Bill Taraschke
BEREA, OHIO – Baldwin-Wallace College cross country Head Coach Dr. Bill Taraschke and Assistant Coach Eric Schmuhl have been named as the 2009 Ohio Athletic Conference Co-Women’s Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the Yellow Jackets to their 16th OAC Championship this fall. The B-W staff shares the award with John Carroll University.
The OAC coaching honor is the 34th overall in the career of Taraschke, who completed his 19th season of cross country and enters his 26th season of track and field at the College in 2009-10. Schmuhl earns the honor for the first time in his second season on the staff.
The Yellow Jackets had a trio of first-team All-OAC runners in senior D'Arcy Hlavin (Berea), junior Kim Chinn (Zanesville/ West Muskingum) and freshman Sarah Rospert (Milan/ Edison). B-W also had three second-team finishers in juniors Karin Coyne (Columbia Station/ Columbia), Katie White (Berea) and Krysten Kovach (North Royalton/ Parma Padua Franciscan).
Eric Schmuhl
B-W’s successful OAC meet and subsequent fifth-place finish at the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional meet all came while Taraschke and Schmuhl planned and administered the 2009 NCAA Championships hosted by B-W in Highland Hills, Ohio in late November.
At Nationals, the B-W women placed 29th during the program’s seventh trip to the NCAA championships.
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