Matt Utesch

Biography

The 2020-21 season will mark Matt Utesch’s 24th year as the head coach for the Lehigh track and field program. During the 2019-20 indoor season, Matt Utesch coached Joey Kelly to his first-ever PL title in the pole vault. Utesch's Mountain Hawks defeated Lafayette on both the men's and women's side. With the win, the men won their seventh straight meeting the two schools. The women won their 13th straight meeting against the Leopards. The Mountain Hawks finished fourth at the PLC. The 2017-18 season featured 10 more individual Patriot League champions and 21 individual all-league honorees between the indoor and outdoor seasons. As the men’s and women’s jumps coach, Utesch coached vaulter Kaitlyn Toman to a second place finish at the indoor championships and a league record score for her first career PL title at the outdoor championships. He coached Jordan Otto to an outdoor league title in the high jump, marking the fifth straight season a Lehigh athlete captured the women’s outdoor high jump crown. He also mentored Trevor Knowles to his record seventh PL title in the mutis after winning the league’s indoor heptathlon title. Knowles also broke the school’s indoor 60m hurdles record on multiple occasions and finished runner-up in the event at the league championships. The Mountain Hawk women finished third at the outdoor PL Championships, and the men and women qualified three athletes for the first round of the NCAA Championships. In 2016-17, Utesch witnessed the Lehigh progra