University of Minnesota Athletics
Women's Track & Field
Wick, Brad
Brad Wick
- Title:
- Assistant Cross Country/Track & Field Coach
- Email:
- wickx073@umn.edu
- Phone:
- (612) 452-0990
The 2024-25 campaign will be the fourth season for Brad Wick as Minnesota's assistant cross country/track and field coach. A familiar name to the Golden Gophers, Wick was a volunteer assistant from 2005-08 and was most recently at San José State.
In 2023-24, Minnesota's distance crew enjoyed seeing the success of recent graduate Matthew Wilkinson who qualified for his first Olympic Games in Paris just a year after he claimed Big Ten titles under the direction of Coach Wick. Wilkinson reached the Olympics by placing second at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., and went on to finish 17th overall in Paris, missing out on the final by just one position in his debut on the world stage. Back in the Twin Cities, Wick and the Gophers men's cross country team finished ninth overall at the Big Ten level. On the track Wick's crew qualified two to the NCAA West Regional with Eli Hoeft advancing to the second round for the first time in his career in the 1500m, while Dan VanAcker reached the NCAA regional level as a redshirt freshman in the 3000m steeplechase.
The 2022-23 campaign for Wick and the Golden Gophers was another year of incredible success on the men's side. With the help of steeplechaser Matt Wilkinson, the outdoor track and field team reached the program's first No. 1 national ranking. Wilkinson's improvement continued under Wick's tutelage, earning another Big Ten Championship in the 3000m steeplechase and pairing it with a double in the 5000m which helped Wilkinson earn the Big Ten Athlete of the Championships award as well as the USTFCCCA Midwest Regional Men's Track Athlete of the Year. Wilkinson then went on to finish fifth at the NCAA Championships and then sixth at the USATF Outdoor Championships. Along with Wilkinson's success on the track the Maroon and Gold also saw significant improvement from the distance crew under Wick. Redshirt freshman Emmet Anderson earned a sixth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships, Noah Kohut-Jackson placed fifth at the conference meet in the steeplechase with Seth Eliason (800m) and Eli Hoeft (1500m) both making their event finals.
In Wick's return season with the Maroon and Gold the men's cross country program saw immediate success, earning an at-large bid too the NCAA Cross Country Championships, which was the first for the program since 2015. The men's program went on to finish 21st in the country after finishing fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional and third at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships. At Big Tens Wick's crew saw Alec Basten finish fifth overall, earning All-Big Ten honors, while Matt Wilkinson and Owen Hoeft both finished inside the top 20. On the track Wick led a men's distance crew that qualified four to the NCAA West Regional with both Alec Basten and Matt Wilkinson advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 3000m steeplechase. That dynamic duo was stellar all season long with Basten winning his second straight steeplechase crown at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships while Wilkinson finished as the conference runner-up. The duo went on to finish seventh and eighth at the NCAA Championships in the same event. Basten also finished as the silver medalist in the 5000m. The duo continued their training with Wick and went on to compete at the USATF Outdoor Championships with Basten finishing 15th and Wilkinson in 19th overall.
Wick was at the helm of the San José State's cross country programs for eight seasons. In one of the program's most successful seasons in program history, Wick coached NCAA qualifier Jennifer Sandoval, the first-ever Spartan woman to compete at nationals. Wick took the women's team from a seven-year absence in the West Region to 8/36th and the men's program to 11th/29th.
Prior to San Jose State, Wick served as the cross country coach at Boise State from 2008-2013. In cross country, Wick has coached three conference Freshman of the Year, 11 first-team all-conference honorees and 13 second-team cross country honorees.
Wick lead Boise State to its first men's WAC cross country title in 2010 and in 2012 had the men's and women's teams both in the top 10 in the West Region for the first time in school history.
On the track, Wick directed 12 individual conference titles including sweeping the women's long distance events (5,000-meters, 10,000-meters and 3,000-meter steeplechase) at the 2013 Mountain West Championships by three different athletes. One of those athletes was Emma Bates, who was crowned 3rd in the 10,000m and 7th in the 5,000m at the 2013 NCAA Championships. In total, Wick has coached his distance athletes to 83 all-conference honors during the indoor and outdoor track seasons as well as 19 performances that earned NCAA first round qualification.
Prior to arriving at Boise State, Wick served as the assistant coach for the men's cross country and distance track team at the University of Minnesota for three years. There he helped coach several members of the Minnesota cross-country program to success at the national level. With the Gophers he assisted in coaching five cross country All-Americans and an eighth place team finish at the 2007 NCAA Cross Country Championships.
