Thomas Wilcher

Thomas Wilcher is a high school athletic coach who was previously a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I track and field national champion in the indoor 55 m hurdles and a three-time NCAA All-American in track and field for the University of Michigan. Wilcher was also a running back for the Michigan Wolverines football team from 1983–1986. In his redshirt senior year, he was a member of the Big Ten Conference football champion team as well as a 110 m hurdles Big Ten individual champion.

In high school, Wilcher was a Michigan High School Athletic Association (MHSAA) record-setting hurdler. 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. He was also a Junior Olympics champion in the 110 m hurdles and an All-state tailback in football.

As of 2011, Wilcher is the head coach for the football team and the boy's track & field team at Cass Technical High School in Detroit. As a boy's track coach, he is a three-time MHSAA team track and field champion, and his school has also twice been the MHSAA runner up. In his role as a football coach, he is the current MHSAA Division 1 champion and a former Detroit Free Press Coach of the Year, who once convinced Vernon Gholston, the 2007 Big Ten Conference Defensive lineman of the year and 2008 NFL Draft sixth overall pick, to try playing football and to return to the sport after quitting. His 2010 team advanced to the MHSAA semifinals and 2011 and 2012 teams won back-to-back Division 1 championship games.