Women's Cross Country Head Coach - Tracy Yengo

Tracy Yengo

Tracy Yengo is in her eighth season as the head women's cross country and track & field coach at UW-Eau Claire. The 2003 season was highlighted by the indoor and outdoor women's track and field teams set school records for points scored at the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championships, scoring 103.5 points indoors and 158 outdoors. Three Blugolds earned All-American status-one indoor and two outdoors. The women's cross country team featured 39 members in 2002 making it the largest cross country team in school history.

During the 2003 season the track and field team set three indoor and four outdoor school records. Breanna McMullen set the school indoor mark in the 55-meter hurdles and was a member of the indoor 4 x 400-meter relay team while setting the outdoor record in the 400-meter hurdles. Jen Stafslien established the school indoor mark in the long jump and the outdoor record in the triple jump. Stephanie Barnes set the school record in the pole vault as Melissa Wright did likewise in the 3,000-meter steeplechase.

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 team under Yengo were thirds in the 1997 and 1998 indoor championships fifths in the 1997 and 1998 outdoor championships.

Yengo, who is married to Blugold women's soccer coach Sean 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 and her husband Sean have two daughters Danielle (b. 11/17/98) and Sydnee (b. 10/3/02) and one son Zachary (b. 2/2/00).

Updated 6/18/03