Now in her third season working with the jumpers, Angel Perkins-McLean has had great success working with the men’s and women’s athletes. Her coaching career also includes spending the 2010 season at Los Angeles Southwest College, where she helped Shakina Phillips win the state championship in the 100-meter HH and 400-meter IH. Won the California State Championship in the 200 meters while at Gahr High and holds the school record in the 100 meters, 200 meters and 400 meters. She also helped her team win the CIF Division II State Championship as a junior and senior and was named the school’s Female Athlete of the Year twice. Perkins-McLean won multiple San Gabriel Valley League championships and earned All-American honors. She was also the Junior National Champion in the 400 meters in 2000 and the 2000 Junior Olympic champion in the 100 meters and the 4x100-meter relay. Perkins-McLean was also the 2001 Junior Olympic champion in the 100 meters and 200 meters and competed in the 2001 World Youth Games and won the championship in the 200 meters and was named the Athlete of the Meet.

After graduating high school, Perkins-McLean spent her freshman year at the University of Arizona, where she finished 13^th at the NCAA Championships in the 400 meters after placing third at the NCAA West Regional and the Pac-10 Championships. That year she also placed second at the U.S. Junior Nationals in the 400 meters and was a member of the U.S. Junior Pan Am Games team, where she won a silver medal in the 400 meters and ran a leg of the gold medal winning 4x400-meter relay team.

Perkins-McLean then transferred to the University of Baylor, where she earned All-American honors after anchoring the record-setting 4x400-meter relay team to third place at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Also ran a leg of the school’s record-setting distance medley relay team that finished second at the NCAA Indoor Championships. During the outdoor season, she ran the second leg on the school’s record-setting 4x100-meter relay team that finished second at the NCAA Midwest Regional, while she earned All-Big 12 honors.

Perkins-McLean went on to earn her Bachelor’s degree in Economics in 2009 and then a Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice from Boston University in 2012. Perkins-McLean and her husband, Melvin, live in Bellflower.