Nick Homan enters his fifth season as the Head Men’s and Women’s Track & Field Coach at Webster. Coach Homan has produced 33 All-Conference honorees and four top-50 national athletes.
While at Webster, Coach Homan has coached several of the all-time Webster Men’s and Women’s Indoor and Outdoor Track & Field record holders in the 60m dash, 60m hurdles, 100m hurdles, 100m dash, 400m, 500m, 800m, mile run, 3,000m, 5,000m, high jump, pole vault, discus, hammer, decathlon, heptathlon, and weight throw. Since taking over the program in 2021, Homan has developed two SLIAC Indoor Track Athletes of the Year and three SLIAC Outdoor Track Athletes of the Year.
Coach Homan arrived at Webster in 2021 from Central Methodist University (Mo.) where he served as the Assistant Track & Field Coach since January of 2016. While at CMU, Homan coached numerous NAIA All-Americans in the pole vault, decathlon, hurdles, hammer throw, discus, and shot put while guiding Drew Gandy to an NAIA National Championship in the decathlon. He also assisted with recruiting, wrote supervised student-athlete training programs, and assisted with the organization of track meets.
While working as an assistant track coach at Central Methodist, Homan also served as an admissions representative. He generated inquiries about the university both nationally and globally while advising prospective students on educational opportunities, admission standards, financial assistance, and university policies. He helped to coordinate travel schedules to college fairs and participated in on-campus and off-campus recruiting events.
In addition, Homan has served as an Olympic Weightlifting and Strength coach since 2019. He has recruited personal training clientele and created training programs tailored to meet the unique needs of individual clients. He has outlined dietary and nutritional plans while teaching weightlifting techniques.
Homan competed for the Central Methodist (Mo.) University track and field team while in college. He was the 2015 NAIA Indoor Track and Field National Champion in the Pole Vault and was a two-time NAIA All-American. He was a six-time Heart of America Athletic Conference Champion and competed post collegiate at an elite level that includes a personal best mark of 5.55m which ranked in the Top 50 World Rankings in both 2017 and 2018. He was also the Missouri State and Open Weightlifting Champion in 2021.
Homan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Exercise Science and Kinesiology in December of 2015 from Central Methodist (Mo.) University. He is married to his wife Lindsay and they have a daughter named Finley.
