| 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.
In 2025, Brown’s athletes continued to deliver standout results. At Mountain West Indoor Championships, the UNM women placed 1st, 4th, and 7th, highlighted by Alyssa Gregory’s school record of 4.16m and individual conference title. Outdoors, Maja Gebauer set the school record and earned a runner-up finish, while freshman Arian Milicija broke the UNM freshman record, qualified for NCAA regionals, and won the indoor conference bronze. These performances contributed to the Lobos capturing both the indoor and outdoor women’s team championships, the first time UNM has won both in school history.
Brown’s first season coaching UNM’s vaulters saw 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.