Marcus Vicars, formerly of RMAC rival Chadron State College, will serve as CMU’s new throws coach. Maverick head track & field coach Brad Gamble and Vicars will be re-uniting as they worked together at Chadron State, where Gamble was the head for three years before moving to CMU for a stellar 2017-18 Maverick season.
Vicars, a 2-time NCAA Division II All-America shot putter at Findlay (Ohio) University, was on Gamble’s coaching staff as a coaching assistant at Chadron State for all three years of Gamble’s tenure from 2014-17. At Chadron guided the throwers while assisting with recruiting and many other tasks of the program. He then moved on to University of Toledo, serving as a graduate assistant for the NCAA Division I Rockets during the 2017-18 season.
In his time at Chadron State, Vicars guided two NCAA Division II individual national champions, six all-Americans and eight RMAC Champions and helped the Eagles’ women’s squad to a third place finish at the NCAA Division II Indoor Championships in 2017, a year after the squad won the 2016 RMAC title.
He also guided three USATF Indoor National Championship qualifiers and a 2016 USA Olympic Trials Qualifier and helped his student-athletes break the CSC school records in six different throwing events.
He also guided his athletes to a pair of school records at Toledo last year and has been a private coach for high school and post-collegiate athletes since 2014, the same year that saw him earned a bachelor’s degree in strength and conditioning from Findlay.
“Coach Vicars works tirelessly to bring out the best in all of his throwers. His dedication to the development of his athletes is second to none. I am very excited to see our young Mavs thrive under his tutelage,” Gamble said.
