Assistant Coach Tyron Stewart

Tyron Stewart (Texas A&M, 2011) Assistant Coach • Jumps, Multis • 5th Season

Tyron Stewart didn’t need much time to remake the Northwestern State jumps program in his own image – champions. Under Stewart’s guidance, jumper Jasmyn Steels captured the 2019 NCAA Indoor national championship in the long jump and nearly repeated that in 2019 Outdoors, landing a monster jump over 22 feet.

The national title is the fourth overall for NSU in an event, third individual and first by a female jumper.

Steels, who captured the Louisiana Field Athlete of the Year (2019) and the Southland Conference Indoor Field Performer of the Year (2020) among her many accomplishments, was in position to defend her national title at the 2020 NCAA Indoors before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the meet.

Stewart, who will begin his fifth season after coming aboard in the fall of 2016, doesn’t have just the one feather in his cap.

Sophomore Lauren-Ashley Clarke has already captured SLC gold in the high jump and triple jump, including the best mark in the state that led to AllLouisiana first-team honors in the triple in 2019.

In the 2020 SLC Indoors, Steels took long jump gold, Clarke snatched gold in the high and triple jumps and men’s long jumper Markeit Steverson added gold with Quindarrius Thompson supplementing with bronze.

NSU’s best showing in terms of number of medals came in the 2019 SLC Outdoors with six, including a long jump gold from Jacorious Jeter.

Stewart developed a championship pedigree as a student-athlete, winning the USA Indoor long jump championship after a five-time NCAA All-American career in the long and triple jumps at Texas A&M.

Stewart won the USA Track and Field indoor long jump title in 2014 with a mark of 26-11.75 and competed in the IAAF World Indoor Championships that year, just missing the finals.

Heimerman said Stewart’s career success gave him instant credibility.

“Going back decades, we’ve had phenomenal coaches that weren’t phenomenal athletes in that respective event -- but deep down in an athlete’s mind, if a coach was a quality athlete in that event, they get respect because they’ve done it,” Heimerman said. “Great athletes don’t always transition into great coaches, but Tyron really showed a knack for coaching at the training center.

“He’s a young and hungry coach, and that’s what I like. Tyron is a good fit here.”

The Chula Vista, California, native was competing as a professional for five years beginning in 2012. He began working as a coach under the guidance of renowned jumps coach Jeremy Fisher, the operations manager and jumps coach at the Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista.

Stewart’s collegiate highlight came as a junior when he placed second in the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the triple jump.

He had three other top-10 finishes at NCAA championships in the triple jump after placing 10th in NCAA Outdoors in the long jump as a freshman. Stewart won a Big 12 Conference title in the triple jump as a senior.

Texas A&M won three team national championships during Stewart’s tenure.