Jaworski Announces Three Staff Members

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Courtney Jaworski, Yale’s new Mark T. Young ’68 Director of Cross Country and Track and Field, has begun building his coaching staff. Jaworski announced three staff members Friday: Laura Broderick, Jeff Forino and Duke Taylor.

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Broderick will be an assistant coach for men’s and women’s track and field and cross country. She joined the Bulldogs after spending one season at Rochester, where she recently moved into the role of women’s cross country and track and field distance coach.

During Broderick’s year at Rochester, the Yellowjackets sent male and female individual qualifiers to the 2023 NCAA Cross Country Championships. She assumed primary responsibility for coaching the team’s distance runners during the 2024 track season, and coached Sennett Turner to the Liberty League title and a school record in the women’s 10,000 meters.

Prior to her stint at Rochester Broderick spent two years as a graduate assistant coach for the women’s track and field and cross country teams at Smith College, where she worked alongside Jaworski. She helped coach the cross country team to back-to-back appearances at the NCAA Division III Championships. Her time also saw five Pioneers earn USTFCCCA All-Mideast Region recognition, two make appearances at the NCAA Division III Track and Field Championships and one earn NEWMAC Rookie of the Year. She and Jaworski helped Smith earn the conference Coaching Staff of the Year Award in 2022.

A 2018 graduate of Scripps College, Broderick was a cross country and track and field distance runner for the Claremont-Mudd-Scripps program for four seasons. She was an All-West Region runner and two-time All-Conference honoree in cross country and helped the Athenas finish 13th (in her sophomore year) and 15th (in her junior year) at the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships.

Broderick earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Scripps in 2018 and earned a master’s degree in exercise and sport studies from Smith in 2023.

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Forino will be Yale’s 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. He joins 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 – where he worked alongside Jaworski, 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 US 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.

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Taylor remains on staff and will serve as assistant coach for men’s and women’s track and field, working primarily with the throwers. He joined the Yale coaching staff in early 2019 after spending a season coaching at his alma mater, Malone University in Canton, Ohio.

Taylor has made a huge impact on the Bulldogs’ throws group. Two Bulldog throwers qualified for the NCAA East meet outdoors in 2022, one qualified in 2023 and two qualified in 2024. Matt Appel ’24 advanced to the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships in 2022, becoming the first Bulldog discus thrower to do so since 2012. Additionally, Taylor coached rising sophomore Nathan Lebowitz in the discus at the USATF U20 Championships this past spring. Overall, Yale’s discus group was ranked ninth in the country this year by the USTFCCCA – the best ranking for Yale in any event in the history of those squad rankings.

Indoors, Taylor has coached the Yale record holders in the men’s and women’s shot put. Outdoors, he has coached the Yale women’s shot put and hammer throw record holders along with the men’s discus throw record holder.

The only three-time NCAA Division II first team All-American in Malone athletics history, Taylor was the NCAA Division II discus national champion in his senior year. He was the first Pioneer to capture an NCAA Championship.

A native of East Canton, Ohio, Taylor was a two-time first team All-American in the discus (2016, 2017) and became Malone’s first NCAA indoor track & field All-American with an eighth-place finish in the weight throw at the 2017 Indoor National Championship Meet.

Taylor completed his degree in social work in the summer of 2017 and received his master’s degree in organizational leadership at Malone in 2019.

 

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Jaworski, a former Ivy League and NEWMAC Coach of the Year, came to New Haven from Smith College. He had served as the Pioneers’ director of cross country and head track and field coach since May 2021. He will announce additional Yale coaching staff members at a later date.