Transforming Lives
Together, we can create a brighter future for The Coach Proctor Foundation!
Transforming Lives
Together, we can create a brighter future for The Coach Proctor Foundation!
About The Coach Proctor Foundation
Our Mission
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Directors
The mission of The Coach Proctor Foundation is to provide student-athletes with research-based training and development as well as resources to use their academic and athletic abilities to be productive members of society
Meet The Directors
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Directors
The Coach Proctor Foundation founders/directors are Charles and Mironda Proctor. Both are high school track coaches in Columbia, South Carolina. Together, they bring a plethora of experience, credentials and accolades in the world of track and field.
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Board Members
Meet The Board Members
Our Story in Pictures: The Coach Proctor Foundation's Journey to Make a Difference
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Board Directors
Meet The Coach Proctors
Charles and Mironda Proctor have been involved in the sport of track and field since they were children. Through this foundation, they hope to provide children with experiences, training, education, and mentorship to help them use their talents to compete - on the track, in their career and in life.
Meet Coach Charles Proctor
Head Boys Track Coach | Ridge View High School
Coach Charles Proctor is a product of Richland Northeast High School, where he was a stand-out athlete. The state champion went on to earn a Division I scholarship at Coastal Carolina University. Coach Proctor holds USATF Level I and Level II certifications in sprints, hurdles, and relay. He is also an NETA certified personal trainer.
Coach Proctor currently serves as the boys Track and Field coach as well as the SCTCCCA 4A Vice President. His coaching philosophy is to provide athletes with the tools needed to succeed in the classroom, socially as well as on the track throughout the teaching process. He believes that coaching is more than providing workouts, therefore he places importance on not just teaching the athletes proper skill but in a way that will make the athlete understand and retain the information that will enable them to perform to the best of their ability.
Coach Proctor has coached at Richland Northeast High School, WJ Keenan High School, and currently serves as the Head Boys Coach at Ridge View High School. During his coaching career he has produced numerous region and state champions as well as scholarship athletes. His team accomplishments include but not limited to, six team region titles and two team state runner up titles (2017 and 2019). He has also coached many notable individuals that had great success on the state and national level.
Charles Proctor is also the owner of CP Elite Training Group, which is comprised of a variety of athletes from middle school through college.
He lives by the mantra TRUST THE PROCESS, knowing that everyone’s process is different not only on the track but in life!
Meet Coach Mironda Proctor
Director of Girls Strength and Conditioning | Richland Northeast High School
Mironda N. Proctor, originally from Sumter, South Carolina, has been a part of interscholastic athletics for over 14 years. Her journey in track and field began as a standout athlete at Sumter High School, earning her a scholarship to compete at South Carolina State University, where she majored in Biology Education.
Upon graduating, she immediately started her teaching and coaching career. After coaching for a number of years on the middle school level, she began her first head coaching stint at AC Flora High School in 2014.
While there, her girls' team won the Region 4-3A championship in 2015 and had a number of athletes with top finishes at the state meet. She spent time as an assistant at Dreher High School as well as WJ Keenan High School, where both teams were successful on the state and national levels. After spending two years as an athletic director, Coach Proctor returned to her high school alma mater to be the head coach of the girls' program. While there, she traveled with a number of athletes to the Nike Indoor and Outdoor championship, in addition to attaining top region and state finishes, including a 2021 Nike Indoor National Champion. Coach Proctor currently is a Physical Education teacher at Richland Northeast High School and the director of female strength and conditioning. She is certified in USTCCCA Strength and Conditioning, USATF Level II in Sprints Hurdles Relays and Jumps.
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Events
The Coaches Roundtable
Catered to high school coaches, this clinic will cover various topics that will assist coaches in adding key components to their coaching toolbox, along with networking with other like-minded coaches.
Saturday | December 16, 2023
Richland Northeast High School, Columbia South Carolina
Registration Fee: $100
Lunch is provided by Booster Fundraising
Meet the Clinic Presenters
Brandon Morton | Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, Converse University
Brandon Morton enters his 9th season as the Valkyries Head Coach of the Cross Country and Track & Field program. While at Converse, Morton has coached 43 All-Conference performers and 36 school records.
The 2022-2023 Converse track season will go down as one of the best ever in program history. Under the guidance of Morton, the women's team finished third overall at the Conference Carolinas Indoor Championships and Runner-Up at the Conference Carolinas Outdoor Championships. A total of 11 school record were broken this past season, 17 athletes were All-Conference performers and 9 athletes won conference championships between both the Indoor and Outdoor seasons. A trio of athletes also met NCAA provisional marks for the Outdoor season.
Coach Morton coached numerous student-athletes to individual Conference Carolinas championships. During the 2017-18 season the program saw Serenity Hunt win the Conference Carolinas Championship and set the conference record in the long jump.
