2008 POLE VAULT EDUCATION INITIATIVE (PVEI)

BOYS POLE VAULT CAMP

Marty Dahlman is the head boys track coach and head cross country at Watkins Memorial High School in Pataskala, Ohio (near Columbus), and has been there since 1978.  He graduated from   Denison University with a BA in Political Studies in 1978, and earned  an sMEd in Sports Science from Ashland University in 1987.   He also serves as the Dean of Students of the High School. As the Watkins Track and Cross Country Coach, Coach Dahlman has led his teams to 34 Conference Championships and over 120 invitational wins.   In the pole vault Coach Dahlman has sent 20 vaulters to the state championships, with eight all Ohio vaulters.  He has coached three athletes over 15’, ten more over 14’, and twenty over 13 feet. Coach Dahlman has served as the Pole Vault Safety Chairman for the Ohio Track Coaches Association for the past five years.  He was part of the first Ohio Pole Vault Safety committee in 1993, credited with saving the pole vault in Ohio.  He has done safety clinics all over the state, and wrote the current curriculum for pole vault education in Ohio. Coach Dahlman has spoken at the Ohio and Michigan State Track Coaches Clinics.  He founded the Watkins Pole Vault Camp in 1999.  In addition he has coached at several nationally known pole vault camps.