Seth Wheeler will be in his fourth season as head coach at Emporia State in 2022, but it will be his seventh season on the coaching staff for the Hornets.

Wheeler spent his first three seasons at Emporia State as the pitching coach and worked with the catchers as well.  The Hornets had the second best ERA in the conference at 4.60 over his three seasons after ranking sixth in the league in 2014. 

He is 40-29 as the head coach and Emporia State has gone 150-81 with three trips to the NCAA Tournament and an MIAA regular season championship with Wheeler in the dugout.

"I've had a chance to watch and work with Coach Wheeler over the past six seasons," said Weiser. "He carries himself with a maturity beyond his years and that really came out during the interview process. I look forward to him carrying on the tradition of Hornet baseball."

He began his coaching career with the Junction City Brigade, a collegiate wood bat team that competes in the Mid-Plains League, the summer after graduating from Central Missouri. Wheeler served as the hitting coach as the team went 26-10, won the MPL and led the league in runs per game.  During the school year he was an assistant coach at Butler CC. He was in charge of catchers and base running for the Grizzlies who led the NJCAA in stolen bases with 157 on the season.

From 2015-17 Wheeler served as the head coach of the Junction City Brigade.  The Brigade won the MPL regular season and tournament titles in 2016 were runners up in both during the 2017 season.  His first year in Junction City the team went 22-15 and Wheeler was selected to be the All Star Game manager. While head coach of the Brigade, three of his players were selected in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft - Max Brown in the 37th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks, Ethan Skender in the 31st round by the Cincinnati Reds and Josh Rolette in the 18th round by the St. Louis Cardinals. 

A 2014 graduate of Central Missouri, Wheeler was an honorable mention All-MIAA selection at catcher for the Mules.  He hit .324 as UCM won the MIAA Regular Season Championship his senior year.  He played two years at Butler CC, earning All-Jayhawk Conference honors as a sophomore.