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2004 marks Wendy Marshall's seventh year as the Terrapins' assistant coach. Marshall, who made a dramatic impact in her first few years, continuously brings energy and determination to the Maryland women's gymnastics team. A 10-time All-American, Marshall epitomizes the level of enthusiasm and perfection that comes with making a Terp gymnast and was rewarded for her efforts at the end of 1999, earning Southeast Region Assistant Coach of the Year.
At Maryland, Marshall has helped the team increase their success. She has coached the Terps' beam team since the 1999 season, coaching them to a season-long top-six national ranking. In 2000, Maryland's beam competitors were ranked as high as No. 5. Her enthusiasm is great motivation for the team and she is bound to make many more positive things happen during her time at Maryland.
Each summer for the past seven years, Marshall has been a member of the senior coaching staff at the University of Michigan Gymnastics Camp in Ann Arbor. In addition, from fall 1996 until the summer of 1998, Marshall was a physical education teacher, the head of the intramural program and head gymnastics coach for Pioneer High School in Ann Arbor. In both seasons with the Pioneer gymnastics team, the squad won the conference championship.
Marshall earned a full athletic scholarship to the University of Michigan in 1992, and was a four-year varsity letterwinner and two-time Michigan co-MVP. She was one of the Big Ten Conference's most enthusiastic performers and an extremely consistent and solid gymnast each season with the Wolverines.
In Marshall's first season at Michigan, 1993, she was named a NCAA second team All-American on vault and earned All-Big Ten Conference honors. She tied for sixth on vault at the NCAA Central Region Championships, placed sixth in the all-around, 10th on bars, and 18th on floor at the Big Ten Conference Championships.
Marshall's breakout season was 1994 as she earned NCAA second team All-American honors on vault and all-around, was named to the All-Big Ten Conference team and earned Michigan co-MVP honors. At the NCAA Championships, Marshall finished 11th on vault (9.9) and 16th in the all-around (38.875). She captured the vault title at the NCAA Central Region Championships with a perfect 10. This was the first of her career and marked only the second time in Michigan history that a gymnast had scored a perfect 10.
The 1995 season saw Marshall named a NCAA first team All-American on beam, vault, and all-around and also earned All-Big Ten Conference honors. She was also voted Michigan's most improved performer and co-MVP. At the 1995 NCAA Championships, Marshall finished eighth on beam (9.825), vault (9.625) and all-around (39.275). At the NCAA Central Region Championships, she won her second consecutive vault title by scoring a perfect 10, her third of the season on vault, and also finished third in the all-around (39.25) and seventh on beam (9.85). Her outstanding season continued at the Big Ten Conference Championships where Marshall finished second in the all-around (39.275) and on floor (9.9), third on beam (9.8) and fourth on vault (9.9) as Michigan won its fourth consecutive conference championship.
In 1996, Marshall earned Big-10 Gymnast of the Year honors and also received the Phyllis Ocker Award for academics and athletics, and the Bob Ufer Spirit Award. Marshall earned first team All-American on beam, floor, and in the all-around and All-Big Ten Conference honors. Senior year also saw Marshall earning fifth place in the all-around at the NCAA Championships.
The Marshall-led Pioneer gymnastics team was ranked No. 8 in the 1996-97 season, marking the first time in school history that the program was ranked. In the 1997-98 season, the Pioneer gymnastics team qualified for the region championships and had several individual state championship qualifiers and three All-Americans. They finished the season ranked No. 3, the second time in as many years that they had been ranked in the top 10.
Marshall graduated from Michigan in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in kinesiology, majoring in physical education with a communication minor. She currently resides in College Park, Md. Marshall has one brother, Raymond, and one sister, Tammy. Tammy is the head coach at Infinity/Gold Medal gymnastics club in New York, and will be inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame at Massachusetts this year for her time with the gymnastics program in the 1990's.
