Russ Rogers retires.

[GeorgieTheK]

lifted this from the letsrun board. i'm sure most youngsters don't know much about him, but he was a giant among NJ coaches during the 70s and early 80s:




Ohio State Track and Field: Head Coach Russ Rogers Announces Retirement

Rogers guided OSU student-athletes to more than 100 All-America awards

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Ohio State track and field head coach Russ Rogers announced his retirement Monday, effective Sept. 30. Rogers will be leaving Ohio State to spend time with his mother in West Orange, N.J.

“I need this time to spend with my mother,” Rogers said. “She is 87 and in need of assisted living. I’m an only child and this is something I need to do. She has always followed everything in the sport of track and field and has been my biggest fan.”

Head coach at Ohio State since 1989, Rogers mentored more than 100 men’s and women’s student-athletes to All-America status and helped lead more than 120 Buckeyes to Big Ten titles. Rogers produced back-to-back conference outdoor men’s team titles in 1992 and ’93. The Buckeyes also won the indoor team crown in 1993. He was named Big Ten Coach of the Year following both the 1992 and ’93 seasons.

At the national level, Rogers’ men’s teams placed in the NCAA outdoor Top 6 three times and in the indoor Top 10 three times. Rogers’ top NCAA finish with the men came in 1993, when the Buckeyes took the national runner-up spot. The previous season saw Rogers earn NCAA Coach of the Year honors after leading the Buckeyes to a fifth-place NCAA team score. In 2004, the Buckeye men tied for fourth nationally.

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[Joe Lanzalotto]

Hey, isn't Rutgers looking for a women's coach? How about an assistant (distance) at The Hall?

[ACHS85]

At Fairleigh Dickinson University in Teaneck, NJ Russ coached Candy Young,
Rich Rizzuto, Jama Aden. Mike wasko, Ali Hufane, and many others he left to go to ohio in 1987 or 1988 I believe

[GeorgieTheK]

from his Ohio State Bio:

Rogers came to Ohio State from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he was the head coach for both the men's and women's track and field and cross country teams for 10 years. Rogers led the Knights to Metropolitan Conference championships from 1980 through 1984. He also guided them to six conference championships in cross country between 1979-85. He was named District II Coach of the Year in 1981 and 1982. While at Fairleigh Dickinson, he coached 25 NCAA All-Americans, 10 individual NCAA titlists and sent five athletes to the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. From 1969 to 1979, Rogers was the track and field and cross country head coach for both the men's and women's teams at Essex County College in Newark, N.J., where he also served as assistant athletic director. While at Essex, Rogers was named National Junior College Coach of the Year five times, leading Essex to four indoor and four outdoor national titles. During his 10-year term, Rogers coached 125 junior college All-Americans and the first and only junior college team to win the Championship of the Americas at the Penn Relays in 1974