Lizzie Virgl has been hired as the new Assistant Throws Coach for the Tiffin University Track and Field Team.

Virgl enters her first year as the Assistant Throws Coach for the Tiffin University Track and Field Program. Prior to Tiffin, she served as the throwing coach at Southwest Minnesota State University from 2020-21 where her athletes broke 12 school records and had 3 All-Americans and 1 Second Team All-American. Before SMSU she was the student assistant coach for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville where she helped coach the throwers and cross country runners, including the 2019 Ohio Valley Conference Men's Weight Throwing Champion. 

Collegiately, Virgl competed in all throwing events at SIUE from 2014-2018, breaking the school weight throw record in 2018. Additionally, she won the Ohio Valley Conference Championship event in the hammer throw in 2018 and received All-Conference honors in 2016 and 2018. 

She received her Masters of Science in Physical Education: Coaching & Sports from Southwest Minnesota State University in May 2021 and a Bachelors of Science in Art Education: K-12 for Southern Illinois University Edwardsville in May 2019.

Virgl still competes competitively in the weight throw and hammer and has competed at the USATF Indoor National Championship in 2020, placing 10th in the weight throw.