ABILENE, Texas – The ACU track and field programs and head coach
Jerrod Cook have announced the addition of former Texas Tech associate head coach Diane Wholey to the staff for the 2022-23 season. Wholey's 30-plus year resume is decorated with national and conference titles at the collegiate level, and she has also assisted Team USA after holding several coaching and managerial positions with USA Track & Field.
Most recently, Wholey served as the head men's and women's coach at Western Illinois, where she spent four years and helped Leatherneck long jumpers to both indoor and outdoor Summit League Championships in 2019. Additionally, Wholey's athletes ended up shattering a bevy of school records, including new program-best marks in the pentathlon, heptathlon, high jump, hurdles, and triple jump.
Wholey served as the head women's coach for the 2017 IAAF World Outdoor Championships in London, and she guided the nation's U-23s to the 2014 NACAC Championship in Canada. She was called upon twice in 2004 to coach the women's team in the IAAF World Indoor Championship, and she also was named the head women's manager for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.
Her resume also includes a two-year stint in Austin, where she handled coaching duties for field events and heptathletes and was also the Longhorns' recruiting coordinator. She also spent six years as an assistant at Ole Miss, coaching both the men's and women's programs while leading the Rebels' recruiting efforts.
Wholey earned her master's degree in physical education from Tennessee, where she helped lead the Volunteers to three top-10 national finishes in both indoor and outdoor track, as well as a pair of top-15 national finishes in cross country and an SEC cross country championship.
Wholey completed her undergraduate degree at Texas A&M University with a bachelor's degree in physical education.
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