Clyde Morgan
Head Track and Field Coach

Office phone: 765 ? 361 ? 6279
email: morganc@wabash.edu

Clyde Morgan enters his first 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 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.

Roger Busch '96
Head Cross Country Coach
Assistant Track and Field Coach

Office phone: 765 ? 361 ? 6017
email: buschr@wabash.edu

Roger Busch will take over in 2007 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. 

Josh Hoeg
Assistant Track and Field Coach

765 • 361 • 6287
hoegj@wabash.edu

Josh Hoeg joins the Wabash track and field program as an assistant coach in addition to his duties as a football assistant for the Little Giants. He spent the past two seasons as quarterbacks coach at Lake Forest College, where his offensive unit set the school record for touchdown passes and tied the mark for completions. The Foresters' team averaged 25.5 points and 358-1 yards per game. He also served as the assistant tennis coach for two seasons at Lake Forest.

Hoeg graduated from Coe College in 2004 with a bachelor of science degree. He played football for Head Coach Erik Raeburn, helping the Kohawks to an Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship in 2002 and a berth to the NCAA Division III football playoffs. The team recorded the first playoff win in Coe College history with a 21-18 victory over UW-LaCrosse in the opening round. Hoeg was named team captain in 2003 and led the team with an average of 21.4 yards per reception as a senior.

He remained at Coe as a graduate assistant coach as part of a Kohawk program that finished 25-8 over three seasons with two IIAC championships and one NCAA playoffs appearance. He coaches four All-IIAC receivers, including two first-team selections. The Coe offense averaged 28.8 points and 389.3 yards per game while Hoeg served as wide receivers coach. He earned a master of arts in teaching at Coe before leaving for the position at Lake Forest College.

Hoeg resides in Crawfordsville.

Steve Rogers
Assistant Track and Field Coach

765 • 361 • 6035
rogerss@wabash.edu

Steve Rogers begins his first season as  the long jumpers and hurdlers coach at Wabash. Rogers will also serve as an assistant football coach. He joins the Little Giants after three seasons as an assistant coach at Bluffton University. Rogers was the offensive line coach for two years at Bluffton and was the Beavers' special teams coordinator and defensive line coach for one season.

Rogers spent four seasons at MacMurray College as the defensive coordinator and secondary coach before taking the postion at Bluffton. He was part of the Highlanders' 2001 Illini-Badger Football Conference championship run and NCAA playoff team. Rogers coached the 2001 Illini-Badger Outstanding Defensive Player. He was also the head junior varsity coach at MacMurray.

A 1994 graduate of Mount Union College with a bachelor of arts degree, Rogers served as a student assistant wide receivers coach for the Purple Raiders' first national championship team in 1993. He spent two seasons as a graduate assistant coach at Defiance College, working as the running backs coach in 1994 and the offensive line coach in 1995. Rogers earned a master of arts degreee from Defiance in 1996.

He took a position as an assistant football coach at Arizona Western College in 1996, serving as linebackers coach for two seasons. Rogers became the defensive coordinator and secondary coach in 1998, the same season the Matadors won the Western States Football League championship and earned a berth to the Empire State Bowl. Arizona Western repeated as conference champs in 1999.

Rogers and his family reside in Crawfordsville.

Robert Johnson
Track and Field Coach (retired)
Cross Country 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, spent 37 seasons in charge of the Wabash harriers.

Since 1991, Wabash recorded three top-10 finishes at the NCAA meet, while winning five straight Indiana Collegiate Athletic Conference titles (1992-96) and a 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.

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 his master's in education from Purdue University in 1974.