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Michael Schober Named Assistant Track & Field Coach
12/3/2013 8:18:00 PM | Track and Field, Men's Track & Field, Women's Track & Field
KENT, Ohio – Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Bill Lawson recently announced that former Kent State student-athlete, Michael Schober, has been named an assistant track & field coach on his staff.
Schober, who will oversee men's/women's high jump, women's combined event, men's/women's hurdles and serve as the assistant in the men's decathlon for the Golden Flashes, comes back to Kent State after spending a year with the track and field and cross country programs at Mount Union.
As an assistant coach with the Purple Raiders during the 2012-13 season, Schober worked primarily with the jumps, hurdles and combined events and also assisted the head coach in the development of student-athletes and recruiting. He helped the men's outdoor track & field squad capture their third-straight Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) men's track & field title, and the women to their fourth straight OAC Championship title. Schober was named the Men's Great Lakes Division III Assistant Coach of the Year after coaching 12 national qualifiers, four All-Americans and had eight athletes set school record.
"I am extremely pleased to have Michael (Schober) back in the program," said Lawson. "He was an outstanding track & field athlete for us and was a great team leader. Michael helped lead a very successful program at Mount Union, and I feel that he will bring that same winning attitude to Kent State as a coach. He is the final piece of the puzzle on my staff as we move forward into another exciting year."
Prior to Mount Union, the Penfield, N.Y. native also spent some time at Spire Institute in Geneva, Ohio, where he was the track & field coach at the Michael Johnson Performance Training Center. Schober taught skills, evaluated and trained athletes, as well as produced strength & conditioning programs, power programs and performed the Functional Movement Screen on athletes.
A graduate of Kent State University where he earned his Bachelor's of Science degree in physical education-human movement studies in 2012, Schober earned All-MAC honors five times. A team captain during his senior year, Schober's score of 5,358 in the heptathlon ranks third all-time in the Kent State record books. He also spent the 2011-12 season as a volunteer assistant on Lawson's track & field staff where he worked closely with the high jump and combined events.
Schober also spent three summers as a coach at the Matt Buffum Summer Track Camp in Rochester, N.Y. He coached two athletes who won state titles in New York and five athletes who received Division I scholarships during his time working at the camp.
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