Owen Yancher

M.Ed. - Assistant Athletics Director

Owen is an accomplished athletics administrator and coach with a proven track record in scholastic sports leadership and team management.

Owen is a Bruin, having graduated from the UCLA Master’s Program in Transformative Coaching & Leadership. Owen returns to Westwood from Woodbridge High School, where he led daily operations for 25 interscholastic sports programs, supporting over 1,000 student-athletes and 75 coaches at one of Orange County’s largest public schools. He has a decade of high school swim coaching experience across public schools, private institutions, and collegiate programs, including some prior coaching experience in the Coastal League. In 2019, Owen was named CIF Sac-Joaquin Section Coach of the Year [Swimming & Diving].

During his time at UCLA he was the Assistant Coach for the Women’s Swimming Program and also served on the John Wooden Center Board of Governors.

Owen earned his B.A. in Communication with a Minor in Physical Education from the University of California, Davis.

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