Duquesne University Athletics

Jeff Gibson enters his fifth season as head coach of the Duquesne cross country and track and field program and 11th overall season on the staff in 2025-26.

He was promoted to head coach in July 2021 after joining the Duquesne cross country and track & field staff in December 2015 as a volunteer coach before being elevated to a full-time roll as assistant coach in August 2019.

The women's track and field team is coming off one of their most impressive seasons in program history in 2023-24. Led by three NCAA East First Round qualifiers (Haley Hamilton, Madelyn Moretti - who was also the A-10 Outdoor Most Outstanding Field Performer - and Hannah Seitzinger), the women's track and field team won 10 medals at the A-10 Outdoor Championships including three gold medals. The 10 medals were the most since 2017 and three gold medals were the most since 2014 for the program, as the team finished in third place with 101.2 points - the best team finish in six seasons. The indoor team finished fifth at the A-10 Championships with seven medals and two gold medals. Across the men's and women's indoor and outdoor seasons, the Dukes had 30 new top-five marks recorded as well as six school records in 2023-24. 

Gibson File (as head coach since 2021-22 season)

• 1 NCAA National Qualifier
  • Collin Ebling (2022 - 800m)
• 8 NCAA East Regional Qualifiers
  • Isaac Elliott (2021 - 100m & 200m, 2022), Collin Ebling (2022), Haley Hamilton (2024), Hannah Seitzinger (2024), Madelyn Moretti (2024), Louie Liberatore (2025)
• 47 Atlantic 10 Medalists
  • 17 Women's Indoor Medalists | 21 Women's Outdoor Medalists | 9 Men's Outdoor Medalists
  • 11 Gold Medalists
• 88 ECAC/IC4A Qualifiers
  • 54 Women Qualifiers
    • 48 medalists (All-East honorees) | 9 gold medalists
  • 34 Men Qualifiers
    • 21 medalists (All-East honorees) | 5 gold medalist
• 30 School Records Set
  • 11 Women Outdoor Records | 10 Men Outdoor Records | 9 Women Indoor Records

The Dukes have also excelled in the classroom under Gibson's leadership, totaling two CSC Academic All-America selections (Isaac Elliott - 2021-'22, Laura Ehrenberger - 2021-'22), 17 CSC Academic All-District honorees and 14 Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team recipients (10 from women's team - 5 indoor, 5 outdoor - and 4 from men's team). With a record-setting 73 selections to the A-10 Commissioner's Honor Roll in 2023-24, the program has now had 199 honor roll student-athletes since the 2021-22 school year. The men's and women's Duquesne track and field/cross country programs have also been consistently honored as USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams.

Emily Brozeski (2024) Laura Ehrenberger (2023) were both named NCAA Woman of the Year nominees and Duquesne Female Student-Athletes of the Year at the conclusion of their respective senior seasons.

In total, the Duquesne track and field programs had nine medals won in 2022-23 championship meets. The Dukes won four medals at the 2022 A-10 Indoor Championships, including two gold medals. Emily Brozeski took the top spot in the pentathlon, while Hannah Seitzinger won an A-10 Indoor and ECAC Indoor Championship title in the 500 meters. Gibson also coached the 4X400m relay and Amy Allen (500m) to a bronze medal during A-10 Indoors. At the A-10 Outdoor Championships, Duquesne had three medalists with Emily Brozeksi winning gold in the heptathlon, the women's 4x800 and Haley Hamilton (steeplechase) earning bronze. Amy Allen (400m), the women's 4x800, and freshman Matt DeMatteo (men's 400m hurdles) all placed 4th, and Tori Kocsis took 5th in the 10,000m. Cameron Mbalo highlighted the men's IC4A/ECAC Outdoor Championships with a silver medal in triple jump.

The track and field programs continued to break records under Gibson with the outdoor track and field program producing 23 new top five marks along with six school records in 2022-23. While, the indoor track and field team posted nine new top-five marks in DU history as well as a new school record.

In his first season as the head coach of the program, Collin Ebling became the third Duquesne men's track & field athlete to compete at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Oregon, where he placed 17th overall in the 800-meter run to earn All-American status. Ebling broke and re-broke a total of seven school records that season, including his school-record time of one minute, 47.88 seconds during the sixth and final heat of the first round of the 800 meters at the NCAA East Preliminary Championship. He was the A-10 Outdoor Champion in the 800 and the IC4A Indoor Champion in the event as well.

Gibson also oversaw Isaac Elliott's historic final season in 2022, in which he re-established school records eight times during the course of the year. His efforts garnered Elliott his second-straight Atlantic 10 Championships Most Outstanding Performer of the Meet award. Elliott's laurels this season also included winning both the 200-meter and 60-meter dash at the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championships and the 200 meters at the outdoor championships. Elliott was also the runner-up in the 100 meters at the IC4A/ECAC Outdoor Championships.

Gibson coached Hannah Seitzinger to a A-10 Indoor Championship in the 500 meters and an IC4A Indoor runner-up spot. Seitzinger has both the No. 1 and No. 3 times in the 500.

In total during the 2022 indoor season, six school records fell, 18 top-five performances were established and three earned medals at the A-10 Championships (one gold, two silver). The Dukes earned four IC4A medals (two gold, two silver), including Ebling's run in the 800 meters that broke a 34-year old meet record.

The 2022 outdoor season saw eight school records fall, with 19 top-five all-time performances established. Eight medals were earned by the Dukes at A-10 Championships, including six golds. Gibson and the Dukes added five more medals during outdoor season at the IC4A Championships.

In 2020-21, Gibson helped the Duquesne women's cross country team capture its second Atlantic 10 Championship in program history. Brianna Schwartz garnered all-conference honors for the Dukes with a seventh-place finish, leading five Duquesne scorers in the top 25. 

In track and field, Gibson tutored Matt Busche, who won the A-10 800-meter championship and shattered the school record which stood for 12 seasons. Collin Ebling collected bronze in the event, also breaking that school-record mark.
 
All told, six of Gibson's athletes advanced to the finals of their respective events at the 2021 A-10 Track & Field Championship. At the ECAC Championship, the women's 4x400 relay earned a silver medal in the event, while the women's 4x800 placed fifth and freshman Hannah Seitzinger also finished fifth in the 400-meter run. There were seven new top-five times etched into the Duquesne outdoor track & field record book this spring altogether.  

During Coach Gibson’s first year as a full-time coach, Bethany Evankovich set the indoor 400-meter school record.  In addition, three other athletes set top-five marks and four others produced top 10 marks in school history.

Evankovich and Maiah Yankello were named Atlantic 10 Performers of the Week during the indoor season.  At the A-10 Indoor Championships, Gibson's athletes produced a pair of gold medals and two silver medals while having at least one athlete score in nine events. 
 
Gibson joined the Duquesne staff after four and a half years at Robert Morris where he served as interim cross country head coach in 2015 as well as coaching the distance events. 

While at RMU, he helped the men’s cross country team to a NEC runner-up finish. For the Colonials performance, the coaching staffs for men’s cross country, men’s track & field and women’s track & Field garnered NEC Coaching Staff of the Year accolades. 

Prior to his stint at Robert Morris, he served as a long time assistant cross country and track & field coach at Canon McMillan High School. He helped the Big Macs' boys track & field teams to a pair of WPIAL team titles as well as eight WPIAL section championships. Gibson's athletes won multiple PIAA medals and WPIAL Individual titles. 
 
Gibson received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown and received his Level 1 certification from the USATF and Endurance Event Specialist certification from the USTFCCA. He resides in Canonsburg with his wife Diane and has five children, Taryn, Jonathan, Kyle, Nicholas and Justin.