Nadine Faustin-Parker

// COACH FAUSTIN-PARKER 
Women’s Associate Head Coach and Men’s Assistant Coach Nadine Faustin-Parker is set to enter her 12th year with the Bearcats. As a member of the University of Cincinnati track & field coaching staff, she will continue her work with the sprints, hurdles and relays group. A three-time Olympian for the Republic of Haiti in the 100m hurdles, Faustin-Parker has continued to see her athletes find great success under her guidance, including a banner 2016 outdoor campaign that went a long way to helping the women’s team capture the programs first American Athletic Conference Outdoor Track & Field title with championship crowns also collected during the 2017 outdoor and 2018 indoor seasons. 

// QUICK HITS ON COACH FAUSTIN-PARKER

• Coaches sophomore Davenae Fagan. Faustin-Parker's leadership helped lead Fagan to a breakout freshman season. Fagan earned All-Big 12 honors in the 400m and 4x400 relay for 2024 and qualified for the 2024 NCAA First Round.  
• Coached Steven McElroy to a gold medal, claimed gold for Team USA as the leadoff leg of the men's 4x400-meter relay at the World Athletics U20 Championships Cali22, and a silver medal in the 400m with a time of 45.65… At the USATF U20 Outdoor Championships, McElroy ran a meet record and UC record, 44.93, to win the 400m
• Coached Steven McElroy to break the UC 400 record 44.93.
• Coached Caisja Chandler, 2020-21 US Olympic Trials Qualifier in the 200m with a time of 22.79, and Christopher Borzor, 2019 200m Conference Champion with a time of 20.46.
• Coaches Caisja Chandler, Cincinnati’s 2020 NCAA Indoor Championship qualifier and USTFCCCA All-America athlete. Chandler was also a 2019 and 2020 NCAA Outdoor Championship qualifier in the 100m/200m.  
• Has coached athletes to conference titles in the 60mH, 100H, 200, 400, 400H, 4x100m relay, and 4x400m relay. The list of champions include Steven McElroy Christopher Borzor, Arthur Greenlee IV, Javette Lee, Andre Anderson, and Bryana Robinson. Robinson was the first UC woman to win the 400m title at a conference meet (she also swept the 2017 indoor and outdoor titles) 
• Coached the women’s 4x100m relay qualify to the 2019 NCAA Outdoor Championship  
• Coached and helped the women’s 4x400m relay qualify to the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships where they earned USTFCCCA All-America Second Team honors, the first time UC qualified for the meet in the event and the first All-America honors earned in program history in a relay (M&W) 
• Her athletes hold 16 individual school records and have also contributed to five relay school records 

// COACHING EXPERIENCE 
Faustin-Parker came to UC in 2013 as an assistant coach to oversee short sprints, hurdles and relays. in her time with the program, she has helped bring about historical firsts for the program. Along with her group playing a strong role in UC winning its first three conference team titles in women’s program history, several of her women combined to earn the program’s first All-America honors in a relay event (women’s outdoor 4x400m relay in 2017) while Bryana Robinson captured the 2017 indoor and outdoor 400m crowns at the AAC Conference Championship meets, the first time a UC woman had won that race at the conference level in program history. In 2024 season, Faustin-Parker helped lead Davenae Fagan to a breakout freshman season. She placed third overall in 60m and fourth overall in 300m at the Indiana Early Bird. At the Music City Challenge, Fagan placed first overall in the 400m (55.50). Fagan also earned All-Big 12 honors in the 400m and 4x400 relay for 2024 and qualified for the 2024 NCAA First Round. In 2022 Faustin-Parker guide Steven McElroy to one of the most successful freshman seasons in program history as he would go on to break the UC 400 record with a time of 44.93 and win multiple conference championships and qualify for the NCAA Championships. 

For many across the globe, the 2021 and 2020 athletic seasons were like no other. There was the constant need to quickly adapt and respond due to the pandemic. Despite the trials, the sprints, hurdles, and relay runners continued to work hard and shine brightly. In 2021, the women were runner-ups at the AAC Outdoor Conference championships while the men finished third. Chandler qualified for the US Olympic Trials with 22.79 in the 200m. She also ran the fastest 100m time in school history flying to 11.22. Borzor dashed through the finish line multiple times running a record setting mark of 20.46 in the 200m and 46.15 in the 400m which is the third fastest time in UC history. Isaiah McCall brought his teammates and crowd to their feet with his time of 13.88 in the 110m hurdles while his teammate Calista Manns broke the 100m hurdle freshmen record with 13.78. Tiona Lattimore seized on the opportunity of her senior year to run her fastest time of 53.68. Chris Borzor and Caisja Chandler earned indoor USTFCCCA All-America honors in the 200m. Arthur Greenlee IV dazzled the crowd during the AAC indoor conference championships where he won the men’s 60m hurdles blazing with a time of 7.77.  

