Collins is entering his fourth season as Associate Head Coach for the Nighthawks track and field team. Collins has led the jumpers and combined event athletes to a National Champion (Payton Lewis in the pole vault), eight national meet appearances, eight school records, 30 NCAA qualifying performances, and 66 performers in NNU's top 10 record-books. Collins was named the NCAA D-II West Region Assistant Coach of the year twice, indoor seasons 2017 and 2018. Collins also serves as strength and Conditioning Coach for the Sprints, Hurdles, Jumps, and Combined event athletes.
Prior to arriving at NNU, Collins was the Assistant Coach at fellow GNAC school Montana State University Billings from fall 2011 through the 2015 outdoor season. In Billings, he oversaw the sprinters, hurdlers, jumpers and combined event athletes and coached those groups to 24 school records. Collins also was responsible for strength and conditioning for the entire team.
Collins got his start in coaching as a graduate assistant coach for Central Washington University where he coached the horizontal jumps and the combined events. In just two years his athletes achieved conference champions and 43 individual top eight performances at GNAC Championship events.
Collins earned his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Exercise Science from Central Washington University in 2009 and 2011, respectively. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach and also holds a certificate as a Combined and Multi-event Specialist through the USTFCCCA track and field academy.
“Collins, in his third year at Northwest Nazarene, coached athletes who totaled 49 of the team’s 81 points at the GNAC Championships. His pole vaulters finished first, second, third and seventh, and in total, his athletes hit six NCAA Division II Provisional marks on the season.” - USTFCCCA.org
“Collins, in his second year with the program, coached four pole vaulters to three NCAA provisional marks and one NCAA Division II Automatic Qualifying mark. Payton Lewis and Zach McClanahan went 1-2 at the GNAC Championships, while Lewis sits 3rd on the Descending Order List. Collins’ high jumpers went 2-4 at the GNAC Championships, with Cole Hoberg going 2.09m (6-10¼), good for 16th on the NCAA list. Micah Tranch set a GNAC heptathlon record in the high jump, then placed 4th in the open high jump. His athletes scored 36 points at the GNAC Championships.” - USTFCCCA.org
