Bio

Nate Wara grew up in Oshkosh and enjoyed an outstanding career playing multiple sports at North High School. He received several scholarship offers during the course of his senior year to play collegiate athletics but turned them down to attend his hometown university and play football for head coach Pat Cerroni and the Titans.

What Wara went on to do for UW-Oshkosh on the football field from 2009-12 was extremely amazing. The dual-threat performer established numerous school records and earned several conference and national accolades while starting all 44 games for the Titans at quarterback.

Wara helped UW-Oshkosh to a 28-16 record, including a 13-1 mark in 2012 when the Titans won their first WIAC title since 1976 and advanced to the semifinal round of the NCAA Division III Championship during the program's inaugural postseason appearance.

Passing the football, Wara completed 750 of 1,161 career passes for 8,881 yards and 80 touchdowns. The six-time WIAC Athlete of the Week selection also carried the football 581 times during his career for an additional 2,321 yards and 23 touchdowns.

Wara currently ranks third in the WIAC in career total yards (11,202), fourth in passing efficiency (147.80), fifth in pass completions and sixth in passing touchdowns. In UW-Oshkosh's career listings, Wara ranks first in pass completion percentage (64.1), pass attempts and pass completions; second in both passing efficiency and total yards; and third in both passing yards and passing touchdowns.

Wara received All-WIAC Second Team and Division III All-West Region Third Team honors in 2010 after throwing for 2,135 yards and 22 touchdowns and rushing for 555 yards and five scores. The following season he collected an All-WIAC Second Team accolades after passing for 1,838 yards and 18 touchdowns while rushing for 605 yards and three scores.

UW-Oshkosh's treasured 2012 season was also Wara's best. He was named the WIAC Player of the Year, Division III West Region Offensive Player of the Year, Division III Offensive Player of the Year, Division III Jim Ballard Quarterback of the Year as well as a Gagliardi Trophy finalist after compiling 3,311 yards and 30 touchdowns passing and 740 yards and 10 scores rushing. Wara's performance that year helped the Titans defeat three-time defending national champion and fifth-ranked UW-Whitewater during the regular season and third-ranked Linfield College (Ore.) in the postseason.

Wara, who guided UW-Oshkosh to a 15-game winning streak across the 2011 and 2012 seasons, came up big in nearly every game he played in.

Wara counted 293 yards and a career-best five touchdowns passing and 72 yards rushing during UW-Oshkosh's 41-14 victory over UW-Platteville in 2010. He led the Titans to a pair of wins over UW-Stout the following year by totaling 172 yards and two touchdowns passing and a career-best 185 yards and two scores rushing during a 56-10 victory while passing for 300 yards and five touchdowns in a season-ending 35-3 triumph.

In 2012, Wara accumulated 275 yards and four touchdowns passing and 118 yards and two scores rushing during UW-Oshkosh's 47-28 season-opening victory over Central College (Iowa). Later that season he passed for a career-best 369 yards and four touchdowns during the Titans' 41-7 win over UW-La Crosse.

Wara was a member of the UW-Oshkosh men's basketball team for the 2010-11 season. He played in 16 games for the Titans, including two as a starter, and totaled 55 points and 54 rebounds.

Wara went on to play quarterback for the Green Bay Blizzard of the Indoor Football League in 2014. He was named the league's Rookie of the Year after totaling 1,848 yards and 37 touchdowns passing and 705 yards and 20 touchdowns rushing.

Wara, who graduated from UW-Oshkosh in 2015, lives in Omro with wife Lindsey and daughters Olivia and Brooke. Wara, an assistant coach with the UW-Oshkosh football program, is in his ninth year of teaching strength and conditioning classes at Fond du Lac High School.