Oklahoma State University Athletics
OSU Track and Field Welcomes Halsey to Coaching Staff
August 12, 2016 | Cowboy Cross Country & Track, Cowgirl Cross Country & Track
The Oklahoma State track and field and cross country program has hired former St. Louis University assistant coach Cody Halsey to the same position, Director of Track and Field and Cross Country Dave Smith announced Friday.
Halsey comes to OSU after serving as an assistant coach for SLU for the past two seasons. While with the Billikens, she was a key member of the coaching staff, assisting mostly in the middle-distance and distance events for both the men's and women's programs. She also helped bring athletes from across the state of Missouri and the country to SLU as one of the team's biggest recruiters.
"This OSU team is just so talented that it's hard not to want to be a part of this group," Halsey said. "Dave is an amazing, brilliant coach and reminds me a lot of my coach from NDSU. The first time I met Dave, I realized this was somebody I can learn a lot from, which was a huge selling point for me."
Halsey had tremendous success as an up-and-coming coach for the Billikens. In two years, all of her athletes set personal bests and 19 school records were broken since she joined the SLU coaching staff.
"When I came in here, the first feeling I got was how close the staff was, and that chemistry goes so far for me," Halsey said. "It's so important for a staff because it will transfer over to the athletes and give you a really cohesive, powerful, competitive team. It's really exciting to be a part of a national championship caliber team that wants to fight and shoot for the podium."
At the conference level, Halsey coached seven athletes to all-conference honors in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Before her time at SLU, Halsey was a volunteer assistant at her alma mater North Dakota State where she helped develop NDSU into a consistent NCAA Championships qualifier, sending a contingent of seven athletes to the 2014 NCAA Championships in the 800-meter run and 200-meter dash, as well as the 100-meter hurdles and 4X400-meter relay.
As an athlete for the Bison, Halsey was a standout in the classroom as much as she was on the track.
She earned a spot on the USTFCCCA's Academic All-America team in 2008, and was a member of the CoSIDA Academic All-America second-team in the same season.
Halsey won four Summit League titles in the 800-and 1,500-meter runs, steeplechase and 4X400-meter relay, and she remains in the top-10 all-time lists for the Bison in all three events.
Halsey received two undergraduate degrees from NDSU, one in zoology (pre-med) and another in art with a focus on painting and photography. During her assistantship with the Bison track and field and cross country teams, she began her master's degree in Exercise Science and is currently finishing her thesis.
Halsey is a native of Martinsdale, Montana, and the daughter of Sky and Eileen Halsey.
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Halsey comes to OSU after serving as an assistant coach for SLU for the past two seasons. While with the Billikens, she was a key member of the coaching staff, assisting mostly in the middle-distance and distance events for both the men's and women's programs. She also helped bring athletes from across the state of Missouri and the country to SLU as one of the team's biggest recruiters.
"This OSU team is just so talented that it's hard not to want to be a part of this group," Halsey said. "Dave is an amazing, brilliant coach and reminds me a lot of my coach from NDSU. The first time I met Dave, I realized this was somebody I can learn a lot from, which was a huge selling point for me."
Halsey had tremendous success as an up-and-coming coach for the Billikens. In two years, all of her athletes set personal bests and 19 school records were broken since she joined the SLU coaching staff.
"When I came in here, the first feeling I got was how close the staff was, and that chemistry goes so far for me," Halsey said. "It's so important for a staff because it will transfer over to the athletes and give you a really cohesive, powerful, competitive team. It's really exciting to be a part of a national championship caliber team that wants to fight and shoot for the podium."
At the conference level, Halsey coached seven athletes to all-conference honors in the Atlantic 10 Conference.
Before her time at SLU, Halsey was a volunteer assistant at her alma mater North Dakota State where she helped develop NDSU into a consistent NCAA Championships qualifier, sending a contingent of seven athletes to the 2014 NCAA Championships in the 800-meter run and 200-meter dash, as well as the 100-meter hurdles and 4X400-meter relay.
As an athlete for the Bison, Halsey was a standout in the classroom as much as she was on the track.
She earned a spot on the USTFCCCA's Academic All-America team in 2008, and was a member of the CoSIDA Academic All-America second-team in the same season.
Halsey won four Summit League titles in the 800-and 1,500-meter runs, steeplechase and 4X400-meter relay, and she remains in the top-10 all-time lists for the Bison in all three events.
Halsey received two undergraduate degrees from NDSU, one in zoology (pre-med) and another in art with a focus on painting and photography. During her assistantship with the Bison track and field and cross country teams, she began her master's degree in Exercise Science and is currently finishing her thesis.
Halsey is a native of Martinsdale, Montana, and the daughter of Sky and Eileen Halsey.
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