Yale

Jeff Forino joined the Yale staff in the summer of 2024 as head coach of men's track and field and associate head coach of women's track and field while handling jumps and the multi events. In Forino's first season with the Bulldogs, Yale set four school records indoors and two school records outdoors. The Bulldogs had four qualifiers for the NCAA First Round East meet.

Forino came to the Bulldogs from Dartmouth, where he had served as an assistant coach since 2014-15. That came after more than a decade away following an initial stint as a Big Green assistant coach with track and field as well as strength and conditioning in 2002-03. 

At Dartmouth Forino worked alongside Courtney Jaworski, Yale's Mark T. Young '68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, who was the Big Green’s head coach of women's cross country and associate head coach of women's track and field from 2014 to 2021. Forino helped develop Nico Robinson, who won an Ivy League decathlon championship and placed in the top three in the heptathlon twice. He co-coached Kaitlin Whitehorn, who placed fifth in the high jump at the 2016 U.S. Olympic Team Trials. Whitehorn placed in the top seven in the high jump at NCAAs – and also won Ivy League championships – both indoors and outdoors that year. He also helped develop Cha’Mia Rothwell, who placed in the top six at the Ivy Championships in the long jump three times and placed fourth in that event at the NEICAAA Outdoor Championships.

Forino also coached multiple Dartmouth throwers to spots at the NCAA East meet, along with coaching Jacob Shippee and Olivia Wiener to Ivy League crowns in the javelin. Shippee was just the second Dartmouth male to win that event in four decades. Additionally, Forino coached Emmaline Berg at the 2016 Indoor USATF Championships.

As a recruiter Forino has proven himself to be one of the best, landing the 2015 National High School Champion in the discus for Dartmouth.

A 1995 graduate of Keene State College, Forino had served as the men's track and field head coach at Hillsdale College since August 2011 before returning to Dartmouth. He had been an associate head coach for Hillsdale for eight seasons prior to his appointment to lead the program. 

At Hillsdale Forino coached Kayla Caldwell to four top-four finishes in the pole vault at the NCAA DII Championships along with a pair of top-three finishes at the GLIAC Championships. He also coached Jared Krout to a pair of GLIAC Championships in the long jump and a third-place finish in the long jump at the NCAA DII Outdoor Championships. Krout also earned a second-place finish in the triple jump at the GLIAC Outdoor Championships. In the hurdles, Forino coached Maurice Jones to an NCAA DII Championship in the 400m hurdles – one of three times Jones finished in the top three at an NCAA DII Championship (twice in the 400mH, once in the 400m). Jones also won a GLIAC Championship in the 400m hurdles outdoors.

Before his initial 13-month stint in Hanover Forino spent time at Springfield College (2000-02), working as an assistant with the men's and women's track and field teams while pursuing his master's degree in athletic administration.

Forino has coached more than 40 All-Americans, including the 2010 Division II Indoor National Champion in the weight throw.