Campbellsville University Men's Cross Country

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 64 athletes as MSC All-Academic honors, which requires student athletes to maintain a 3.25 GPA. She has also had the womens team receive the NCCAA All-Academic team for the past three years and the mens team in 2013, which requires a team cumulative GPA of 3.40 or higher. In 2013-14 her mens team had the highest team GPA at Campbellsville University for athletics and her womens 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 masters in business management in 2010 from Camp- bellsville University. She began coaching as a graduate assistant in the fall of 2009 with the cross coun- try 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 womens track and field team won their first ever MSC Champion- ships and Lakes was named the MSC Coach of the year for Womens track and field. Hilary is married to Brandon Lakes and they reside in Campbellsville.