Women's Soccer Head Coach - Sean Yengo

Sean Yengo

Sean Yengo begins his 11th season as head women’s soccer coach at UW-Eau Claire. In 1996 Yengo served as an assistant for the Blugolds before becoming the head coach. Yengo also serves as an associate lecture at UW-Eau Claire.

The 2005 and 2006 season saw Yengo and the Blugold program ascend to areas it has never previously reached. The Blugolds have an overall record of 38-6-5 over the last two years setting school records for most wins in a single season and in a two-year span. The previous highest win total over two years was 28 set in the 1999 and 2000 seasons. Eau Claire has won both the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) regular season and tournament championships in back-to-back seasons. No Blugold team had won either championship prior to 2005. The Blugolds have also advanced to their first-ever NCAA post-season tournaments where they advanced to the second round in 2005 and the Sweet 16 in 2006 where they lost to the eventual national champion.

The Blugolds have had 12 All-WIAC, 12 All-Central Region, two All-Americans and one WIAC Scholar-Athlete named during that span. The 2006 season saw the Blugolds set two WIAC team records including wins in a season with 23 and shutouts with 18. Goalie Allie Rivard set the single-season record for goals-against average at 0.19 per match. Yengo has been recognized for Eau Claire’s accomplishments earning back-to-back WIAC Coach of the Year honors.

Yengo has built the Blugold program into one of the premiere soccer programs regionally and nationally. Over the past 10 seasons Yengo has compiled an overall record of 134-61-16. Under Yengo the Blugolds have advanced to the WIAC Tournament Championship match six times winning the tournament crown the past two years. Individually Yengo has coached 45 All-WIAC performers including 12 honorees in the last two seasons. In addition Yengo has coached 22 All-Central Region selections, three WIAC Scholar-Athletes, two All-Americans and one Academic All-American.

Yengo was a varsity soccer player at Cortland State in New York from 1985-89. He was also a soccer coach at Northfield Mount Hermon School in Northfield, Massachusetts from 1992-96. He has been the director of the Blugold soccer camps for the past five years and is involved in various community activities related to soccer.

Yengo received his bachelor’s degree in physical education from SUNY-Cortland in 1991 and his master’s from Cortland in 1996. While an undergraduate, Yengo was a three-time SUNYAC wrestling champion and two-time All-American.

Besides coaching soccer, Yengo teaches physical education classes in the Department of Kinesiology along with supervising student-teachers.

Yengo and wife Tracy, who currently teaches in the Department of Kinesiology at UW-Eau Claire and was the former women’s cross country and track and field coach for the Blugolds, are the parents of two daughters and two sons: Danielle, Zachary, Sydnee and Christopher.

Updated 3/13/07