Nikki Segrest serves as an assistant track and field coach for the Bearcats. She focuses her coaching on the hurdles, horizontal jumps, and multi-events.
Prior to Northwest, Segrest was the associate head track and field coach at NCAA Division III Milliken University in Decatur, Illinois. She was a member of the staff that earned CCIW coaching staff of the year honors in the 2019 and 2020 indoor seasons. In her four seasons with the Big Blue, student-athletes accomplished five NCAA Division III All-America honors, 14 national qualifiers, 19 conference champions and 149 all-conference performances.
Segrest joined the Millkin staff in 2016 after having served as a volunteer/graduate assistant coach at St. Cloud State University from 2014-2016. In two seasons with the Huskies, she helped them to nine NCAA Division II provisional qualifiers and 17 all-conference efforts.
Segrest (Wetstein) posted her bachelor of science degree in health promotion with a minor in coaching at Emporia State University, where she earned 2014 outdoor All-America honors in the 100-meter hurdles. She was a five-time NCAA Division II national qualifier in the triple jump, 60-meter hurdles and 100-meter hurdles. She set Hornet school records in the 60-meter hurdles, 100-meter hurdles and pentathlon. She was a 23-time MIAA placewinner in her four-year career at Emporia State.
She and her husband, Jake, were married in the summer of 2023.
