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Coaching Staff
Head Coach Doug Welsh
DWelsh@otterbein.edu
614-823-3511 (office)
 Doug Welsh, who is entering his 19th season as head men's and women's track and field coach,
took over the head men's and women's cross country coaching duties in 2008. A 12-time Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) and three-time
All-Great Lakes Region Track and Field Coach of the Year selection, Welsh guided the 2008
women’s track and field team to its fourth outdoor
championship.
Welsh led Otterbein to a clean sweep during the 2004 season. The men’s and
women’s squads combined for four OAC team titles, winning both the indoor and
outdoor conference championships. During the 2003 season, the women’s team
captured both the indoor and outdoor OAC titles while the men’s team won the
indoor conference crown and finished second at the outdoor meet. Altogether,
Welsh has compiled 10 conference championships in track and field.
This marks Welsh’s 41st year of coaching. He taught and coached at the high
school level at Van Wert and Reynoldsburg, Ohio. He spent six years at Earlham
College in Indiana before returning to the Columbus area where he grew up.
Welsh earned eight varsity letters as a collegiate athlete at Muskingum College.
Welsh’s son, Scott, runs the junior tennis program at the Wedgewood Golf and
Country Club in Columbus. His daughter, Amy, son-in-law, Brian, and grandson,
Logan, live in Chicago.
Coach Welsh and his wife, Jill, are the parents of 9-year-old twin girls, Sara
and Elizabeth, and live in Canal Winchester. Jill teaches at the Montrose
Elementary School in Bexley.
Assistant Coach Dave Lehman
 Dave
Lehman enters his 39th season working with the cross country team.
He
brought national prominence to Otterbein over his 30 years as head men’s varsity
cross country coach (1970-1999).
Coach Lehman led the Cardinals to seven Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) cross country
championships while finishing third or better every season since 1979.
His 1994 team placed eighth in the nation while the 1995 squad finished 17th in the nation. Lehman has coached four All-Americans in cross country and
five in track and field, including five-time All-American Tom Schnurr, who
graduated in 1988.
He works with the men's distance squad during the indoor and outdoor track
seasons.
He graduated in 1970 from Otterbein with a bachelor's in business and math, and
owns Culver Art and Frame Company in Lewis Center. He and his wife,
Claudia, have three children and live on the edge of the Otterbein campus.
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