Campbellsville University Women's Track

Entering 2025-26: 2nd Year as Director; 9th Year overall Alma Mater: Morehead State University, Dakota Wesleyan University Mark Miller was named the head coach of the men's and women's track & field programs in July of 2017. In 2024-25, Miller was named Director of Track Operations. In the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons, Miller has helped train CU track and field student athletes to five NCCAA National Championships, led by the indoor and outdoor triple jump championships by Tre Webb in the 2018-19 season. Haley Payton also notched an indoor triple jump national championship at the NCCAAs in the 2018-19 season along with Corbin Harris winning the 5000m run at that event as well. In the 2018 outdoor season, Sam Kiser earned an NCCAA National Championship in the 800m. The 2018-19 seasons saw 23 All Mid-South Conference honors over both men's and women's indoor and outdoor track and field seasons. The men's outdoor team led the way with 14 All-MSC qualifiers as the women's outdoor team had three, with the men's and women's indoor teams having four and two respectively. In his first season at the helm, he coached NCCAA National Runner-up Garland Webb who posted two runner-up finishes. Miller also helped five individual qualify for the NAIA National Championships and had 11 individuals earn All Mid-South Conference honors. Campbellsville swept the NCCAA titles in both 2023 and 2024 on the men's side. They won both the indoor and outdoor titles in those seasons.  Miller has near 11 years of head coaching experience at the collegiate level, all coming within the NAIA and NCCAA. Miller came to Campbellsville after a three-year stint at Olivet Nazarene University, where he was the assistant track & field coach.   At Olivet Nazarene, Miller oversaw all aspects of the sprinters and hurdlers. He also coached an NAIA National Runner-up and 10 NAIA All-Americans.   From 2009-2014, Miller was the head coach of the Spring Arbor University track & field program. Over the five years, he nearly doubled the women's program and had 51 student-athletes on the roster.   Prior to his stint at Spring Arbor, Miller was the inaugural head coach at Oklahoma Wesleyan from 2005-2009. During his tenure in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, he had three national champions and six All-Americans. In 2007, Miller was named the Midlands Collegiate Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Track & Field Coach of the Year.   Miller started his coaching career in 1996 at Indiana Wesleyan University and coached for the Wildcats until 2001 and became apart of the Dakota Wesleyan University track & field program. He held the role of assistant coach at both Indiana Wesleyan and Dakota Wesleyan. Miller also helped with cross country program at Dakota Wesleyan from 2001-2005.   Over his coaching career, he has helped coach 23 NAIA All-Americans, 20 NCCAA National Champions, 46 NCCAA All-Americans, 47 school record holders, 84 Daktronics-NAIA Scholar-Athletes, 97 NCCAA Scholar-Athletes, three NCCAA national record holders and a MCAC Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year.   Along with his coaching experience, Miller brings a USA Track & Field Level II certification in sprints, hurdles and relays to Campbellsville, while also being the NCCAA Chair for indoor track & field from 2014-2016.   Miller is native of Ludlow, Ky., and graduated from Morehead State University with an Associates of Science and a Bachelors of Science in Industrial Technology, while earning an Associates of Arts in Youth Ministry from Indiana Wesleyan. He completed his Masters of Education: Curriculum Development from Dakota Wesleyan.

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.