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Head Coach Logan Masters
Former Wildcat standout receiver Logan Masters enters his third year (2024) as head football coach at Wayne State College. He was promoted to head coach of the Wildcat football program on February 11, 2022 and is the 23rd head coach in the 107-year history of Wayne State football.
Under Masters in 2023, the Wildcats finished 8-3 overall and 7-3 in the NSIC, just missing the NCAA Division II playoffs after being listed in every regional ranking. Highlighting the 2023 campaign were a pair of home wins over nationally ranked teams, beating #17 Minnesota Duluth on homecoming 28-18 and a 14-12 victory over #12 Augustana in a late October snow storm. Coupled with a nine-win season in 2022, it marked just the third time in Wildcat history that a WSC football team won eight or more games in back-to-back seasons, joining the 2008 (9-3) and 2009 (8-3) teams and the 1948 (8-1) and 1949 (9-0) Wildcat squads to achieve the rare feat. Masters coached 12 All-NSIC performers including NSIC Newcomer of the Year Kendrick Watkins-Hogue to go with three players that received All-Super Region 4 honors.
It was a memorable first season on the Wildcat sidelines for Masters, who guided Wayne State to a first-ever Northern Sun Conference overall championship with a 9-2 regular season record while also leading the 'Cats to the NCAA Division II playoffs for just the second time in school history. Wayne State was a perfect 6-0 at home and the nine wins matches the most wins in school history for a single season. Masters, who coached nine All-NSIC selections and pair of All-Super Region 4 performers, was rewarded with NSIC Coach of the Year honors in his first season as head coach at WSC as the 'Cats closed with a 9-3 record following a first round NCAA Division II playoff setback at #19 Minnesota State 26-9.
Masters served the previous two years (2020 and 2021) as offensive coordinator, coaching WSC to a 7-4 record in the 2021 and the schools' first national ranking in a decade after a 5-1 start that included road wins at #11 Minnesota Duluth and #11 Minnesota State within three weeks of each other. Under Masters in 2021 the WSC offense ranked third in the NSIC in rushing offense (182.1 yards per game) and the 414.5 yards per game in total offense were the most by a Wildcat offense since 2014.
Masters returned to the Wildcat sidelines after spending three seasons (2017-19) at Chadron State College where he was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2019 and served as wide receivers coach and game operations manager the previous two years. He coached Chadron State's first-ever 3,000 yard passer in 2019 and was a part of three straight winning seasons with the Eagles (6-5 in 2019, 7-3 in 2018 and 6-5 in 2017).
Masters got his coaching start working six years on the Wayne State sidelines from 2010-16. He started as tight ends coach in 2010, was a graduate assistant/wide receivers coach in 2011-12, served as wide receivers coach in 2013 and '14 and was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2015 when John McMenamin departed WSC for Central Missouri and served in that role for two more years before moving on to Chadron State College.
A native of Storm Lake, Iowa, Masters attended Wayne State College and had a standout playing career at wide receiver from 2006-09, helping the Wildcats make two post season appearances while setting nearly every receiving record at WSC. He finished his career as the all-time leader in receptions (258) and receiving yards (3,863) and caught at least two passes in every game (46) he played in a Wildcat uniform. As a senior, he was First Team All-NSIC South Division and one of 24 candidates for the Harlon Hill Trophy, given to the top player in NCAA Division II. In his junior season (2008), Masters hauled in a career-best 80 catches for 1,179 yards and was First Team All-NSIC South Division and Daktronics First Team All-Super Region #3 while helping WSC to a 9-3 record and the schools' first-ever trip to the NCAA Division II playoffs.
Masters, inducted into the WSC Athletic Hall of Fame in 2021 and the NSIC Hall of Fame in 2023, and his wife Amber reside in Wayne with their four sons - Lincoln, Langston, Leyton and Lawyer.