For the last 21 years, Doug Wells has served at the Director of the Cerritos College track and field program to go along with serving on the men’s and women’s cross country staff, a position he has held for the last 11 years. As a track coach, he has helped lead the women’s track and field to three state titles in the last five years, including a third place last year. In addition, the men’s team finished in third place this past season after finishing in a tie for second place the year before. He has helped celebrate the championships with women’s head track coach Michael Allen, as the team also won the Southern California Championship three of the last five years, as well South Coast Conference championships the same amount of times. One of the best recruiting tools for the track and field program is the advanced surface that is considered to be one of the best in the country. Acquiring the surface was the main goal that Wells had been working on for years. Along with the success of the women’s program and the new surface, the men’s team program is also very strong and a force at the state championships each year.

Both the men’s and women’s cross country teams this season will be strong this season, as the women look to improve on their 16^th place finish at the state championships last year, while the men finished 10^th last season. After the women’s track team won the state championship in 2006, Wells was chosen to serve as the Head Manager for the U.S. National Track and Field Team and guided them at the NACAC Under-23 Team, which was held in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He was selected by a special staff selection meeting of the International Competition Committee at the USA Track and Field National Convention.

Wells spent 10 years as a Falcon assistant football coach, until retiring from the gridiron. Wells has had a great deal of success as a track and field coach, especially at Taft College. In 10 years at Taft, he guided his teams to a state championship and seven conference titles, while Wells was named the California Coach of the Year twice. At Cerritos, he was named the California Coaches Association Coach of the Year for the third time in his career, while he was awarded the Coach of the Year honor by the California Track and Running News five times.

Wells attended Porterville Union High School, where he was a football and track star. He transferred to the University of Utah, where he competed in the NCAA Championships and was an All-American as a decathlete in 1970, while also playing fullback on the football team. Wells continued to compete in track events and won several shot put and discus National Championships in Master’s competition. Wells earned his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Physical Education from the University of Utah.

Wells and his wife Darlene reside in Carson and have five children – Ron, Rene, Cherri, Gordon and Jason, along with six grandchildren. His youngest son, Jason, was an All-Big West selection in football in 1992 and his eldest grandson, Ian Crichton, competed on the Falcon track team for two seasons. In both years, he placed in the state championships in the javelin.