Eric Werskey

Biography

Entering 4th Season at Florida 3-time Big Ten Champion (Iowa) 4-time NCAA Champion SEC Outdoor Champion (2022) Eric Werskey is entering his fourth season as an assistant coach for the University of Florida. He joined the Gators’ coaching staff in the summer of 2021 after four seasons at Iowa (2018-21), two years at California State University Northridge (2016-17) and three years of professional training at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista, California, where he took his first strides into coaching after working with some of the top throwers in the world. During the 2023 season, Werskey coached Alida van Daalen, in her freshman season, to an SEC Indoor Championship, an SEC Outdoor Championship and a pair of fourth place finishes at the NCAA Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the shot put. Prior to Florida, Werskey helped the Hawkeyes to seven combined Big Ten top-3 finishes, including three conference titles. Additionally, Werskey coached Hawkeyes throwers to five Big Ten individual championships, one NCAA championship, seven combined All-America honors and eight school records during his tenure at Iowa. Werskey coached Hawkeyes standout Laulauga Tausaga to a combined total of five Big Ten individual championships and Iowa’s first individual NCAA Outdoor Championship in 34 years in 2019. Tausaga also became the school’s first-ever Big Ten Indoor Athlete of the Year in 2020 and was named to that year’s Bowerman Preseason Watchlist. Additionally, Tausaga competed at th