Clark Yeager

Swimming for Chico State Yeager attended and swam for Chico State University beginning in the Fall of 1967. He swam under Hall of Fame Coach Ernie Maglischo from 1968–1971, receiving his BA in June 1971 in Humanities with a minor in Physical Education. Swimming as an underclassman, in the 1968–69 season, Chico State had a conference record of 5–2, and finished second in the Far Western Conference championships though Yeager did not place in the championship meet. During his time at the University, he earned varsity letters in swimming in 1968, 1969, and 1971. In 1971, Yeager coached Bernardino's Arrowhead swimming team, leading them to finish third in the Eastern Division of the Sunkist league, and helped supervise a few of their meets. He would later complete his Masters from Chico State in 1979 earning a 3.97 Grade Point Average while serving as their swim coach.

Coaching and directing athletics Chico State University Replacing Hall of Fame Coach Dr. Ernest Maglischo, Yeager coached the Men's team at Chico State from 1976–1991 and served as the Athletic Director in an interim position from 1989–1990. During his tenure at Chico State from 1976–1991, he led the Wildcats to 13 team championships in the Northern California Athletic Conference (NCAC) and earned a dual meet record of 125–37. Also achieving on the national stage during his coaching tenure, he had 15 NCAA finishes within the top ten. Nineteen of Yeager's swimmers earned individual titles in NCAA competition, and he coached two hundred All Americans. In another distinction, Yeager had a 45–0 conference record in dual meets while at Chico State. While at Chico State, Yeager was voted a Coach of the year by the Northern California Athletic Conference five times. The swim program at Chico State was discontinued in 1991. In 1983 and 1989, Chico State held the National Swimming Championships for Division II NCAA, when Yeager was serving both as Coach and as Director of Athletics in 1989. In his late career, from around July 1, 2006 – 2013, Yeager worked as a Director of Athletics at Portland, Oregon's Lewis and Clark College, living in Lake Oswego, Oregon before retiring around 2013.

Service to the swimming community In 1998, Yeager chaired the of NCAA Rules Committee for Division II swimming. After 1989, he served as a member of the National Association of College Directors in Athletics. He was a National Association of Development Directors (NADD) member after 1994. After 1974, he was a member of both the College Swimming Coaches Association (CSCAA) and the American Swimming Coaches Association (ASCA).

Clark and his wife Ingrid have had three children, Joleen, Zachory, and Christopher.

Honors Yeager was inducted into the Chico State Hall of Fame in 2008, and became a member of the Chico (city) Hall of Fame in 2018. After working as a swimming administrator, including chairing the NCAA Rule Committee, Yeager was inducted into the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America's (CSCAA) Greatest Coaches of the Century in September 2018.