Tyler Stahl returns to the North Florida coaching staff as its Associate Cross Country Head Coach in July 2025. From 2021-24, Stahl spent three seasons at UNF as an assistant coach for both the cross country / track and field programs.
Stahl makes his way back to Jacksonville after spending the 2024-25 season as the Head Cross Country and Distance Coach at Louisiana Monroe. He coached the program's first-ever sub four-minute miler, three Sun Belt track & field champions, and led athletes to a total of seven program records.
In his latest season as an assistant at UNF from 2023-24, his tenure was highlighted by Smilla Kolbe's appearance at the NCAA Outdoor Championships in the women's 800m race. He helped Kolbe, Seth Martinez, Robert Pedroza to All-ASUN selections as distance runners on the track, as well as a total of six All-ASUN distictions from the cross country season.
In 2022-23, Stahl coached the Most Outstanding Indoor Track Performer, as well as five first team All-ASUN, six second team All-ASUN, one third team All-ASUN and four ASUN All-Academic selections, between cross country and track. He assisted the team to breaking nine different program records between the three seasons. He also helped three runners advance to NCAA East First Round and Aidan O'Gorman to the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championship in the 10,000m.
During the 2021-22 cross country and track & field season, Stahl assisted in producing four event winners, as well as 11 All-ASUN placements, highlighted by helping the men's cross country team win the ASUN Championship in the fall. He also aided athletes from both teams to multiple records and accomplishments, personal-best times, and conference award recognitions.
The Land O' Lakes, Fla. native ran for the UNF cross country and track teams from 2014 to 2018. He won an ASUN team cross country championship in 2016 and finished as the ASUN individual outdoor track champion for the 1500m and 5000m races in 2018.
Stahl served as the captain for the cross country and track teams from 2016-18 and qualified for the NCAA Division I East Preliminaries in the outdoor 1500m for his final two years on the track team.
He's been selected to 10 different All-ASUN teams between cross country and track during his time in Jacksonville with four first-team selections, two second-team selections, and four third-team selections. The four first-team All-ASUN selections were for cross country in 2016 and 2017, while he was selected for outdoor 1500m and 5000m in 2018.
Stahl was also a three-time selection for ASUN Academic Honor Roll from 2015-2018, a ASUN All-Academic team selection in 2017, and a USTFCCCA All-Academic team selection in 2017-18. He was selected for conference track athlete of the week honors multiple times in 2017 and 2018 as well.
After graduating from UNF, Stahl served as a policer officer in Jacksonville from 2018-2021. He also adds on volunteer experience with the UNF track team and the Special Olympics.
