Bio

Kevin Deering was a three-time NCAA Division III All-American and seven-time WIAC champion as a member of the UW-Oshkosh men’s track & field team from 2002-05. The Mukwonago High School graduate twice earned All-America status in the decathlon, winning the 2005 NCAA outdoor title with a school-record 7,104 points. He also earned All-America honors in the indoor high jump in 2003.

Deering was named to the WIAC All-Centennial Men’s Track & Field Team in 2012 after earning two league titles in each of the indoor high jump, outdoor decathlon and outdoor high jump, and one championship in the javelin.

Deering capped his 2003 indoor season with a third-place finish in the high jump at the Division III Championship before producing a second-place effort in the decathlon at the 2003 national outdoor meet. Deering’s senior season in 2005 ended with his school-record performance in the outdoor decathlon in which he beat the runner-up by more than 170 points. He remains the only Titan to win the Division III outdoor decathlon title.

In conference competition, Deering claimed seven individual crowns, winning back-to-back indoor high jump championships in 2002 and 2003, and outdoor titles in the both the decathlon and high jump in 2003 and 2005, and the javelin in 2005.

Deering and the Titans qualified for the indoor and outdoor NCAA Division III Championship during each of his four years. UW-Oshkosh placed among the top six teams three times at the national indoor meet and finished in the top eight three times at the outdoor championship. The Titans were the national runners-up at the 2003 indoor championship and third at the 2003 national outdoor meet.

Deering, a 2005 UW-Oshkosh graduate, lives in Grafton, where he is the principal at John Long Middle School. Deering went on to complete his master’s degree in educational leadership at National Louis University (Ill.) before earning the 2008-09 Teacher of the Year award at Appleton North High School.

Deering and his wife, Jennifer, are the parents of Samuel and Eva.