University of Central Missouri Athletics

Tucker Woolsey is in his 21st season as an assistant at the University of Central Missouri, working with the Mules and Jennies throwers. He was honored as the Regional Assistant Coach of the Year in 2008, 2015, and 2017 and the Outdoor National Assistant Coach of the Year in 2015.

Woolsey has worked with 57 individual conference champions, 83 All-Americans, and 9 national champions in the shot put, discus, hammer throw and weight throw. That includes Heavin Warner who won to back-to-back-to-back National Championships in the hammer throw in 2014-16.

A four-time Academic All-MIAA selection, Woolsey was a six-time All-American in the shot put, a Verizon Academic All-American, and a four-year letter winner in both football and track & field for Northwest Missouri State. He helped lead the Bearcats football team to a pair of National Championships (1998-1999) and four consecutive conference crowns as an All-MIAA fullback. The Excelsior Springs, Mo. native won the Ken B. Jones Award as the conference’s Outstanding Male Athlete.  Woolsey was inducted into the Northwest Missouri State University Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010.

At Excelsior Springs High, he earned a total of 15 letters in football, wrestling, track, and baseball. The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient now has an Ed. Specialist degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Central Missouri and an Ed. Doctorate from the University of Western States in Sport and Performance Psychology.

When Woolsey is not coaching the UCM throwers, he teaches mathematics at Crest Ridge High School. He is married to Katie Woolsey. The couple have three children Westin, Colton, and Kenna Jo.