Truman State University Athletics

Jerry Wollmering has served as the Director of Athletics at Truman since September 1999 and is tied with Kenneth Gardner as the longest serving Athletics Director to date.

Since coming to Kirksville, Wollmering has shaped Truman be one of the top athletics departments in NCAA Division II -- both athletically and academically while having to maintain budget restraints during tough economic times.

He has transformed the athletics facilities at Truman during the past decade by getting the students to pass the Student Athletic Fee. All of Truman’s facilities have experienced major upgrades under the fee with highlights include turf and lights at Stokes Stadium, resurfacing projects at tennis, soccer, baseball and softball venues. A new timing system and bulk head in the Natatorium, new chair seating and bleachers in Pershing Arena and a new Athletics Weight Room Facility.

The Bulldogs have finished in the top-10 in the NACDA Directors’ Cup standings in six times Wollmering has been at Truman. In 2003-04, he led the athletics program to a third-place finish in that national program, the highest ever for an active member of the MIAA at that time.

Academically, Truman regularly ranks among the top schools in Division II in graduation rates and producing CoSIDA Academic All-Americans.  Truman has earned the Presidential Distinction award for having over a 90% Academic Success Rate for the past five years.  

Wollmering also helped guide Truman from the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association to the Great Lakes Valley Conference in the 2012-13 academic year. He served on the MIAA’s Finance Committee and on the NCAA National Swimming & Diving Committee.

Prior to coming to Truman, Wollmering served as associate athletics director of finance and administration at Bowling Green State University in Ohio since January of 1998. He was also the assistant athletics director for financial affairs for two years at BGSU, prior to his becoming an associate AD.

Wollmering earned a bachelor's degree in business administration and accounting from Drake University in 1987, and a master's degree in physical education and athletic administration from Kent State University in 1993. He is also a certified public accountant with experience as an auditor.

Before arriving at Bowling Green, Wollmering was an assistant athletic director at Southeast Missouri State University, a Division I program, for approximately 18 months. While working on his master's degree, Wollmering was a graduate assistant to the athletic director at Kent.

A native of Fort Madison, Iowa, he was a varsity letterman in cross country and track at Drake.  He was inducted into the Fort Madison High School Hall of Fame.

Wollmering and his wife, Alicia, have three daughters: Leah, Erica, and Kate.