Head Coach: Steve Shutt
Office: (937) 327-6493
E-mail: sshutt@wittenberg.edu
Steve Shutt took over the coaching reins of the Wittenberg University men's and women's cross country and track & field teams in 1999. Since then he has put the teams in position for North Coast Athletic Conference championships. Under Shutt, Wittenberg's track & field teams have set 23 men's and women's school records. Twelve athletes have been NCAC champions in track and one in cross country, 52 have earned All-NCAC honors, six have been NCAA Division III national qualifiers, 10 have been Coaches Association Academic All-Americans and two have been named Women's Field Athlete of the Year in the NCAC.

A graduate of Allegheny College with degrees in physics and psychology, Shutt is no stranger to the NCAC. He was a four-year letterwinner for the Gators' indoor and outdoor track and field squads, earining all-conference honors in the pole vault.

Shutt came to Wittenberg after serving as the assistant coach at Hillsdale College, where he also served as director of the intramural program. While at Hillsdale, Shutt coached several national qualifiers and an All-American.

Shutt also served as a graduate assistant coach at Slippery Rock University. While at SRU he studied exercise science, and worked numerous camps and clinics involving such events as men's and women's pole vault, high jump, javelin, multi-events and cross country. In addition, Shutt is an instructor for USATF Level I coaching schools and a Level II coach in the endurance events, jumps and throws.

Shutt resides in Springfield.

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Assistant Coach: Ralph Bergdoll

Ralph Bergdoll became part of the Wittenberg coaching staff in 2000 after more than 40 years of coaching in the Dayton area. A graduate of West Virginia Weslyan and Xavier University, Bergdoll is also certified in Level I and II with the USTAF and is Level I instructor.

As a scholastic coach Bergdoll has experience with both cross-country and track programs. For ten consecutive years (1990-1999), he has had competitors qualify for the OHSAA State track meet. In 1988 Bergdoll was inducted in the Ohio Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame. He has served many years as a meet manager and has conducted four Level I schools for USATF.

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Assistant Coach: Craig Wallace

Craig Wallace joined the Tiger track program in 2000 and works primarily with the Tiger hurdlers, sprinters and relay teams. One of just three athletes in the history of Ohio High School Athletics to have won a team state track & field championship by scoring all of his team's points, Wallace coached high school track for 32 years at Dayton Patterson, where his teams won a state championship and numerous regional and district meets.

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Assistant Coach: Artie Taylor

Artie Taylor joined the staff as an assistant coach with the Wittenberg Track and Field teams in 2003. Taylor, an Indianapolis, Ind. native, received his undergraduate degree from John Carroll University in 1998. He works with the Tiger sprinters and hurdlers. A former hurdler himself, Taylor and his wife Christine live in Columbus. He also serves as assistant coach for the men's basketball program at Wittenberg.

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Assistant Coach: Marianne Beshara

Marianne Beshara is in her first year working with the track and field team. Beshara is a 1999 graduate of Ohio University and recently completed her 1st marathon. She has been head coach of the Wittenberg field hockey team since 2000, and she has been NCAC Coach of the Year in two of her first three seasons and led the Tigers to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2002.





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