Derek Carson, a former NWU track & field standout, has served two different stints as an assistant coach for the Prairie Wolves. During the 2009-2010 season, he coached the sprinters with legendary Director of Track and Field / Cross Country coach, Ted Bulling.
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Taking a few years off from coaching while working in Washington DC, Carson joined the coaching staff again in 2016 where he has primarily coached the multi-events and horizontal jumpers.
While coaching the multi events, Carson has led six athletes to All-Conference honors. In 2026, under the tutelage of Carson, freshmen Kaylee Taylor and Hudson Vetrovsky both placed in their respective pentathlon and heptathlon events at the conference championship while also putting together scores that were top-10 marks in NWU history.
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In the horizontal jumps during the 2026 campaign, he coached three all conference performances in the long jump. Chloe Mooberry had a breakout season. Her jumps of 5.62m (outdoors) and 5.71m (indoors) were the 5th and 3rd furthest jumps in school history. Mooberry qualified for the Indoor NCAA National Championship with her jump of 5.71. At the national meet, she earned herself her first career second team NCAA All-American honor.
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Carson was a five-time NCAA III All-American with the Prairie Wolves, earning three All-American awards at the 2009 NCAA III Outdoor Championships. He was part of the national runner-up 4x100 relay team during these 2009 Championships, as well as a member of the national runner-up 4x400 team during the 2008 NCAA III Indoor Championships.
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The Lincoln, Nebraska native was a two-time CoSIDA Academic All-American and earned a NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship. Carson graduated from NWU in May 2009 with a degree in History. A Nebraska Army National Guard veteran, he is employed by the federal government and lives in Lincoln with his wife Jamie and their three boys, Max, Zeke, and Theodore.
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