Staff Directory
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Matt Bigelow joined the Ohio State staff at the end of August 2023Â as the assistant coach for multi events and vertical jumps.
In his first season with the Buckeyes in 2024, Shaun Miller Jr. finished third in the high jump at the Big Ten indoor championships and was the runner-up at the Big Ten outdoor championships. Amaya Ugarte was fourth at Big Ten indoors and third at Big Ten outdoors. Reign Winston made his NCAA Championships debut and earned USTFCCCA All-American Second Team honors at the outdoor championships, while all three qualified for the NCAA East First Round.
Prior to joining the Buckeyes, Bigelow spent the 2022-23 season as an assistant coach at Ball State, where he helped lead the Cardinals to their highest-scoring performance at a MAC Indoor Track and Field Championship since 2008. Bigelow's group score of 46.25 points from the pentathlon, high jump, long jump, triple jump, and the shot put tallied over half of Ball State's total points (83) at the 2023 indoor conference championships. At the 2023 outdoor conference championships, Bigelow's group scored 62 out of the team's 108 points. Bigelow was named MAC Women's Assistant Coach of the Year following both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
Bigelow helped guide senior Charity Griffith as she qualified for the 2023 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships in the high jump and pentathlon events. Griffith earned first-team All-American honors after her fifth-place finish in the high jump 1.85m (6'-0.75"), becoming the Cardinals' highest ever finisher at the NCAA Indoor Championships. She earned second-team All-American honors for her 13th-place finish in the pentathlon event (4,138 points). Griffith took the next step at the 2023 NCAA Outdoor Championships by winning the high jump (1.93m / 6'-4"), as Jenelle Rogers finished fifth in the heptathlon (6,018) and both set Mid-American Conference records.
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Bigelow arrived in Muncie after three years as an assistant Track & Field/Cross Country coach at Miami University. During his time at Miami, Bigelow helped guide the RedHawks to a men's outdoor season MAC championship in 2021 for the first time since 1993. Bigelow coached the 2021 MAC Champion in the pentathlon and multiple conference scorers in the high jump and multi events throughout his three seasons with the RedHawks.
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Prior to his coaching experience, Bigelow was a student-athlete at Southern Illinois University and earned All-Missouri Valley Conference honors twice. He took second place in the 2018 MVC Indoor Championships in the heptathlon with 5,258 points and scored a personal best and third-place finish during the outdoor championships with 6,660 points.
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Bigelow graduated from Southern Illinois University in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Sports Administration and a minor in coaching. Bigelow completed an internship with SIU's track and field program prior to graduation. Bigelow is a Carterville, Ill. native.
