Cecilia Francis Amou-Berry begins her third season as the Assistant Coach of the Cumberland track and field program in 2024-25.
In her first season, Francis was named the Mid-South Conference Indoor and Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year after helping the men's program win the Mid-South Conference Championship at both events. Francis helped train five athletes to NAIA National Champion honors with 18 NAIA All-American honors.
In 2024, the women's team in 2024 brought home two third place finishes at Nationals to notch a program's best. Praise Idamadudu added three NAIA National Championships during the year while earning MSC Indoor Athlete of the Year. Doris Mensah was named MSC Outdoor Athlete of the Year after winning five events at the Conference Championships. Both the men's and women's teams combined for 28 All-American honors this season.
Prior to Cumberland, Francis served as an athletic coaching intern on the Middle Tennessee State University track & field team for one semester. During her tenure as a student intern, Francis helped recruit, manage resources, enforce discipline, and plan/schedule programs for practices. She trained three athletes to achieve All-American titles and five Conference USA champions.
Francis is a very well decorated athlete, she was a world championship representative and an All African Games gold medalist for Nigeria in the women's 4 x 100m relay in 2015. At MTSU, she was a Dean's List student four times, Women's track & field commissioner's honor roll member three times, and a Conference USA Female Athlete of the week winner three times.
A native of Lagos, Nigeria, Francis earned her bachelor's degree from Middle Tennessee State University in the spring of 2022 in Physical Education with a minor in Athletics Coaching.
