Neil Young is in his first season on the Georgia Southern track and field coaching staff and coaches the throwers, jumpers and multi-event student-athletes.
Young has designed and implemented business and competition plans for seven professional athletes as a freelance performance coach since 2010. He trained the third-place finalist in the women’s long jump at the Jamaican National Outdoor Championships and the Team Haiti women’s 400-meter hurdle qualifier on the road to the Rio Olympics in 2016.
A 1997 graduate of Clemson with a degree in marketing, Young served as the assistance coach for sprints and jumps at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta from 2015-18. He coached an NCAA women’s triple jump qualifier in two straight seasons, an all-region Indoor/Outdoor honoree for three consecutive seasons and the repeat women’s 100-meter Southern Athletic Association Champion. Young has taught 12 Level I Coaching Schools for USA Track and Field and has spoken at numerous coaching clinics around the country.
