Hall of Fame
JD Evilsizer closed out his career as one of the most decorated coaches in Columbus State history in 2020, winning 13 combined Peach Belt Conference cross country championships after taking over a program with zero titles. From 2006 until 2010, CSU swept the male and female PBC championships and added seven individual titles. He led the Lady Cougars to two NCAA regional titles (2009 & 2012), while the Cougars won their only regional championship in 2012 under Evilsilzer. CSU appeared in seven NCAA Championship appearances (4 men, 3 women) and coached CSU's lone three cross country All-Americans. Evilsizer was named the PBC Coach of the Year on four occasions (men's: 2006, '09, '10; women's: 2010) and the NCAA Southeast Region Coach of the Year twice (men's: 2012; women's: 2009, '12).
Evilsizer started to build the Columbus State track & field program from the ground up in 2010 and wasted no time in putting the Cougars and Lady Cougars on the national scene. Less than five months in, Evilsizer sent two individuals to the NCAA Championship. The program garnered its first All-American accolade that spring and went on to add 11 more under Evilsizer's tutelage. The legendary figure was integral in the PBC establishing a track & field championship with the inaugural conference championship in 2013. Later that year, he went on to win the conference's first-ever PBC Women's Track & Field Coach of the Year award that year.
The long-time Cougar spent 17 years on the CSU campus, also working time as a mathematics instructor.
