Michele Bradley
Michele Bradley
  • Title:
    Assistant Coach
  • Email:
    mdbradle@andrew.cmu.edu
  • Previous College:
    Slippery Rock University, '91
  • Bachelor's Degree:
    Physical Education/Exercise Science
  • Graduate School:
    Saginaw Valley State
  • Master's Degree:
    Teaching and Special Education

Bio

Michele Bradley joined the Carnegie Mellon University track and field staff at the start of the 2016-2017 season and immediately made an impact as the men’s team swept the UAA Championships that season and has since won two other UAA titles prompting UAA Coaching Staff of the Year awards. Bradley’s impact on the jumpers has also resulted in the women’s team’s success with a program-best third-place finish at the 2022 UAA Indoor Championships.

UAA Coaching Staff of the Year Awards
2023 – Men’s Outdoor
2019 – Men’s Indoor
2017 – Men’s Indoor, Men’s Outdoor

As the jumps coach, Bradley aided in the development of 2023 NCAA Indoor National Champion Liz Barre who won the pentathlon which included a first-place finish in the long jump with a school record mark of 5.69 meters.

Before Barre’s national stage success, Bradley mentored Justin Kiefel to three All-America performances in the triple jump while he became the first Tartan jumper to compete in two events at a national championship, doing it three times.

Major Athlete Honors:
All-Americans – Women – 2; Men - 4
NCAA Competitors – Women – 5; Men - 8
All-Region Honors – Women – 6; Men - 22
UAA Champions – Women – 2; Men - 7
All-UAA Honors – Women – 3; Men – 20

Bradley is a 1991 graduate of Slippery Rock University where she studied physical education and exercise science. As an athlete, Bradley competed under Carnegie Mellon head coach Gary Aldrich. She is a four-time PSAC Champion in the long jump, 100-meter dash, and 4x100-meter relay. She helped set the PSAC record in the 4x100-meter relay in 1990. Bradley also achieved all-conference status seven times in the long jump, triple jump, 4x100-meter relay, and 100-meter dash. In 1990, Bradley was the open division triple jump champion at the University of Florida Invitational.

Following her time at Slippery Rock, Bradley went on to receive her health, physical education, and special education teaching certificates from the University of Michigan and Saginaw Valley State University and a Master of Arts in Teaching in special education from Saginaw Valley State. She spent time as a health, physical education, and special education teacher at Washtenaw Intermediate School District in Ann Arbor, Michigan, a special education teacher at Wolverine Secure Treatment Center in Saginaw, Michigan, a health and physical education teacher at Mott Middle College in Flint, Michigan, and as an adjunct professor at Ferris State University teaching education courses.

Bradley returned to her home state of Pennsylvania in 2016 and is a K-12 health, safety, and physical education teacher at Pennsylvania Leadership Charter School, a cyber school based in West Chester, Pennsylvania.