Coaches

This will be Coach Howdy Atkinson’s Second season as Head Coach and Fifth season as the Throws Coach at Yuba College. In his first four years with the program, he had 13 athletes advance to the State Finals in 19 events with 9 earning an All-American. Coach Howdy also saw 10 records fall.

Prior to Yuba College Coach Howdy coached four seasons as Throws and Multi’s Coach at Butte College.  In his four years with the program, he had had 25 athletes advance to the State Finals, 10 All-Americans, 3 State Champions and had five records fall (W-Shot Put, M-Shot Put, W-Hammer, W-Javelin and W-Heptathlon).  In his time at Butte, the women had set 25 new top 10 records and the men had set 13 new top 10 records. Howdy also spent seasons at CSU Chico (3 years), Chico high (2 years), Amador High (1 year) and Yuba City High (1 year).  He has coached multiple All Americans at the college level and coached 12 school record holders.

As an athlete, he competed at CSU Chico where he was an All-American in the Shot Put taking 4th at Nationals in 2003; he was also ranked 17th in the discus and 25th in the hammer. He brings his experience as a former All-American, and the success of having a conference champion every year he has coached.  Coach Howdy would like to see the field events become the best in the state every year.

Coach Atkinson has won GVC Coach of the year 3 times in the last 4 years.