Sterling "Star" Wood was an American football coach and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Tennessee Polytechnic Institute—now known as Tennessee Technological University—in Cookeville, Tennessee from 1950 to 1951, and East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee from 1952 to 1953 and 1955 to 1965. Wood was also the athletic director at East Tennessee State from 1954 to 1962.