Cross Country & Track
Adam Cooke
- Title:
- Assistant Cross Country/Track Coach
- Email:
- acooke@calbaptist.edu
- Phone:
- 343-4833
Adam Cooke joined the California Baptist University cross country and track coaching staff leading up to the fall 2018 season after previously coaching at the University of North Florida.
In three years with Cooke on staff, the Lancers have won four Western Athletic Conference cross country titles, with three-straight on the women's side (2018-20) and one for the men. CBU has produced nine individual conference champions (four cross country, five track) and 55 all-conference finishers (28 cross country, 27 track) in cross country and track over the last three years. CBU's women cross country recorded the first perfect 15-point score in WAC history at the 2019 conference meet.
The Lancers have also produced four WAC Cross Country Runners of the Year and individual champions and four Freshmen of the Year the last three seasons. CBU had its best season yet in 2020-21 when the Lancers swept both team and individual titles and produced 14 all-conference finishers at the WAC Cross Country Championships and then added on three championship runs and 17 more all-conference performances at the WAC Track Meet.
Cooke spent the past three years as an assistant track and field and cross country coach at UNF, helping the men’s cross country team win its first-ever Division I conference championship, the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, in 2016. The Ospreys also took second-place finishes in 2015 and 2017, while also seeing two individual champions and conference runners of the year crowned, Logan Poteet in 2015 and Nick Morken in 2016.
On the women’s side, the cross country team also won the ASUN Championship in 2017 and was runner-up in 2015. Eden Meyer went on to win the individual conference championship in 2016 and 2017, and also garnered All-American honors on the track in the 10K.
Cooke also helped coach 13 individual indoor track conference champions and 15 outdoor track conference champions. While at UNF, two cross country and track athletes were named the ASUN Scholar Athlete of the Year, Fynn Timm and Eden Meyer.
The Florida native also brings meet management experience after acting as the Meet Manager for the 2016 NCAA East Prelim, ASUN Outdoor Championship and 2018 FHSAA State Championship.
Cooke graduated from Georgia Tech in 2015 with a degree in computer science. He also was a volunteer coach at his alma mater.
In three years with Cooke on staff, the Lancers have won four Western Athletic Conference cross country titles, with three-straight on the women's side (2018-20) and one for the men. CBU has produced nine individual conference champions (four cross country, five track) and 55 all-conference finishers (28 cross country, 27 track) in cross country and track over the last three years. CBU's women cross country recorded the first perfect 15-point score in WAC history at the 2019 conference meet.
The Lancers have also produced four WAC Cross Country Runners of the Year and individual champions and four Freshmen of the Year the last three seasons. CBU had its best season yet in 2020-21 when the Lancers swept both team and individual titles and produced 14 all-conference finishers at the WAC Cross Country Championships and then added on three championship runs and 17 more all-conference performances at the WAC Track Meet.
Cooke spent the past three years as an assistant track and field and cross country coach at UNF, helping the men’s cross country team win its first-ever Division I conference championship, the Atlantic Sun Conference Championship, in 2016. The Ospreys also took second-place finishes in 2015 and 2017, while also seeing two individual champions and conference runners of the year crowned, Logan Poteet in 2015 and Nick Morken in 2016.
On the women’s side, the cross country team also won the ASUN Championship in 2017 and was runner-up in 2015. Eden Meyer went on to win the individual conference championship in 2016 and 2017, and also garnered All-American honors on the track in the 10K.
Cooke also helped coach 13 individual indoor track conference champions and 15 outdoor track conference champions. While at UNF, two cross country and track athletes were named the ASUN Scholar Athlete of the Year, Fynn Timm and Eden Meyer.
The Florida native also brings meet management experience after acting as the Meet Manager for the 2016 NCAA East Prelim, ASUN Outdoor Championship and 2018 FHSAA State Championship.
Cooke graduated from Georgia Tech in 2015 with a degree in computer science. He also was a volunteer coach at his alma mater.
California Baptist University Athletics Master Facility Plan Update
Wednesday, August 17
CBU WAC Cross Country Championship
Saturday, October 30
CBU State of the University 2020
Thursday, October 01
Mask up, back up, wash up and lance up!
Thursday, September 10
