United States Naval Academy Men's Track

Cooksey watched Jay Stell garner First Team All-America honors at the 2016 NCAA Outdoor Championship as he placed sixth in the javelin. For the second-straight season, Cooksey guided Navy to a season sweep of both the indoor and outoor Patriot League titles in 2014-15. Along with sweeping league titles, the Mids swept archrival Army West Point in both indoor and outdoor for the fourth consecutive year. Navy tallied 11 individuals to the NCAA East Regionals. Cooksey led the Midshipmen to the program's first sweep of the indoor and outdoor Patriot League titles since the 2007-08 season in 2013-14. For his efforts, Cooksey garnered the league's coach-of-the-year accolades during both seasons. Navy recorded seven individual titles in the indoor championship and 11 in the outdoor championship. The Mids went on to send seven athletes to the NCAA East Regional Preliminaries with Jay Stell earning the lone bid to the 2014 NCAA Outdoor Championship. Stell went on to garner First Team USTFCCCA All-America honors with a third-place finish in the javelin. The Midshipmen have won eight Patriot League Indoor Championships (2004, '05, '08, '11, '13, '14, '15, '16) and four Patriot League Outdoor Championships (2008, '14, '15, '16) in recent years with Cooksey at the helm. Additionally, Navy won the Heptagonal outdoor competition three-straight years from 1991-93 and posted back-to-back wins in the Heptagonal indoor championship in 1992 and `93. The team also captured the Colonial Athletic Association outdoor crown during the 1991 season. Cooksey's success has also carried over into Navy's Star Meet competitions against archrival Army, where his teams own a 36-20 career mark against the Black Knights. Over the last 14 years, the Mids have won 20-of-28 dual meet competitions against Army, including nine indoor and outdoor season sweeps. Navy swept Army in the indoor and outdoor Star Meets during the 2013-14 season. Navy defeated the Black Knights, 100-81, in Annapolis during the indoor season and bested the Black Knights, 124-79 during the outdoor season. Navy also placed first during both the indoor and outdoor seasons at the Patriot League Championship. Cooksey, who oversees Navy's sprinters, helped guide sophomore Jordan Sartor-Francis to both the 100m and 200m dash outdoor Patriot League titles in the event. Sartor-Francis was also an IC4A All-East honoree and qualified for the NCAA's East Regional Championship. In total in 2014, Navy sent seven athletes to the NCAA's East Regional Championship, with Stell, who would go on to place third at the NCAA Championship.. Cooksey directed the Mids to the program's first sweep of the indoor and outdoor Patriot League titles in 2007-08. For his efforts, Cooksey garnered the league's coach-of-the-year accolades during both seasons and was named USTFCCCA Mid-Atlantic Region Indoor Coach of the Year during both the indoor and outdoor season. Cooksey came to Annapolis in 1984 and assisted Al Cantello with both the cross country and the track & field teams at Navy for four seasons before taking over the reins of Navy's track program. Before coming to Navy, Cooksey spent six years as the head cross country and track & field coach at Ball State, where he began as an assistant in 1974. He was acting head cross country coach for the Cardinals in the 1978-79 season and became the head coach of the cross country and track & field teams in 1979. During his time at Ball State, Cooksey worked with 18 NCAA qualifiers, three All-Americans and an NCAA champion. In 1998, he was named the head coach for the United States World Junior Championship team and has served as a coach on several other U.S. National teams. Most recently, Cooksey served as the head coach of the 2008 U.S. World Indoor Championship team. An associate professor in the physical education department at the Academy, Cooksey was named the recipient of the 2003 Superintendent's Distinguished Athletic Leadership Award for teaching and coaching. His road to becoming one of the top collegiate track coaches began in Terre Haute, Ind., where he was a nationally-ranked high-jumper, two-time captain and team MVP for the Indiana State track program. Cooksey enjoyed a decorated athletic career for the Sycamores, collecting an impressive list of individual accolades, including NCAA All-America and U.S. Track & Field Federation All-America honors. Cooksey and his wife, Valerie, have one daughter, Brooke, and reside in Annapolis, Md. Guided 13 athletes to a total of 22 All-America honors during his Navy tenure. Led Mids to 12 league titles, including program's second sweep of the Patriot League crowns in 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16. 2007-08 Mid-Atlantic Region Coach of the Year 10-time Patriot League Coach of the Year Outdoor Overall: 178-15 .922 Vs. Army: 17-11 .560

