Track and Field Head Coach Cameron Babb

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PERSONAL

Year at Washburn // 7th Spouse // Jaimilyn Children // Sons, Christian and Lincoln

EDUCATION

Emporia State, BS 2007 Emporia State, MS 2014

COACHING EXPERIENCE

Head Coach - Washburn, 2015-present Assistant Coach - West Texas A&M, 201415 Head Coach - Limestone College, 2011-14 Assistant Coach - Blue Valley North High School, 2009-11 Graduate Assistant - Emporia State, 200709

CAMERON BABB

HEAD COACH TRACK AND FIELD COACH 7TH SEASON AT WASHBURN

Cameron Babb was tabbed to restart the Ichabod men’s and women’s track and field and cross country programs on Aug. 10, 2015 after a more than 35-year hiatus at Washburn. While at Washburn, Babb has led both the Ichabod track and field teams and cross country teams to steady improvements entering year four of the revamped programs. Between cross country and the track and field programs, Babb has coached 30 all-MIAA selections, 22 allregion picks, 28 All-Americans and 39 NCAA Championship qualifiers. In the classroom, the Ichabods have had 20 USTFCCA NCAA Track and Field Athlete Academic Award winners.

Babb completed his first season as Assistant Track & Field Coach for West Texas A&M in 2014-15 school year after primarily taking over the coaching duties of WTAMU’s jumpers, javelin and multi-event athletes who accounted for five of the program’s seven All-America awards in 2014. In a very successful first season in Canyon in 2015, Babb helped coach the Lady Buff indoor team to a secondstraight Lone Star Conference title while program-best national finishes were achieved by the men’s and women’s indoor teams and women’s outdoor team. Additionally, the Buffs finished a program-high eighth place in the USTFCCCA Program of the Year rankings. During the 2015 seasons, Babb coached his athletes to eight national qualifiers, three First-Team All-America and two Second-Team All-America accolades, and three LSC titles.

Babb joined the WT coaching staff after an outstanding three-year tenure and the previous two as head coach at Limestone College in Gaffney, S.C. In 2013, his first at the helm of the program, Babb led the Saints to one of their most successful seasons in school history as his men’s team won its first-ever Conference Carolinas Outdoor Team Championship. That season he also coached the NCAA DII Southeast Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year and was named the Conference Carolinas Outdoor Head Coach of the Year and the NCAA DII Southeast Region Indoor Head Coach of the Year. In only two years running the Saints’ program, Babb coached the school’s first track & field national qualifier, and eventually four total, including its first track & field AllAmerican. Additionally, under his three-year watch on the staff, the men and women combined to break an astounding 59 school records. Prior to arriving in Gaffney, Babb coached for two years at Blue Valley North High School (Kan.) where he was mentored by former DI and USA National Coach Rick Attig (University of Kansas & University of Nebraska). There, Babb coached six Kansas State qualifiers in jumps, five of whom scored at the state meet, and helped the boys team to an Eastern Kansas League Championship. Babb’s first stint in the coaching realm was at his alma mater, Emporia State. As the assistant in Emporia, Kan., he coached 21 national qualifiers, 13 Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA) champions, eight NCAA DII All-Americans, four school record holders, and one NCAA DII National Champion in jumps and multievents. He was a student-athlete himself at Emporia State from 2003-07 where he was a five-time qualifier for the NCAA Division II National Championship in the long jump, decathlon, and javelin events. In 2006, Babb won the MIAA decathlon championship. During his athletic career with the Hornets, he was a 12-time All-Conference selection and competed in the decathlon at the USA Junior National Championships as a freshman in 2004. Babb earned a B.S. in Health Promotion and a minor in Coaching from Emporia State in 2007. In May of 2014, he completed his M.S. in Health, Physical Education and Recreation, also at Emporia State. Babb also has a teaching background at both Emporia State and Limestone College in fitness and aerobic conditioning. He lives in Topeka with his wife, Jaimilyn, and sons, Christian and Lincoln.

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