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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 John Lintz
John Lintz begins his first season as assistant men's cross country coach. He
also serves as an assistant in track and field, coaching the
men’s and women’s pole vaulters and javelin throwers for the last
four seasons.
Lintz brings four years of high school coaching experience to his new
position. He spent three years as the cross country and distance coach at Big
Walnut High School, Sunbury, Ohio, and one year at Northmont High School,
Clayton, Ohio, helping produce eight student-athletes running at the NCAA
Division I and II levels. In high school, Lintz was a member of the 1996 state
championship cross country team at Northmont.
A 2005 Otterbein graduate, Lintz competed on the track and field team from
2000-02. After suffering an injury, he went on to coach two years at the high
school level before returning to his alma mater.
Lintz, who is serving as a
graduate assistant while working on his master’s degree in Education here at
Otterbein, is married to former Otterbein track standout and graduate, Susanne
Lynch.
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