THE OFFICIAL HOME OF OHS
GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY
INFORMATION
COACHES
DWIGHT DEWESE
HEAD COACH
Coach Dewese has been coaching for 43 years (39 of them at Olentangy). He has coached cross country, track, volleyball and basketball.
Coach graduated from The Ohio State University with a degree in education. Both coach's parents were teachers and his father also coached (basketball and baseball).
Mr. Dewese is one of four boys ... all who have first names beginning with the letter "D".
Coach and his wife Caroline have been married for over 42 years and have a daughter who teaches at Oak Creek, and a grandson who attends high school in the district.
JENNIFER SOSA
ASSISTANT COACH
Coach Sosa teaches Art at Olentangy High School. She graduated from The Ohio State University with a Master's degree in Art Education and currently teaches Art 1, Sculpture, Modeling & Animation, Digital Art & Design, and AP Art History.
2024 will be her thirteenth year at OHS. Throughout her teaching career, she has coached both track and cross country. For the past 11 years, she has been the head girls track coach at OHS and this is her 10th season coaching cross country at OHS.
She and her husband, John are originally from New York and have three energetic boys- 10-year-old twins and a (nearly) 7-year-old who attends Cheshire Elementary.
JAMIE DAHLKE
ASSISTANT COACH
Coach Dahlke first joined the world of cross county when her daughter Gracie participated in the OYAA cross country youth program with Coach Dewese eleven years ago. A runner herself, Coach Dahlke has run countless 5Ks, a dozen or so half marathons and one full marathon!
Coach Dahlke attended California State University, Fullerton where she studied Early Childhood Education. She has been an intervention aide for OLSD for 11 years, six of those at Olentangy High School.
Coach Dahlke and her husband Steve have been married for 26 years and are newly empty nesters. Both born and raised in Southern California, fourteen years ago they moved to Columbus having never been to Ohio once! Their oldest daughter Taryn (24) works full time at Disney World, Andrew (21) is studying Supply Chain Management at BGSU and Gracie (19) is continuing her running career at SRU while studying Health Care Administration.