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Jud Logan

Ashland, Ohio
· Head Track and Field Coach
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Jud Logan served as AU's head Track and Field Coach from 2005-2022 after 13 years as Ashland's throws coach. As head coach, he guided the men's program to three consecutive NCAA Division II Championships in 2019 indoors and outdoors and 2021 indoors. His teams earned 42 top 10 national placements, and his student-athletes won 59 individual National Championships and collected 457 All-America Honors. Logan earned 23 Coach of the Year Awards. A world class thrower, he was a four-time United States Olympian in 1984, 1988, 1992, and 2000, and also competed in the Pan-American Games, the Goodwill Games, and the World Championships. At one point he held the American record of 268-8 in the hammer throw. Logan was the 1987 Pan-American Games men's hammer throw champion. He was inducted into the Ohio Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame in 2002, the National Throws Coaches Association Throwers Hall of Fame in 2015, and the USTFCCCA Hall of Fame in 2024.
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