| Gabriel Brown Collegiate Bio (2019-21) |
Brown joined the Lobos’ coaching staff in the summer of 2023. He coaches UNM’s pole vaulters.
A UNM alum who competed for the Lobos during the 2019-20 and 2020-21 seasons, Brown’s 5.20m (17’0.75″) personal best in the pole vault in 2021 ranks No. 6 on the outdoor UNM all-time list — that season, he placed fourth at MW Indoor Championships.
Brown’s first season coaching UNM’s vaulters has seen unprecedented success. In the Lobos’ first indoor meet of the 2023-24 season, three UNM pole vaulters notched PR’s that put them on the UNM Indoor All-Time Top 10 list in the event, with Maja Gebauer’s 4.10m (3’5.25″) mark ranking No. 2 to lead the way. Alyssa Gregory cleared 4.04m (No. 3 all-time) and Kiara Quezada-Arzate cleared 4.00m (No. 9 all-time) — the first time since 2014 that three UNM women’s vaulters have joined the 4.00m club in the same season as well as the first time that three women’s vaulters cracked the all-time Top 10 in the same season. UNM’s women’s pole vault squad ranked No. 13 in the nation in that season’s initial USTFCCCA #EventSquad rankings and ranked No. 14 at the conclusion of the season.
At 2024 MW Indoor Championships, Kiara Quezada-Arzate became the first Brown-coached vaulter to get on the conference podium with a third-place finish — the first Lobo woman to do so since 2014.
In the outdoor season, UNM ranked among the Top 25 women’s pole vault programs in the nation in the USTFCCCA’s #EventSquad rankings for six weeks, concluding the regular season ranked N0. 23 in the nation. Maja Gebauer matched the UNM outdoor program record with a 4.06m vault at the Don Kirby Invitational and Alyssa Gregory jumped 4.02m at the Bryan Clay Invitational for the fourth-best outdoor mark in program history — they’re the only entries on the list from the same season.
At MW Outdoor Championships, the duo both cleared 3.98m to finish first and third, respectively — Gebauer became UNM’s first outdoor women’s pole vault champion since 2009, with two podium finishers for the first time since 2013.