Thomas Wilcher
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Career information | |
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All-American (1985, 1986) Indoor Track All-American (1986) Michigan High School Track and Cross Country Athlete of the Year (1981, 1982) Detroit Free Press Coach of the Year (1998) | |
Records | Michigan Wolverines All-time Records 60-meter High Hurdles (1986–)110 m hurdles (1985–)
Michigan Home Building Record MHSAA All-time Records 110 m hurdles (1981–1986)110 m hurdles (Championship meet) (1982–) |
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Thomas Wilcher is a college football administrator for
In high school, Wilcher was a Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) record-setting hurdler and four-time All-American. As an athlete, he is a ten-time MHSAA track and field champion and a two-time Michigan High School Track and Cross Country Athlete of the Year award winner.[1] He was also a Junior Olympics champion in the 110 m hurdles and an All-state and All-American tailback in football.[1][2][3][4] He was also an All-City swimmer.[4]
As of 2017[update], Wilcher is the head coach for the football team and the boys' track & field team as well as the physical education teacher at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. As a boys' track coach, he is a three-time MHSAA team track and field champion, and his school has also twice been the MHSAA runner up.[5] In his role as a football coach, he is a three-time MHSAA Division 1 champion and a former Detroit Free Press Coach of the Year who has produced five players who have been selected in the NFL draft.
High school
At
Nationally, he was the number one ranked scholastic high hurdler as a junior as well as the number one ranked long (low) hurdler as a senior and was undefeated by high school athletes in both years in the respective events. As a junior, he won the 1981 AAU Junior Olympic Games in the high hurdles (By some accounts he was an AAU Junior champion in 1982).[3] As a senior, he won the International Prep and Golden West low hurdle races. He was timed as fast as 13.48 seconds and 13.28 (wind-aided).[1] In addition to his track accolades, he was an All-state and All-American tailback and All-City swimmer.[3][4]
Some sources regard his 13.2 time in the 1982 AAU Junior Olympic Men 110 Meter Hurdles Young event a national record as of May 2013.[4] As of 2009, the AAU considered it to be the national record.[9] However, as of 2013, AAU regarded Booker Nunley's July 27, 2008 13.41 time to be the junior Olympic record for the newly named 17-18 division (which was said to be formerly known as the Young division).[10]
College
Wilcher was recruited to the
In February 1985, Wilcher was involved in an altercation stemming from an intramural basketball game. Thomas Wilcher incurred penalties of 72 hours of public service deferred sentence,
Wilcher, who wore #27 as a 6-foot (1.8 m) 185-pound (84 kg; 13.2 st) Wolverine,
A ninth round selection,
Coaching
High School
Wilcher is the former football head coach at Cass Technical High School in Detroit, where entering the 2011 MHSAA semifinals, the team had compiled a 99–56 (.639) record and competed in the MHSAA Class-A playoffs ten times since he became head coach in 1997.
The 2010 team went 12–1 and lost 24–21 in the MHSAA Division I semifinals, when they fumbled on the 6-yard line on second-and-4 with less than a minute remaining.
Wilcher is also the Cass boys' track and field coach. The team won the MHSAA Class A track and field championships in 1994, 1995, and 1996 under Wilcher. The team was state runner up in the MHSAA
NFL draftees
Cass Tech's 8 NFL draftees between 2006 and 2021 was the most by any school in the state.[54]
Year | Rnd. | Pick # | NFL team | Player | Pos. | College | Conf. |
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2008 |
1 | 6 | New York Jets | Vernon Gholston | DE | Ohio State | Big Ten |
2011 |
3 | 92 | Oakland Raiders | Joseph Barksdale |
OT | LSU | SEC |
2013 |
6 | 178 | New York Jets | William Campbell | G |
Michigan | Big Ten |
2017 |
3 | 92 | Dallas Cowboys | Jourdan Lewis | CB | Michigan | Big Ten |
2017 |
3 | 95 | Seattle Seahawks | Lano Hill | S | Michigan | Big Ten |
2019 |
7 | 218 | Dallas Cowboys | Mike Weber | RB | Ohio State | Big Ten |
2020 |
6 | 182 | New England Patriots | Michael Onwenu | G | Michigan | Big Ten |
2020 |
6 | 187 | Cleveland Browns | Donovan Peoples-Jones | WR | Michigan | Big Ten |
Vernon Gholston
A similar, although more indepth, story of the recruitment of Gholston has been told by Wilcher: "He was walking down the hall with a
Michigan State University
In 2021, Wilcher accepted an off-field position on the staff of Michigan State Spartans football as the Director of Community and High School Relations.[54]
Head coaching record
Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Cass Tech Technicians (Detroit Public School League - Division I) (1997–2011) | |||||||||
1997 | Cass Tech | 7–3 | 4–1 | Class AA Pre-Regional | |||||
1998 | Cass Tech | 7–2 | 4–1 | Division I District | |||||
1999 | Cass Tech | 7–2 | 4–1 | Division I District | |||||
2000 | Cass Tech | 9–3 | 3–2 | Division I Regional | |||||
2001 | Cass Tech | 5–5 | 3–2 | ||||||
2002 | Cass Tech | 5–4 | 3–2 | ||||||
2003 | Cass Tech | 6–4 | 3–2 | Division I Pre-District | |||||
2004 | Cass Tech | 4–5 | 2–3 | ||||||
2005 | Cass Tech | 2–7 | 1–4 | ||||||
2006 | Cass Tech | 7–4 | 3–2 | Division I District | |||||
2007 | Cass Tech | 5–4 | 1–3 | ||||||
2008 | Cass Tech | 8–3 | 3–1 | Division I District | |||||
2009 | Cass Tech | 6–4 | 2–2 | Division I District | |||||
2010 | Cass Tech | 12–1 | 4–0 | Division I Semifinal | |||||
2011 | Cass Tech | 11–3 | 5–1 | Won Division 1 State Championship | |||||
Cass Tech Technicians (Detroit Public School League - West) (2012–present) | |||||||||
2012 | Cass Tech | 12–2 | 6–0 | Won Division 1 State Championship | |||||
2013 | Cass Tech | 12–1 | – | Division I Semifinal | |||||
2014 | Cass Tech | 12–1 | – | Division I Semifinal | |||||
2015 | Cass Tech | 12–2 | – | Division I Runner-up | |||||
2016 | Cass Tech | 14–0 | – | Won Division 1 State Championship | |||||
2017 | Cass Tech | 10–3 | – | Division 1 State Semifinalist | |||||
Cass Tech: | 173–65 | 51–27 | |||||||
Total: | 173–65 | ||||||||
National championship Conference title Conference division title or championship game berth |
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Personal
Wilcher and his wife Crystal have a son, Kishon, and daughters Kaila and Kiersten.
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