University of Washington Women's Cross Country

Campbell enters her third season working with Head Coach Greg Metcalf.   Washington is the first college coaching stop for Campbell, who competed at Washington from the fall of 2005 until the spring of 2010. A two-time All-American, Campbell is a Husky Hall of Fame member as part of the 2008 womens cross country team. She captured the 2009 Pac-10 title at 10,000-meters and went on to finish third at the NCAA Outdoor Championships that year.   During her first two years as an assistant, Campbell helped the Husky women's team reach the NCAA Cross Country Championships each year, placing 23rd in 2014 and then moving up to 10th in 2015, with Maddie Meyers garnering All-America honors both fall including an eighth-place finish in 2015.   The Huskies have further displayed their distance dominance with top-five finishes in the distance medley relay at the 2014 and 2015 NCAA Indoor Championships. The Huskies finished fifth in 2014 and then were national runners-up in 2015, with Baylee Mires, Eleanor Fulton, and Maddie Meyers racing on both teams. Fulton and Mires both earned First Team All-America status in 2015, Fulton taking eighth in the mile indoors, and Mires eighth in the 800-meters outdoors.   At the 2015 NCAA Outdoor meet, Katie Knight (10k), Charlotte Prouse (3k steeplechase), Anna Maxwell (1,500m) and Amy-Eloise Neale (1,500m) all earned All-America Second Team honors. Knight won her first Pac-12 title and set the meet record at 10,000-meters in 2015, the first Husky to win that event since Campbell in 2009, while Prouse, Maxwell, and Neale all were top-five in their Pac-12 finals.   No student-athlete had a better perspective for Washingtons rise to cross country prominence than Campbell. Her first two seasons she qualified for the NCAA Championships as an individual. As a junior in 2007 she was joined by the full team which finished a then-program-best eighth, as Campbell earned her first All-America honor. The next fall everything came together with an undefeated season, one for the history books.   Coach Metcalf knew what Campbell brought to the table as an athlete and believed that would translate well to the coaching world.   I am thrilled to bring Anita Campbell back into our program, said Metcalf. Anita helped set a standard of excellence at Washington, and the program improved every year she was on our campus. As a member of our 2008 national championship team she brings instant credibility. In her own words this is a dream job for Anita. She shares the same goals I do for our program; she wants to be a part of another NCAA title and help to build the next generation of Husky distance runners.   Campbell made the NCAA Outdoor Championships all four years, and scored a total of 30 points at the Pac-10 Track Championships. She ranks in the UW top-10 in five events and was the indoor school record-holder in the 5,000-meters for three years. She was a two-time First Team All-Pac-10 honoree in cross country and one-time Second Teamer. Never placing lower than 11th at a West Regional meet, Campbell was a four-time All-West Region honoree.   A native of Vancouver, B.C., Campbell is married to another Husky standout, two-time NCAA 800-meter Champion Ryan Brown.