Lady Panthers Coach’s Corner
Christi Bobo Head Cross Country Coach 863-784-7039 christianna.bobo@southflorida.edu
Christianna Bobo has been a Highlands County resident for 30 years. She and her husband have seven children. Bobo graduated from Chamberlain High School in Tampa, Fla. in 1989. Her college career was spent at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va., where she earned her Bachelor of Science in 1993 and competed as a cross country and track student-athlete. While there, she was All Big South Conference in cross country. One of her biggest personal accomplishments in sport was participating in the Penn Relays, the oldest and largest track and field competition in the United States. She started her coaching career in Sterling, Kan., at Sterling College, a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) division college, in 1993. At Sterling, she assisted in coaching a community track club for elementary school-aged children. She made the switch to high school coaching in 1996 in Highlands County, Fla. Coach Bobo began coaching at SFSC in 2019 and has since earned a master’s in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University-Irvine, and a Doctorate in Education from the University of Miami. Bobo serves on the NJCAA Cross Country Poll committee and the FCSAA cross country coaches committee. She is enthusiastic about creating an environment in which college athletes discover capabilities and success in being part of something greater than self.
