Clarion Athletics

Jason Falvo, an experienced coach with more than a decade of success before arriving at Clarion, is in his first year as head track & field coach of the Golden Eagle program in 2018-19.

Falvo started the men’s and women’s track & field programs at Waynesburg in 2005, and in a short span of time built the Yellow Jackets into a PAC contender and launch pad for national-caliber athletes as well.  The women’s team won four total PAC championships in his tenure, including outdoor titles in 2013 and 2016.  Waynesburg swept the indoor and outdoor conference championships in 2017, as well.  The conference honored him as women’s coach of the year five total times, including four times in the outdoor season (2009, 2013, 2016, 2017) and once during indoor season (2017).  Falvo was also named the 2010 NCAA Mid East Region Women’s Coach of the Year.
 
There are also a slew of individual accolades to go with team honors.  In his 12 years at Waynesburg, Falvo’s Yellow Jackets produced 28 national qualifiers and five All-Americans, most recently Addisen Knetzer (Shot Put) in 2017.  Elisha Jones was a two-time All-American in the Javelin (2008, 2010), Megan Sowers placed in the same event in 2012, and Ashley Dodd was an All-American Pole Vaulter in 2008.  Falvo coached 145 men’s and women’s All-PAC athletes, 151 total East Coast Athletic Conference (ECAC) qualifiers and 133 all-academic award honorees. 
 
His teams excelled in the classroom, with the women’s team earning nine United States Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) All-Academic Team awards and the men’s team earning five.  Three Yellow Jackets earned College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Academic All-District honors in that time as well.
 
In addition to his work as the head track & field coach, Falvo also served as an assistant coach for the Waynesburg football team, spending 12 years as assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and special teams coordinator.  Before that, he served as special teams coordinator, defensive backs coach, strength & conditioning coach, recruiting coordinator and academic coordinator from 2003-05, and as defensive coordinator during the 2005 season.
 
Falvo attended Juniata College from 1994-98, where he was a two-sport athlete competing on the football and track & field teams.  As a football player, he was a three-time first team all-conference selection and ranked second all-time in career all-purpose yardage.  A sprinter for the track team, he was a four-year letter winner that set records in the 200m and the 4x100m Relay.  He finished his degree at Waynesburg from 1999-2001 while acting as an assistant coach, working with running backs and receivers.  Falvo then spent two years at Muskingum as a graduate assistant football coach.
 
Falvo is a USTFCCCA Level One-certified coach.  The Washington, Pennsylvania native holds a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Waynesburg (2001), and Master’s Degrees in Education (Muskingum, 2003) and Administration and Coaching (Waynesburg, 2017).