College of Charleston Women's Cross Country

Chris Bailey was named head coach of the College of Charleston men’s and women’s cross country programs in May 2024 after serving in that capacity on an interim basis during the 2023-24 academic year. He is also an assistant coach for the track and field teams, working primarily with the distance and mid-distance runners. Bailey, a former standout athlete for the Cougars, returned to his alma mater as assistant cross country coach in January 2021 and was added to the track and field staff the following December. He previously served as an assistant cross country coach during the 2016-17 season. Bailey has overseen the development of some of the top runners in Charleston history. Under Bailey’s coaching, there have been 33 new additions to the school’s Top 10 times for indoor and outdoor track. Four of those women have taken the top spot in the school record book. Leading the Cougars is current senior Cayden Crimson who holds the school record in the 10k (35:48.82) and holds the third best time in the 5k (17:20.64). Crimson also holds the fourth best time in the outdoor 3k with a time of 10:03.65. Returning for Charleston is sophomore Jeorgie Gavalas, brought in by Bailey as a freshman. Gavalas cracked the Top 10 times in the indoor mile with a time of 4:55.31, putting her fourth on the list. Bailey helped Gavalas excel in the spring and the Cougar ran a school record setting time in the 1500m at 4:25.79. Gavalas also made the 800m Top 10 with a time of 2:12.73, putting her fo

Campbell Lombardi is a student-athlete academic advisor, overseeing a variety of teams, as well as assisting with student-athlete development programming. She graduated from College of Charleston in 2025, earning her bachelor's degree in psychology and management. She is passionate about supporting her student-athletes to achieve both their academic and personal goals. Campbell lived in Belgium for 10 years prior to coming to the College in 2020, where she attended the International School of Brussels for her middle and high school education.

Hayley McMahon is an assistant coach and alum of the College of Charleston cross country and track & field program. Hailing from Poughkeepsie, New York, McMahon was coached by Hall of Fame Coach Steve Arnett at Arlington High School. She ran cross country, indoor and outdoor track and competed in the prestigious Millrose Games at Madison Square Garden. McMahon graduated high school in 2011 as fifth in the state in the indoor 1500m and second in the outdoor 800m. She was awarded Best All Around Female Athlete of her graduating class and currently holds ten records in indoor and outdoor track. She went on to graduate from CofC in 2015 with a BA in Psychology and a minor in Coaching. During her CofC career, she was named to the SoCon All-Freshman Team in cross country as well as indoor track (mile) and outdoor track (800m). She was the 2013 SoCon outdoor 1500m champion with a time of 4:28.45 In 2015, she was named CAA Female Track Athlete of the Week for setting the school record in the 800m with a time of 2:09.82. She remains among CofC’s top five finishers in the indoor and outdoor 400m, 800m, 1500m and mile and is the current recorder hold for the outdoor 800m, 4x400m and DMR. During her junior and senior year of college, she was an Assistant Cross Country and Track Coach at Garret Academy of Technology in North Charleston. She was proud to see her athletes compete in the Class 2A SCHSL Outdoor State Championship’s finishing first in high jump and sixth in discus, 100m and 4x

Kristina MacLure joined the College of Charleston Athletic Department in September 2025. MacLure works with women's basketball, women's soccer, track and field cross country programs at Charleston. Prior to Charleston, MacLure was at the University of Virginia as an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach and worked primarily with the men and women's track and field and cross-country teams. During this time, the women's track and field team won the ACC conference championship, 35 athletes qualified for East Regionals, and 11 qualified for Nationals. Before UVA, she was an Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach for Lander University where she worked with women's basketball, volleyball, field hockey, acrobatics and tumbling, men and women's golf, men and women's track and field and cross country, and women's tennis teams. MacLure grew up in Stow, Massachusetts, and earned a Bachelors in Kinesiology and a bachelor's in communications at the University of Rhode Island. At URI she competed as a track and field athlete, earning All-American Honors in 2019 and 2021, two-time East Regional Qualifier, 5-time school record holder, and team co-captain those two seasons. She earned her master's degree in Exercise Science from Merrimack College in 2022 and earned her MBA from Lander University in 2024. She is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist from the NSCA and is CPR/AED/First Aid Certified.

Michael Tornifolio is entering his 11th season at College of Charleston and was promoted to track and field head coach in May 2024. He had been associate head coach since May 2019 and served as interim head coach during the 2023-24 academic year. He works primarily with the Cougar jumpers, sprinters and multi-event athletes. During his time at Charleston, Tornifolio has coached a pair of CAA champions in Julisa Tindall and Luzy Lieger. Tindall holds the school record in the indoor and outdoor high jump and won the CAA title in 2015 and 2016. Lieger took first place in the pole vault at the 2023 and 2024 indoor and outdoor conference meets and holds both school marks while also setting the CAA indoor pole vault record. Both athletes also earned multiple trips to the NCAA East Regional Meet and spots on the USTFCCCA All-Academic Team, and Tindall qualified for the 2015 USATF Outdoor Championships. In addition to Tindall and Lieger, five other Tornifolio-coached athletes have earned spots on the podium at CAA Championships. That group includes pole vaulters Chloe Christian, Tonet Tallie and Madison Jent as well as RoShani Glover (triple jump) and Jenny Martin (heptathlon). Tornifolio also mentored Kaitlynn Bailey, who established herself as one of the top sprinters in school history with school records in the outdoor 100 and 200 and the indoor 60 and 200. At the 2024 CAA Outdoor Championships, she became the first Cougar to qualify for the finals in the 100 since Charleston join

Mikayla Ruiz joined the MUSC Health Sports Medicine team in the summer of 2025 to work with Charleston's cross country and track & field programs. She started her career at Kean University in Union, NJ. She received her bachelor's degree in athletic training in 2023, where she worked with various high schools, Kean Softball and physical therapy clinics. She then completed her graduate assistantship at Auburn University where she served as the athletic trainer for the men's and women's cross country and track & field teams. During her time at Auburn, she helped the men's track and field team to become outdoor NCAA runner-ups in 2024, and to a fourth place finish in 2025. She graduated with her master's degree in exercise science with a concentration of biomechanics in 2025. Ruiz played on the women's soccer team at Kean University for four years, is a member of NATA and presented to healthcare professionals through AT's Care.

Rachel Hamryka joined the College of Charleston staff in 2023 as an assistant cross country and track and field coach. Hamryka spent the 2022-23 season as a ...