University of Idaho Athletics

Brad Gamble is in his first season as the jumps and multis coach at Idaho, following an eight-year stint as head track and field coach at Colorado Mesa University. 

As the head coach of the Mavericks, Gamble led three individual national champions and earned the title of RMAC Coach of the Year for the 2024 indoor and outdoor season. In his eight seasons at CMU, he led the men’s and women’s programs to their first top-15 finishes at the NCAA Division II Indoor National Championships. 

Gamble coached back-to-back RMAC Women’s Track Athlete of the Year Sierra Arceneaux, who was a part of the 2021 national championship-winning 4x400 meter relay team, the first individual or relay national champion on the women’s side in school history. 

During his tenure in Grand Junction, Colorado Mesa’s athletes won 56 RMAC event conference titles. 

Both teams were awarded the USTFCCCA Academic Team Award in each of Gamble’s eight seasons in charge, showing their commitment to the classroom, in addition to competition. 

Prior to his time at Colorado Mesa, he spent three seasons as the head coach of Chadron State, where Gamble coached 26 All-Americans and 36 RMAC champions. While in charge of the Eagles, Gamble led Chadron State to their first women’s outdoor conference championship in 2016, followed up by a third-place finish at the 2017 NCAA Division II Indoor Track & Field Championships, their first Division II trophy in any sport in school history. 

As a student-athlete, Gamble competed for one season at Chadron State, setting the national championship indoor meet record in the heptathlon when he won the national title in 2010. 

Gamble graduated with a degree in physical education from Hastings College in 2010 and a masters degree in organizational management with an emphasis in sports management from Chadron State in 2014.