Joe Stockton
Head Coach
Joe Stockton has been named the new men's and women's track and field coach at Campbellsville University.
Stockton is a graduate of Western Kentucky University where he was a three-time NCAA Division IAA All-American football player and joined the CU staff this past winter as an assistant football coach. He was also an outstanding track athlete in high school.
Campbellsville sent three athletes to the National Track and Field Championships in 2007 and all three are returning for next season.
Stockton won a total of 9 Kentucky State Track Championships in the long jump, triple jump, 110 HH and 300 LH. He held the state record in the 300 LH for over a decade. He was a member of North Hardin High School's first ever State Championship track team in 1992 and also won state honors as the Male Athlete of the Year and Mr. Track and Field in 1994.
In 2009 he will be honored by North Hardin High School's Track and Field program as their annual invitational track meet will be named the Joseph Stockton Invitational
Hilary Cebulko
Assistant Coach
Experience: 2nd Year
Alma Mater: North Central College ('09)
Office Phone: (270) 789-5298
E-mail:
hacebulko@campbellsville.eduHilary Cebulko is in her second season as head coach for the Campbellsville University men's and women's cross country programs and distance coach for CU track and field. She came to CU in 2009 as the graduate assistant for cross country and track and field. During that time, three runners qualified for the NAIA National Cross Country Meet in Vancouver, Wash.
During her first season, CU's men and women both finished third in the Mid-South Conference Cross Country Championships. Amy Etherington, a senior in 2010, was Cebulko's first All-Conference runner. Three of her runners have earned Academic All-Conference honors, which is awarded to those that are at least a sophomore in academic standing with a 3.25 GPA or better. As a graduate assistant in 2009, Cebulko assisted the Lady Tigers to a third-place finish and the men to a fouth-place finish in the MSC.
During the 2011 track & field season, she assisted both CU teams to a second-place finish in the Mid-South Conference outdoor track & field championships. Four of her distance runners (Geovanni Popoca, Tawny Vilchis, Qualaun Reed and Natasha Janes) have reached the Top 3 podium at the MSC Championships during her time at CU.
Prior to coming to Campbellsville, Cebulko competed at North Central College in Illinois, where she served as captain of the cross country team in 2008. She also interned with the outdoor track and field coaching staff and in the athletic office.
Cebulko earned her B.A. in sports management and human resources management at North Central in 2009 and completed her Master's in Business Administration at Campbellsville in 2010. She holds a Level I certifitcate in USATF Coaching Education.
George Eskridge
Volunteer Assistant
George Eskridge is in his third year as the jumps coach for the Campbellsville University track and field programs.
In his first two years, he has coached two NCCAA National Champions, three NCCAA All-Americans, a Mid-South Conference Champion, a NAIA National Championship event qualifier, and 10 NCCAA National Championships event qualifiers.
Last season, Eskridge guided Detrick Briggs to repeating as the NCCAA National Champion and to NCCAA All-American honors, winning the Mid-South conference meet, and qualifying for the NAIA National Championships all in the triple jump. Eskridge also tutored Tiosha Beasley to becoming Campbellsville University's first female NCCAA track and field All-American in the women's triple jump. She also set the school records in the women's long jump and triple jump.
In his first year working with the jumpers, he coached the NCCAA National Champion and All-American in the men's triple jump, five NCCAA event qualifiers, and the school record holder in the men's high jump. Under the guidance of Eskridge, Detrick Briggs became Campbellsville University's first NCCAA National Champion and first NCCAA All-American in track and field.
Eskridge came to Campbellsville University after coaching nine years of high school track in Kentucky. His stops included Louisville Eastern High School (7 yrs) and Louisville Male High School (two years). As an assistant at Louisville Eastern, the Lady Eagles won the Class AAA track and field championships in '96, '97, and '98. Eskridge also coached the current Kentucky Girl's Class AAA long jump record holder.
Eskridge ran high school track for Fort Knox (Kentucky) High School and was a member of the '84, '85, and '86 state championship teams. Eskridge went on to letter in track at the University of Louisville where he also received his bachelor's degree in Information Science and Data Processing.
Detrick Briggs
Grad Assistant
Detrick Briggs joined the Campbellsville University cross country and track coaching staff in Fall 2011 as a graduate assistant. Briggs, a 2011 graduate of CU, was the track and field program's first national champion, winning the National Christian College Athletic Association (NCCAA) triple jump title in 2009 and 2010. He was the first CU student-athlete to ever win two national titles.
During his time with CU track and field, he set school records in the triple jump (14.94 meters), long jump (6.89 meters) and 400-meter hurdles (55.20). He was a three-time Mid-South Conference All-Conference performer, winning the triple jump competition in 2008, 2010 and 2011.
In addition to his four years with the Tiger track and field program, Briggs was a four-year member of the Fighting Tiger football team. In November 2009, he helped lead Campbellsville football to its first NCCAA Victory Bowl appearance.