Track set to become newest Panther sport

New Panther track teams will move to the starting line this fall as the sport becomes the newest addition to LaGrange Athletics. The men’s and women’s teams will bring the total number of LC sports to 19.

To launch the inaugural season, Cire Campbell has been named the teams’ head coach. He also will coach the men’s and women’s cross-country teams as part of the track program.

Campbell has collegiate and international coaching experience. He has a long-term coaching relationship with the Quicksilver Track Club, a youth track and field club in Atlanta.

Collegiately, he was head coach for Georgia State University from 2001-12. The Georgia State women won the 2011 Colonial Athletic Association outdoor championship, and Campbell was named as the conference coach of the year. He also coached one year at Bluefield State University in West Virginia.

Campbell was the head coach for the Saudi Arabian national team for four years, participating in the 2012 Olympic games in London, England. He was the head coach and high-performance director for the Nigerian national team. With Nigeria, he coached in the 2016 Olympic games held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

As a collegian, Campbell began his career at Howard University, earning All-Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference honors. He transferred to Morris Brown College, where he again earned all-conference honors with the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference.