Assistant Track & Field Coach Will Martin (3rd season)
High School: Cheltenham (1989)
College: Morgan State University (1994)
Major: Information Sciences and Systems
Grad School: Pennsylvania State University (2000)
Degree: Master of Engineering, in Engineering Science with the Emphasis on Software Engineering
William “Will” Martin joined the Rutgers-Camden staff for the 2022-23 indoor track season and is entering his third season as a part-time assistant track and field coach. A coach for the jumps and sprints, Martin’s duties include preparing the Scarlet Raptor athletes for competition, helping them train at the best of their abilities, strengthen their weaknesses, perfect their strengths, allow them to have fun and strive to remain injury-free.
Martin also served as an assistant cross country coach with the Scarlet Raptors during the 2023 season.
“As an athlete myself who still competes and has competed in high school and in college, I am no stranger to the sport of track and field, cross country, and road racing,” Martin said. “When it comes to experience with training or coaching athletes, I have experience with giving sound training and coaching advice to the everyday athlete that trains for anything from a 55-meter dash to running a marathon and even to the jumping field events. I provide this training and coaching advice to the running groups that I run with, my athletes at Rutgers University-Camden, and I apply them to myself too as a USATF Master Athlete and a Level 1 USATF Coach. I'm also the type of coach that trains with whoever I'm coaching. I will run and jump with you. I often don't sit on the sidelines. I will get out there and provide examples of how to do something.
As a professional and certified running coach, I’ve learned that the journey to success starts from within. That’s why when it comes to running fitness and jumping fitness, I stress that the value of every athlete is not only based on their current skill set, but on their passion and desire to grow.”
A private coach, as well as the owner and founder of Martin Athletics Association, LLC (established in 2021), he is USTFCCCA Track & Field Technical certified, ASFA Running Coach certified, U.S. Center for SafeSport trained and certified, Adult First Aid/CPA/AED certified and USATF Level 1 certified. He is working on his USATF Level 2 certification for 2025.
“Within my private coaching business, I have helped several of my clients to achieve PBs/PRs in their events ranging from 55 meters to distance events,” he said. “I have coached athletes that have broken their school records twice in one season. I have many more goals to accomplish and I'm just getting started.”
A graduate of Cheltenham High School in Wyncote, Pennsylvania, where he ran track and field, as well as cross country. He earned several All-Suburban honors for both sports, captured the Holden Award and was part of the 1989 4x400 team that finished third in its conference at the Penn Relays.
Martin competed in the same sports on a two-year scholarship at Morgan State University, where he was part of the school’s 1990 MEAC cross country championship squad. He graduated from Morgan State in 1994 with his Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Sciences and Systems. He attended graduate school at Pennsylvania State University, graduating in 2000, with a Master of Engineering Science Degree in Software Engineering. He has been working in the IT and Information and Sciences fields for 36 years, moving up the ladder from an IT Helpdesk Support staff and Senior Programmer Analyst to the Director of IT at two organizations. He currently is the Director of Information Technology at Volunteers of America Delaware Valley after serving for years as the Director of IT at WHYY.
Two years after graduating from Morgan State, Martin took up Tae Kwon Do and earned his second degree black belt while competing in the world of martial arts. At the time, he was still doing a little running to stay fit, but not competing in any races. He started seriously getting back into running and competing in 2011. Since then, he also has taken up Tai Ji (Chinese Martial Arts), ran 50+ 5ks, 20+ half-marathons, five marathons, and competed and placed in his age group many times as an unattached athlete and as a USATF Master Athlete in track and running road races meets.
