SIUE

Josh Wolfe began his SIUE coaching career, leading the Cougar distance runners in both cross country and track. In his first year in Edwardsville, he saw numerous personal bests amid a year that required many Covid-related changes to training, including the unprecedented running of cross country in January and February, at the same time the NCAA landscape was training for indoor track.

In just a little more than two years with the Cougars, Wolfe has already impacted the record books. He first guided Aly Griffin to a school record performance in the outdoor 5k in the spring of 2021 (16:57.94). Wolfe then saw top xc runner Roland Prenzler achieve the highest finish at the OVC meet in school history when he finished 3rd at the 2021 championships. He then produced multiple school record performances from his training group the following indoor season, spring of 2022, when Aly Griffin broke the indoor 3k school record (9:47.42) and the team of Griffin, Kayla Carter, Emily Lemke, and Kassidy Dexheimer broke the distance medley school record (11:59.82). And most recently, the fall of 2022 saw many of the men's cross country team take a step forward, with Prenzler (24:47.9) and Spencer Hielkema (24:58.8) both jumped onto the top 10 all time men's list and led the team to produce a 2:08:08 total team time at the Bradley Pink Classic, which is the fastest team time on record.

Prior to SIUE, Wolfe spent his 10 years in collegiate coaching at Indiana Tech in Fort Wayne, Ind. Wolfe was the program's head coach for the last seven seasons. Wolfe saw the program rise to national prominence and become an annual threat to win national titles on the track.  The men's track and cross country programs combined to win three of the prestigious Program of the Year awards from the national coaching association, USTFCCCA.  Wolfe was named the Wolverine-Hoosier Athletic Conference (WHAC) Men’s Coach of the Year in 2016 and 2017 as the Warriors finished first at the conference meet both seasons, with 2016 being the schools first-ever conference title.

Across the decade, Wolfe's distance group produced five cross country All-Americans and team placings as high as 12th in the country, along with national champions in the 600m, 1000m, 4x800 relay. 

As an athlete, Wolfe was a four-time state qualifier and a three-time All-State cross country runner in the one-class Indiana system at DeKalb High School. Wolfe is a 2007 graduate of Manchester College (now University) and was an All-Conference selection in the cross country circuit for the Spartans. Wolfe ranks in the Spartans All-Time Top 50 cross country runners. He was named a team captain at both levels.

Wolfe is USATF level 2 certified and completed his master’s in sport administration from Ball State University. While a graduate assistant at BSU, he became a published author in the Indiana Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance peer-reviewed journal for his research on youth physical recreation.  

Wolfe relocated to the St. Louis area with his wife, Elaina, who is an assistant professor at UMSL.