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Greg Wisser enters his 10th season with the University of Vermont track & field program in 2017-18. Wisser is responsible for coaching the pole vault, throwers and multi-event athletes.

Wisser helped transition Martin Kallur to multi-events for the 2014-15 season. Kallur was crowned the New England indoor heptathlon champion and broke his own school record in the process. Kallur also won the Coaches Award at the 2015 America East Indoor Championships after collecting the most points of any male athlete.

Previously, Wisser coached three-time NCAA All-American javelin thrower Nika Ouellette, who became the first athlete in conference history to win four straight America East titles. In 2014 as a senior, Ouellette matched the highest NCAA National Championship finish in program history with 13th in the javelin. Ouellette also became the first female in school history to eclipse the 50-meter mark at the 2014 NCAA East Preliminary Round. 

Vermont swept the javelin at the 2012 America East Championships as Sam Hoadley claimed the men's title after breaking the school record as a senior. In 2011, Wisser sent three javelin throwers to the NCAA Preliminary Round. Ouellette went on to become Vermont's first ever NCAA All-America Honorable Mention and national championship qualifier as a freshman.

Wisser came to UVM after serving as an assistant coach at Plattsburgh State from 2006-08. While with the Cardinals, he developed John Daly into an All-America decathlete. Daly broke a 30-year-old school record with 6,786 points at the 2007 NCAA Outdoor Championships.

The Pittsburgh native began with the Cardinals in August 2006 after two seasons as an assistant coach for track & field and cross country at the United States Merchant Marine Academy. There, he designed the strength and conditioning program, coached throwing events, multi-events, hurdles, pole vault and high jump, groomed 15 NCAA and Eastern College Athletic Conference qualifiers, and helped the Mariners to back-to-back Skyline Conference cross country championships for both the men and women.

Wisser earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics and economics from Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He was a four-year decathlon letterman on the Gator track & field squad, which captured both indoor and outdoor North Coast Athletic Conference championships in 2003 and 2004.

He holds memberships with USA Track & Field and the National Pole Vault Coaches Association, and he is a certified Level 1 coach.