HAMPTON, Va. -- Hampton University Director of Track & Field Maurice Pierce will be making a trip to Canada this summer, representing USA Track and Field.

He will step again into the international scene, as he was recently named as the as Men's Sprints/Hurdles Head Coach as part of the USA Track & Field National Team Staff for the 2018 North American Central American Caribbean Athletics Association (NACAC) Senior Championships, scheduled for Aug. 10-12 in Toronto, Canada.

This event will have the top non-high school aged track athletes from North America, Central America and the Caribbean Islands together in Toronto. Pierce has participated in this event before, in the 2014 NACAC Under-23 Championships in British Columbia.

With several years of Olympic coaching in his background, Pierce is considered one of the top hurdles coaches in the world. He has had six participants over the last four Summer Olympics, with two gold medal winners and a silver.

Pierce was also an assistant hurdles coach for the USA National Team at the 2011 Pan Am Junior Championships, which was held in Miramar, Fla.

Pierce is a 1996 graduate of Norfolk State University, where he was a member of the Spartans track team in 1992-93 and 1995. Pierce is a native of Newport News, Va. and is married to Cantrese Pace-Pierce, a 1998 graduate of Hampton University.

They live in Newport News with their two daughters, Alyssa and Aniyah.