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Jerod Wims enters his first season with the Boston College Eagles as the Assistant Track and Field Coach of the Sprints, Hurdles and Relays group.
Wims comes to Boston College after a brief, yet successful stint at the University of Central Arkansas. While at UCA, Wims played an integral role for the sprints group that resulted in three broken school records and two ASUN Champions.
Prior to his brief stint at the University of Central Arkansas, Wims held the position, Head Men’s and Women’s Track & Field and Cross Country coach at South Carolina State University for 3 seasons. While at South Carolina State, Wims managed to develop a NCAA All -American (during the pandemic), 9 NCAA Regional Qualifiers, break 8 school records, and create 10 MEAC Champions.
From 2016-2019, Wims was the Head Men’s and Women’s Track and Field and Cross Country Coach at Mercer University. While at Mercer, Wims established an impressive tradition of winning with 11 top-three Southern Conference finishers for the track & field and cross country programs in the first three seasons of his tenure at Mercer, developing the program into one of the top sprint groups in the conference.
On the track, the 2019 spring outdoor season included seven top-three finishers at the SoCon Championships, eight new school records, wins in the 4x100m and 4x400m relays and a sixth-place finish with a total of 70 points (most in program history) at the SoCon Championships. Mercer's 4x100m relay team also recorded the second-fastest time in the state of Georgia for the 2019 season. Additionally, the 4x100m relay team ranked 32nd in the NCAA East Region, falling just six spots shy of securing a spot at the NCAA East region preliminaries.
In 2018, Wims guided a young and largely inexperienced women's track & field team to a sixth-place finish at the SoCon Outdoor Championships. Wims led the group to a 49-point finish, a then-program best, three top-three finishers and the first-ever Southern Conference Champion in the triple jump.
Wims was hired as the interim head coach for track & field and cross country (at Mercer) in 2016, and went on to guide the 2017 squad to a seventh-place finish and 26 points at the SoCon Championships, yet another program-best at that time. Wims' leadership produced Mercer's first SoCon medalist in 2017. Eight school records in total fell during that year.
A native of Miami, Fla., Wims previously served as the head coach for track & cross country at Windsor Academy High School and as a Fire Sergeant for the City of Perry (Ga.) prior to Mercer.
He is a graduate of Auburn University, where he earned a degree in Criminology in 2009. On the tail end of achieving NCAA All-American status in 2009, he immediately pursued a post-collegiate professional track and field career, having success in overseas competition.
Wims transferred to Auburn from Florida International University as one of the top 100m and 200m sprinters in the Sun Belt Conference. While at FIU, Wims contributed to a 4x100m relay that broke seven straight records and qualified for the NCAA Championship as the number three team in the entire east region. In addition, he twice achieved USA Junior All-American status by finishing top five at USA trials in 2005 in the 100m and seventh in the 200m races, qualifying for the Pan Am games in Ontario, Canada.
