Shawn Wheelock took over as the head cross country coach at Northern State in June of 2006. Wheelock is no stranger to Aberdeen or Northern State. Wheelock earned his master’s in Art and Teaching from Northern State back in 1994. He was also an assistant coach with the Wolves from 1991 to 1994 helping with both cross country and track & field. The 1991 men’s cross country team is still the only men’s cross country team that has qualified for nationals at NSU. Wheelock moved on to become the Aberdeen Central High School assistant girls track & field and cross country coach from 1995-98 and then the head cross country coach from 1998 until 2002.
Wheelock was the head cross country coach in 2003 and 2004 at the University of Nebraska Kearney and assistant track & field coach from 2002 through 2005 at UNK. Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams at UNK ranked in the top ten in the North Central Region under his leadership. Wheelock also had two national qualifiers in 2004, one in cross country and one in indoor track & field in the 5K. Wheelock had 12 provisional NCAA qualifiers and saw six school records broken in track & field during his time at UNK.
A graduate of Lewellen (Neb.) Rural High School, Wheelock graduated from Doane College in 1989 with a history degree. At Doane he was a two-time NAIA All-American and won two NIAC (now GPAC) individual cross country titles.
Shawn and his wife Melissa, along with their son Aidan will move to Aberdeen later this summer.
Strength and Conditioning Coach Derrick Budig
Northern State strength & conditioning coach Derik Budig has propelled Wolves' athletics to new heights thanks to his comprehensive strength program that has been implemented into the NSU athletic system.
Before coming to Aberdeen, the Yankton, S.D., native was at the University of Texas, at El Paso (UTEP) as a graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach. He has also served as a strength and conditioning consultant for Olympic track and field athletes in El Paso. Prior to his time at UTEP, Budig was an intern for the National Football League's Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the area of strength and conditioning.
Budig has also had success on the football field where he was a four-year starter and two-year team captain for Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D.
Budig is in charge of developing and coordinating programs which assists student/athletes in developing overall physical strength and conditioning at NSU. He also organizes the weight room for all of Northern's athletic programs, is the sponsor for NSU's FCA and is the coordinator of the Wolves Challenge strength and conditioning program.
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Northern State University (located in Aberdeen, SD) is an NCAA Division II institution and a member of the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
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