Women's Cross Country Head Coach - Tracy Yengo

Tracy Yengo

Tracy Yengo enters her 10th season as the head women's cross country and track & field coach at UW-Eau Claire.

In cross country Yengo led the Blugolds to a second-place finish at the 1997 NCAA Division III Women's Cross Country Championship posting a season record of 145-26-1. Yengo has coached three All-Americans, five first team and seven second team All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) performers during her tenure at Eau Claire for cross country.

Under Yengo the UW-Eau Claire track and field teams has produced one national champion, 10 All-Americans, 12 individual and two relay conference champion along with setting 16 school records during the indoor season. The outdoor season has seen one national champion, 13 All-Americans and 11 individual conference champions 12 school records have been set during Yengo's tenure.

Among Yengo's accomplishments at Eau Claire includes being named the WIAC and the Midwest Region Cross Country Coach of the Year for the 1997-98 season that saw the Blugolds finish second at the NCAA National Championships.

The Blugold women also finished second in the region in Yengo's first season as head coach in 1996-97 and placed 12th in the national meet.

The best finishes by the women's track & field teams under Yengo was third in the 1997 and 1998 indoor championships and fourth in the 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 outdoor championships.

Yengo came to Eau Claire from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. At Dickinson, she was the men's and women's track and field coach for three seasons. Her teams finished first in the Centennial Conference in both indoor and outdoor track in 1995-96, the first time in school history for either.

She was named the 1995-96 NCAA Division III Mideast Region Indoor Coach of the Year by the United States Track Coaches Association for improving the indoor squad from fifth place to first in a matter of one season.

She also coached the women's cross country and track teams at Springfield College (MA), her alma mater, and was the girls' cross country and boys' track coach at Mt. Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts.

Yengo received her bachelor's degree in Physical Education in 1990 and her master's in Physical Education in 1992. In 1986, she attended the U.S. Military Academy. Yengo also teaches in the Department of Kinesiology at Eau Claire.

Yengo (b. 12/4/67) and husband Sean are the parents of two daughters and two sons: Danielle (b. 11/17/98), Zachary (b.2/02/00), Sydnee (b. 10/3/02) and Christopher (b. 2/10/04).

Updated 8/30/05