Just finished up his 14th season.
Was hired at UPIKE in October of 2004 after meeting Ron Damron, then-athletic director and women’s bowling coach. From there he has led the Bears to the Intercollegiate Team Championships (ITCs) eight times, including three times in the last six seasons.
Under Wilson’s guidance, the Bears have captured two Mid-South Conference Tournament Championships in 2014 and 2015, as well as five regular-season MSC titles from 2013 to 2017, giving them a league title all five seasons the MSC has sponsored bowling.
Wilson has coached four NCBCA All-Americans at Pikeville, including Ronnie Sparks Jr. (2006, first team); Cassidy Schaub (2006, second team); Kyle Barnes (2008, first team); Andrew Letscher (2017, second team); and one NAIA All-American in Zach Fylling who earned first-team honors in 2016.
At age 16, Wilson started the Junior Tournament Bowlers Association (JTBA), an organization which offered top scratch tournament competition for better bowlers in the Midwest, in which he was the Executive Director until July 2005, when he turned over the organization to others so that he could focus more on his duties at Pikeville.
He is a native of Mount Vernon, Ohio, where he graduated from Mount Vernon High School in 1982. He worked at his parent’s family restaurant until September 2005, when his parents retired and closed their family business after 30 years.
In Wilson’s free time, he likes hiking, horseback riding, listening to music, collecting sports cards, baseball and of course, bowling.