Jared Wilmes
Jared Wilmes

Player Profile
Position:
Asst. Coach/Distance
Alma Mater:
Missouri '94

Assistant track and field coach Jared Wilmes heads into his ninth year on the Tiger coaching staff. While concentrating on the men's distance runners, Wilmes also oversees the entire cross country program. Partnered with his wife, Rebecca, the Wilmes' have developed a talented group of middle-distance and distance runners that have the potential to be a force in the conference and in the country.

As with Missouri tradition, the Tiger presence and top performance at the prestigious Drake Relays has been a priority to Wilmes. In the last four years, at least one Wilmes-coached relay has placed in top three, and in the same amount of time, seven relay squads have reached top-five status. In fact, the Mizzou 4x800-relay squad has placed in the top five at Drake in four of the last six years.

The 4x1600-meter squad in 2007 took runner-up honors. Mizzou's DMR in 2008 took third.

In 2006, the 4x800-meter relay squad of Jimmie Jones, Blake Figgins, Neville Miller, and Marcus Mayes won the title in dominate fashion. The next day, Jones, Miller, and Mayes, joined Matt Noonan in taking the distance medley relay title by nearly seven seconds. Wilmes' 4x1600-meter squad also placed in the top five that year during the historic Tiger showing.

In his time at Missouri, Wilmes has coached 11 All-Americans and six Big 12 Conference Champions.

In addition to success on the collegiate level, Wilmes has guided several Tigers and former tigers to success at the national and international level. In 2004, Wilmes coached former Tiger Derrick Peterson to a third-place finish at the USATF Olympic Trials in the 800 meters run and a berth on the USA Olympic Team. Peterson ran a personal-best of 1:45.08 at the Olympic Trials to make the team. At the Olympic Games in Athens, Peterson finished fourth in a tactical race, just missing qualifying for the next round. At the 2004 USATF Junior National Championship, Mayes made the USA Junior Team that competed in Grosetto, Italy in the IAAF World Junior Track and Field Championships.

As the head cross country coach, Wilmes' teams have continually been amongst the Big 12's top half, doing so the past five years on the men's side and four of the last seven on the women's side. In 2008, senior Garett Jeffries qualified as an individual for the NCAA Cross Country Championships, marking the fifth-consecutive season Missouri has had an individual qualify for the race. Jeffries earned All-Region honors as well in the 2008 cross country season.

Wilmes, a Hopkins, Mo., native, has been a mainstay at the University of Missouri. Involved in Mizzou athletics for over 14 years as a student-athlete, coach and staff member, Wilmes competed at MU from 1990-95 and developed into one of the best middle distance athletes in Missouri history. In addition to earning four All-American titles, the three-time team captain was a Big Eight champion in the 800-meter run and claimed multiple wins at the prestigious Drake, Kansas and Florida relays.

The winner of several Academic All-America awards, Wilmes was a magna cum laude 1994 honors graduate at Mizzou, earning a dual degree in agriculture economics and business. Wilmes served as a graduate assistant coach for Missouri track and cross country for three years (1995-98) and stayed on with the athletic department for the next two years as an economic analyst in the Tiger business office. During his days as a graduate assistant, Wilmes was involved in all aspects of the program, including a heavy focus on recruiting.

Wilmes is married to the former Rebecca Davis, a two-time track All-American at Missouri and Assistant Cross Country Coach. The Wilmes' have two children, Garett (5) and Elyse (2).

Track & Field Teams Earn Academic Honors

08/11/2009 - Track

Both the Mizzou men's and women's track & field teams were recognized as Division I All-Academic teams as announced by the U.S. Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA). This marks the 43rd-consecutive season that the women's track & field/cross country program has earned this distinction. The award is presented to track & field programs that have an average grade-point-average above 3.00.

Adcock Places Fifth at Thorpe Cup

08/10/2009 - Track

University of Missouri track & field junior Nick Adcock placed fifth overall amongst a field of 14 elite Decathletes this past weekend as part of the Thorpe Cup competition in Marburg, Germany. The competitors at the meet included multiple Olympians and former national champions.

Farmer Finishes Seventh In Championships

06/29/2009 - Track

Leslie Farmer finished seventh overall in the 400-meter hurdle finals on the last day of the U.S. Track and Field Championships, while past Tiger champion Christian Cantwell won the men's shot put and will head into international competition as the one of the top throwers in the world.

Farmer Makes Hurdle Finals

06/27/2009 - Track

The bulk of Missouri athletes competing in the 2009 U.S. Track and Field Championships took part on the second to last day of the event, with the most notable performance coming from freshman Tiger Leslie Farmer who qualified for the finals of the women's 400-meter hurdles.

Adcock To Represent USA In Germany

06/27/2009 - Track

A personal record in the javelin and his second best day ever in a competition, Nick Adcock finished seventh in the decathlon on the third day of the U.S. Track and Field Championships and will represent the United States in the Thorpe Cup Decathlon in Berlin, Germany.