Richard Fisher joined the Auburn track & field staff in 2025 as the assistant jumps and multis coach. He arrived on The Plains after stops at Michigan State, Northwestern State, and Purdue.
At Michigan State, Fisher guided the Spartan jumps corps during the 2023–25 seasons. He coached athletes to compete at the highest levels, including mentoring decathlete Heath Baldwin to a 10th-place finish at the 2024 Paris Olympics and a victory at the 2024 USA Olympic Trials in the men’s decathlon. Under Fisher’s guidance, his athletes became two-time Olympic Trials qualifiers, earned First Team All-American honors in the heptathlon, Second Team All-American honors in the decathlon, and set five school records, including the Big Ten decathlon record. He also coached athletes to a Big Ten outdoor championship, NCAA Outdoor Championship qualification in the decathlon, and an NCAA Indoor Championship runner-up finish in the men’s heptathlon.
Before Michigan State, Fisher spent two years at Northwestern State University in Louisiana, where he helped lead the Demon women to their first Southland Conference Championship in program history. During his time, he coached three individual conference champions, seven NCAA East Regional qualifiers, and two USA U20 Outdoor Championships qualifiers.
Fisher also served three seasons at Purdue as a volunteer assistant, coaching two NCAA Indoor Championships qualifiers in 2020. His jumpers and multi-event athletes claimed a Big Ten title in the women’s high jump, a runner-up finish in the women’s pole vault, and a bronze in the men’s heptathlon.
Prior to collegiate coaching, Fisher was the head sprint coach at Paul VI High School in Haddonfield, New Jersey, transforming the program into a national-level contender. When he arrived in 2015, the program had no national qualifiers; by his departure in 2019, he had guided 23 athletes to national-level competition. Fisher also operated Fits Pro LLC, his sports performance facility, where he trained athletes including 2016 Rio Olympian and Bermudian national record holder Priscilla Loomis.
As a student-athlete, Fisher competed in the 800 meters at Louisiana State University. He earned his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from LSU in 2013.