Morton saw the inception of Converse’s first men’s track and field program where Gavin McFadden went on to win Freshman of the Year and run school records and all-conference performances in the 100 and 200 in school record times of 10.67 and 21.33.
Morton was a standout track performer at Winthrop. He was a two-time NCAA East Regional Qualifier and Big South Conference Champion. Morton was named to the Big South All-Conference seven times. The Greenwood, S.C. native earned a Bachelor of Science in Sport Management from Winthrop in 2005 and his Master's in Exercise Science from Campbell in 2010.
Morton along with his wife, Shelitha Cole-Morton, reside in the Spartanburg are
Rachel Lindman | Assistant Boys Coach, Spring Valley High School
Rachel Lindman is a Health and Physical Educator with 17 years of experience. She is also an NASM Personal Trainer with supplemental certifications in Speed and Agility, Sports Nutrition and Pre and Post Natal Coaching. Rachel was the 2019 South Carolina Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (SCAHPERD) Adaptive PE Teacher of the Year, served as President of South Carolina Association for Physical Education and Sport (SCAPES) from 2019-2020 and served as SCTCCCA 5A VP 2018-2020 and was named SCTCCA Assistant Coach of the Year in 2022. Rachel has 9 years of experience as a Jumps Specialist Coach in SC (AC Flora and Spring Valley High School). During which time she has developed 10x 45'+ triple jumpers including 49-4.5 Triple Jumper, Isaiah Miller, 48-4 Manny Moore, 47-10 Mondell Hutto, and 47-9.5 Evan Jarvis, 6x 6-6+ high jumpers including 6-10.25 high jumper, Javondii Myers and 5x 22-6+ long jumpers. Rachel coached for two team State Championship Titles with Spring Valley High School (2021 and 2022) and multiple top 3 state finals finishers in the horizontal jumps and high jump.
Coach Donald Cooper | Head Cross Country and Track South Carolina State University
"Training Dual Hurdlers"
Coach Donald Cooper comes with a wealth of experience both as an athlete and a coach.
Coach Cooper recently returned to his alma mater to serve as the head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country/track program. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Track and Field at Bethune-Cookman where he led his teams to win a combined five MEAC conference championships- three indoor and two outdoor. Eight individuals and two relays represented the former MEAC member at the NCAA National Indoor and Outdoor Championships.
He has also spent time as an assistant head coach for cross country and track and field at SC State, Fort Valley State University, Savannah State University, and Morris Brown College.
Aside from intercollegiate coaching, Coach Cooper had trained professional athletes in the NFL, worked with the National Youth Sports Program and has done extensive work with the USA Paralympic Team.
As an athlete, Cooper was a dual sport athlete in football and track at SC State. He was an All- MEAC performer and conference champion in the 400 hurdles, 110 hurdles, and 60m hurdles. He was also named the MEAC Outstanding Track Athlete in 1994. In football, he signed as an unsigned free agent with the New Orleans Saints. Cooper was inducted into the SCSU Hall of Fame in 2010.
Cooper received his B.S. in Criminal Justice and his M.S. in Rehabilitation Counseling/Orientation and Mobility from South Carolina State.
He also holds several certifications including USATF Level II (combined events, sprints, hurdles, relays, throws, jumps) and also serves as a USATF Level I instructor.
Coach Dustin Allen | Director of Track and Field and Cross Country, Cuthbertson High School
"Building a Program and Creating a Championship Culture"
Coach Allen is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and Airport High School. Coach Allen has been the head coach at Cuthbertson high school for 8 years. Coach Allen has won 13 total team state championships during that span and had multiple All Americans. Coach Allen has also coached multiple national champion relays as well. In 2023 Coach Allen was named the Milesplit national coach of the year. Coach Allen has also been named the USTFCCCA coach of the year for a North Carolina the past 3 seasons.
Coach Ed Santiago, Assistant Coach, Spring Valley High School
"Training Throwers"
Coach Ed, Owner of ThrowerStrong Training and assistant coach at Spring Vally High School, has an extensive coaching resume producing hundreds of region, state, national and international level throwers.
Prior to coaching, he was a national level thrower in the discus and shot put. He began his coaching coaching career in 1999 and since, he produced some of the best throwers on all levels. This past season, twelve of his throwers qualified and competed at nationals. More importantly, he is an active part in all of his throwers recruitment process and has had athletes compete on the next level every year since 1999. He currently serves as the throws coach at Spring Valley High School. The boys team won back to back state championships in 2022 and 2023.
Additional Sessions
Nutritional Health and Wellness for the High School Athlete
Recruitment and NCAA Clearinghouse
Booster Fundraising