Davenport University Women's Track

Cook is in his 10th season as head coach of Davenport University's cross country and track & field teams. During his time at DU, his indoor and outdoor track & field teams have seen the most success. Cook has coached 35 WHAC champions in both sports along with a WHAC Outdoor Athlete of the Year in two of the last four seasons. He has also coached 11 athletes who have earned nine NAIA All-American honors. In 2013-14, the program saw its biggest individual accomplishment as Tori Brooks won the indoor and outdoor national championship in the high jump. It marks the first ever NAIA title in any sport at the school. Brooks would go on to repeat his indoor title in the winter of 2015. Academically, Cook's teams are top notch. He had 18 student-athletes earn NAIA Scholar Athlete recognition in the last three years.  During the 2010-2011 season, all six of his teams were named NAIA Scholar Teams for having a combined GPA of at least 3.0. Previously, Cook was the head coach at Northwood University for six seasons.  During his time at Northwood he coached a dozen NCAA Division 2 All-Americans and two Academic All-Americans. Previous to NU, Cook served as assistant cross country and track & field coach at Grand Valley State University. Scott is a 1997 graduate of Bradley University where he lettered four years in cross country. In addition to his coaching roles he serves at the WHAC Chair for his sports and is on the NAIA Games Committee.  He is also a member of DU's Diversity Equity & Inclusion Committee. He and his wife Beth reside in Alto, Mich. with their two children Addy and Owen.

Weir enters year three as an assistant coach for Davenports track & field/XC team. Weir brings to Davenport five years of coaching experience at the collegiate level where he was an assistant at Illinois Wesleyan University since 2010. Weir coached the pole vault, high jump, hurdles, and multi-events in his stint with the Titans as well as being in charge of the strength and conditioning program for most of the team. There he helped coach 12 National Qualifiers, among them were three All-Americans and one National Champion, along with seeing his Heptathlete score the ninth-most points ever at the Division III Outdoor National Championship meet.  Here at DU, Weir will be overseeing, program writing, and recruiting for all the jumps, hurdles, and Multis. He will be assisted in the horizontal jumps and hurdles by two other great coaches. He will also be heading up most of the strength and conditioning programs for the team. In the short 2-1/2 years here, he has helped guide 18 National Qualifiers, four All-Americans, and one National Champion, along with qualifying an athlete for the USA Indoor T&F Championships. Last year all four of the female high jumpers qualified for Nationals. Weirs background is in Sports and Health Sciences and is a certified strength and conditioning coach. He is originally from Princeton, Wisconsin and attended UW-Stout.  

Hewson enters his third season as assistant coach of the track and field program after it had one of its biggest program accomplishments in program history after Tori Brooks won the NAIA National Championship in the indoor and outdoor championships. Prior to his arrival at DU, Hewson served an identical role down the Beltline at fellow Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference member Aquinas. Along with the recruiting duties, Hewson took charge of the sprints, jumps and hurdles. He also coordinated with the Saints home meets and the team's travel plans. In addition, he maintained the program's website and Facebook page.   Before joining the collegiate ranks, Hewson was an assistant coach at Creston High and Grand Rapids Track Club. With both Creston High and Grand Rapids Track Club, he oversaw strength & conditioning for the sprints, jumps and hurdles events.   A 2010 graduate of Aquinas, Hewson competed on the Saints track & field team, including taking on the role of team captain from 2008-10. Beginning 2010, the Saints began a Team Captain award named after him.   A member of the USA Track & Field since 2010, Hewson received a level one coaching certification from the association and is a specialist in sprints, hurdles and relays. Matt Hewson Assistant Coach Matt Hewson enters his third season as assistant coach of the track and field program after it had one of its biggest program accomplishments in program history after Tori Brooks won the NAIA National Championship in the indoor and outdoor championships. Prior to his arrival at DU, Hewson served an identical role down the Beltline at fellow Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference member Aquinas. Along with the recruiting duties, Hewson took charge of the sprints, jumps and hurdles. He also coordinated with the Saints home meets and the team's travel plans. In addition, he maintained the program's website and Facebook page.   Before joining the collegiate ranks, Hewson was an assistant coach at Creston High and Grand Rapids Track Club. With both Creston High and Grand Rapids Track Club, he oversaw strength & conditioning for the sprints, jumps and hurdles events.   A 2010 graduate of Aquinas, Hewson competed on the Saints track & field team, including taking on the role of team captain from 2008-10. Beginning 2010, the Saints began a Team Captain award named after him.   A member of the USA Track & Field since 2010, Hewson received a level one coaching certification from the association and is a specialist in sprints, hurdles and relays.

Wilder enters her first season as an assistant track and field coach at Davenport University. Wilder is a native of West Covina, California. During college, she earned a bachelor's degree in biological science and also competed in track and field at the University of California-Riverside. Wilder has three years of volunteer coaching experience at the NCAA Division I level at UC-Riverside (2011-12) and The Ohio State University (2013-15). Her specialization is in coaching the horizontal jumps. She also coached youth track clinics through the OSU LifeSports Program in her spare time. During Wilder's time as a track and field athlete at UC-Riverside, she competed in the short sprints, relays, long jump and triple jump. In the jump events, she held personal bests of 19' 1" (5.83m) in the long jump and 43' 4.5" (13.22m) in the triple jump. Both those marks are school records indoor and outdoor. Throughout her career, Wilder has completed in five USATF championship events (indoor and outdoor seasons) and earned two NCAA All-American honors in triple jump. Her most recent participation in a USATF championship event was during the indoor season in 2015. In August, she received her Master of Public Health degree at Ohio State University.