Don Yentes Position: Head Coach Experience: 8th yr

Don Yentes is entering his eighth season as the head coach of the Wyoming track and field team. During that time, Yentes has been named Mountain West Coach of the Year four times, and Wyoming's track and field program has experienced a tremendous amount of success in his tenure. In his seven seasons at the helm, UW has produced 22 All-Americans, 44 Conference Champions, 46 NCAA Championship participants, and earned 208 Academic All-Conference awards. He has coached 202 All-Mountain West Conference performers and Wyoming athletes have broken or tied 93 school records under Yentes' leadership.

Prior to taking over the program, he was an assistant coach with the Wyoming program in charge of sprints, jumps and hurdles from 1997-2000. As an assistant, Yentes coached athletes who won six conference titles and earned 18 All-Conference honors. He was hired as Wyoming's head track and field coach on June 30, 2000.

Yentes came to Wyoming from Eastern Michigan University. While at EMU, he coached the Eagles to 1997 Indoor and Outdoor Championship titles. He also coached them to their first ever Michigan Intercollegiate Championship that same year. He also served as an assistant cross country and track coach at Butler County Community College (1987-'89) producing 21 All-Americans. As an assistant track coach at Barton (1991-95), he helped the women win seven Indoor and Outdoor National Championships. Barton's women also won the triple crown (cross country, indoor and outdoor) in back-to-back seasons, and he coached 152 All-Americans and 20 NJCAA National Champions. From 1989-91, he was the head cross country coach at Neosho County Community College coaching seven All-Americans, a program where he helped start the track and field program.

Yentes' coaching resume at the junior college level includes nine NJCAA Women's National Championship teams and 180 All-Americans. Yentes attended the USATF National Hurdles Summit in Las Vegas, Nevada in 2006 where he was given the opportunity to speak about UW All-American, Shauna Smith.

Yentes is a USATF Level II coach in sprints and jumps and is currently working on his Level III certification. Yentes enjoys jet-skiing and walking his dog Mooch. Don and his wife, Sande, have two children: Morgan, 25 and Dylan, 23.