Doug Marshall named UNT Director of Track & Field

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Has coached 28 national champions in last four years
 

DENTON, Texas – Doug Marshall has been named North Texas Director of Track & Field, Vice President and Director of Athletics Wren Baker announced Monday.
 
"We are thrilled to welcome Doug, Erin, Avery, Brendan and Cason to the Mean Green Family," Baker said. "Doug is a rising star and possesses the qualities our search committee outlined when we began the process. His energy and enthusiasm for this opportunity made him an easy choice to be our next director of track and field.
 
"He possesses championship experience and a proven ability to recruit and develop student-athletes to go along with his Texas roots. Most importantly, he is dedicated to building champions and preparing leaders. He will be a great addition to our campus and this community."
 
A San Antonio native, Marshall spent four seasons as head coach of Iowa Western men's and women's track & field and cross country from 2019-22. In that time, IWCC won three national championships and finished in the top six 13 times after only two top-six finishes in the previous four years. Marshall is the 12th director of track and field in UNT history.
 
"I'm extremely blessed and excited for the opportunity to be a part of the Mean Green Family," Marshall said. "I would like to say a special thanks to my wife and family, the administration at IWCC, my incredible coaching staff, and most of all our amazing student-athletes. They're the real reason I am able to accept an amazing opportunity like this. I also want to say thank you to Wren Baker and his committee for their belief in me. UNT is a place that we can develop into an elite program with a strong culture. I'm excited about this next chapter and can't wait to get to work with our team."
 
The Reivers finished the 2021-22 season as the women's indoor and outdoor national champions, runner-up for men's outdoor title, and as the men's indoor third-place finisher.  The program added 17 individual national champions and 29 NJCAA All-Americans. Marshall was honored as region coach of the year by the USTFCCCA. His teams combined to post a GPA of more than 3.8 for the year.
 
Freshman distance runner Hilda Chebet was named National Women's Track Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA for the indoor season after scoring 38 points at the meet. Marshall also had two athletes achieve major success at the 2022 USA U-20 National Championship meet with women's high jumper Miracle Ailes finishing first (1.81m/5-11.25) and men's quarter-miler Andrew Brown finishing seventh (47.40).
 
In 2021, Marshall guided the IWCC women's program to the school's first team national championship during the indoor season.  Iowa Western won six individual titles and claimed three second-place finishes. He earned his first national coach of the year honor following the indoor title.
 
The cross country program also posted its two highest team finishes in program history under Marshall's leadership. The 2020 men's squad finished third in the country and followed that performance in the 2021 season as the national runner-up. Individually, women's cross country runner Faith Linga won national titles in both 2019 and 2020.
 
The 2020 indoor season saw the Reivers perform well as a team, with the women's side finishing in sixth place, while the men finished in the top 15. Marshall's first year at IWCC in 2019 was successful as both the men's and women's teams finished in the top 15 both indoor and outdoor. The highlight of the year was the women's team finishing as region champions during outdoors.
 
All told, Marshall coached 28 junior college individual national champions and 131 NJCAA All-Americans in his four seasons at the helm.  In addition, the women's team was the NJCAA top team GPA honoree from 2019-21 and the men were runner-up for three straight years.
 
Prior to coming to Council Bluffs, Marshall served one season in 2018 as head coach at Garden City Community College in Kansas. In his lone season, Marshall led the Broncbusters to top 20 finishes in both the men's and women's indoor national meets and numerous individual awards, including a national championship in the men's indoor heptathlon.
 
Marshall served as an assistant at Garden City for three seasons from 2015-17 before being promoted to head coach. He coached 11 All-Americans and 33 national qualifiers in the indoor and outdoor seasons with the Broncbusters as an assistant.
 
He also spent time coaching at Hartford and Garden City high schools in Kansas. Marshall earned his bachelor's degree from Emporia State in 2011, where he was an NCAA qualifier in the triple jump and holds the third-best triple jump in school history. Marshall earned seven All-MIAA awards in both the long and triple jumps.
 
Marshall is married to the former Erin Gerstberger. The couple has a daughter, Avery, and twin sons, Brendan and Cason.

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Looks like a great hire.