Matt Stuck - Women's Track & Field Coach - Davidson College Athletics

Matt Stuck

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
mastuck@davidson.edu

Matt Stuck was promoted to Director of Men’s Cross Country and Track & Field in July of 2023.

Coach Stuck specializes in the pole vault, hurdles, and high jump groups as well as the Heptathlon and Decathlon.

The 2025 outdoor season featured some historic moments for the men's track & field program and Coach Stuck. Jayden Smith punch his ticket to the NCAA Championships for the second straight season. The six-time Atlantic 10 champion (outdoors & indoors combined) earned first-team All American honors with an eighth place finish in the 110m hurdles at NCAAs. Smith recorded a time of 13.65 in the championship heat. He is also one of just two Wildcats to earn All-American status on the men's side.

John Teachman also made a statement during the 2025 outdoor season. Teachman became the first ever Wildcat to win gold in the Javelin in the Atlantic 10. He threw for 63.34 meters to win the A-10. The Mt. Pleasant, S.C. native also competed at the Nike / USATF U20 Championships in June and finished seventh overall.

Stuck joined Davidson in October of 2021 where served as the assistant coach for two seasons. In his tenure, Stuck has guided and coached Davidson’s hurdlers, vertical jumpers, throwers, and multis. He also served as the recruiting coordinator for all event groups on the women’s side while also recruiting the men’s hurdlers, vertical jumpers, throwers, and multis.

Over the last two seasons with Stuck on staff, Davidson has set ten indoor and outdoor school records in his area of emphasis on the women’s side and eight school records on the men’s side. Stuck has also helped coach four-time A-10 Champion Jayden Smith, two-time NCAA qualifier Bryce Anthony, and school record holders Megan Burkholder, Hannah Kanjian, Anna Davis, and Jack Stajos.

Prior to Davidson, Stuck spent three seasons as the Associate Head Coach at UNC Pembroke. While with the Braves, Stuck led the 2019 men's cross country team to a conference championship, and he also helped guide the women's indoor track and field team to back-to-back conference championships in 2020 and 2021. He also coached NCAA Division II All-Americans in the indoor and outdoor men's high jump, 60m, and 110m hurdles. Stuck also coached a slew of individual conference champions and school record holders while at UNC Pembroke.

Before his time at Pembroke, Stuck served as the Assistant Track and Field Coach at Coker University where he coached 13 school record holders in sprints, hurdles, and jumps.

Prior to Coker, Stuck had a two-year stint as the Head Cross Country and Track & Field coach at Lake Erie College from 2016-2018. In 2017, he was the runner-up for the GLIAC Outdoor Assistant Coach of the Year.

As a student-athlete, Stuck was a multi-event performer for Bloomsburg University. He excelled in 16 different disciplines, qualified for the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championships in four straight seasons, and still holds school records in both the indoor and outdoor pole vault. He was also named a Bloomsburg University Scholar-Athlete.

Stuck graduated from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania in 2013 and received his master’s degree in Kinesiology from Michigan Technological University. He also holds a USTFCCCA Level 2 Combined Event Certification and a USATF Level 1 Track and Field Certification.