Sports News: Fall 2008

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

WALT WANDALL NAMED MORAVIAN COLLEGE HEAD MEN’S & WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD COACH
AND DIRECTOR OF CROSS COUNTRY

BETHLEHEM, PA --- Walt Wandall has been named the head coach of the Moravian College men’s and women’s track & field teams and the director of the Moravian men’s and women’s cross country programs.

“We are excited to have coach Wandall join our staff on a permanent basis,” said Moravian College Director of Athletics Paul Moyer. “He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to the position and looks to keep the championship tradition of Moravian’s track & field program going into the future.”

Wandall served as the interim men’s and women’s head track & field coach last season after head coach Doug Pollard passed away last October.  Wandall led the 2007-08 women’s team to the inaugural Landmark Conference Indoor and Outdoor championships as well as the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Indoor and Outdoor titles.  On the men’s side, Wandall also led the team to the Landmark Conference Indoor and Outdoor championships and the ECAC Division III Outdoor title.  The men were the runner-up at the ECAC Indoor meet and placed sixth at the 2008 NCAA Division III National Championships.

Wandall coached a total of eight All-Americans as the interim coach last season including two-time national champion Ozzie BrownWandall was honored by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association as its NCAA Division III Indoor Men’s Coach of the Year.

Wandall is in his ninth season with the Moravian College Women’s and Men’s track and field programs, the first seven under the direction of coach Pollard.  He has coached on 17 indoor and outdoor conference championship teams during his tenure.

Prior to coming to Moravian, Wandall coached jumpers at Lehigh University and Lafayette College.  Over those five years, he coached seven Patriot league champions, a Penn Relays champion in the women’s high jump at 5’-9 ½”, and co-coached a Division I ECAC Champion in the women’s heptathlon, 5240 points.  

Personally, Wandall is USATF Level 2 certified in the jumps and Level 2 certified in the sprints, hurdles and relays.  As an athlete at Moravian, Wandall broke and set 12 school records and was the first Moravian long jumper to break 23 feet in 1988.  He was a member of the first championship team in 1989 and a team captain in 1990.

Wandall, a 1986 graduate of Central Bucks West High School, is pursuing an MBA from Moravian and lives in Whitehall, PA with his wife Hilary (Martin) Wandall, Moravian ’93, and two children, Taylor and Sophie.