Lyles Lashley
Head Coach

lashleyl@bartonccc.edu

Lyles Lashley is set to begin his 3rd year as head coach at Barton County. He spent five seasons as assistant track and field coach at Barton County prior to taking over the top spot. In his first season at the helm of the Cougars, Barton County won the men's and women's NJCAA Indoor titles in March and followed up with NJCAA Outdoor titles in May. The streak for national titles at Barton is up to 6 for the men indoors and outdoors while the women have won 6 straight indoor titles and 4 in a row outdoors.

As an assistant, he coached the distance and throwing events. Lashley has also coached the Barton cross country team for the past 8 years. He is also a math instructor at Barton County.

Lashley lead the Barton County men's and women's cross country team in 2002, to top ten finishes at the NJCAA Championships. The men's team finished 3rd and the women ended up with a 8th place finish.

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 Record