CAMPBELLSVILLE, Ky. – Former Campbellsville University cross country and track and field distance runner Corbin Harris will now join the coaching staff for the Tigers as the newest assistant coach.
 
Harris will move on from his former role as a Sports Information Department graduate assistant to working under cross country head coach Hilary Lakes and track and field head coach Mark Miller for the 2020-21 season.
 
His career on the course and the track saw him grow throughout his four seasons. But over the years, Harris turned himself into one of the best to ever come through the cross country program. He shaved a little over two minutes off his 8k time and finished his career with a career-best 8k of 25:57. The Tigers reached the NAIA Championship again in 2018 and Harris helped lead CU to its highest finish at 14th.
 
On the track, Harris has seen success in the 5000-meter run, 3000-meter run, javelin and the steeplechase. In 2017, he burst on the scene with a bronze finish at the Mid-South Conference championship in the steeplechase. He graduated as the second-fastest all-time run in the event.
 
He never ran the 5000 or 3000-meter races until his senior season but he won the conference and national title in the 5000m and finished All-American in the 3000m.
 
After his running career at CU was completed, Harris qualified for the 2020 Boston Marathon, however, the marathon was postponed and eventually cancelled due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
 
Harris was not only a strong runner in competition but just as strong of an individual away from competition. In November 2018, he earned his third straight Mid-South Conference Champion of Character award and was named the Campbellsville University Champion of Character, Mr. Tiger and the Alumni Association Scholar-Athlete of the Year during the inaugural Athletics Awards night in April 2019.
 
Harris was also a standout in the classroom as he finished his career with a 3.9 GPA, earned four NAIA Scholar-Athlete honors and six Mid-South Conference academic honors.