Doug Marshall - Track & Field/XC Coach - University of North Texas Athletics

Doug Marshall

Title:
Director of Track & Field
Email:
Douglas.Marshall@unt.edu
Alma Mater:
Emporia State, 2011

Doug Marshall was named North Texas Director of Track & Field on June 27th, 2022.

Having recently completed his third year, Marshall has coached 64 athletes to all-conference honors, including nine individual champions while navigating the Mean Green from Conference USA to the American Athletic Conference during the 2023-24 season. The Mean Green have sent five qualifiers to the NCAA Championships during his tenure, with four earning All-America honors.

The 2024-25 school year saw Marshall's teams set nine school records during the indoor season and five more throughout the outdoor slate. Jaylen Washington became the first male athlete in program history to earn All-America honors at the indoor meet, placing 16th in the 60 meters. Under Marshall's leadership, both teams improved upon their finishes at the conference championships from the 2023-24 season with the men placing fourth in indoors and fifth in outdoors, while the women took seventh and eighth, respectively. The Mean Green sent 12 athletes to compete in individual events at the NCAA West Preliminary Round, which tied the most for the program since 2010.

In the program's first season in the American Athletic Conference, Marshall guided Sukeil Foucha and KeAyla Dove to indoor conference titles, while Chinazaekpere Okoye captured gold in the 400-meter hurdles at the outdoor meet. Dove went on to earn second-team All-America accolades in the shot put for the second time in her career after doing so at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships where she was joined by honorable mention All-Americans Zion Hill and Karlington Anunagba.

A San Antonio native, Marshall spent four seasons as head coach of Iowa Western men's and women's track & field and cross country from 2019-22. In that time, IWCC won three national championships and finished in the top six 13 times after only two top-six finishes in the previous four years. Marshall is the 12th director of track and field in UNT history.

The Reivers finished the 2021-22 season as the women's indoor and outdoor national champions, runner-up for men's outdoor title, and as the men's indoor third-place finisher. The program added 17 individual national champions and 29 NJCAA All-Americans. Marshall was honored as region coach of the year by the USTFCCCA. His teams combined to post a GPA of more than 3.8 for the year.

Freshman distance runner Hilda Chebet was named National Women's Track Athlete of the Year by the USTFCCCA for the indoor season after scoring 38 points at the meet. Marshall also had two athletes achieve major success at the 2022 USA U-20 National Championship meet with women's high jumper Miracle Ailes finishing first (1.81m/5-11.25) and men's quarter-miler Andrew Brown finishing seventh (47.40).

In 2021, Marshall guided the IWCC women's program to the school's first team national championship during the indoor season. Iowa Western won six individual titles and claimed three second-place finishes. He earned his first national coach of the year honor following the indoor title.

The cross country program also posted its two highest team finishes in program history under Marshall's leadership. The 2020 men's squad finished third in the country and followed that performance in the 2021 season as the national runner-up. Individually, women's cross country runner Faith Linga won national titles in both 2019 and 2020.

The 2020 indoor season saw the Reivers perform well as a team, with the women's side finishing in sixth place, while the men finished in the top 15. Marshall's first year at IWCC in 2019 was successful as both the men's and women's teams finished in the top 15 both indoor and outdoor. The highlight of the year was the women's team finishing as region champions during outdoors.

All told, Marshall coached 28 junior college individual national champions and 131 NJCAA All-Americans in his four seasons at the helm. In addition, the women's team was the NJCAA top team GPA honoree from 2019-21 and the men were runner-up for three straight years.

Prior to coming to Council Bluffs, Marshall served one season in 2018 as head coach at Garden City Community College in Kansas. In his lone season, Marshall led the Broncbusters to top 20 finishes in both the men's and women's indoor national meets and numerous individual awards, including a national championship in the men's indoor heptathlon.

Marshall served as an assistant at Garden City for three seasons from 2015-17 before being promoted to head coach. He coached 11 All-Americans and 33 national qualifiers in the indoor and outdoor seasons with the Broncbusters as an assistant.

He also spent time coaching at Hartford and Garden City high schools in Kansas. Marshall earned his bachelor's degree from Emporia State in 2011, where he was an NCAA qualifier in the triple jump and holds the third-best triple jump in school history. Marshall earned seven All-MIAA awards in both the long and triple jumps.

Marshall is married to the former Erin Gerstberger. The couple has a daughter, Avery, and twin sons, Brendan and Cason.