Dale Wellman completed his ninth season as the head men’s basketball coach at Nebraska Wesleyan University in the 2022-23 season. He was named the HoopDirt.Com NCAA Division III Coach of the Year in 2019 and received NABC/NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year recognition in 2018

Wellman has led the Prairie Wolves to four conference championships, four national tournament appearances and the program’s first National Championship during his tenure. Overall, Wellman has a career coaching record of 205-128 in 13 seasons as a head coach.

Wellman came to NWU after spending six seasons as the head coach at Alfred University, a NCAA III Institution located in Alfred, N.Y. Before his stint at Alfred, Dale spent two seasons as an assistant coach at Williams College in Massachusetts.

His collegiate coaching career began in 2002 when he was an assistant coach at Kenyon (Ohio) College. A year later he was appointed assistant coach at Union College in New York. He then spent two seasons as an assistant coach at NCAA Division I Eastern Kentucky University where he helped EKU set a school record for wins and earn a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

Wellman is a 1999 graduate of The University of The South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He played four seasons for the Tigers, participating twice in the NCAA Division III National Tournament (1997, 1998) and earning SCAC All-Academic honors.

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