AuDrey Dempsey-Branch joined the University of Maryland track and field coaching staff during the summer of 2007, coming to Maryland from Georgia Tech.
Dempsey-Branch will be a primary contact for the Terrapins' women's program. She will also be involved with supporting events with the men's program and comes to Maryland with particular expertise in sprints, jumps and hurdles.
An accomplished athlete in her own right, Dempsey-Branch was a three-time Atlantic Coast Conference champion in the 100-meter hurdles and the 4x400-meter relay, setting ACC records in both those events in 1992. She participated in the 1992 NCAA indoor and outdoor nationals, as well as the 1992 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 400 hurdles.
As a coach, Dempsey-Branch has coached eight ACC champions, two ACC record-holders and 18 All-Americans. Georgia Tech's Ashlee Kidd was a two-time ACC Indoor MVP, earning three All-America certificates and four ACC titles.
Prior to her time at Georgia Tech, she served as an assistant coach at Clemson from 2001-04. There, she coached four All-Americans, five regional qualifiers, three ACC individual champions and 11 all-conference honorees.
Dempsey-Branch also coached at the University of Kentucky, having coached four of the top five al-time triple jumpers at the school, as well as a number of student-athletes among the Wildcats' top 10 in both the triple jump and the long jump. She also coached at West Virginia University and was head coach at Spellman College in 1997-98.
Dempsey-Branch graduated from Alabama A&M in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in nutrition. She and her husband Terrence Branch have a daughter, Colleen.
