WILLIAMSBURG, Ky. — As the Mid-South Conference Championships rolled to a close, Hilary Lakes was named the 2016 MSC Women's Track and Field Coach of the Year. 

Lakes has received a Coach of the Year twice in one school year as she was also named the 2015 Men's Cross Country Coach of the Year after the men won their first conference title since the start of the program.

"Congratulations to Coach Lakes for being named MSC Women's Coach of the Year for Track and Field," said Rusty Hollingsworth, CU athletic director.  "She has done a fantastic job with our track program and is very deserving of this award."

As the interim head track coach, back in 2013, the women's track and field team won their first ever MSC Championships and Lakes was named the MSC Coach of the Year. 

Lakes currently has six women qualified for the National Christian College Athletic Association and one for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics and she has 23 men qualified for the NCCAA and two for the NAIA.

Lakes has pushed her student-athletes as eight school records have been demolished.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Sports Management and Human Resources Management from North Central College (IL) in 2009 and completed her Masters in Business Management in 2010 from Campbellsville University.

Lakes began coaching as a graduate assistant in the fall of 2009 with the cross country and track and field programs. She took over cross country as the head coach in 2010 and continued as the assistant track and field coach. She became the interim head coach of track and field in the spring of 2013 and took over as head coach in the summer of 2013.