Assistant Coach
1st Season / 5th-Season at JCCC

Jason Wichman enters his fifth season at assistant coach at Johnson County Community College, but 2026-27 will be his first with the women’s soccer program. Wichman, who has an extensive career working in collegiate soccer. 

Wichman joins a women’s program that has ranked among the top programs in NJCAA Division II the past three seasons. Over that span the Cavaliers have averaged 19 wins (58-6-7) won three KJCCC D-II and Region 6 championships, one District title, three berths to the NJCAA Division II National Tournament with back-to-back national runner-up finishes in 2023 and 2024. 

In his first season with the JCCC men’s soccer program, 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 2025 Johnson County opened the season ranked among the top-10 in NJCAA Division II Poll at No. 9. They were also ranked No.17 in the United Soccer Coaches preseason poll.  The Cavaliers faced a challenging scheduled that featured five preseason Top-25 opponents and another that received votes. Johnson County would post a 13-5-4 record, a KJCCC Division II runner-up finish, a Region 6 Championship – the first since 2005, a Plains District Division II runner-up finish and a No. 15 ranking in the final NJCAA D-II Poll. The Cavaliers would also place five players on the All-Region 6 and All-KJCCC Division II teams, with four earning first-team honors.  Kael Drummond, of those first-team selections, also was selected to the United Soccer Coaches Two-Year Division II All-America Team, becoming the sixth player in team history to earn USC All-America recognition. He also was named to the USC Scholar All-America first-team. 

In his four seasons with the program, Wichman helped lead the Cavaliers to four consecutive winning seasons with an overall record of 52-21-7 with two KJCCC championships, two conference runner-up finishes, one Region 6 title, with all four teams finishing the season ranked nationally.

Wichman also helped coach one NJCAA and two United Soccer Coaches All-American, 24 All-Region 6 performers and 28 All-Kansas Jayhawk Conference selections, including one Defensive Player or the Year and two United Soccer Coached West Region selections. Off the pitch, there have been 26 student-athletes earn NJCAA All-Academic distinction, one named USC Scholar Athlete of the Year, four 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.