Bio

Nick Robinson joined the Riverside City College track and field program as the throws coach in 2010. He has been named the Assistant Coach of the Year twice and has seen at least one Tiger thrower win a 3C2A State Championship every year since 2019. In total, Robinson has coached 16 3C2A state champions, 46 All-America honorees, and 50 All-State performers at RCC. 

Most recently, Robinson led Ed Ta'amilo to back-to-back 3C2A State Championships in the discus (2023, 24), before Isaiah Butler took home the discus title in 2025 to help the Tigers win their eighth team state title. RCC also won the 2025 SoCal Championship and its 17th consecutive Orange Empire Conference Championship. Butler was named the OEC Men's Field Athlete of the Year after winning the discus and taking second in the shot put.

Two Tigers won state championships in 2019: Alec Jones (discus) and Angelique Hudson (shot put). The throws squad also put together strong performances with four All-American honors and three All-State honors. Jones was honored as the Field Athlete of the meet.

In 2017, the RCC throwers capped off the year as two individual state champions were crowned: Kori Sprague (hammer) and Kyle Jenkins (shot put). Along with the two state champions, the throws squad was able to capture two All-Americans and four All-State performances. 

Robinson saw James Jones win a state championship in 2016, while Connor Einck won the shot put in 2014. In 2014, RCC's throwers helped secure the men’s team title by scoring 50 points in the shot put, discus throw, and hammer throw.

In 2013, Robinson had two state champions: Fatima Vergara (discus) and Jessika (hammer). It was the second-straight year Byrd won the state championship in the hammer. Byrd also set the school, Orange Empire Conference, Southern California, State, and National record with a toss of 61.7 meters (202’ 5).

Robinson attended El Toro High School in Lake Forest, CA, where he competed in track and field and threw 65' 1 in the shot put and 197' in the discus throw. During the summer of his senior year, he made the World Junior team, which traveled to Beijing, China, where he finished in 10th place.

Robinson started his collegiate career at UCLA and, following his first year with the Bruins, made another junior team that went to Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was there that he won the shot put and took second in the discus throw. Robinson then transferred to Concordia University in Irvine and was a six-time All-American and won five national titles (two indoor titles and two outdoor titles in the shot put, and a national title in the discus throw).

Before coming to Riverside City College, he coached at El Toro High School, where he had three boys go over 59' in the shot put and three boys over 170' in the discus throw.

Coach Robinson lives in Murrieta, Calif., with his wife, Holly, and sons Fletcher and Sullivan.