A member of IC’s football teams in the late 1970s, earning four letters and serving as team captain as a senior. He won three letters and team MVP honors in baseball and was the 1978-79 recipient of the William J. Downer Award as male athlete of the year. After graduating, Wilson was an assistant football coach at Jacksonville High School for one season before moving to Payson-Seymour High School where he served as head baseball coach and assistant basketball coach during a five-year tenure. Has also been athletic director, head basketball coach and assistant football coach at Arthur High School.