First year Head Track & Field/Cross Country Head Coach Marquita Mines has announced the first hire to her coaching staff, naming Marla Lindsay as an assistant coach.
Lindsay comes to Edward Waters with an impressive resume as both a coach and former champion track athlete. Lindsay spent two seasons as as assistant coach at NCAA Division III Hollins University in Roanoke VA. At Hollins, Lindsay help produce several school record performances, while also mentoring several Old Dominion Athletic Conference top performers.
Lindsay also chairs the Women's Track and Field Committee of the North Carolina office of USA Track & Field (USATF). In 2012 she founded the Greensboro Gladiators Elite track and field club, which has produced top finishers at AAU Junior Olympics as well as USATF state and national meets. Lindsay is a USATF meet official and certified by the organization as a Level I and II coach with specialties in youth and jumps. She was chosen to attend the 2015 USATF Emerging Elite Coaches Camp. In 2018, Lindsay received one of four master coach full mentorships from USATF. Lindsay, in her second full season with the Quakers, started a four-day session Monday at USATF's Olympic Training Center-Chula Vista (Calif.) working with USATF High-Performance Head Coach Jeremy Fischer along with coaches Al Joyner and Kris Mack.
A native of Beufort, North Carolina, native, Lindsay starred at East Carteret High School and Western Carolina University as a sprinter and jumper. She earned East Carteret's 1995 Athlete of the Year Award and represented the school at four NCHSAA championships. The 1993 team captured the 2-A state title. Her efforts earned an athletic scholarship to NCAA Division I Western Carolina where she was a part of three Southern Conference titles in for the Catamounts. She graduated from Western in 2000 with a bachelor of fine arts in graphic design and has completed coursework towards a master's in computer science from UNC Greensboro.
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