Entering 2020-21: 11th Year
Alma Mater: North Central College ('09), Campbellsville ('10 & ‘17)
Office Phone: (270) 789-5298
E-mail: halakes@campbellsville.edu
Updated: December 2019
Hilary Lakes is in her 10th year as the head men’s and women’s cross country coach. She also coached the track and field teams from 2013-2017 before Mark Miller was hired to take over those as the first full-time track and field coach in the summer of 2017.
In the most recent season of 2018, Lakes coached six All Mid-South Conference runners combined between both men's and women's programs in Bret Crawford, Corbin Harris, Jacob Hamilton, Sam Kiser, Mia Rodriguez, and Miranda Rzendzian. Crawford followed up an MSC Championship in 2017 with a runner-up finish in 2018 and earning both NCCAA and NAIA All-American honors. Hamilton, Harris, and Kiser also earned NCCAA All-American status as the Tigers finished both the Mid-South Conference and NCCAA competitions as the team runners-up.
In the 2017 season, Hilary coached the MSC Conference Champion, Bret Crawford, who also qualified individually for the NAIA Championships, as well as coaching the freshmen of the year for the MSC. She also had two All-Americans at the NCCAA Championships.
Off the field, Julianna Bradley won the 2017 MSC Champions of Character award
In 2016, Lakes led the CU cross country team to a runner-up finish in the MSC Championship. Junior Adam Sandidge won the MSC Championship and NCCAA Championship in consecutive weekends - the first two in program history. Additionally, Sandidge finished 14th in the NAIA Championship to be named All-American.
Off the field, Corbin Harris won the 2016 MSC Champions of Character award.
In 2015-16, CU men's cross country won the programs first-ever Mid-South Conference championship and competed at the NAIA Championship, finishing 20th and being ranked No. 21 in the final Coaches' Poll.
With the Tigers winning the MSC Championship, Lakes was named the Coach of the Year in the Mid-South for cross country.
But the success in 2015-16 didn't stop there. In track and field, the Tigers had three individuals qualify for the National Championship - Lindsey Burd, Paxton Wiley and Brett Pierce.
Wiley shined in his freshman season, being named the MSC Freshman and Athlete of the Year. He also earned NCCAA All-American honors.
Lakes also earned the MSC Coach of the Year in women's track and field - the second Coach of the Year honor last season.
Lakes has also had 73 athletes as MSC All-Academic honors, which requires student athletes to maintain a 3.25 GPA. She has also had the women’s team receive the NCCAA All-Academic team for the past three years and the men’s team in 2013, which requires a team cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher. In 2013-14 her men’s team had the highest team GPA at Campbellsville University for athletics and her women’s team had the third highest team GPA.
Lakes earned her bachelor of arts in sports management and human resources management from North Central College (IL) in 2009 and completed her master’s in business management in 2010 from Campbellsville University and Masters in Sports Management in 2017 from Campbellsville. She began coaching as a graduate assistant in the fall of 2009 with the cross-country and track and field program. 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.
As the interim head track coach, the women’s track and field team won their first ever MSC Champion- ships and Lakes was named the MSC Coach of the year for Women’s track and field.
Hilary resides in Campbellsville with her husband Brandon, who is a resident director on campus, and their daughter Hayley Scott, who will be 1 in August.
