Lyles Lashley
Cross Country Coach

lashleyl@bartonccc.ks.us

Lyles Lashley is in his 2nd season as head coach at Barton County. He spent five seasons as assistant track and field coach at Barton County. As an assistant, he coached the distance and throwing events. Lashley has also coached the Barton cross country team for the past 7 years. He is also a math instructor at Barton County.

The men's cross country team has placed in the Top 5 at the NJCAA National Meet the past seasons -- taking 3rd the past two seasons. That is the highest finish ever for a men's cross country team at Barton County. The women's team has placed in the Top 10 the past six seasons.

Lashley has coached three women's cross country All-Americans and nine men's cross country All-Americans.

During his first season at the helm of the track team last year, the men's and women's team won both the indoor and outdoor NJCAA titles. That gives the men 7 straight indoor and outdoor title while the women have won 7 straight indoor and 4 straight outdoor.

Lashley came to Barton in fall 1997, after coaching track and field at Hitchcock High School in the Texas town between Houston and Galveston. Lashley also taught math and computer science classes in Hitchcock. He coached and taught for a short time in Louisiana before moving to Texas.

A native of Monroe, La., Lashley competed in track and field at Louisiana Tech University four seasons as a distance runner. In Neville High School, Monroe, Lashley ran track, helping his squad take state and regional honors.

He graduated in May of 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in math education and earned a minor in English.

The Lashley Cross Country Record