UPDATED November 15, 2022
Cary Ossiff joined the Wayne State University track and field coaching staff as the throws coach in February of 2022. He resigned his position in November of 2022.
Five of his throwers scored at the 2022 GLIAC Outdoor Championships led by MaKayla Rawls, who finished fourth in the hammer and eighth in the discus. Kaleigh Flowers placed fifth in the hammer, with Izzy Taylor finishing sixth. Teanna McCuaig notched a fifth-place finish in the javelin, while Jasmine Correa was seventh in the discus.
The WSU coaching staff was selected as the GLIAC Coaching Staff of the Year after leading the squad to the most points and highest finish (second) ever at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships.
A 2010 graduate of WSU with a bachelor's degree in Exercise Science, he then served as a strength and conditioning coach intern at the University of Toledo.
Before embarking on a two-year stint as a graduate assistant coach at Defiance College, he spent some time at Marygrove College as an assistant coach for the track & field, and cross country programs.
While at Defiance, Ossiff worked with hurdlers, sprinters, throwers and multi-event athletes. The student-athletes Ossiff worked with produced an impressive 14 school records, 12 NCAA Division III national qualifiers, 11 conference championships, four NCAA Division III All-Americans, one national runner-up, and one D-III National Champion (Hammer Throw). He earned his Master’s Degree in Education with a concentration in coaching from Defiance in May of 2013.
Ossiff was the head track and field coach for the Marygrove College Mustangs in 2015, prior to being a 2016 USA Olympic trials participant in the hammer throw. In 2017, he served as an assistant track coach at Summit Academy in Romulus.
The Allen Park native, coached at Annapolis High School in Dearborn Heights spending the first five years (2000-04) as an assistant track coach, before serving as the head coach the next four seasons (2004-08). Ossiff also spent two years (2008-10) as an assistant track coach at Canton Salem High School.
He and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of four children, Peyton, Cruz, Harper, and Lennox.
