2025-26 Track & Field Roster
Roster
Hobbs Campbell
- Position:
- Distance
- Class:
- Redshirt Sophomore
- Hometown:
- Joplin, Mo.
- High School:
- Joplin
CAREER RESULTS
CAREER ACCOLADES
- 2026Â Dr. Gerald Lage Academic Achievement Award Recipient
- Scored as part of the 2025-26 DMR team at the Big 12 Indoor Championship
2026 CROSS COUNTRY
Began the season with a 13th place finish at the Bob Timmons Classic, finishing the 6K in 18:52.6.Â
2026 OUTDOOR
Competed at five meets for Kansas, running mostly the 800 and 1,500 meters … Opened the season with a personal best 800 meters time of 1:50.43 while also placing 10th in the 1,500 meters at the LSU Battle on the Bayou … Set a personal best 1,500 meter run time of 3:42.88 to finish fourth at the John McDonnell Invite … Recorded a pair of sixth place finishes at the Rock Chalk Classic in the 800 and 1,500 meters … Closed the season with a personal best 5,000 meter time of 15:00.88 at the Big 12 Championship.Â
2025-26 INDOOR
Ran at five meets, primarily in the 800 meters and the mile … Opened the season with a fourth place finish in the mile at the K-State Thane Baker Invitational … Won the mile at the K-State DeLoss Dodds Invitational, finishing in 4:06.58, while also achieving ninth in the 800 meters with a season best time of 1:51.39 … Set a personal best in the mile at the BU David Hemery Valentine Invitational, finishing in 4:02.87 … Closed the season with a personal best 3,000 meters time of 8:25.53 at the Big 12 Championship while helping the DMR team place sixth.Â
2025 CROSS COUNTRY
Ran in four meets for the Jayhawks … Opened the season with an eight place finish in the 6K at the Bob Timmons Classic with a personal best 6K time of 18:48.9 … Set another personal best the next week at the Gans Creek Classic 8K with a 24:55.1 time … Finished the season with a 70th place finish at the Big 12 Championships.
2025 OUTDOOR
Did not compete.Â
2024-25 INDOOR
Opened the season with a personal best 1,000 meter run time of 2:29.15 to place third at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular … Finished fifth in the mile at the KU-KSU-WSU Triangular … Set two season best times in the 800 meters and mile at the Rick McGuire Invitational of 1:53.21 and 4:04.32, respectively.
2024 CROSS COUNTRY
Competed three times with the Jayhawks … Opened the season with a season best 8K time of 25:13.6 at the Gans Creek Classic … Placed 71st at the Wisconsin Pre-Nationals.
2024 OUTDOOR
Ran in five meets, competing primarily in the 1,500 meter run … Set a personal best 3,000 meter steeplechase time of 9:47.20 to place fourth at the Jim Click Shootout … Finished seventh in the 1,500 meters at the Kansas Relays while helping the DMR team win … Placed fifth in the 1,500 meter run at the Rock Chalk Classic … Closed with a season best 1,500 meters time of 3:51.90 at the Arkansas Twilight.
2023-24 INDOOR
Competed unattached at the Bob Timmons Challenge … Achieved second place in the 3,000 meters with a time of 8:49.41 … Helped the DMR team finish second with a time of 10:46.70.
2023 CROSS COUNTRY
Ran unattached in three races … Opened the season with a 6K time of 19:50.2 to finish 17th at the Bob Timmons Classic.
HIGH SCHOOL
Led his team to the program’s first cross country 5A conference championship in 2021 … Competed in nine track and cross country state events, finishing second in the 1,600 meters in 2022 and 2023 … Holds the school record in the 1,600 meters (4:09.28), the 3,200 meters (9:17.10), the 5K (15:21) and the 4×800 meter relay (7:55) … Qualified for the cross country state tournament throughout 2020-22, helping his team finish as state runner-up in 2022 … Earned Academic All-State and the Magna Cum Laude award for academic success ... Was part of the golf team that placed fourth in 2021.
PERSONAL
Son of Brandon and Lissa Campbell … Has two siblings, brother Fielding and sister Keaton … Brother, Fielding, played collegiate golf at Missouri Southern … Plans to major in accounting & finance.
WHY DID YOU CHOOSE KU?
KU has a great history in the mile with Jim Ryun, Glenn Cunningham, and Wes Santee, and I want to be a part of that history. The team has a great culture that will allow me to reach my full potential while having a great group of guys around me to push me.









































































