Molly Amidon

Biography

Molly (Cummings) Amidon is in her ninth season as an assistant track and field coach for Ohio Northern in 2025-26, focusing on the sprint and hurdle events. In her time at ONU, she has coached six athletes and four relay teams to NCAA Championships bids and had athletes break 25 school records. Her athletes have also won 12 OAC titles, had 41 All-Great Lakes Region honors and posted 68 All-OAC accolades in the sprints and hurdles. She was named the OAC and Great Lakes Men's Assistant Coach of the Year both Indoors and Outdoors in 2024 and Outdoors in 2023. Amidon has guided Jordan Dean to three All-America honors in the 400 at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships and saw the men's 4x100 and 4x400 relay teams qualify for each of the outdoor national meets in 2023 and 2024. Amidon joined the Polar Bears after a three-year stint as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Marian (Ind.) University. While there, she coached hurdles and was responsible for the fall training of all sprinters, jumpers and hurdlers. During her three seasons at Marian, Amidon guided Taylor Killings to two national championship titles in the indoor 60-meter hurdles and one national championship in the outdoor 110-meter hurdles. She helped 18 other student-athletes qualify for national championship meets in the sprints, hurdles, javelin and combined events with 15 of those student-athletes breaking Marian school records. Prior to her stint at Marian, Amidon served as a graduate assistant c