Angela (Goodman) Elliott is in her 10th season as an assistant coach in 2022-23 after she returned to her alma mater in 2013. A Purdue University Women's Track and Field Hall of Fame inductee, she works with Purdue’s sprinters, hurdlers and relay squads and coordinates the program’s recruiting efforts.
In her tenure on the Boilermaker coaching staff, Elliott helped lead the women’s team to a Big Ten championship in 2017 and has coached multiple Boilermakers to All-America accolades, Big Ten individual titles and school record-breaking times. Multiple Purdue top-10 times have been set in each event by Elliott’s sprinters, and the relay teams are more successful than ever. The women have ran the 10 fastest times in program history in the 4x100, and the men have posted the five-fastest 4x100 times under Elliott’s guidance.
In 2021-22, Elliott’s runners won three Big Ten medals, including two by newcomer Antonio Mitchell II, and both the men’s and women’s 4x100 relays advanced to the NCAA outdoor championships. Elliott helped Purdue to its most NCAA qualifiers since 2018, with nine, and both of her 4x100 relay squads collected Honorable Mention All-America distinction.
The 2020-21 season saw Elliott coach the men’s 4x100 relay to a Big Ten championship outdoors, along with a total of three silver medals and three bronzes. The men’s 4x100 relay and Samson Colebrooke (200m) qualified for the NCAA Championships outdoors, and Marcellus Moore earned a berth to the NCAA indoor meet and collected first team All-America honors with a sixth-place finish nationally. Thirteen top-10 marks in school history were set by Boilermaker sprinters during the 2021 season.
In 2019-20, Elliott coached a pair of Big Ten champions, as Waseem Williams won the indoor 60-meter event with a Big Ten and Purdue-record time of 6.58 seconds, while the women’s 4x400-meter relay squad claimed the Big Ten indoor title in 3:37.68, the ninth-fastest time in school history. Williams and Colebrooke collected All-America accolades.
In 2018-19, Elliott guided Williams to a program-record time of 10.04 seconds in the 100-meter dash, at the 2019 NCAA Championships. Williams finished fourth overall, the highest NCAA outdoor finish by a Purdue men’s student-athlete.
Elliott’s All-Americans also include 2017 Big Ten Track Athlete of the Year Devynne Charlton, Savannah Carson, Carmiesha Cox and Brionna Thomas. With Elliott’s guidance, Charlton garnered five All-America honors throughout her collegiate career and was voted Big Ten Track Athlete of the Championships in 2016 and 2017.
Elliott’s achievements also extend to the 4x100-meter relay, where she coached a total of five teams to All-America status. On the women’s side, she notched three consecutive years (2015, ’16 and ’17), while tallying two more on the men’s side (2014 and ’19).
Before rejoining the Boilermakers, Elliott held head coaching jobs at UConn, Michigan State, Olivet College, Syracuse and Yale. Most recently, she worked at Olivet College, in Olivet, Michigan, where she was a student retention and academic advisor from 2008-13, as well as the head coach of the men's and women's track and field and cross country teams from 2008-10. Prior to that stint, Elliott was the director of women's track and field and cross country at Michigan State. With the Spartans, she led numerous Big Ten Champions and NCAA All-Americans. Under Elliott, Michigan State's program doubled in size because of her coaching and recruiting efforts. She was with Michigan State from 1998-2006.
Prior to her time at Michigan State, Elliott spent three years as the head coach at UConn, from 1996-98. She led numerous athletes to school records, conference titles and a team conference championship. Elliott also spent a pair of seasons on the staff at Syracuse as a graduate assistant from 1995-96. She originally broke into the coaching scene in 1992 at Yale, where she was an assistant coach until 1995. There, she worked mainly with the horizontal jumpers.
Elliott served as the head women's coach of the US National Track and Field Team in 2007 for the Norwich Union International Games. She was an assistant coach for the team in 1997 and 2001 for the Outdoor World Championships and the World University Games, respectively.
A four-time Big Ten champion, Elliott is a Purdue graduate and was inducted into the Purdue University Women's Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1994. She earned All-America honors in 1988 in the indoor triple jump and swept the indoor and outdoor Big Ten triple jump titles in back-to-back seasons, in 1987 and ’88.
Elliott is married to Purdue head coach Norbert Elliott.
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