Natilee Dawkins begins her second season on the Cortland coaching staff in the 2019-20 school year. She works primarily with the Red Dragons' sprinters.
Dawkins began her coaching career as a graduate assistant at her alma mater, Gardner-Webb University in North Carolina, in 2004. During her three-year tenure on the Runnin' Bulldogs' staff she helped coach seven individual conference champions, 15 athletes set personal records, and five established school records.
Dawkins then coached at Binghamton University from 2006-13 and worked with 27 individual conference champions, 57 America East all-conference selections, 15 NCAA Division I regional qualifiers and one NCAA Division I championship qualifier. Her duties included coaching, recruiting, compliance, scheduling and administrative duties. Dawkins' most recent coaching stops included Bethune Cookman University in 2013-14 and Delaware Valley University in 2016-17.
Dawkins was a five-time All-American during her intercollegiate career with three NCAA Division II awards at Gardner-Webb and two NJCAA honors in one season at Ranger College. She was also two-time NCAA Division I regional qualifier as well as a four-time All-ECAC honoree and three-time All-Atlantic Sun Conference selection. She is still Gardner-Webb's school record-holder in the indoor 55-meter hurdles (7.92) and 60-meter hurdles (8.45) and the outdoor 100-meter hurdles (13.78) and triple jump (12.85 meters/42' 2"), as well as part of the record-holding outdoor 4x100-meter and 4x200-meter relays.
A native of Kingston, Jamaica, Dawkins graduated from St. Andrew Technical High School, where she completed in track and field. During her scholastic career she represented her home country in international competition at the 1996 Central American and Caribbean (CAC) Games, the 1998 Pan Am Championships and the 1997 Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA) Games, medaling in all three competitions.
Dawkins earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from Gardner-Webb in 2002 and an international master's in business administration from the school in 2006, and she also earned a Master of Public Policy degree from Delaware Valley in 2017.
