Championship experience is the strongest leg to stand on when building a championship-quality team. Lady Govs assistant coach Adrian Wheatley brings that experience to the table.
Following a more than impressive high school track career at Thomas Worthington High School, in Worthington, Ohio, Wheatley was heavily recruited to Southeastern Conference-powerhouse Tennessee to run the hurdles. Wheatley was a three-time All-SEC selection (1999, 2001, 2002) and a two-time NCAA All-American selection (2001, 2002).
As a freshman, Wheatley joined the Tennessee track and field elites with a 500-meter run of 1:05.46, which still ranks 10th all-time. He inked his name again in the record books in 2001, when he ran the third leg of Tennessee’s fifth-fastest all-time 4x400-meter relay at the NCAA Outdoors.
Wheatley, a four-time letter-winner, was a member of the Vols 2001 NCAA Championship team, the 2002 NCAA Runner-up squad and back-to-back SEC Championship teams. He also was elected team captain by his teammates in 2000 and named the EdSouth’s Men’s Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2002.
Wheatley graduated from Tennessee with a Bachelor of Arts in Urban Planning in the spring of 2002 and has since completed 12 hours en route to a Master’s of Health Nutrition and Exercise Science at The Citadel.
His coaching experience is no less impressive. Along with multiple certifications from the United States Track and Field Coaches Association, Wheatley worked with the Knoxville Track Club, Perry Middle School in Worthington and as an assistant at the College of Charleston.
