RICHMOND, Ky. – Eastern Kentucky University announced the additions of cheer coaches Chelsea Hamilton and Tristan Hawk.
 
Hamilton will serve as the all-girl head cheerleading coach.  Hawk is the new co-ed head cheerleading coach.
 
Hamilton comes to EKU after coaching at the Matrix All-Stars in Richmond, Kentucky.  Prior to working with Matrix, she was a cheer coach at Premier Athletics in Clayton, North Carolina from July 2017 to March 2018.
 
Hamilton coached at Premier Athletics since 2009 at different locations.  Before she started coaching at Premier she was a part of the UCA high school and college staff in the summer of 2008.
 
The Edgewood, Kentucky native studied mathematics education at Morehead State University where she won the 2007 UCA College National Championship.  She was named Morehead State cheerleading freshman of the year during her time with the Eagles.
 
In 2006 she earned the Missy White Scholarship. Hamilton won the 2006 Americheer Stunt Group National Championship along with the Americheer High School National Championship.  
 
Hawk, a Lexington, Kentucky native, is the head cheerleading coach at Lafayette High School. She attended Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, where she won five consecutive KAPOS State Championships and two UCA High School National Championships with the Bulldogs.
 
She has also served as the head cheerleading coach and a private instructor at Matrix All-Stars in Richmond since 2013.  Hawk was also part of the UCA high school staff in 2013.
 
Hawk received a social work degree from Morehead State University where she was part of the cheer program from 2013 to 2016.  She is finishing her master's degree in social work.  In 2014 and 2016, Hawk was a team USA Gold Medalist, an instructor for Team Finland All-Stars and a UCA National Champion with the all-girl squad at Morehead State.  She was a member of three-straight UCA National Championship teams with the Eagles.