Through the 2019 outdoor season, her athletes captured ten conference titles, including Robinson’s 400m sweep in 2017 and a relay trifecta as the Bearcats women won the indoor and outdoor 4x400m relays and added the 4x100m crown outdoors as well. Added to it, her group has collected 37 all-conference honors for their Top 3 showings at the AAC Championships. Overall, her Bearcats have combined to post over 85 marks that hold positions in the program’s all-time Top 10 ledgers, including thirteen individual and five relay school records.  

On a national level, her athletes have qualified for the NCAA Finals 7 times. On the regional level, her athletes have qualified to the NCAA East Preliminary Round meet 29 times, including the women’s 4x100m relay having qualified five times since 2016. The women’s 4x400m relay qualified in 2016 and 2017 with the latter quartet also advancing to the NCAA Championships in Eugene, Ore., where they placed 15th overall to earn USTFCCCA All-America Second Team honors. In 2016 alone, she sent three women to the NCAA East Preliminary regional meet in the 100m hurdles, a feat surpassed by just one school (four entries). 
 
Prior to UC, she spent two years at Mansfield University (Pa.) as the Head Women’s Track & Field Coach and Men’s Assistant Coach. In her short time with the Mountaineers, she made an immediate impact by coaching her athletes to 26 school records. She ended up coaching 15 PSAC qualifiers, three All-PSAC champions, two PSAC champions, nine NCAA provisional mark performers and one NCAA final qualifier. 
 
Before departing for Mansfield, Faustin-Parker served as the Director of Track and field Operations and Assistant Coach at her alma mater, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She assisted the program with the multi-event athletes and hurdlers. During her tenure at UNC-CH, she coached eight All-ACC honorees, three ACC Champions, and five NCAA Qualifiers, including Mateo Sossah, an NCAA runner-up in the men’s decathlon. 
 
// SPRINT PROGRAM HISTORY 
Looking ahead, Faustin-Parker leads a strong group of athletes who have quickly made their mark. In her first season as a Bearcat, Kya Epps has gained recognition fast. At the 2025 PNC Lenny Lyles Invitational, Epps set a new 60m program record with a time of 7.25. Additionally, Epps ranks second all-time in the 200m with a time of 23.41.

Sophomore Davenae Fagan had an impressive freshman season, earning All-Big 12 honors in the 400m and 4x400 relay for 2024. She also qualified for the 2024 NCAA First Round. Fagan holds the second-fastest 300 m time in school history, clocking 37.95.

Faustin-Parker has had a substantial impact on her sprinters with many of the women having break-out seasons and record-setting performances , including Caisja Chandler, Tiona Lattimore, Faith Banks, Javette Lee, to name a few. It progressed from the emergence of Bryana Robinson and Haisha Bisiolu leading the way to historical happenings for the women’s program in 2016, including the program’s first relay to qualify to the NCAA Championships (men or women) in 2017, the first relay All-America honors earned in program history, and the first 400m titles won by a woman both indoors and out. 
 
The 2017 campaign was historic, to say the least. Indoors, Robinson broke the school record in the 400m (53.52) before winning the 400m title at the AAC Championships, becoming the first UC woman to win the event at a conference meet. She followed that up outdoors, duplicating her historical first by winning the outdoor crown. Along with her three relay wins (indoor and outdoor 4x400m and outdoor 4x100m), Robinson went undefeated in conference action in 2017. 
 
But it wasn’t just Robinson in the spotlight as she and her teammates had an incredible year in the relays. After winning the 4x400m crown indoors and breaking the school record (3:40.13), the team took its act outdoors and broke the school record three times in a row: at the AAC Championships (3:36.97), at the NCAA East Preliminary Round (3:36.59) to qualify to nationals for the first time and then at the NCAA meet (3:35.96). The relay records also fell in the 4x100m (44.33) and the 4x200m (1:38.41), with the latter record having stood for 17 years (2000). 
 
The male sprinters have had a substantial impact on UC’s track and field legacy with the performances and leadership of Chris Borzor running 20.46, Arthur Greenlee IV running 7.77, and Andre Anderson running 51.12 . All three have captured the conference title in their respective 200m, 60m hurdles, and 400H events. The relay teams continue to get better. In 2021, the men’s 4x100m relay team ran the program’s #12 fastest time in history. In 2019, Quincy Mitchell just missed capturing the school record running 10.39 in the 100m, the third fastest time run in program history. In 2018, the men’s 4x400m relay team ran the #3 and #8 times in program history indoors, including a time of 3:13.64 for the third position. That time was also the fastest run at UC since 1977 and the first mark added to the Top 10 since 1989. Nick Kowaleski finished on the UC 100m depth chart in 10.48 and missed a berth into the NCAA regional race by one place in 2015. Chambers, a freshman in 2016, ran a time of 6.86 in the 60m dash, ranking him fourth all-time in program history. Faustin-Parker works with multiple sport collegiate student-athletes as well. She molded former football player Joshua Holloman into an instant success as he ran 10.57 to qualify for the AAC final outdoors in the 100m and post the then-#10 time in UC history in just his second collegiate race. He would go on to finish seventh in the meet. 
 
