 Roger Busch '96
Head Cross Country Coach
Assistant Track and Field Coach
Office phone: 765-361-6017
email: buschr@wabash.edu
Roger Busch is in his third season as the head cross country coach for his alma mater. No stranger to successful Little Giant programs in track and cross country, Busch ran four years for the Wabash cross country team, helping the Little Giants to sixth-, 11th-, fourth-, and third-place finishes at the NCAA Division III Championship meet from 1992-1995. He and his Wabash teammates won the NCAA Cross Country Regionals in 1992 and 1994 and in 1995 posted a perfect score of 15 points in their third Regional title. Individually Busch earned All-American honors his senior season with a sixth-place finish at Nationals.
He was also an accomplished track athlete at Wabash, qualifying for Nationals in the steeplechase. Busch narrowly missed earning All-American honors, finishing ninth as a junior. He returned to Nationals his senior season, finally earning the All-America title with a fifth-place finish. Overall Busch earned All-Conference honors in cross country (3), in the steeplechase (4), the 800 meters (2), and the 5,000 meters (2).
After graduating from Wabash, Busch's running career didn't stop. A two-time Ironman qualifier, he also finished second at the 2001 Maui Marathon with a time of 2:24.00. The event was also his first marathon. He competed as a professional tri-athlete in 2001 and 2002. Busch still competes as a member of the Ray Trans Racing team with former Wabash teammate Scott Gall '96.
Busch served as an assistant high school track and cross country coach at nearby North Putnam High School, at Doherty High School in Colorado Springs, Colorado, and at Maui High School in Hawaii.
 Clyde Morgan
Head Track and Field Coach
Clyde Morgan enters his second season as the head track and field coach at Wabash College, becoming only the third head coach of the program since World War II.
Morgan came to Wabash from Thiel College in Greenville, Pennsylvania, where he served as head track and field coach since January 2004. He guided the Tomcats to the 2004 men’s conference championship in the Presidents’ Athletic Conference, earning the conference Coach of the Year Award in the process. His 2008 men's team earned its highest finish in NCAA Championships competition, taking eighth place at the Indoor Nationals. Morgan was named the 2008 PAC and Mideast Regional Coach of the Year. He also holds a USATF Level 1 Track and Field certificate, and is also certified in jump stretch band training. Morgan also currently serves on the USTFCCCA Division III Track and Field Hall of Fame Committee.
Morgan was selected to attend the USA Track and Field Elite Coaches Camp in the summer of 2009. His 2009 Little Giant team earned a third-place finish at the North Coast Athletic Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championship meet with 18 total All-NCAC performances. Junior Emmanuel Aouad earned a spot at the NCAA Division III Outdoor National Championship Meet after posting a qualifying time in the 110-meter hurdles. Aouad's time of 14.68 broke a 31-year-old Wabash record in that event.
Morgan has coached eight NCAA Division III All-Americans, including one national champion and two runner-ups, in his time at Thiel. He has produced 115 Presidents’ Athletic Conference champions, 197 All-PAC performers, and eight PAC Most Valuable Athlete Award winners. Twenty-seven of his athletes have achieved NCAA National Championship meet qualifying marks. He served as the assistant coach at Thiel from 2000 to 2004 before taking over the program. Morgan also served as the director of minority affairs, coordinating and planning on-campus programs to promote diversity.
Morgan graduated from Thiel in 2000 with a bachelor of arts degree in graphic design and elementary education. A member of the dean’s list, he was also the track team captain in 1997, 1998, and 1999. Morgan helped the Tomcats to PAC championships in 1996 and 1998 as a 400- and 110-meter hurdler and 1600-meter relay runner. He was an NCAA provisional qualifier in the 400-meter hurdles in 1996. Morgan was also a member of the Thiel football team, earning All-America Honorable Mention honors as a kick returner in 1997 and 1999. A three-time captain of the Tomcats’ team, he was a two-time Second Team All-PAC free safety.
Morgan and his wife, Jennifer, reside in Crawfordsville with their sons, Braylen and Ziair.
 Robert Johnson
Volunteer Assistant Cross Country Coach (Retired)
Volunteer Assistant Track & Field Coach (Retired)
email: johnsonr@wabash.edu
Rob Johnson spent the summer and early fall of 2000 as one of five assistant coaches for the United States Track & Field Team at the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia, marking the first time that a Division III coach has been able to make that claim.
Johnson, the 1995 NCAA Division III Cross Country Coach of the Year, is in his 32nd season in charge of the Wabash harriers with an eye on a North Coast Athletic Conference championship in the Little Giants' eighth season in the league. Johnson also hopes his "Red Pack" can return to the national spotlight after a 17th-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 1998.
Since 1991, Wabash has recorded three top-10 finishes at the NCAA meet, while winning five straight Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference titles (1992-96) and last year's Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference crown. Johnson's 1995 team registered two perfect scores (15), the first at the GLCA Championships and the second in winning the NCAA Division III Great Lakes Regional.
Johnson, an Honorary Alumnus of the College, was named the HCAC Coach of the Year to add to his impressive total of eight ICAC Coach of the Year awards. He has also earned Wabash Coach of the Year honors four times, and he was inducted into the Wabash College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1994.
Even with such honors, Johnson's personal strength as a coach lies in his world-class relay coaching technique, which is part of the reason he served on the 2000 Olympic staff. Johnson appears at coaching clinics all over the country, including sessions at the United States Track & Field Coaches Association's annual convention, to discuss relay technique and handoffs.
Wabash runners benefit from Johnson's longtime work with the Olympic Development Committee and from involvement with two US Junior National Teams. In 1981, he served as an assistant coach at the National Sports Festival in New York. A year later, he coached sprints, relays, and hurdles in Ethiopia as part of the Olympic Solidarity Project. He was the head track coach for the North Team at the 1983 Olympic Sports Festival in Colorado Springs and later served as an assistant for the US Junior National Team which set two world records.
More recently, Johnson was the sprint and relay coach for the US Track Team at the 1993 World University Games, helping the 4 x 100 (38.65 seconds) and 4 x 400 (3:02.34) relay teams win Gold Medals. He gave his relay technique clinic to the US Track & Field Coaches Association during its annual meeting in 1994, as well as at the Atlanta convention just prior to the 1996 Summer Olympic Games.
A native of Englewood, New Jersey, Johnson was a track and football standout in high school and later attended the University of Idaho, where he graduated in 1965. Johnson was the 1962 Northwest AAU champion in the 440 and was a finalist at the 1963 NCAA Championships in the 220. He earned a master's in education from Purdue University in 1974.
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