Richard Fisher joined the Michigan State Track & Field staff as an assistant coach specializing in jumps in November of 2023.
Fisher most recently served in the same role for two years at Northwestern State University in Louisiana. In his first year with the Demons, Fisher signed the top recruiting class in program history and proceeded to help guide the women’s team to its first ever Southland Conference Championship in 2023.
In his brief time in Natchitoches, Louisiana, Fisher left a mark as he coached two USA U20 Outdoor Championships Qualifiers, seven NCAA East Regional Qualifiers and three individual Southland Conference Champions.
Fisher is no stranger to Big Ten Track and Field. From Sept. 2019-July 2021 he served as a volunteer assistant for Purdue. There, in 2020 he mentored two NCAA Indoor Championships Qualifiers while his jumpers and multi-athletes claimed first in the Big Ten in women’s high jump, B1G runner-up in women’s pole vault and third in the conference in the men’s heptathlon.
Prior to assisting in college track and field, Fisher was the Head Sprint Coach at Paul VI High School in Haddonfield, N.J.. There, he helped a program which when he arrived in 2015 had never had a national qualifier, to 23 national qualifiers by the end of his tenure in the spring of 2019.
All the meanwhile, Fisher oversaw his company, Fits Pro LLC, guiding athletes at his sports performance facility. It was there that he worked with 2016 Rio Olympics sprinter and Bermudan national record holder Priscilla Loomis.
As an athlete, the New Jersey native competed at a high level at Louisiana State University as an 800-meter runner. Fisher graduated from LSU with a Bachelor of Sciences in Kinesiology in 2013.
