Damar Forbes - Men's Track & Field Coach - Brown University Athletics

Damar Forbes

Title:
Anne Rothenberg Assistant Coaching Chair - Sprints/Jumps
Email:
damar_forbes@brown.edu
Joined Brown:
November 2022
Alma Mater:
LSU '13

A two-time Olympian, six-time world championships participant, and an NCAA champion, Damar Forbes is in his fourth season on the Brown coaching staff in 2025-26, primarily working with the team’s sprinters and jumpers.

Forbes has helped coach three NCAA qualifiers/All-Americans through his first three seasons, including Zach Love (long jump) in 2023 and Jada Joseph (triple jump) in 2024 and 2025. He coached the men’s 4x100 meter relay team to a school record (40.61) in 2025.

Forbes came to College Hill after previously serving as an assistant coach for sprints/hurdles and jumps at Loyola University New Orleans, where he coached two NAIA National Championship qualifiers. His athletes set seven school records and had nine top-five all-time school performances. He also was the Owner/Sports Performance Coach at Airborne Sports LLC, assisting in coaching U.S. and Canadian Olympic athletes, including Canadian national champion and Olympic sprinter Khamica Bingham.

As an athlete, Forbes twice qualified for the Olympics, competing in the long jump for Jamaica in both the 2012 Games in London and 2016 in Rio, where he was a finalist. He was a five-time Jamaican national champion, a two-time finalist at the world championships, and was a silver medalist at the 2011 CAC Games.

Collegiately, Forbes was one of the most decorated long jumpers in the history of the LSU track and field program. He culminated his career at LSU by capturing the NCAA Outdoor and SEC Outdoor championships in the long jump in 2013. He also won an SEC title and All-America honor that year while running the leadoff leg for the Tigers’ 4x100m relay team, helping him to be named the SEC Men’s Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. He captured six All-America and All-SEC honors during his career, and graduated No. 2 on the Tigers’ indoor (26-11 ¼) and outdoor (27-0 ¾) all-time performance lists in the long jump.

After his college career, Forbes was a professional track and field athlete sponsored by Nike and Puma from 2013-2021, winning 10 international competitions in nine different countries.

Forbes graduated from LSU in 2013 with a bachelor’s degree in sports administration with a concentration in sports leadership.

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