Background
Cassell, Ollan C. was born on October 5, 1937.
Cassell, Ollan C. was born on October 5, 1937.
He graduated from Appalachia High School in Appalachia, Virginia.
In his early 30s, Cassell later became the executive director of the Amateur Athletic Union (Amateur Athletic Union). Right now he serves as an adjunct professor for Olympic Sports history at the University of Indianapolis and is the president of the Indiana Olympian Association. Cassell took up the quarter-mile when attending to University of Houston.
After that, he retired from sports and started to work as the track and field administrator of the Amateur Athletic Union 1965–1972.
He was an Executive Director of the Amateur Athletic Union 1970–1980 and Executive Director of United States of America Track and Field 1980–1997. He was elected to the United States National Track and Field Hall of Fame as a contributor in 2006.
He also was a founding member of the International Athletics Foundation that was created in 1988 and served as vice-president of the International Amateur Athletics Foundation (IAAF) 1976–1999.
Married; 6 children.