Pat Lockington, the 2014 USTFCCCA Central Region Assistant Coach of the Year, enters his second season as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater in 2016-17. A former multi-event athlete for the Warhawks, Lockington will work primarily with student-athletes competing in multi events and vertical jumps.
During his first season in 2016, Robert Starnes captured the national championship in the high jump at the NCAA Indoor Championships, and Cameron MaGee garnered All-America accolades with an eighth-place finish in the high jump at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Lockington served as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Dubuque for two seasons. He coached pole vault and high jump for the Spartans, mentoring four individual national qualifiers, including two in the pole vault. Lockington coached the 2014 men’s pole vault NCAA Division III national champion.
Lockington joins fellow UW-Whitewater alumni in head coach Mike Johnson and assistant coaches Josh Ireland and RJ Soderman on the Warhawks’ staff.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled to have Pat join our staff,” Johnson said. “Pat has done tremendous things coaching the pole vault at the collegiate level and brings a tremendous energy. It’s also personally exciting to bring an alumnus of our university back to our program in a coaching role.”
A Two Rivers, Wis., native, Lockington was a member of the Warhawks’ track and field program from 2009-13. He was a two-time national qualifier, including once in the pentathlon and once in the decathlon. Lockington won the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in the decathlon during the 2010 outdoor season, and was selected as a team captain for the 2011 campaign. He is the school record holder in the pentathlon.
Lockington also served as a member of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and a volunteer assistant track and field coach at Manitowoc Roncalli High School during his tenure at UW-Whitewater.
Lockington graduated from UW-Whitewater with a bachelor of business administration in finance in 2013. He earned his master’s in business administration from Dubuque in 2015.
