Jeff Gibson is in his fifth season as head coach of the Duquesne cross country and track & field program and his 11th overall year on staff in 2025–26.
Gibson was promoted to head coach in July 2021 after first joining the Dukes as a volunteer assistant in December 2015. He was elevated to a full-time assistant coach role in August 2019 before taking over the program two years later.
Under Gibson’s leadership, Duquesne has continued to rewrite its track & field record books. During his tenure as head coach, the Dukes have set 14 women’s outdoor records, 11 men’s outdoor records and nine indoor program marks. The program has also produced eight regional qualifiers and one national qualifier.
Gibson coached Collin Ebling through one of the top individual seasons in program history. Ebling qualified for the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships and placed 17th in the 800 meters, becoming one of just three Dukes ever to reach the national meet.
Gibson File (as head coach since 2021-22 season ... updated Feb. 15, 2025)
- CROSS COUNTRY
- 2 Atlantic 10 All-Conference
- Haley Hamilton (3rd overall - 2024)
- Zack Toth (11th overall - 2023)
- TRACK & FIELD
- 1 NCAA National Qualifier
- Collin Ebling (2022 - 800m)
- 8 NCAA East Regional Qualifiers
- Isaac Elliott (2021 - 100m & 200m, 2022 - 100m), Collin Ebling (2022 - 800m), Haley Hamilton (2024 - 3000m steeplechase), Hannah Seitzinger (2024 - 800m), Madelyn Moretti (2024 - shot put), Louie Liberatore (2025 - javelin)
- 61 Atlantic 10 Medalists
- 20 Women's Indoor Medalists | 27 Women's Outdoor Medalists | 14 Men's Outdoor Medalists
- 12 Gold Medalists
- 118 ECAC/IC4A Qualifiers
- 71 Women Qualifiers
- 60 All-East medals | 11 gold medalists
- 51 Men Qualifiers
- 30 All-East medals | 6 gold medalist
- 34 School Records Set
- 14 Women Outdoor Records | 11 Men Outdoor Records | 9 Women Indoor Records
Duquesne has also excelled academically under Gibson’s leadership. The program has earned two CSC Academic All-America selections, 27 CSC Academic All-District honorees and 23 Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team recipients. In 2025, a program-record 82 student-athletes were named to the A-10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll, bringing the total to 281 since 2021–22. Both the men’s and women’s cross country and track & field programs have also been recognized as USTFCCCA All-Academic Teams.
Emily Brozeski (2024) and Laura Ehrenberger (2023) were each named NCAA Woman of the Year nominees and Duquesne Female Student-Athletes of the Year following their senior seasons.
The 2025 season added another milestone, as freshman Louie Liberatore became the first javelin regional qualifier in program history. The men’s team posted its best finish and medal count at the Atlantic 10 Outdoor Championships in three seasons, placing fifth with 62 points and five medals. On the women’s side, Duquesne finished sixth at the A-10 Indoor Championships with three silver medals and seventh outdoors with six medals, including one gold. The Dukes combined for 19 All-East medals at the IC4A/ECAC Outdoor Championships, highlighted by three gold medals. Throughout the year, three men’s outdoor, four women’s outdoor and three indoor school records were broken.
In 2024, the women's cross country team was coached to its highest finish at the Atlantic 10 Championships since winning the title in spring 2020-21. The Dukes took fifth and were led by Haley Hamilton in third place — earning first-team all-conference and tying the best individual finish in program history.
The women’s program delivered one of its most impressive seasons in 2023–24. Led by NCAA East First Round qualifiers Haley Hamilton, Madelyn Moretti and Hannah Seitzinger — with Moretti earning A-10 Outdoor Most Outstanding Field Performer honors — the Dukes won 10 medals at the A-10 Outdoor Championships, including three golds. The total marked the program’s most medals since 2017 and most gold medals since 2014. Duquesne finished third with 101.2 points, its best team finish in six seasons. The indoor squad placed fifth at A-10s with seven medals and two golds. Across both seasons, the Dukes produced 30 new top-five marks and six school records.
In 2022–23, the Dukes captured nine championship-meet medals. The team won four medals at the A-10 Indoor Championships, including golds from Brozeski (pentathlon) and Seitzinger (500 meters). Seitzinger also claimed an ECAC Indoor title. Additional indoor medals came from the 4x400 relay and Amy Allen (500m). Outdoors, Brozeski won heptathlon gold, while the 4x800 relay and Hamilton (steeplechase) earned medals. Cameron Mbalo added a silver medal in the triple jump at IC4A/ECAC Championships. The season saw 23 new outdoor top-five marks and six school records, along with nine indoor top-five performances and another 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.
Seitzinger added an A-10 Indoor title in the 500 meters and an IC4A runner-up finish, posting two of the top three times in school history in the event.
The 2022 indoor season produced six school records, 18 top-five performances and three A-10 medals, along with four IC4A medals. Outdoors, eight school records fell, 19 top-five marks were added and the Dukes won eight A-10 medals — including six gold — plus five IC4A medals.
During the 2020–21 season, Gibson helped lead the Duquesne women’s cross country team to its second Atlantic 10 Championship in program history as an assistant coach. Brianna Schwartz earned all-conference honors with a seventh-place finish, leading five Dukes in the top 25. On the track, Matt Busche won the A-10 800-meter title, with Ebling earning bronze as both broke the school record.
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 Duquesne after four and a half years at Robert Morris, where he served as interim cross country head coach in 2015 and coached distance events. He helped the Colonials to a Northeast Conference runner-up finish, with the coaching staff earning NEC Coaching Staff of the Year honors.
Prior to RMU, Gibson was a longtime assistant coach at Canon-McMillan High School, helping the boys program win two WPIAL team titles and eight section championships while coaching multiple PIAA medalists and WPIAL champions.
Gibson earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. He holds USATF Level 1 certification and USTFCCCA Endurance Event Specialist certification. He resides in Canonsburg with his wife, Diane, and their five children: Taryn, Jonathan, Kyle, Nicholas and Justin.
