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Assistant Coach Throws
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Second
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Dawn Dumble enters her second season as ASU’s assistant track and field coach for throws. A four-time NCAA Champion in the shot put and discus, she held Pac-10 records in both events and claimed seven individual Pac-10 crowns.
"We are thrilled to have added such a world-class athlete who, I think, will become a world-class coach," ASU head coach Greg Kraft said at the time of her hire in 1999. "She has had a positive impact in the short time she’s been here."
In her first year at ASU, Sun Devil throwers showed signs of great improvement. Under Dumble’s tutelage, Adrienne Judie, who missed earning All-America honors by one place, set a school record in the hammer (183-4) and recorded the fourth-best shot put effort (52-1.75) and fifth-best discus mark (163-1) in school history. Eric Logvin also posted the eighth best hammer throw on the all-time list last season.
Dumble graduated with a bachelor of arts degree in history from UCLA in 1995 and immediately began pursuing a career in coaching as a recruiting assistant and personal trainer at UCLA. She was a volunteer coach for a year at Florida while also serving as an assistant coach at Gainesville High School prior to coming to Tempe.
In the summer of 2000, she placed third in the shot put at the Olympic Trials in Sacramento, but fell short of reaching the A-standard of 60-0.5 to qualify. Dumble went on to compete in Switzerland and Germany but did not meet the qualifying mark. Her all-time personal best effort in the shot put is 59-6, while her all-time PR in the discus is 201 feet.
In addition to her accomplishments as a Bruin, Dumble represented the United States in the Goodwill Games, World Cup Championships, World Junior Championships and Junior Pan American games during her career. Dumble’s collegiate-best shot put of 58 feet, 10.75 inches still ranks second in Pac-10 history while her discus toss of 199-9 ranks sixth.
She captured four Pac-10 Championships in the discus (1991-93, ’95) and three in the shot put (1991-93). She is one of nine women in Pac-10 history to have won three straight individual conference titles in any single event and joins Janeene Vickers as the only woman to have won three straight in two different events. Dumble captured NCAA championships in 1993 and 1995.
A native of Bakersfield, Calif., Dumble married Matt Godbehere Oct. 7, 2000.
