For a year now, he has known that this season would be his last. He’d talked to athletic director Chris Hill, he had spoken with his wife and co-head coach Megan Marsden and told his assistant Tom Farden that he would be promoted. But then the secret-keeping started — his retirement was kept quiet from everybody, even his own gymnasts.
“I didn’t want it to be Greg Marsden farewell tour,” he said Tuesday. “I hope I have done a good job of keeping [the gymnasts] in the front and staying in the background and I didn’t want to do anything that would take away from their season and their accomplishments this year.