Ashley Homere has been an assistant coach of Chicago State’s men’s and women’s track & field teams since 2012.
 
During his tenure, the Cougars have crowned eight conference champions, nine conference silver medalists and 12 conference bronze medalists. In 2019, the Cougars 4x100-Meter relay team became the first NCAA National Track & Field Championship qualifiers in school history which is the latest of many firsts during Homre’s time at CSU. The Cougars also crowned its first WAC Freshman of the Year in 2019 (Matthew Brown), claimed two NCAA West Region Qualifiers, first WAC champion (Jocindra Glee, 400m in 2017), and first 60m (Matthew Brown) and 200m (Ricordo McKenzie) champions. Homere has coached CSU athletes who have set or broken 77 school records and, prior to joining the WAC, helped Cougar athletes to 10 Chicagoland individual championships, 14 silver medalist performances and seven bronze performances.
 
Prior to and In addition to his  duties at CSU, Homere has volunteered and coached several youth and high school track clubs and teams which includes Stealth Bombers Track Club (2000-03), Bloom Township High School (2000-02), Thornbridge High School (2002), Marion Catholic High School (2002-05), Bloom Trail High School (2005-07), University of Chicago Track Club (2013-17) and O.F.F. Track (2004-13, 2018-present). His resume includes 21 Illinois state champions, eight new Illinois High School Association records, three USATF junior national qualifiers, seven USATF & AAU national champions and two international competitors (Shamier Little, 400m hurdle finalist at the 2012 world junior championship qualifier and Jaimie Robinson, triple jump silver medalist at the 2017 Pan-Am U20 qualifier). The first Illinois state champion he coached was Casey Taylor (2003) in the outdoor triple jump. Homere also mentored Daryl Jenkins, his first national champion as a coach, in the 17/18 Boys 200m (2007) and followed that with his first female national champion, Cameron Pettigrew, in the 15/16 Girls 400m (2011). His first international competitor was Ryan Shields (2006-15) who competed for Jamaica in the 100m and 200m (2009-15).
 
Homere, born in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, grew up on the south east side of Chicago and attended Thornridge High School where he competed in the 200m, 400m, triple jump and 4x400m relay and was a state qualifier in all four of those events. He attended Southern Illinois-Carbondale and South Suburban College with a focus on kinesiology.