Camille Ross

Camille Ross is in her second season with the Purdue track & field and cross country program in 2024-25 and has served as the supervisor of operations since her arrival in West Lafayette in August, 2023.   With the Boilermakers, Ross schedules and coordinates team travel, practice and competition, oversees the student managers and maintains the program’s budget. She serves as a liaison with the athletics compliance office, assists with recruiting and supports student-athletes in various ways. Ross also aids the support staff, including academics, equipment, sports medicine, nutrition and communications.   Ross comes to Purdue from Louisville, where she served as the director of operations for the track & field and cross country program from 2021-2023. She served as the liaison for compliance, housing communications, marketing & media, the athletics business office, equipment and sports medicine. While utilizing various software programs, Ross coordinated travel and logistics, the team’s calendar, expenses, roster management and other day-to-day tasks in and out of the office.   As a coach, Ross served as the head women’s cross country/track & field coach at Jackson State University from 2015-2019, where her athletes won four SWAC titles, totaled 18 top-three finishes and broke two school records. While supervising assistants and the team, Ross organized and managed the practice and competition schedule, team travel and equipment. She created and implemented training programs for the sprints, hurdles, mid-distance and horizontal events. Ross oversaw campus visits, home and school visits and the awarding of scholarships. She also built and retained relationships with alumni and fundraised for needs outside of the budget.   Before and after her time at Jackson State, Ross was at Mississippi College and served as an assistant coach from 2011-2015 and a volunteer in the fall of 2019. Her time at MC saw numerous NCCAA finishes and ASC medalists, including three conference champions. Ross assisted the head coach with administration of the program and created and implemented training programs for short sprints, hurdles and horizontal jumps. She also oversaw student and staff volunteers for home cross country and track & field meets. As a volunteer, Ross assisted with daily practices and created and executed workouts for the short sprints. She also offered support at home meets and team travel and provided leadership in the head coach’s absence.   From 2008-2011, Ross was an assistant coach and admissions counselor at RPI. With the track & field program, she coached her athletes to 28 conference titles and one All-America honor while setting three conference and school records. She was a member of a coaching staff that was named the Liberty League Staff of the Year a total of 10 times between the men’s and women’s programs while leading the training programs for the short sprinters, hurdlers and horizontal jumpers. Ross assisted in recruiting, meet management and administrative responsibilities, including travel, meals and equipment. With the admissions staff, she led information sessions as the Dean on Duty with visiting students, attended college fairs across the Midwest and East Coast and corresponded with students, parents, high school counselors and alumni.   Ross also coached at Dartmouth College, where she worked with athletes that set six school records, and at Central Michigan, where she coached six NCAA Prelim and one NCAA Championships qualifier. Five records also were broken during her tenure.   Prior to her two seasons at Louisville, Ross spent nearly two years at The Redeemer’s School in Jackson, Mississippi. She served as a member of the educational and support staff while earning her masters degree in athletic administration intercollegiate athletics in 2021 from Mississippi College.   Ross had a decorated career as an athlete, where she was a nine-time All-America honoree and a 2015 Hall of Fame inductee at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. She broke every indoor and outdoor sprint record of 200-meter and under at Whitewater and in the WIAC. Ross is a 12-time conference champion and was recognized as the 2000 WIAC Track Performer of the Meet and named to the WIAC All-Time Women’s Track & Field Team in 2013.   Ross is a member the U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) and is USATF certified Level 1 and Level 2 in jumps and sprints/hurdles/relays.   Ross graduated from UW-Whitewater in 2002 with a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic art design with a minor in coaching.