Cantello boasts a 245-70-1 career record. Cantello's teams have also shined in the classroom in three of the past six seasons the Mids earned USTFCCCA All-Academic Cross Country Team accolades with a team GPAover 3.00. Cantello has coached several standout runners in Annapolis in both cross country and as an assistant coach with the Navy track team. Most recently, Stephen Schroeder, class of 2016, won the 2014 Patriot League individual title and qualified for that years NCAA Championship. Andrew Hanko, class of 2010, became the first runner in program history to win consecutive Patriot League cross country titles (2009, 10). The three-time First-Team All-Patriot League honoree, also qualified for the 2010 NCAAChampionship. Additionally, Jon Clemens received All-America honors during the 1996 cross country season, while John Mentzer was named a 1997 All-American in both indoor (5,000 meters) and outdoor (10,000 meters) track. Michael Ryan earned similar honors during the 1999 indoor track season for his 4:01.57 time in the mile, and Erik Schmidt took fifth place in the mile at the NCAAIndoor Championship in March 2003. Cantellos most decorated runner was Ron Harris (87), who was successful under Coach Cantellos tutelage in both cross country and track and field. Harris garnered cross country All-America honors in 1985 and track and field All-America laurels in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter run in 1987. Harris went on to qualify for the 1996 U.S. Olympic team in the 5,000-meter run. In addition, two of Navy's distance relay teams were ranked among the nation's top 15 during the 1999 outdoor campaign. The mile relay team of Eric Adams, John McNamara, Ryan Runge and Ryan was fourth in the nation, while the distance medley relay team of Adams, Torrance Chaplin, Karlton Holston and Ryan was nationally ranked, as well. As a result of his teams' success, Cantello has been amply recognized, including being named the NCAA Mid-Atlantic Regional Coach of the Year three times (1984, `85 and `92) and has been Patriot League Coach of the Year each of the last three seasons. In 1997, the Naval Academy Alumni Association awarded Cantello the Distinguished Athletic Leadership Award for a coach or faculty member who did the most for the physical development of the Midshipmen in physical education. Cantello also received the inaugural Tom Hamilton Teaching/Coaching Award, as voted by his peers that same year. Cantello, a 1955 La Salle graduate, has spent over a half century at the Naval Academy and has served as the head coach of the men's cross country team for the last 48 years. Over the course of his tenure, Cantello's teams have beaten the archrival Black Knights 36 times in cross country and 12 times in track and field with him as the head coach (1981-1988). Cantello also has guided the Mids to seven Patriot League titles in the last eight seasons. Including his years as an assistant coach for the track and field team (1968-1980, 1989-pres.), he has accrued 96 wins versus Army. From 1981-88, Cantello held a dual coaching role, guiding Navy's men's indoor and outdoor track squads while maintaining his cross country duties. As Navy's head track coach, Cantello led the Mids to a 67-9-1 dual meet record. During the 1986-87 academic year, his combined record in cross country, indoor and outdoor track & field was a remarkable 23-1. Cantello's all-time head coaching record in cross country, indoor and outdoor track is 321-82-2, good for a .796 career winning percentage. Cantello was a two-time All-American in the javelin throw. In 2009, he was inducted into the Penn Relays Wall of Fame for becoming the first three-time winner in the javelin throw at the famed event. He was also enshrined as a charter member of La Salle's Hall of Athletes in 1961 and in the spring of 2012, Cantello was inducted in the inaugural class of the Middle Athletic Conference Hall of Fame. A former world-class competitor in the javelin, Cantello once held every national and international record in the event. In 1959, he set a world record in the javelin and competed for the U.S. Olympic Team the following year in the 1960 Games in Rome. In 1964, Sport magazine named Cantello to its all-time track & field team and voted him the world's greatest competitor in the javelin. Cantello was inducted to the USTFCCCA Coaches Hall of Fame on December 2013. Cantello and his late wife, Jackie, are the parents of three adult children - Karla McMahon, Karen O'Kane and the late Albert Jr. - and seven grandchildren.

