An up-and-coming HBCU monitor coach is getting an enormous alternative on the US Olympic Monitor and Subject Group trials.
Edward Waters College assistant monitor & area/cross nation coach Marla Lindsay has been chosen to be a coach on the upcoming US Olympic Monitor & Subject Group Trials. The trials will happen June 21-30 at Historic Hayward Subject on the campus of the College of Oregon.
Lindsay acquired this prestigious honor due to one of many 2024 Nationwide Championship Mentorship Grants from USA Monitor & Subject. Lindsay can be part of the teaching employees of the multi-events of decathlon, heptathlon, and pentathlon.
Earlier than coming to the D2 HBCU, Lindsay spent two seasons as an assistant coach at NCAA Division III Hollins College in Roanoke VA. At Hollins, Lindsay assist produce a number of faculty file performances, whereas additionally mentoring a number of Outdated Dominion Athletic Convention high performers.
A local of Beaufort, North Carolina, native, Lindsay starred at East Carteret Excessive Faculty and Western Carolina College as a sprinter and jumper. She earned East Carteret’s 1995 Athlete of the Yr Award and represented the varsity at 4 NCHSAA championships. She is a 2020 inductee into East Carteret Excessive Faculty Corridor of Fame. The 1993 crew captured the 2-A state title. Her efforts earned an athletic scholarship to NCAA Division I Western Carolina the place she was part of three Southern Convention titles in for the Catamounts.
She graduated from Western Carolina in 2000 with a bachelor of high quality arts in graphic design and has accomplished coursework in direction of a grasp’s in laptop science from UNC Greensboro. Lindsay beforehand accomplished a stint as a mentor on the 2022 the USATF Outside Nationals in Eugene, Oregon.
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