NEW YORK STATE PUBLIC HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION

Marbry Gansle was a dedicated and successful coach of three sports each year for 42 consecutive years while she taught physical education at Shaker High School (Section 2). Her coaching journey began in 1977—the same year she was hired by Shaker—when she developed Shaker’s first girls cross country program. She proceeded to tally a 272-171 career record in the sport with dozens of athletes going on to compete in college. The same school year she began coaching girls outdoor track and field and girls gymnastics. In track, Gansle piled up a 301-141 career record, which included a Section 2 Championship in 2012 and coaching All-American and Federation Champion Krissy Haacke. As the gymnastics head coach, Marbry racked up a 282-225 record with Sectional titles from 1991 through 1996 and in 2001 while also coaching All-American and 18-time Section 2 champion Shannon Bagley who went onto James Madison as a bar specialist. Gansle not only impacted the student-athletes of New York State as a coach, but also dedicated her time to the betterment of her sports serving as the NYSPHSAA Girls Cross Country State Coordinator since 1995 and serving as the NYSPHSAA Girls Gymnastics State Coordinator since 1985. Many honors have followed the Chatham High School (Section 2) graduate who lettered 17 times in outdoor track, volleyball, gymnastics, cheerleading, lacrosse, softball, and field hockey. In 1990, Gansle was named Scholastic Coach of the Year by the Albany Chamber of Commerce, and in 1992, was presented the Jack Ault Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution towards the promotion of girls sports from the New York State Sportswriter and Coaches Organization for Girls Sports. In 2007, Gansle received the NYSAAA Award for Distinguished Service to Athletics and the NAGWS Pathfinder Award for Contribution to Girls and Women’s Sports in 2009. For the 2017-2018 season, she was named the NFHS Northeast Section Coach of the Year for girls cross country. In 2022, Mrs. Gansle was inducted into both the Shaker High Athletic Hall of Fame and the Greater Capital Region Track and Field and Cross Country Hall of Fame. A graduate of Russell Sage College, she received her bachelors and masters degrees while playing lacrosse and field hockey for four years.