Jimmy Joseph Season 2024

LSU track and field Head Coach Dennis Shaver announced the hiring of Jimmy Joseph as a recruiting coordinator on September 15, 2023. The 2024-25 season will mark his second year as part of the program.

Joseph joined the staff after serving as an assistant coach for track and field at Southern Miss. During his season with the Golden Eagles, the Donaldsonville, La., native primarily oversaw jumps and multi-events. Prior to his year in Mississippi, Joseph served as head coach of the women’s and men’s cross country and track and field programs at Alcorn State University.

Joseph served as the head coach of men’s and women’s track and cross country at Garden City Community College in Kansas, prior to Alcorn.

He spent four seasons as the associate head coach and recruiting director at Southern University. Joseph has also worked at the high school level, leading Donaldsonville High School for one year as the head track and field coach.

Joseph competed collegiately for Southeastern Louisiana from 2008-12 and he earned his undergraduate degree in the spring of 2012 in kinesiology and exercise science; he later earned his master’s in therapeutic recreation/recreational therapy in 2019 from Southern University while he was an assistant coach.