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Derek Pollock

Derek Pollock

Derek Pollock enters his sixth season as the Head Shotgun Sports Coach for the Reivers in 2023-24.
 
Pollock has built the Reivers from the ground up, starting in May of 2018, as he was tasked with constructing and outfitting the Reivers' first-ever Shotgun Sports squad.
 
In his first five seasons, the Reivers have won seven individual and two team National Championships, ending last year as the NCSSAA Division V National Champions.  The Reivers topped the nine-team standings in five of the six disciplines over a week of competition.  Iowa Western won Doubles Skeet, Doubles Trap, Super Sporting, American Skeet, and Sporting Clays en route to the victory.  Their lone loss was a second-place finish in American Trap, by just two targets.  The team also won the High Overall with a total score of 1394.
 
In 2022, Iowa Western finished at the top of the standings in Division 4 School High Overall competition of the 2022 ACUI Collegiate Clay Target National Championships and became the first 2-year school in the 55-year history of the championships to win an event, defeating Lindenwood University 487 to 482 in Doubles American Trap
 
In 2021, Iowa Western brought home their second ACUI Division IV National Trap Championship.  The Reivers broke 1500 targets over four days, with their top performers breaking 495/500 targets.  Mitch Germany and Weston Zolck paced the squad, each shooting a perfect 100.  Zolck finished as national runner-up, shooting 42 extra targets in a shoot-off.
 
The Reivers brought home their first ACUI division four wobble-trap National Championship trophy after beating conference rival Iowa Central and defending National Champion Conners State in the competition in their first season of competition.  Bailey Schmitz led the team, winning the individual wobble-trap competition by hitting 94/100 targets.
 
The Reivers finished third at the ACUI upper midwest conference championships, being beaten out for first by a pair of four-year national championship caliber institutions (Midland University and Ft. Hayes State) in year two of the program and were poised to make another National Championship run when the spring season was halted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
 
Coach Pollock's teams have excelled academically as well, earning 14 recognitions to the AD Honor Roll at Iowa Western.
 
Raised in Ainsworth, Nebraska, Pollock began his shooting career at the age of 12.  He was part of two Nebraska Cornhusker State Games championship teams during his youth.
 
Trained by former Olympian, Bret Erickson, Pollock competed for two years at Midland University where he helped the team win a National Championship in 2016. Pollock also worked as a graduate assistant for Erickson for one year at Midland before moving on to receive his B.A. in Sport/Recreation Management from Chadron State College.  He and his wife, Alyssa, live in Omaha, Nebraska with their two dogs and two cats.