Two-time Olympic thrower Amin Nikfar joins the Southeastern staff for the 2015-16 season.
Nikfar, a member of the Iranian National team from 2003-14, competed in both the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China and the 2012 Games in London, England. He also competed on two World Championship teams and nine regional and continental championship squads.
Nikfar is a nine-time Iranian national champion, a six-time Iranian national record holder and was an All-Pac-10 and All-Western Region while at the University of California-Berkeley. He won gold medals at the 2004 Indoor Asian Athletics Championships, the 2009 Asian Indoor Games and the 2010 West Asian Championships.
Nikfar also finished fourth at the 2014 Asian Games and fifth at the 2010 Asian Games. In addition, received the 2003 Al Reagan Award as the most improved athlete at Cal and a Special Recognition Award from Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano in 2008.
Nikfar coached throws for the Iranian National Team in August where he was the personal coach at the World Championships for Ehsan Hadadi, the 2011 World Champion and 2012 Olympic silver medalist in the men’s discus.
Nikfar was the throws/jumps/multis coach at the University of New Orleans from 2014-15. There, he coached Southland Conference heptathlon champion Farydah Inoussa and nine school-record holders in the women’s high jump, long jump, pentathlon and heptathlon.
Nikfar also coached throws at Saint Francis High School from February-June 2014. He was previously a volunteer assistant coach at Northern Arizona University from 2006-09 during which the school swept the men’s cross country and indoor and outdoor Big Sky titles in 2009 and also won men’s outdoor titles in 2007 and ’08 and the women’s indoor title in 2009. He started his coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at Cal in 2006.
