Brett Witt enters his 12th season at UW-Stevens Point in 2025-26 and leads four Pointers teams as the Head Track & Field Coach.
In 2024, Witt oversaw 12 NCAA National Championship qualifiers and six who finished with All-America honors between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Senior Braedon Gilles become the eighth person in program history to earn CSC Academic All-America honors and third all-time to finish first team.
At UW-Stevens Point, he works closely with his father, Rick, who is the director of the cross country and track & field teams and is a 43-year staff member at UWSP. In 2017, Witt was named the WIAC Men's and Women's Indoor Coach of the Year and he guided Jerry Williams to the 2017 national championship in the indoor long jump.
Since assuming the helm at UWSP, he has coached 57 individual All-Americans and six All-American relay teams across indoor and outdoor track and field and cross country.
Witt spent 12 seasons as the head coach of Carthage’s cross country team and nine years as head coach of their track and field programs. At Carthage, Witt coached eight All-CCIW performers in cross country and 41 individual CCIW champions in track and field.
A native of Plover, Wis., Witt attended UW-Stevens Point and was an eight-time U.S. Track & Field Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) NCAA Division III All-American track and field runner and a five-time Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) champion, as well as a USTFCCCA All-Academic selection. Witt was inducted into the UW-Stevens Point Athletic Hall of Fame in 2006.
Witt graduated from UW-Stevens Point in 1998 with a bachelor’s in communication and received his master’s in human performance and sport studies from the University of Tennessee in 1999. While at Tennessee, he also served as a graduate teaching assistant and worked in the track & field office.
He and his wife, Kari, reside in Stevens Point with their children, McKenna, Miles and Lucy.