Campbell watching Navy throwers dominate during the 2013-14 season. Campbell guided Jay Stell to a First Team USTFCCCA All-America laurel by finishing third in the javelin at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. Stell also placed fourth at the NCAA's East Regional Championship, won the Patriot League title and set a new school record in the event. Stell became Campbell's second All-American and first since Duncavage in 2013 at Navy. Campbell led the Navy throwers to a banner year in 2011-12. Campbell helped Zack Duncavage earn All-America Second-Team honors by placing 16th in the discus at the NCAA Outdoor Championship. Duncavage also placed seventh in the discus at the NCAA's East Regional Championship, won the Patriot League title and set a new school record in the event. Duncavage became Campbell's first All-American while at Navy. Also in 2011-12, Miles Snelgrove won the javelin at the Patriot League Outdoor Championship, placed fifth at the IC4A Championship to earn All-East honors and claimed 18th-place at the NCAA's East Regional Championship. Chris Ricks also earned IC4A All-East honors in the hammer throw and Chris Boniwell won the Patriot League shot put title. Campbell's throwers won the indoor league weight throw and the outdoor shot put during the 2010-11 season and freshman Zack Duncavage qualified for the NCAA East Regional in the discus. In both 2008 and 2009, Navy throwers have earned Field-Athlete-of-the-Meet honors at the Patriot League Outdoor Championship, most recently with team captain and Academic All-American Mark Van Orden sweeping the conference's hammer and weight throw titles to earn the distinction in 2009. Van Orden won two league titles as a senior and was named to the ESPN The Magazine/CoSIDA Academic All-American First Team. Campbell, himself, was a four-year letterwinner on the Midshipmen track & field team. A javelin thrower and former school record holder, he was elected team captain his senior year. Upon graduation, Campbell was assigned to the San Diego-based naval warship, USS COPELAND, which completed CARAT operations during Desert Storm and counter-narcotic operations off the coast of Central America in 1993. Campbell completed his military obligation as an Operations Officer at Naval Station Annapolis and achieved the rank of Lieutenant before resigning from the Navy in 1995. While completing his military obligation, he served as a volunteer coach at Navy while completing an M.S. in Education at Johns Hopkins University. Campbell's second coaching stop came at Ball State University, where he served as field events coach for the Cardinals program from 1996-99. During his tenure, Campbell directed student-athletes to NCAA qualifying marks in the hammer throw and high jump, four school records, and a Mid-American Conference hammer throw championship. In addition, he helped lead the 1998 Ball State women's squad to both the Indoor and Outdoor MAC team titles. Following his three-year stint at Ball State, Campbell spent six seasons at Fresno State, including two as the associate head coach. There he mentored All-Americans in the decathlon, javelin and shot put, while helping the women's team to the 2005 California-Nevada Coaches Association Team Championship, and the Bulldog men to the same title in 2000. The women's squad also captured the WAC title in 2002, its first conference championship in 10 years. Campbell also held the role of recruiting coordinator while at Fresno State, inking several blue-chip athletes, including the nation's top-ranked high school javelin thrower in 2003. Additionally, he served as Vice President of the California-Nevada Coaches Association and as Men's and Women's Development Chairperson for the Central Valley Chapter of USA Track and Field. While there, he also completed a Master of Arts in Kinesiology in 2003. Prior to Navy, Campbell served as an assistant for the combined men's and women's program at Michigan State. Working primarily with the throwers and multi-event athletes, he tutored nine Spartans to 16 scoring positions at the Big Ten Championships, four NCAA regional qualifying marks, a pair of NCAA provisional marks in the women's pentathlon and heptathlon, and four school records. In addition to his coaching duties, Campbell served as assistant meet director for the 2006 Big Ten Outdoor Track and Field Championships and directed the 30-team Spartan Invitational. Campbell has mentored a total of six NCAA All-Americans, seven junior national All-Americans, 45 NCAA regional and championships qualifiers, 28 conference champions, and four Olympic Trials participants. Campbell has also completed USATF Coaching Education Schools through Level III and has been a NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist since 1996. Campbell and his wife, Julie, and son, Mark, reside in Annapolis.

Larish and his wife, Betty, are the parents of six children: Karen, Vicki, Dana, David Jr., Keith and Cathy.