// HURDLE PROGRAM 
Labeling the past eight years of the UC hurdle program, especially for the women, as a success might be an understatement. All told, Faustin-Parker’s tutelage has seen Bearcats hurdlers break three school records, earn nine all-conference selections, and assist the women’s program in capturing a trio of team titles at the conference meets and the men’s program move up to top 3 in conference finishes. 
 
Most recently in 2021 on the men’s side, Isaiah McCall capped his collegiate career running a competitive 13.88 and qualifying for the NCAA first rounds. He was a part of a youth movement that began in 2017 on the men’s side of things as rookies Connor Duricky and Isaiah McCall reached the finals of the AAC meets in both the indoor 60m hurdles (8th and 4th, respectively) before taking part in the final of the 110m hurdles outdoors (2nd and 6th, respectively). Both men turned in solid times throughout the year with McCall running 6.89 (#8) in the 60m dash and 8.09 (#5) in the 60m hurdles while Duricky raced to a time of 14.04 for the #7 time in the 110m hurdles and the fastest at UC since 2013 (5 years). Along with Kelvin Williams (5th), the men placed three runners in the 60m hurdles final at the AAC meet. In 2018, Arthur Greenlee IV joined the hurdle group to win the 60m hurdles AAC conference title in 2020 with a personal best mark of 7.77.  
 
On the women’s side, 2021 marked the season when the long-standing freshman record in the 100m hurdles held by Je’Rica Sanders was broken by freshman Calista Manns in a time of 13.78. Before the cancelled 2020 athletic season, the women continued to shine as Aliya Barnes placed third outdoors in the 100m hurdles to earn all-conference accolades while Grace Winckowski ran 1:03.60 to earn the #10 ranking all-time in the school’s 400m hurdles listing in the 2017 season. Barnes joined Juliana Puopolo in finishing fifth and seventh, respectively, at the AAC Championships. Williams, who placed fifth, also reached the finals at the AAC meet. 
 
Javette Lee had a strong showing to lead the way in 2016 as she broke the school record in the 100m hurdles (13.18) and the 400m hurdles (59.13), making her the first Bearcat to break the one-minute barrier in the intermediate hurdles. Lee also won the 100m hurdles at the conference meet and led the way for three Bearcats who qualified to the NCAA East Preliminary Round, tying for the second-most entries in the event as Lee, Je’Rica Sanders and Barnes earned berths. 
 
That trio also has done extensive rewrites in the record book, accounting for nine of the fastest hurdle times in UC history, including the Top 2 in the outdoor 100m hurdles. In fact, outside of the men’s 400m hurdles, Faustin-Parker’s athletes stand three deep on all hurdle record ledgers in UC history. 
 
Faustin-Parker’s tutelage in the hurdles has done wonders for Bearcats superstars Bryan Cain and Je’Rica Sanders, who both qualified for the NCAA Preliminary round in 2014. Cain clocked 7.87 in the 60-meter hurdles, the third-fastest time in UC history. He also ranks seventh in the 110-meter hurdles. Sanders is second in Bearcats’ history in the 60-meter hurdles after running 8.36 in 2015. She also ranks fourth in the 100-meter hurdles. 
 
A total of 23 times have been recorded by Faustin-Parker’s hurdlers during her tenure that rank in the program’s all-time Top 10. She also boasts an individual conference champion in Andre Anderson, who captured the 400m hurdles title in 2015 in a school-record time of 51.12.
 
// COMPETITIVE CAREER 
Faustin-Parker represented the Republic of Haiti in the 100-meter hurdles in three Olympic Games (2000 in Sydney, Australia; 2004 in Athens, Greece; 2008 in Beijing, China). She was a semifinalist in Athens, posting a personal-best time of 12.74, a Haiti national record. She also holds the 60-meter hurdles record in a time of 7.99. Faustin-Parker participated in the European Track and Field Circuit from 1999-2008. She was a five-time semifinalist at the Indoor and Outdoor World Championships. She graduated from UNC-CH in 1999 as a student-athlete with All-America honors. She was inducted into the University of North Carolina Track and Field Hall of Honor in 2007. 
 
// PERSONAL LIFE 
In 2012, Faustin-Parker was named to the inaugural list of 25 people to be selected to The 1804 List of 25 Haitian American Changemakers in the United States by The Haitian Roundtable, an organization of Haitian-American professionals who are committed to civic engagement as well as philanthropic endeavors benefiting Haiti and Haitian organizations and causes. Faustin-Parker lives in the Cincinnati area with her husband, Anthony Parker, son, Anthony Daniel Parker, and daughter, Micaele Alexandra