Wendy Dillinger, who ranked among the winningest active NCAA Division III soccer coaches nationally at Washington University in St. Louis after an impressive collegiate and professional playing career, is in her fourth season as head coach at Iowa State. Since arriving at Iowa State, Dillinger has guided the Cyclones to more victories overall and in Big 12 Conference play each season and led the program to landmark achievements off the field.
 
Dillinger posted an 86-25-8 record while taking Washington University to four NCAA Tournaments, three University Athletic Association (UAA) outright team crowns and a co-association championship before taking over at Iowa State.  
In 2010, Dillinger guided a young Iowa State team that had 10 freshmen crack the starting lineup and a class that included the squad’s top five point producers. Freshman Emily Goldstein led Iowa State in goals, assists and points en route to having the highest point total by a first-year Cyclone player since 2002.  Goldstein, an All-Big 12 Newcomer honoree in 2010, was part of a freshman class that scored all of Iowa State’s goals in Big 12 play. Iowa State closed out the 2010 season with its largest conference victory ever, a 5-0 thrashing of defending league champion, Missouri.

Since arriving in Ames, Dillinger has also guided the Cyclones to impressive accomplishments off the field. In 2009, Ann Gleason became the first Cyclone to earn ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America honors.  Iowa State has accumulated 23 Academic All-Big 12 honorees under Dillinger, and the Cyclones have gathered four Academic All-District VII first-team honors. Additionally, her squads won the Cyclone Challenge Cup two consecutive years, an honor that goes to the top Iowa State athletics team for community service.

In her three years at Iowa State, Dillinger has coached the Cyclones to their best start to a season in program history, wins over NCAA Championship bound squads, and victories over teams that were defending Big 12 Conference regular-season and post-season champions. Dillinger also led Iowa State to its second win over Texas in program history.

The Cyclones have shattered attendance numbers under Dillinger as well.  Iowa State had a record 1,076 fans watch the Cyclones’ match against Iowa on Sept. 17, 2010 at the ISU Soccer Complex. Dillinger-led Iowa State teams have played host to the four largest crowds in Cyclone soccer history.

Dillinger oversaw Iowa State goalkeeper Ann Gleason who moved into the top spot in three statistical categories in program history for career wins (26), shutouts (16) and saves (403).

When hired at Iowa State, Dillinger ranked 14th among NCAA Division III active coaches with a .756 winning percentage.  During her tenure at Washington, her student-athletes earned ESPN the Magazine Academic All-America honors four times, academic all-district recognition 10 times and All-UAA academic honors 68 times in a conference that includes several of the nation’s premier academic institutions. Dillinger also recruited and coached three UAA Player-of-the-Year honorees, two UAA Newcomer-of-the-Year recipients, two All-America award winners and the D3Kicks.com National Player of the Year, Meghan Marie Fowler-Finn.

Dillinger, a 1993 graduate of St. Charles West High School in St. Charles, Mo., moved to Washington University after serving as the assistant women's soccer coach at Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind., for four seasons. During her tenure, she helped guide the Hoosiers to 36 wins, including an NCAA Tournament berth and the first NCAA Tournament win in school history in 1998.

Prior to her stint as an assistant coach at Indiana, Dillinger played four seasons for IU, establishing herself as one of the top players in school history. Jerry Yeagley (former Indiana men’s soccer coach, six-time NCAA champ and the sport’s all-time winningest coach) referred to Dillinger as the greatest player in IU women’s soccer history.  A three-time all-Mideast Region selection and a two-time all-Big Ten pick, she set 25 team records and graduated as the school’s all-time leader in goals (37), assists (24) and points (98). In Indiana’s inaugural season and the Hoosiers' first-ever conference match, Dillinger scored three goals against Northwestern. She had eight collegiate multi-goal matches.

Following her collegiate career, Dillinger became the first Hoosier to participate in the professional women's soccer league, playing with the Atlanta Beat of the WUSA in the league's inaugural season in 2001.

Dillinger graduated from Indiana in 1998 with a bachelor's degree in general studies with a biology emphasis. She then spent one season playing for Fredericksburg in Denmark of the European Soccer League, helping her club reach Elite Team status after a season in the first division. She also played four seasons for the Indiana Blaze.

Dillinger is married to Chris Sellers. The couple has a son, Braydon King, and a daughter, Kayla Marie Sellers.