Don Yentes
	Position: Head Coach Experience: 12th year

Don Yentes will enter his 12th season as the head coach of the Wyoming track and field program. 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 11 seasons at the helm, UW has produced 27 All-Americans, 64 Conference Champions, 65 NCAA Championship qualifiers and has earned 289 Academic All-Conference awards. All told, his athletes have earned 243 All-Mountain West Conference nods and Wyoming athletes have broken or tied 103 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 the 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 County Community College(1991-95), he helped the women win seven indoor and outdoor national championships. The Barton women achieved the "triple crown," which means they won championships in cross country, indoor and outdoor track in consecutive seasons. Yentes 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.

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 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 currently is working on his Level III certification. Yentes enjoys jet-skiing and spending time with his wife Sande and his two children: Morgan, 28 and Dylan, 26.