Jacob Yowell

Biography

Jacob Yowell enters his seventh season as an assistant coach on the CSUN men's and women's track & field staff in 2025-26. He serves as the program's sprints, hurdles and relays coach. In his time with Northridge, Yowell has coached Matador sprinters to three All-American awards on the men's side. CSUN has won nine individual conference titles on the men's team and four on the women's team. In all, CSUN has posted 11 total school records in sprint events between the men's and women's teams. In 2025, Yowell coached newcomer Tibyasa Matovu to breaking both the indoor and outdoor 400m school records. Matovu would win CSUN's third consecutive MPSF 400m title on the year. In addition, CSUN broke the school records in the 4x400m relay during the indoor and outdoor seasons. Yowell helped CSUN post a banner 2024 year where CSUN was represented in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m events at the NCAA Outdoor Championships. James Crawford (100m) and Chase Mars (200m) each finished in the top-20 at nationals while the 4x100m relay team (Tosh Black, David Phillips, Jr., Crawford and Mars) earned All-America Second Team honors, finishing 11th at the event. Both Phillips and Mars qualified at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials with each advancing to the 200m semifinals, finishing 14th and 17th, respectively. In 2024, Yowell guided the Matador sprinters to four conference titles. Phillips won the indoor 200m and 400m titles at the MPSF Championships while Mars claimed the outdoor 200m title and Chris