Assistant Coach
3rd-Season 

Jason Wichman enters his fourth season at assistant coach at Johnson County Community College. Wichman has an extensive career working in collegiate soccer. 

In his first season, the Cavaliers finished 14-7-0, won the Kansas Jayhawk Conference East Division title and reached the Plains District Championship Game.  The team also posted a record of 5-4-0 against nationally ranked programs.  Wichman helped coach seven all-conference selections. three all-region selections and NJCAA and Unites Soccer Coaches All-American Alan Lopez, who also was named the USC Scholar Athlete of the Year, the first in team history. 

In year two the Johnson County men’s soccer season did not finish as they had hoped, but the Cavaliers still proved to be not only one of the top teams in the Kansas Jayhawk Conference, but also on a national level. Ranked 15th in the preseason poll, the Cavaliers finished 11-5-3 overall, were conference champions for a second straight season and were ranked No. 15 in the final NJCAA D-II Poll.  JCCC also had nine players named all-conference, highlighted by first-team selections sophomore forward Jacksyn McIntyre, freshman midfielder Monty Almaliky and freshman goalkeeper Brody Macoubrie. Off the pitch, McIntyre was named a s United Soccer Coaches Men’s Scholar All-American and he along with sophomore defender Homer Skidmore were selected Academic All-District® College Division At-Large by College Sports Communicators. 

In 2024 the Cavaliers opened the season ranked 13th in the NJCAA D-II Preseason Poll then went on to finish runner-up in the conference race and in the Region 6 Tournament with a 14-4-0 mark.   All four losses were to nationally ranked teams, including No. 1 Iowa Lakes  and three to Neosho County, the eventual national runner-up. Johnson County end the year ranked No. 8 in the final NJCAA Division II Poll. Cole also had seven players earned All-KJCCC and All-Region 6 honors. Monty Almalilky and Dominic Zuniga, both first team selections, were also named to the United Soccer Coaches All-West Region team. Off the pitch, Carson Schmitt was selected as a United Soccer Coaches Scholar All-American. 

In his three seasons with the program, Whichman has helped coach one NJCAA and United Soccer Coaches All-American, 19 All-Region 6 performers and 23 All-Kansas Jayhawk Conference selections, including one Defensive Player or the Year and two United Soccer Coached West Region selectinos. Off the pitch, there have been 26 student-athletes earn NJCAA All-Academic distinction, one named USC Scholar Athlete of the Year, three USC Men’s Scholar All-American, one named College Sports Communicators (CSC) Academic All-America® At-Large and four CSC Academic All-District® At-Large recipients.

Wichman came to JCCC after serving as a women’s assistant at the University of Missouri Kansas City since August 2020. Prior to UMKC, he spent the previous eight seasons at Iowa State (2012-19) working as the goalkeepers’ coach. 

A Council Bluffs, Neb., native, Wichman helped develop some of the finest goalkeepers in Iowa State school history. His coaching of Lindsey Hendon was instrumental in the 2016 campaign, when Hendon set a school-record with 10 shutouts and had a 0.89 goals-against average. In his second season at Iowa State in 2013, Wichman helped guide the Cyclones to one of the best defensive seasons in school history recording  seven total shutouts and finishing fourth in the Big 12 with 93 saves.

Prior to ISU, Wichman helped guide Texas State to the 2011 Southland Conference tournament title, a program-record-tying 14 wins and a berth in the NCAA Championship tournament.  The 2011 Bobcats had a streak of 14-straight matches without allowing multiple goals and in the process, recorded nine shutouts. 

Prior to his one season at Texas State, Wichman coached for three years (2008-10) at Drake University. He saw Drake have its first 10-win season in four years in 2010 and a program-record-tying nine shutouts.  Wichman coached Drake goalkeeper Kalena Litch to a program-record nine shutouts during the 2010 campaign. 

Wichman has extensive experience training goalkeepers, a role he served at his stops at Texas State, Drake, Simpson College (2006-07), Waukee High School (2007-08) and Iowa City West High School (2006). 

Wichman played collegiately for four years and graduated from Simpson College in 2004. He earned his NSCAA National Goalkeeping Diploma and NSCAA National Diploma.

Wichman and his wife Megan have two kids, Finley and Stella. They reside in Olathe, Kan.