Wichita State Athletics

Pat Wilson enters his 10th year with the WSU pole vaulters as an assistant track and field coach.

During his time as coach, five student-athletes have won Missouri Valley Conference titles and six have earned All-America honors. In addition, vaulters have earned 14 All-MVC honors.

Most recently Taylor Swanson finished third in the MVC Outdoor Championship for All-Valley honors and qualified for the NCAA West Prelims where she placed 24th.

Wilson coached the 2010 and 2012 MVC outdoor pole vault champion Cassie Craig, who was also an all-conference performer during the  2010 indoor season.  

In the 2009 MVC Outdoor Championship, WSU pole vaulters racked up 25 points, a WSU record.

At the 2008 MVC Outdoor Championships, Beau Morris took the men’s title, while Brooke Demo finished second in the women’s event. Demo also earned a berth the NCAA Championships, where she placed 13th. 

During the 2007 indoor season, Demo and Erica Evans finished second and third, respectively, at the MVC Indoor Championships. Then outdoors, Evans turned in another all-MVC performance, placing second. Evans was one of three WSU women to place in the top-six at the MVC Outdoor Championships with Ashley Rosenbaum taking fourth and Liz Wray placing sixth. On the men’s side, Dylan Schmidt also earned all-MVC honors finishing third at the conference meet.

Wilson came to Wichita State after having been the pole vault coach for Friends University track and field since the program was revived in 1998.

He coached the pole vault squad at Southeast High School from 1998-2002, and had also served as the head pole vault coach for the Wichita public school system.

Wilson spent his college years at WSU (1993-97) where he was an all-conference performer, as well as a member of the 1994 Missouri Valley Conference Outdoor Championship team.

Wilson is originally from Leon, Kan., and a high school graduate of Bluestem High School.