Jason Falvo enters his 14th season as head coach of the Waynesburg University track & field teams in 2017-18.
Since guiding the program from its resurgence in 2005 to this year, Falvo has coached 17 Division III national qualifiers, five All-Americans and 126 ECAC qualifiers to go along with three ECAC champions, 10 academic All-Americans and 216 members of the Presidents’ Athletic Conference (PAC) Academic Honor Roll.
Under Falvo’s guidance, Waynesburg has also become a power in the PAC. The veteran head coach guided the Yellow Jacket women to the 2013, 2016 and 2017 outdoor PAC team titles. This past winter, the Jackets claimed their first indoor PAC team title. His athletes have also garnered numerous individual conference accolades, including seven PAC Athlete of the Year awards.
Falvo's excellence has netted several praiseworthy coaching awards, including 2017 PAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year, 2017 PAC Women's Indoor Coach of the Year, 2016 PAC Women's Outdoor Coach of the Year, 2013 PAC Women's Coach of the Year, 2010 PAC Women's Coach of the Year and 2010 United State Track & Field and Cross Country Division III Mideast Region Women’s Coach of the Year.
The Waynesburg track program also set new program highs when it came to the ECAC Championships in 2013. A record 21 Jackets got their tickets punched for the event. At the 2009 ECAC Championships, the seven Jacket women who qualified also set a new school record for highest finish at the event after placing seventh.
Falvo has also enjoyed excellence in the class room. The 2010 women’s track and field team featured three individuals who were named to the All-American Academic Team by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA).
The veteran coach is also USA Track and Field Level 1-certified and, in 2009, was named PAC Women’s Track & Field Coach of the Year.
Falvo was a participant in track and field at Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pa., from 1994 to 1997. While a member of the Eagles, he ran sprints in the 100 and 200-meters and was a member of the 4 x 100 and 4 x 400-meter relay teams. Falvo set the school record in the 200-meters and was a member of the record-setting 4 x 100 relay team.
Falvo also played football at Juniata where he was a standout wide receiver and kick return specialist. He had an impressive playing career highlighted by earning first-team all-conference selections from 1994-97. Falvo set school records, including career all-purpose yards, while his record 1,917 career kick-return yards still stands.
In high school, Falvo was a first-team conference all-purpose back at Trinity High School in Washington, Pa., in 1993 before graduating in 1994.
