All-SEC athletes.

Moreaux arrived in Columbia after serving as the Head Coach for New Orleans Track & Field and Cross Country. Moreaux joined the Privateers in 2018, serving as the Assistant Head Coach until 2021 when he took over as the Associate Head Coach for the 2021-22 season. He was then named Head Coach for the 2022-23 campaign.

Moreaux took New Orleans to new heights as the women’s cross country squad won the program’s first-ever Southland Conference Championship – just the third conference championship in any sport in school history. The UNO women finished with 32 points, 55 points better than second place Lamar for the largest margin of victory in a Southland Championship since 2014. The Privateer men finished third with a total of 81 points, a new program best for placement and point totals.

Moreaux achieved a lot in such a short amount of time with the Privateers, including being named 2022 Southland Conference Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading his team to the Southland Conference championship. He also earned Louisiana Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year honors for that season. Moreaux has coached a combined 38 All-Southland Outdoor Track & Field selections and 25 All-Southland Indoor honorees.

Moreaux coached 16 total All-Southland Cross Country selections, in addition to 14 All-Louisiana Cross Country winners. He has guided six NCAA East Regional participants, two NCAA Cross Country Championship participants, and one Louisiana Men’s Cross Country Runner of the Year winner.

Upon his arrival to New Orleans, Moreaux built a roster that reached as high as sixth in the South Central Region – the men’s highest ranking ever, and the women’s second highest and best ranking since they were fourth at the conclusion of the 2000 season.

Under Moreaux’s guidance, Arina Kleshchukova became one of the most decorated student-athletes in Privateers’ history, having never run a cross country race before attending New Orleans. During her career, Kleshchukova won four races, finished second five times, third twice, fourth once and fifth twice (13 out of 18 career races in the top-five). She was also the first student-athlete in school history to advance to the NCAA Division I Cross Country National Championships.

Before arriving to New Orleans, Moreaux spent two seasons at Cal State Northridge, guiding the program to its best ever finish at the 2018 Big West Cross Country Championships with a program-best five scored student-athletes.

During the 2016-17 season, Moreaux served as a volunteer assistant coach for Oklahoma Track & Field/Cross Country programs. While in Norman, he assisted the women’s cross country squad to a fourth-place finish in the Big 12 conference, the best finish in school history.

Moreaux was a four-year letterman at McNeese, competing in both track & field and cross country between 2011-2015. He won the conference title in the steeplechase at the 2015 Southland Championships. During his final year of eligibility at McNeese, Moreaux served as an intern/assistant coach helping the coaching staff with day-to-day operations of the distance program.

He earned both of his degrees at McNeese, a Bachelor’s in Business Administration and a Master’s of Science in Health and Human Performance. He and his wife, Destinee, currently reside in Columbia.