Bryant Wilson - MTF Coach - Central Michigan University Athletics

Bryant Wilson

Title:
Associate Head Coach
Email:
wilso2bj@cmich.edu
Phone:
(989) 387-4344

Bryant Wilson is in his eighth year with the Central Michigan track & field program. In July 2019, he was promoted to associate head coach.

Bryant coaches the jumps and the multi's. In 2019, he was named the Mid-American Conference Women’s Assistant Coach of the Year at both the league indoor and outdoor championships.

In 2019, Wilson helped lead the Chippewa women to victory at the Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships in February and a second-place finish in May at the league outdoor championships. It was the best finish for the Chippewa women since they won the title in 2004.

Wilson coached Nadia Williams to Central Michigan track & field history in 2019 as she earned All-America honors in both the indoor and outdoor NCAA Championships. She is the first in program history to accomplish that feat in the same season. She finished sixth to earn First Team All-America honors at the indoor championships, and she was 14^th at the outdoor championships, earning second-team honors.

Williams opened the 2020 indoor season by breaking her own program record in the long jump, leaping 21 feet, 1 ¼ inches, at the Grand Valley State Holiday Open. She closed it by winning her second-consecutive MAC indoor long-jump crown. Williams also earned indoor All-American honors in 2020.

Wilson also coached junior Kasey Staley to a third-place showing in the pole vault at the league meet.

He also helped guide Janelle Perry to runner-up finishes indoor in the 60-meter hurdles and the long jump and outdoor in the long jump in 2018-19.

Among the other recent standouts to come under Wilson’s tutelage are high jumper Calli Stemple and pole vaulters Rebekah Petty and Siobhan Szerencsits.

In the 2019 outdoor season, Wilson coached Stemple to the MAC title in the women’s high jump and he mentored Rebekah Petty and Siobhan Szerencsits, teammates who waged a strong head-to-head battle throughout the season in the pole vault, each taking turns holding the program record.

Also at the 2019 MAC outdoors, Williams captured the women’s long-jump title, setting program, MAC and the Ball State Briner Sports Complex facility records at 21-5 ½.

Wilson, a Hale native, was a four-time NCAA Division II national champion and two-time U.S. National Championships qualifier in the pole vault at Grand Valley State, where he swept the indoor and outdoor pole vault national titles in 2007 and in 2008, was an eight-time All-American, and a two-time U.S. Championships qualifier. He remains the program record holder in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault.

Wilson earned a Bachelor of Science degree in physical education from Grand Valley in 2010 and Master of Science degree in administration from Central Michigan in 2019.

He was inducted into the United States Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2018.