Bowling Green State University Athletics
Joe Magill Joins Track And Field Staff
November 10, 2004 | Women's Track and Field
Nov. 10, 2004
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio - The Bowling Green State University women's track and field head coach Scott Sehmann has announced the hiring of Joe Magill as an assistant coach to the Falcon program. Magill will coach the sprints for the Falcons.
"I am excited about the prospects of bringing back a former Falcon Track Man to be a guiding force for both our present and future athletes of the Track and Field program," said Sehmann.
Magill comes to the university after a highly-successful stint of coaching on the high school level at Hawken School, a private school in the Cleveland area. In the past seven years, his teams have won two Division III state championships and placed second five times, including each of the past four years.
Magill, 44, coached 14 state champions, nine relay andd five individual champions since taking over the program in 1992. During that same time he coached 49 All-Ohio performances (25 individual and 24 relay).
The Hawken School program has sent eight women onto Division I programs since Magill took the reigns, including BGSU--All-MAC thrower Janean Johnson and high jumper/sprinter Jamie Perryman.
This past season Magill coached Brook Turner, who earned high school All-American status in the 400-meter dash and is continuing her running career at the University of California-Berkeley.
Magill, who competed in track and cross country at BGSU under legendary coach Mel Brodt, graduated from the university in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in journalism. He was an award-winning sports writer at the Lake County News-Herald for nine years before switching careers to teaching and coaching at Hawken School.
"I'm ecstatic," Magill said. "In a manner of speaking, I have come full circle. This is a wonderful opportunity for me, and it's also like coming home."
Magill and his wife, Anna, live in Maumee. They are expecting their first child in April.
