Coaches' Corner
Coach John Lintz
John Lintz begins his first season as men's cross country coach. He also serves as an assistant in track and field, coaching the men's distance runners and men’s and women’s pole vaulters.
Lintz brings seven years of coaching experience including four years at Otterbein where he has coached multiple All Americans including the 2005 indoor national pole vault champion. His athletes have set four conference records and one has been named the Great Lakes Region athlete of the year. Before starting at Otterbein, Lintz coached for 3 years at the high school level where he was able to guide 7 athletes who went on to compete at the NCAA DI or DII levels. In high school, Lintz was a member of the 1996 state championship cross country team at Northmont.
Lintz, who is serving as a graduate assistant while working on his master’s degree in Education here at Otterbein, is married to former Otterbein track standout and graduate, Susanne Lynch.
Coach Doug Welsh
Doug Welsh, who is entering his 19th season as head men's and women's track and field coach, took over the head men's and women's cross country coaching duties in 2008.
A 12-time Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) and three-time All-Great Lakes Region Track and Field Coach of the Year selection, Welsh guided the 2008 women’s track and field team to its fourth outdoor championship.
Welsh led Otterbein to a clean sweep during the 2004 season. The men’s and women’s squads combined for four OAC team titles, winning both the indoor and outdoor conference championships. During the 2003 season, the women’s team captured both the indoor and outdoor OAC titles while the men’s team won the indoor conference crown and finished second at the outdoor meet. Altogether, Welsh has compiled 10 conference championships in track and field.
This marks Welsh’s 41st year of coaching. He taught and coached at the high school level at Van Wert and Reynoldsburg, Ohio. He spent six years at Earlham College in Indiana before returning to the Columbus area where he grew up. Welsh earned eight varsity letters as a collegiate athlete at Muskingum College.
Welsh’s son, Scott, runs the junior tennis program at the Wedgewood Golf and Country Club in Columbus. His daughter, Amy, son-in-law, Brian, and grandson, Logan, live in Chicago.
Coach Welsh and his wife, Jill, are the parents of 9-year-old twin girls, Sara and Elizabeth, and live in Canal Winchester. Jill teaches at the Montrose Elementary School in Bexley.
