Marge Redmond

Marge Redmond


Marge Redmond serves as Ohio Wesleyan's senior woman administrator.  She spent the 2014 season as an assistant field hockey coach at Ohio Wesleyan after 14 seasons as the Battling Bishops' head coach.

Ohio Wesleyan advanced to the NCAC tournament 3 times in a 6-year span under Redmond.  In 2009, the Bishops finished with a 10-9 record and advanced to the championship game of the NCAC tournament for the first time.

The 2008 Bishops finished with a 12-7 record, their highest season win total under Redmond, and made their first NCAC tournament appearance.

In 2007, Redmond guided the Bishops to a 10-7 record, an improvement of 6½ games, and shared NCAC Coach of the Year honors.

She also earned NCAC Coach of the Year honors in women’s lacrosse in 2008, stepping in on an interim basis and guiding Ohio Wesleyan to the NCAC championship and an NCAA Division III playoff appearance.

Redmond was head field hockey coach at Upper Arlington High School from 1984-97. From 1997-99, she was a physical education teacher in grades K-8 in the Columbus City school system.

Redmond’s Upper Arlington teams finished as state runner-up once, won a regional title and compiled 8 district runner-up finishes. While coaching at Upper Arlington, she also served as regional selector for the high school All-America program.

Off the field, she was a founding member of the Ohio Field Hockey Coaches Association, she founded the first and coordinated the next 11 Senior All-Star Field Hockey matches, she has served as Regional Futures Field Hockey Program coach since 1986 and was the regional site director for the U.S. Field Hockey Association Futures Program from 1997-2000. Through varied experiences at camps and clinics, she has coached field hockey in 7 different states. Redmond's coaching background also includes experience in track & field, diving and softball.

Redmond is a 1971 graduate of Ohio University, where she played field hockey, basketball, tennis and softball and was a member of the Dean’s List. She received her master’s degree in sport education from Ashland University in 2003.

Redmond also is a graduate of the NCAA Women Coaches Academy, a program providing skills training for women coaches who are ready and willing to increase their individual effectiveness by learning advanced skills and strategies that directly affect their personal and team success. She has continued her professional development by graduating from Dimension II of the Women Coaches Academy, a program that gives women coaches the opportunity to learn about coaching strategies and methods, communication skills, and other issues such as Title IX and the legal issues of coaching.