Ray Gaul

A native of Hawarden, Iowa. He competed in football, basketball, baseball, and track. He received his undergraduate degree from South Dakota State University playing four years of football and co-captain his senior year. He earned a masters degree and educational specialist’s degree from Drake University. He taught and coached at Cardinal of Elden and Laurens, an administrator at Titonka, Scranton, Jefferson-Scranton, and Ogden serving as superintendent until retirement in 2000. Ray officiated football, volleyball, basketball, track baseball, and softball. He currently serves as a student teaching supervisor for Iowa State University, part-time principal for Sacred Heart School of Boone and a part of a team working for Tryon and Associates conducting superintendent searches for school districts. Ray has officiated at the Drake Relays, Jim Duncan Relays, Big Eight conference Meets, Big 12 Conference Meets, National Junior Olympics, The Iowa Games, State and local Hershey Meets, NCAA Division I National Cross Country Championship, and numerous high school and college meets. He has served on the executive board of the Iowa Athletic Directors Association and on the Iowa Secondary Principals State Association Board of Directors. Even though Ray is a registered track official, you won’t see him firing a gum at most of these meets. He is one of those unsung heroes who compose the backbone of every successful track and field or cross country meet as an assistant starter, head finish judge, lap counter, umpire, marshal, timer and picker. He brings a solid knowledge of the rules and an extremely professional demeanor to every meet he works and in what ever capacity he works. Ray has over Forty years of service to Track and Field.