Meet the Coaches

BRIAN YOWLER
Head Track & Field Coach
(Men and Women's)

A new era began in 2009 with the hiring of Brian Yowler as Geneva’s new cross country coach for men and women and interim head track and field coach for men and women. In 2010, Yowler was officially installed as the head coach for both sports. He spent three years prior to becoming head coach as an assistant for both programs. With a passion to coach and participate in distance running, Yowler continues to make an enormous impact on the program and on every student-athlete that comes through Geneva’s doors in cross country and track. He continues to help build the program in terms of success and in terms of roster size. “We are certainly making strides to where we need to be,” says Yowler. “We still have much work to do but having the opportunity to work with these men and women on a daily basis has been a true blessing.”

Yowler is still very active in his own racing life as he continues to push himself through a total of nine marathons and counting. “Being active in my own life is essential to the coaching position,” says Yowler. “It gives me a true sense of understanding of exactly what I demand from our student-athletes. I believe it also gives me a level of respect in the eyes of our kids.”

Yowler graduated from IUP in 1994 before heading to the Penn State University College of Medicine. He received his Ph.D. for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Penn State in 2002. In addition to his coaching duties, Yowler continues to work as a professor in Geneva’s Biology department.

JASON WARGO
Associate Head Track & Field Coach

Jason Wargo joined Geneva’s track and field program as an assistant coach in 2010. During the following off-season, he was promoted to Associate Head Coach to go with his duties as an assistant coach on the football staff. In just that short time, Wargo has worked hard to help transform the track program and in particular develop one of the finest groups of throwers that Geneva has seen in recent history. In Wargo’s two years on the staff, Geneva has sent at least ten throwers to national meets both during the indoor and outdoor seasons.

“This has been a tremendous experience for me,” says Wargo. “It is amazing to watch the hard work and dedication that these men and women have when it comes to throwing. It’s simply a joy to come to work every day and work with student-athletes that have a desire to improve. It makes my job pretty easy when we have young men and women that work so hard.”

A graduate of Geneva College, Wargo competed for two years with the Golden Tornadoes in the discus and shot put while playing four years of football for Geneva. He began his coaching career in football at Union High School for the 1995-96 seasons after graduating from Geneva in the spring of 1995. After a year at Freedom, he coached at Thiel College for two years before returning to his alma mater. Just married last winter, Wargo and his wife Rachel reside in Cooperstown, PA.

CHRIS NOYES
Assistant Track & Field Coach