The Elk River, Minn., native completed a master's degree in sports and exercise science at the University of Minnesota in 2007 after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education and minors in coaching and health education in 2004 at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Wick is also USA Track and Field Level 2 coaching certified in Endurance.
In 2023-24, Minnesota's distance crew enjoyed seeing the success of recent graduate Matthew Wilkinson who qualified for his first Olympic Games in Paris just a year after he claimed Big Ten titles under the direction of Coach Wick. Wilkinson reached the Olympics by placing second at the US Olympic Trials in Eugene, Ore., and went on to finish 17th overall in Paris, missing out on the final by just one position in his debut on the world stage. Back in the Twin Cities, Wick and the Gophers men's cross country team finished ninth overall at the Big Ten level. On the track Wick's crew qualified two to the NCAA West Regional with Eli Hoeft advancing to the second round for the first time in his career in the 1500m, while Dan VanAcker reached the NCAA regional level as a redshirt freshman in the 3000m steeplechase.
The 2022-23 campaign for Wick and the Golden Gophers was another year of incredible success on the men's side. With the help of steeplechaser Matt Wilkinson, the outdoor track and field team reached the program's first No. 1 national ranking. Wilkinson's improvement continued under Wick's tutelage, earning another Big Ten Championship in the 3000m steeplechase and pairing it with a double in the 5000m which helped Wilkinson earn the Big Ten Athlete of the Championships award as well as the USTFCCCA Midwest Regional Men's Track Athlete of the Year. Wilkinson then went on to finish fifth at the NCAA Championships and then sixth at the USATF Outdoor Championships. Along with Wilkinson's success on the track the Maroon and Gold also saw significant improvement from the distance crew under Wick. Redshirt freshman Emmet Anderson earned a sixth-place finish at the Big Ten Championships, Noah Kohut-Jackson placed fifth at the conference meet in the steeplechase with Seth Eliason (800m) and Eli Hoeft (1500m) both making their event finals.
In Wick's return season with the Maroon and Gold the men's cross country program saw immediate success, earning an at-large bid too the NCAA Cross Country Championships, which was the first for the program since 2015. The men's program went on to finish 21st in the country after finishing fourth at the NCAA Midwest Regional and third at the Big Ten Cross Country Championships. At Big Tens Wick's crew saw Alec Basten finish fifth overall, earning All-Big Ten honors, while Matt Wilkinson and Owen Hoeft both finished inside the top 20. On the track Wick led a men's distance crew that qualified four to the NCAA West Regional with both Alec Basten and Matt Wilkinson advancing to the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the 3000m steeplechase. That dynamic duo was stellar all season long with Basten winning his second straight steeplechase crown at the Big Ten Outdoor Championships while Wilkinson finished as the conference runner-up. The duo went on to finish seventh and eighth at the NCAA Championships in the same event. Basten also finished as the silver medalist in the 5000m. The duo continued their training with Wick and went on to compete at the USATF Outdoor Championships with Basten finishing 15th and Wilkinson in 19th overall.
Wick was at the helm of the San José State's cross country programs for eight seasons. In one of the program's most successful seasons in program history, Wick coached NCAA qualifier Jennifer Sandoval, the first-ever Spartan woman to compete at nationals. Wick took the women's team from a seven-year absence in the West Region to 8/36th and the men's program to 11th/29th.
Prior to San Jose State, Wick served as the cross country coach at Boise State from 2008-2013. In cross country, Wick has coached three conference Freshman of the Year, 11 first-team all-conference honorees and 13 second-team cross country honorees.
Wick lead Boise State to its first men's WAC cross country title in 2010 and in 2012 had the men's and women's teams both in the top 10 in the West Region for the first time in school history.
On the track, Wick directed 12 individual conference titles including sweeping the women's long distance events (5,000-meters, 10,000-meters and 3,000-meter steeplechase) at the 2013 Mountain West Championships by three different athletes. One of those athletes was Emma Bates, who was crowned 3rd in the 10,000m and 7th in the 5,000m at the 2013 NCAA Championships. In total, Wick has coached his distance athletes to 83 all-conference honors during the indoor and outdoor track seasons as well as 19 performances that earned NCAA first round qualification.
Prior to arriving at Boise State, Wick served as the assistant coach for the men's cross country and distance track team at the University of Minnesota for three years. There he helped coach several members of the Minnesota cross-country program to success at the national level. With the Gophers he assisted in coaching five cross country All-Americans and an eighth place team finish at the 2007 NCAA Cross Country Championships.
The Elk River, Minn., native completed a master's degree in sports and exercise science at the University of Minnesota in 2007 after receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in physical education and minors in coaching and health education in 2004 at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Wick is also USA Track and Field Level 2 coaching certified in Endurance.
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