Jacob Yorg

Jacob Yorg enters his fifth season as head coach at UW-Parkside in 2017-18. After a slow start to the season in 2016-17, Yorg saw his Rangers finish out the season with a 10-17 overall record and an 8-10 record in the GLVC.

His squad finished 10-9 in the final 19 games and rattled off a three-game winning streak in conference play. The Rangers finished 7-6 at home inside DeSimone, making it the fifth straight season his team didn't finish below .500 at home.

His 2015-2016 squad finished both the Flyer Challenge and the Sodexo Tip-Off Classic undefeated while scoring a 54-48 upset victory over sixth-ranked Drury University on Jan. 9 in game broadcast nationally on the American Sports Network. Yorg additionally guided the Rangers to the Great Lakes Valley Conference Tournament for the second consecutive season. Off the court, his program continued to have academic success with the Rangers earning a 3.33 grade point average during the fall semester.

Yorg engineered the program's biggest single-season turnaround in 2014-2015, guiding the Rangers back to the NCAA Division II Tournament and finishing the season 22-8 overall. The turnaround was the fourth-biggest in Division II during the 2014-2015 campaign and ranked ninth overall among all 1,077 NCAA institutions. UW-Parkside rattled off a program record 12 consecutive wins in Great Lakes Valley Conference action, finishing the conference slate with a 14-4 mark while leading the league in scoring defense, allowing a paltry 58.5 points per game. The team additionally excelled off the court with 11 student-athletes earning the Academic All-GLVC award while the team captured the GLVC Team Academic award for the second time in his career.

In 2013-2014, Yorg helped the team capture GLVC Team Academic honors while boasting the highest grade point average of any athletic program on campus.

Yorg became the sixth head coach in program history in the summer of 2013, coming to Parkside after serving as the associate head coach at Great Lakes Valley Conference rival Maryville University from 2008-2013. Maryville posted a 76-64 record in that span, winning the GLVC Tournament in 2011-2012 in the squad's third year as a Division II institution before winning the GLVC West Division crown in 2012-2013. In his first season with the Saints in 2008-2009, Maryville posted a 22-6 record, including a perfect 16-0 mark in Saint Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play in the squad's final season at the non-scholarship NCAA Division III level.

Yorg was responsible for the Saints' defensive scheme and in-game defensive play calling while also overseeing individual skill workouts, operational budgets and compliance. He additionally played a huge role in expanding Maryville's recruiting footprint, bringing in the most geographically diverse class in program history, securing players from 13 different states.

Prior to Maryville, Yorg was the head girls basketball coach at Sherwood High School in Creighton, Missouri during the 2007-2008 season where he helped the Marksmen to a 15-12 record and a second place finish after inheriting a program that had not experienced a winning season in 15 years.

Before Sherwood, Yorg was an assistant at Incarnate Word Academy in Saint Louis from 2005 to 2007. While on the Red Knights' staff he coached 11 girls who went on to play at the collegiate level while the team was ranked as high as 13th nationally. Yorg additionally served as the interim head coach at Visitation Academy in Saint Louis in 2004-2005 and served as the head coach at St. John The Baptist High School in 2003-2004 after spending the previous four years as an assistant.

Yorg graduated from Webster University in 2002 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. He earned his master's degree in teaching in 2003 from Webster while earning a master's degree in counseling from Missouri Baptist University in 2009 and a master's in educational education in 2011 from Missouri Baptist.