Tyler Mettille serves as Senior Associate Athletic Director for Compliance and Integrated Healthcare in the Youngstown State Department of Intercollegiate Athletics, a role he began in July 2025. Mettille is also the sport supervisor for the women's soccer and the men's and women's track and field and corss country programs.
He had previously served as an Assistant Athletic Director from 2023-25 and an Assistant Director of Compliance from 2021-23. He was also an assistant coach with the YSU track and field program from 2018-21.
As a coach, he was part of 10 Horizon League YSU Track and Field team championships from 2018-21. In his tenure, he coached 17 Horizon League event champions.
During the 2021 campaign, Olivia Jones was one of the top female athletes in the Horizon League winning the Outdoor Hepthalon and the Indoor Pentathlon. It was the third straight year that Jones won the pentathlon. Jakari Lomax was the top jumper on the men's side winning the indoor and outdoor titles in the long jump and the triple jump. At the indoor meet, Jessica Stever took first in the long jump while Terron Taylor won the indoor high jump.
In 2019-20, Mettille helped guide the Penguins to a pair of Horizon League Indoor Championships and three school records. Jones captured the pentathlon title for the second consecutive year while breaking her own school record with 3,681 points.
Lomax became the first Penguin school history to win the triple jump title at the league meet. He made an immediate impact by breaking the school record in the triple jump with a mark of 15.26m at the season-opening YSU Icebreaker on Dec. 9.
Daiquain Watson finished as the runner-up in the long jump at the Horizon League Indoor Championships and broke his own school record with a mark of 7.49m. Chontel Fils capped off an impressive career with runner-up finishes in the long and triple jumps at the league meet.
In his first season, Mettille's jumpers were key contributors to the Penguins sweeping both the indoor and outdoor Horizon League championships. During the indoor season on the women’s side, Olivia Jones won the pentathlon while scoring the third most points in the program history at 3,424. Jessica Stever captured the title in the long jump with a leap of 5.81m. Abby Jones earned a runner-up finish in the high jump while Chontel Fils did the same in the long and triple jumps.
Daiquain Watson highlighted the men's success as he won the long jump title at the Horizon League Indoor Championships.
During the outdoor season, Jones won the heptathlon at the Horizon League Championship becoming just the second athlete in program history to sweep the multi events at the league meets. She also accumulated a school record 4,758 points on May 3-4.
Abby Jones won her third straight high jump title after clearing the bar at 1.71m. Fils captured her second career league championship in the long jump while also bringing home the triple jump title for only the third time in program history.
Mettille spent two years at Kent State where he served as the jumps coach for the Golden Flashes prior to coming to YSU. At the 2018 Outdoor NCAA Championships, he coached Craig Stevens, Jr., to a 19th-place finish in the triple jump. A the indoor NCAA meet, Stevens Jr. earned second-team All-America accolades in the triple jump placing 14th. At the 2017 Outdoor NCAA meet, Stevens Jr. garnered first-team All-America honors placing seventh in the triple jump.
He spent the 2016 season as an assistant at his alma mater, Mount Union, where eight of his athletes (three indoor, five outdoor) reached the Division III NCAA Championships. For his efforts, he garnered Great Lakes Region Assistant Coach of the Year for the 2016 indoor season. While at Mount Union, Mettille was tasked with creating and implementing a running and lifting program for the Purple Raiders’ track and field athletes. Mettille also assisted in managing the team's budget and organizing travel arrangements.
Prior to coaching at Mount Union, Mettille spent time as a volunteer coach with the Youngstown Striders and Canfield Track and Field working with athletes ages six to 18.
Mettille had an illustrious career as a student-athlete at Mount Union, winning four individual NCAA Championships and one a team championship in 2014. In 2013, Mettille was the outdoor 400-meter hurdles national champion with a time of 51.24 seconds. In 2014, Mettille was a member of the Purple Raider 4x400 relay team that swept the indoor and outdoor national championships. At the 2015 outdoor national championships, Mettille and the 4x400 relay team would repeat as national champions. In total, Mettille was an 11-time All-American as a member of the Purple Raiders track and field program.
A native of nearby Canfield, Mettille graduated from Mount Union in 2015 with a degree in marketing and a minor in coaching.
At Canfield High School he was a three-year letterwinner in track and field and basketball.
