Men's Track & Field
Wilson, Darcy
Darcy Wilson
- Title:
- Associate Director of Track and Field, Assistant Coaching Chair for Throwing Events
- Email:
- darcy_wilson@brown.edu
- Joined Brown:
- September 2023
- Alma Mater:
- Boston University '86
Darcy Wilson is in her third season as Brown's Associate Director of Track and Field, Assistant Coaching Chair for Throwing Events in the 2025-26 season.
An experienced coach with demonstrated success at the Division I level, Wilson is no stranger to Brown or the Ivy League as she is in her second stint with the Bears, and previously spent seven years as the throws coach at Harvard.
In 2024-2025, Wilson coached Chidinma Agbasi to a school record in the weight throw (19.77m), with a third-place finish at the Ivy League Indoor Heps. Agbasi also finished third at Outdoor Heps, setting the third-best mark in school history (58.38m). Additionally, first-year Giana DeCesare qualified for the U-20 National Championships in the hammer throw.
During her return campaign with the Brown throws program, she coached Chris White to a first place finish and third place for Eddie Webb in the javelin; Sophia Gallucci in fourth and Kendra Ezeama sixth place in women's hammer; and Ezeama in third in the women's shot put.
While with the Crimson in her 2022-2023 campaign, Wilson’s athletes won all four Indoor Ivy League Heps throws events and five Outdoor Ivy League throws titles. During her tenure, eight program throws records were set, including two Ivy League records, which helped Harvard capture both the men’s and women’s Ivy League Outdoor Heps titles in 2023. Under Wilson’s 2023 outdoor campaign, Kenneth Ikeji and Stephanie Ratcliffe both won NCAA National Championships in the hammer throw with collegiate lead marks, making Wilson the first female coach to have athletes win both the men’s and women’s NCAA national title in the same season. Three other athletes qualified for Outdoor Nationals, with a sixth place women's discus and a men’s & women’s shot-putter for a total of three First Team All-Americans. She also coached a U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier, one world athletics qualifier in the hammer, and an Australian national record holder for women’s hammer.
In the summer of 2023 Wilson was selected to represent Team USA at the U20 Pan Am Games in Puerto Rico as the female throws coach.
Wilson recently became certified as a USATF Instructor and obtained USATF Level 3 Certification.
During her first stint on College Hill, Wilson spent four seasons as the Bears’ throws coach from 2012-2016 during which her athletes set two school records and had multiple athletes qualify for the NCAA Regionals.
Wilson also previously served five seasons as an assistant coach for throws at UMass Amherst and Keene State.
As a student-athlete thrower, Wilson competed at Virginia Tech before transferring to Boston University, where she competed for three years, while earning a bachelor’s degree in social work. She also trained at Olympic Training Camps in Colorado, California, and Lake Placid, New York.
COACHING TIMELINE
An experienced coach with demonstrated success at the Division I level, Wilson is no stranger to Brown or the Ivy League as she is in her second stint with the Bears, and previously spent seven years as the throws coach at Harvard.
In 2024-2025, Wilson coached Chidinma Agbasi to a school record in the weight throw (19.77m), with a third-place finish at the Ivy League Indoor Heps. Agbasi also finished third at Outdoor Heps, setting the third-best mark in school history (58.38m). Additionally, first-year Giana DeCesare qualified for the U-20 National Championships in the hammer throw.
During her return campaign with the Brown throws program, she coached Chris White to a first place finish and third place for Eddie Webb in the javelin; Sophia Gallucci in fourth and Kendra Ezeama sixth place in women's hammer; and Ezeama in third in the women's shot put.
While with the Crimson in her 2022-2023 campaign, Wilson’s athletes won all four Indoor Ivy League Heps throws events and five Outdoor Ivy League throws titles. During her tenure, eight program throws records were set, including two Ivy League records, which helped Harvard capture both the men’s and women’s Ivy League Outdoor Heps titles in 2023. Under Wilson’s 2023 outdoor campaign, Kenneth Ikeji and Stephanie Ratcliffe both won NCAA National Championships in the hammer throw with collegiate lead marks, making Wilson the first female coach to have athletes win both the men’s and women’s NCAA national title in the same season. Three other athletes qualified for Outdoor Nationals, with a sixth place women's discus and a men’s & women’s shot-putter for a total of three First Team All-Americans. She also coached a U.S. Olympic Trials qualifier, one world athletics qualifier in the hammer, and an Australian national record holder for women’s hammer.
In the summer of 2023 Wilson was selected to represent Team USA at the U20 Pan Am Games in Puerto Rico as the female throws coach.
Wilson recently became certified as a USATF Instructor and obtained USATF Level 3 Certification.
During her first stint on College Hill, Wilson spent four seasons as the Bears’ throws coach from 2012-2016 during which her athletes set two school records and had multiple athletes qualify for the NCAA Regionals.
Wilson also previously served five seasons as an assistant coach for throws at UMass Amherst and Keene State.
As a student-athlete thrower, Wilson competed at Virginia Tech before transferring to Boston University, where she competed for three years, while earning a bachelor’s degree in social work. She also trained at Olympic Training Camps in Colorado, California, and Lake Placid, New York.
COACHING TIMELINE
| Season | School/Team | Title |
|---|---|---|
| October 2009 - October 2012 | UMass Amherst | Throws Coach |
| October 2012 - October 2015 | Keene State | Throws Coach |
| November 2012 - September 2016 | Brown | Throws Coach |
| September 2016 - September 2023 | Harvard | Throws Coach |
| September 2023-present | Brown | Associate Director of Track and Field, Assistant Coaching Chair for Throwing Events |
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