2009-10 Austin Peay Track and Field & Cross Country Media Guide cultural studies, while serving two seasons as a volunteer assistant to men’s track and field and interim head coach for the Lady Vols Dr. Doug Molnar cross country team. During his tenure, the Volunteers won a 2001 Head Coach • Fifth Year national title, claimed runner-up honors in 2002, a berth in the 2002 NCAA Cross Country Championships and the 2002 Southeastern Conference title. After four seasons, Dr. Doug Molnar’s In 2002, Molnar moved west to assist the Texas-Pan American hard work and dedication to his program has distance running squad. UTPA’s men’s cross-country program not gone unnoticed in Austin Peay Athletics. With more than a decade of Division I coaching experience and more than 20 years of participation in collegiate athletics, Molnar is looking for continued improvement in his fourth season as Austin Peay’s cross country/track and field head coach. A native of Lorain, Ohio, Molnar found a place on the gridiron but excelled as an all-state selection in track and field at Admiral King High School. Following his prep career, he put his speed to work as a four-year runner at West Virginia, serving as a team-captain his junior and senior year. Molnar graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1986 and remained in Morgantown another year, earning his master’s in business administration. Molnar continued his education and launched his coaching career at Kent State. As a graduate assistant, he worked with men and women’s distance runners while completing his second post-graduate degree – a master’s of arts in physical education. He graduated in 1992 and spent a year as a volunteer coach at Oberlin College before returning to serve as Kent State’s men’s cross country head coach while assisting with men and women’s track and field. In his second stint with Kent State, Molnar asserted himself. He assisted with a team that finished 20th at the 1995 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships and coached six conference posted a top-10 regional finish in 2003 and the women’s program champions and two relay teams which were ranked among the top recorded its best finish at the regional meet since the 1980s. In 10 by Track and Field News. addition, he coached the program’s first All-American in 2002. After several successful seasons at Kent State, Molnar again While leading Austin Peay, Molnar has seen much of his decided to further his education and his coaching experience at team’s successes come from field events. Carrie Burggraf and Tennessee. He earned a doctorate in educational administration and Molly Bartkiewicz both own OVC pole vaulting titles; Burggraf owns the conference record currently, with a 3.75 meter vault. Burggraf EDUCATION also has been named Academic All-American and earned the • Bachelor of Science at West Virginia, 1986 presitigious Carter Center internship while under Molnar’s tutelage. • MBA at West Virginia, 1987 • Master’s in Physical Education, 1992 Molnar has led some of the best teams in Austin Peay history • Ph.D At Tennessee, 2002 during his tenure at the school. The men’s cross country team earned a sixth-place finish in the 2006 OVC Championships, while ATHLETIC EXPERIENCE the women’s team enjoyed some of their best success in the 2008, • All-State Track, Admiral High School during Bertha Castillo’s senior season, finishing seventh. • West Virginia, captain junior and senior years. In track and field, Molnar’s best Austin Peay teams were his most recent ones; during the 2008-09 indoor and outdoor season’s, COACHING EXPERIENCE Molnar’s teams finished sixth and fifth in indoor and outdoor, • Graduate Assistant, Kent State, 1991-92 respectively. • Assistant Coach, Tennessee, 1999-2002 During the 2009-10 campaigns, Molnar will have senior • Assistant Coach, Texas-Pan American, 2002-2003 • Head Coach, Georgia, 2000-04 leadership from the pole vaulting duo of Bartkiewicz and Burggraf, • Head Coach, Austin Peay, 2005-Present as well as hurdler/high jumper Amanda McCoy and sprinters Candace Cullors and Chiamaka Obi.
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