Matt Bigelow - Track & Field, Cross Country Coach

Matt Bigelow

Title:
Assistant Coach - Sprints, Hurdles & Jumps
Email:
bigelome@miamioh.edu
Phone:
513-529-3489

Miami University Director of Track & Field/Cross Country Tom Chorny added Matt Bigelow to his staff as an assistant in 2019.

Bigelow, a Southern Illinois graduate, helps coach the RedHawks’ sprints, hurdles and jumps.

During Bigelow’s tenure, the RedHawks captured the 2021 men’s outdoor track and field MAC championship, a trophy they had not claimed since 1993.

In 2022, Miami’s track teams took fourth place (men) and fifth place (women) at the most recent MAC outdoor championships. Finley Mclear won the men’s 800, while Charlie Harders (steeplechase) and Carmen Riano (steeplechase, 5000) picked up individual titles. Seven Miami student-athletes competed in the NCAA East prelims, highlighted by Riano, who advanced to the national meet and finished as an All-American in the steeplechase (14th place). During the 2022 indoor season, Lotti Roemer won the mile to highlight Miami’s performance at the MAC championships, while the team finished seventh in the league. 37 different RedHawks on the track and field team were recognized as Academic All-MAC between the indoor and outdoor seasons.

The 2020-21 academic year was highlighted by the RedHawk men finishing first in the conference’s outdoor track championships. Miami produced a MAC individual champion in the women’s indoor pentathlon (Sarah Bruns) and a myriad of MAC outdoor champions. Olivia Bechtel won the 200 and 400 at the MAC meet that spring, Charlie Harders won the steeplechase, Sean Torpy won the 1500, Finley Mclear won the 800, and Miami’s 4x400 relay team also took first place. The RedHawks also fared exceedingly well on the national stage, with Finley Mclear taking second in the indoor 800m and 4th in the outdoor 800m. The RedHawks’ DMR team (Sean Torpy, Luke Finnegan, Andrew Schroff, Chris Torpy) picked up All-American honors as well, claiming eighth at the NCAA indoor championships. In addition, Sean Torpy became Miami’s first Academic All-American since 2008.

Before 2019-20 competition was cut short by the pandemic, Miami seized top-three finishes in the MAC men’s and women’s cross country meets for the third year in a row. The RedHawk men were runners-up, while the women came in third place. David Coffey (first team), Ryan Sharkey (second team), and Emma Bryant (second team) were named All-MAC that fall. Miami finished seventh in the MAC indoor championships, the program’s best mark since 2013. Olivia Bechtel led the way with a first-place finish in the 400.

As a student-athlete at Southern Illinois, Bigelow was a two-time All-Missouri Valley Conference performer. He earned both of his all-conference accolades during his 2017-18 senior campaign. He set personal bests in six of seven heptathlon events to take second in the 2018 MVC Indoor Championships in that event with 5,258 points. Outdoors, Bigelow posted a personal-best 6,660 points in the decathlon to finish third.

Following his competitive career, Bigelow served an internship with SIU’s track and field program during the fall of 2018 where he assisted in running workouts and timing the Saluki student-athletes.

A native of Carterville, Ill., Bigelow graduated from Southern Illinois in 2019 with a Bachelor of Science in Sports Administration along with a minor in coaching.