Gardner-Webb Hires Graduate Assistant For Track and Field
August 09, 2007 | Track & Field
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. – Head track and field coach Brian Baker, along with the Gardner-Webb athletics department, has announced the hiring of Mary Wood as a graduate assistant coach for the track and field teams.
Wood's position at GWU will entail working with multi-events, sprinters, throwers and jumps groups.
Wood, a graduate of Eastern Illinois, was a pole vaulter during her collegiate career with the Panthers.
Upon finishing her eligibility, Wood held the school record in the indoor pole vault and was the co-record holder in the outdoor pole vault. She was a three-time Ohio Valley Conference Indoor pole vault champion. Wood was also the OVC indoor pole vault record holder. She was a three-time OVC Outdoor pole vault runner-up at the league meet.
Wood was a team captain for EIU and was the EIU Athletic Merit Award recipient.
After completing her eligibility, Wood took a job with Charleston H.S. where she was the jumps coach until she accepted the position at GWU. For two years, she also worked with the Lincoln Summer Track Club as an assistant coach.
Wood has coached the Apollo Conference girls' pole vault
champion. She has also coached a decathlete that was a USATF Junior
National Qualifier and medalist and a USATF Junior Olympic
Qualifier and medalist in the pole vault.
