Central College Athletics

Aaron Fuller joined the Central men’s and women’s track and field coaching staff as an assistant track and field coach for the 2024 season.
    
Fuller works with the multi-event athletes and the pole vaulters. He previously served as the head men’s and women’s track and field coach at Simpson College for the 2022 and 2023 seasons.
    
In his first season, four Dutch men qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Track & Field Championships in the decathlon, led by Gavin Smith’s sixth-place finish. Additionally, Olivia Bohlen qualified nationally for the indoor pentathlon and outdoor heptathlon. She was a first-team All-American indoors and a second-team All-American outdoors. The Dutch won 3 of 4 multi-events titles at the conference meets and had six all-conference performances.

Prior to his tenure at Simpson he spent two seasons at Doane University (Neb.), helping the men's squad win the 2021 NAIA Outdoor Track and Field Championships. He also has been on the coaching staff at Morningside College and Fort Hays State University (Kan.). He is an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and has USTFCCCA Specialist Certification in combined events and multi-events.

As an athlete at Central, Fuller claimed the conference indoor pole vault title in 2012 and received all-conference distinction four times, placing in the top three twice in the indoor pole vault and twice in the decathlon. A two-year Dutch co-captain, he was part of six indoor and outdoor championship teams.
 

Achievements

Central College

• (4) men's decathlon outdoor NCAA Division III qualifiers
• (1) women's pentathlon indoor NCAA Division III qualifiers
• (1) women's heptathlon outdoor NCAA Division III qualifiers
• (1) men's NCAA Division III All-American performances
• (2) women's NCAA Division III All-American performances
• (1) men's heptathlon indoor conference champion - 2024 - Gavin Smith
• (1) men's decathlon outdoor conference champion - 2024 - Gavin Smith
• (1) women's heptathlon outdoor conference champion - 2024 - Olivia Bohlen
• (5) men's all-conference performances
• (6) women's all-conference performances

Simpson College

• (2) ARC Championship MVP awards (Indoor 2023, Outdoor 2023)
• (1) Men’s All – American performances
• (15) Men’s All-Conference performances
• (5) Men's conference championship performances
• (3) Women’s All-Conference performances

Doane University

• 2021 NAIA Men's National Championship team (tie)
• (2) men’s GPAC championships – (Indoor 2020, Outdoor 2021)
• (4) men’s All-American performances
• (1) men’s conference champion performances
• (10) men’s all-conference performances
• (1) women’s all-conference performances

Morningside College

• (1) men’s All-American performances
• (4) women’s All-American performances
• (3) men’s conference champion performances
• (2) women’s conference champion performances
• (9) men’s all-conference performances
• (9) women’s all-conference performances
• coached athlete to national runner-up finish in women's heptathlon in 2019

Fort Hays State University

• (1) men’s All-American performances
• (1) men’s all-conference performances
• Coached athlete to new school record in men's outdoor pole vault (17-0)

Athletics career

Central College

• (4) varsity letters
• (1) Iowa Conference individual championship (2012 indoor pole vault)
• (4) All-Iowa Conference honors (2010 indoor, 2011 outdoor, 2012 indoor/outdoor)
• (6) conference championship teams - (2010 indoor, 2010 outdoor, 2011 indoor, 2011 outdoor, 2012 outdoor, 2013 indoor)
• The 2010 indoor and 2011 outdoor teams set the conference meet scoring records