Tim Wunderlich - Men's Track & Field Coach - Dartmouth College Athletics

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Tim Wunderlich

Title:
Jumps Coach
Alma Mater:
Dartmouth ’09
Email:
Timothy.A.Wunderlich@Dartmouth.edu
Phone (603):
603-646-6431
At Dartmouth:
10th Season (2023-24)

Tim Wunderlich ’09 begins his tenth season with Dartmouth Track & Field during the 2023-24 academic year. He joined the Big Green track staff in the fall of 2014 and works with Dartmouth’s jumpers and multi-event athletes.

Throughout his tenure at Dartmouth, Wunderlich’s athletes have had a wealth of success in the Ivy League and nationally, helping the Dartmouth team place higher in the Ivy League than they have in the past 20 years. In total, Wunderlich has already produced 18 Ivy League Champions, eleven school records, one Ivy League Championships Men’s Outstanding Athlete, two Ivy League Championships Women’s Outstanding Athletes, one USTFCCCA Women’s Northeast Field Athlete of the Year, and five All-American awards.

Wunderlich’s protégés account for 115 all-time top-ten performances in Dartmouth history, spanning across 37 different events.

Most notably, Benjamin Ose ’19 graduated Dartmouth as a two-time All-American and three-time Ivy League Champion decathlete. Julia Valenti ’20 tallied three Ivy titles and three New England titles in the women’s pole vault. Cha’Mia Rothwell ’20 left Dartmouth as an 11-time All-Ivy honoree, two-time Ivy League Women’s Outstanding Field Athlete, and Ivy League record holder in the 60-meter and 100-meter hurdles. Kaitlin Whitehorn ’16 graduated Dartmouth as a three-time All-American, six-time Ivy League Champion, and fifth-place finisher in the women’s high jump at the 2016 Olympic Trials.

Wunderlich began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant coach at Johns Hopkins (2009-10), continued as a graduate assistant coach at the University of Central Missouri (2010-12), and then worked as an assistant track and field/XC coach at Marietta College (2012-2014). While at UCM, Wunderlich pursued his Masters in Kinesiology and Exercise Science while working closely with athletes in the jumps and multi-events. He also developed training programs for UCM’s sprinters/hurdlers and javelin throwers. As a graduate assistant, Wunderlich guided Lindsay Lettow and Brent Vogel to national championships in the heptathlon and decathlon, respectively, and witnessed Lindsay Lettow place eighth in the 2012 Olympic Trials in the women’s heptathlon. Wunderlich was a part of 13 Indoor and 15 Outdoor All-American performances during his tenure with UCM.

Aside from coaching, Wunderlich is a recently retired, national-level decathlete. He qualified and competed in the 2014 Indoor USATF Championships, and the 2014, 2017, and 2018 Outdoor USATF Championship competitions in the multi-events. He most recently finished sixth in the men’s decathlon at the 2018 Outdoor USATF Championship and finished ninth in the same event in 2017. In fact, Ose and Wunderlich competed alongside one another at the 2018 USATF National Championship. This was thought to be one of the only times in history that a student-athlete and his coach have competed together in the decathlon at the USA level.

Wunderlich also represented Team USA at the prestigious Thorpe Cup, an annual USA versus Germany multi-event competition, on two occasions (2017, 2018), and competed as part of Team USA at the 2013 Pan American Combined Events Cup. In 2012, Wunderlich posted his personal best in the decathlon, achieving the Olympic Trials standard with a score of 7,636 points.

Wunderlich hails from Westminster, Maryland, and graduated from Dartmouth with a degree in Human Biology in 2009. He was an Ivy League Champion in the decathlon as a junior and was honored with the Everett L. Palmer Award as a senior for his contributions to the program. As a member of the Big Green, Wunderlich was a three-time NCAA Regional qualifier in the javelin, a two-time USTFCCCA DI All-Academic Team selection, and a three-time Second Team All-Conference student-athlete between the javelin and the decathlon.