Billy Visto

Biography

Billy Visto is in his eighth season working with the Gustavus track & field coaching staff in the 2024-25 academic year. Visto works primarily with the Gustie horizontal jumpers and serves as the girls long and triple jump coach at Mankato East High School. He joined the Gustavus track & field coaching staff in 2018 and has helped the Gustie women to their first two MIAC team championships in the outdoor season in 2022 and 2023. Visto has worked with numerous successful athletes, most recently All-American long jumper Megan Geraets, who became only the second-ever long jump All-American in Gustavus women's track & field history. A native of Oakes, N.D., Visto was a four-sport athlete at Oakes High School competing in soccer, football, basketball, and track and field. He attended the University of Minnesota-Morris where he majored in computer science and competed on the Cougar track and field team as a two-year captain. Visto provisionally qualified for the NCAA Championships in the triple jump his senior season and still holds the school record in triple jump for both indoor and outdoor seasons. He was announced to the UMAC All-Decade Team in 2019 for his contributions with back-to-back UMAC Outdoor Championship team titles in 2010 and 2011. After graduating in 2011, Visto worked in Gustavus Technology Services as Lead Software Engineer and DevOps Engineer before joining the coaching staff. Billy currently lives in Mankato with his wife, Joy, their three kids, and their dog.

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