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Ray Appenheimer was named head coach of the men's and women's track and field teams in 2006 after serving two years as an assistant with the program. Appenheimer has been the head men’s and women’s cross country coach since the fall of 2004.
In just three years at Oberlin, Appenheimer’s track record is impressive. He has coached forty-four all-conference and eight all-region performers. His athletes have broken twenty-two school records, and have won ten conference championships. He has coached four national qualifiers and has mentored six Academic All-Americans. In the fall of 2006, Coach Appenheimer’s women’s cross country team won the NCAC Championship for the first time in twenty-two years. For this accomplishment, his peers voted him as the NCAC Cross Country Coach of the Year. In the winter of 2007 he coached the women’s track and field team to a third place finish in the conference meet, more than doubling their previous year’s point total. During the outdoor track season the team moved from eighth place to third, and two runners, Maddy Davis-Hayes and Barrie Newberger qualified for the NCAA Championships.
As impressive are his athletes’ accomplishments in the classroom. In each year at Oberlin his teams have attained Academic All-American status. His teams have been honored in achieving the thirteenth and seventeenth highest grade point averages respectively among Division III women’s and men’s cross country teams in the nation.
A six-time Academic All-American and 1994 magna cum laude graduate of Colgate University, Appenheimer received a bachelor's degree in English and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He also earned an NCAA post-graduate scholarship, won the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year award twice, and became a semifinalist for the Rhodes Scholarship. Appenheimer also won five All-American awards in cross country and track.
After graduating from Colgate, Appenheimer joined the Nike Farm Team in Palo Alto, California. He won the national title at the 1999 United States Cross Country Championships and followed up with a win in the 3000 meters at the 2000 United States Indoor Track and Field Championships. Appenheimer has represented the United States at the 1999 World Cross Country Championships in Belfast and the 1999 World University Games in Majorca, Spain. He qualified for the 2000 United States Olympic Trials in the 5000 meters with a time of 13:28.99.
Appenheimer resides in Oberlin with his wife Margaret and their sons, Peter and Owen.
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Jason Hudson has coached for the Oberlin cross country and track and field programs since 2002. Hudson serves as associate head coach of the men's and women's track and field programs and assists in men's and women's cross country. Administratively, Hudson works as Oberlin's Director of Student-Athlete Services.
Hudson is an accomplished coach who has helped lead the track and field programs to success, serving as the teams' head coach from 2002-2006. During his tenure at Oberlin, he has produced 51 All-Conference performers, 15 individual conference championships, 5 provisional national qualifiers and 1 NCAA meet participant. Last season, he tutored Edo Bedzra to NCAC Male Sprinter of the Year honors indoors and Teresa Collins to NCAC Female Sprinter of the Year honors outdoors.
Before coming to Oberlin, Hudson headed the women's cross country program and assisted with track and field for three seasons at Case Western Reserve University. He mentored 26 All-Conference performers while with the Spartans, and his athletes broke 14 school records. Hudson is a 1993 graduate of The College of Wooster. He lettered four years in cross country and track and field for the Scots and has held the Wooster record in the 800 meters, 4x400-meter relay, and 4x800-meter relay.
Hudson later received a master's degree in education from Kent State. He lives in Oberlin with his wife, Virginia, and their son, Evan.
Graham Wellman joined the Oberlin College cross country and track and field staff in the summer of 2006. He works with Coach Appenheimer in recruiting, coaching, and program administration. He spent the 2005-2006 season as an assistant coach at Alma College in Alma, Michigan.
Wellman graduated with a bachelor’s degree in English composition from Depauw University in 2005. He won four letters as a distance runner for the Tigers, competed in seven national championships and earned All-American status four times. He still holds the Depauw school records indoors over 3,000 and 5,000-meters and outdoors in the 5,000 and 10,000-meter runs. |
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