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Nathan Wells enters his sixth season as a member of the UW-Whitewater track and field
coaching staff in 2022-23. He works primarily with the pole vaulters.
Wells mentored two All-Americans in the pole vault in 2019, including Zach Jasinski, who became UW-Whitewater's first pole vault national champion since 1984 at the NCAA Outdoor Championships and first All-American in the event since 1992 with his runner-up finish at the NCAA Indoor Championships. Adam Schommer also earned a spot on the All-America podium at the outdoor meet with an eighth-place finish. Both qualified again for the NCAA Indoor Championships in 2020 before the meet was canceled.
In 2021, Schommer and women's freshman Gracie Holland reached the NCAA Outdoor Championships, each placing among the top 15 in the nation. Holland continued her progress in 2022, sweeping the WIAC individual championships in the pole vault, posting school records both indoors and outdoors, and earning All-America honors at both the indoor and outdoor national meets. She placed fifth at the NCAA Indoor Championship and finished as national runner-up at the NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Wells has coached primarily high jump and pole vault at Stevens Point Area Senior High School, Kenosha Bradford high School and Oregon High School in Wisconsin and Caledonia High School in Minnesota.
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Wells graduated from UW-Platteville, where he placed second in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and was a national qualifier in the decathlon in 2006. He was deployed as a member of the military to Iraq for two years during his college stint.
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A native of Marshall, Wis., Wells works as an environmental engineer for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and resides in the Madison area.
(Updated July 14, 2022)
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