Bobby Wheet begins his fifth season as an assistant coach for the UW-La Crosse men's basketball team in 2017-18. Wheet is in his second year as coordinator of camps and clinics for the Eagles.
He came to UWL after serving as an assistant men's basketball coach and director of strength and conditioning at Hartwick College (Oneonta, New York) from 2011-13. Hartwick won the Empire 8 Conference title in 2012 and earned a bid to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Tournament.
Wheet's duties at Hartwick included recruiting, designing and presenting scouting reports of opponents and monitoring academic progress and study halls at Hartwick. He was also the Director of the Hartwick College basketball overnight camp.
Prior to arriving at Hartwick, Wheet was the assistant men's basketball coach at Knox College (Galesburg, Illinois) from 2008-2011. He served as the recruiting coordinator at Knox as well as the head junior varsity coach. Other duties included organizing and implementing team practices, designing and presenting scouting reports and serving as the video exchange coordinator. Wheet also coordinated Knox College summer basketball camps and coaching clinic. He was the strength and conditioning coach for men's and women's basketball, men's soccer and volleyball at Knox.
Wheet was the assistant men's basketball coach at Hartwick in 2007-08 before moving to Knox. He was a student assistant men's basketball coach at Central College (Pella, Iowa) in 2006-07.
He served as a camp coach in 2006 for the Tom Crean Marquette University, Bo Ryan University of Wisconsin and Rob Judson Northern Illinois University Basketball Camps.
Wheet earned his bachelor's degree in social science from Central College (Iowa) in 2007 and his master's degree in recreation and sport sciences with a concentration in coaching education from Ohio University (Athens, Ohio) in 2011. He completed the Don Meyer Basketball Coaching Academy in 2010 at Northern State University (Aberdeen, South Dakota).
A member of the National Strength and Conditioning Association, Wheet is a certified strength and conditioning specialist.
Wheet resides in La Crosse.
