Jordyn Naylon begins her fourth season as an assistant track and field coach at Plattsburgh State in 2024-25.
Working primarily with the distance and middle-distance runners, Naylon helped Grace Yarkosky to a State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) 800-meter run championship in the outdoor season, as well as having Yarkosky post a third-place finish in the All-Atlantic Region Track and Field Conference (AARTFC) Outdoor Championships. She also coached Noah Bonesteel to a third-place finish in the mile run in the indoor season, as well as his third-place finish in the 1,500-meter run in the outdoor season both at their respective SUNYAC Championship meets. Bonesteel also earned All-Region honors for the mile run.
Naylon helped coach Aislyn McDonough to a pair of SUNYAC titles in the 800-meter run in 2022-23 in addition to coaching four individuals who qualified for the AARTFC Championships across both the indoor and outdoor seasons.
During her six years at SUNY Cortland, Naylon coached two regional champions and two All-Americans, including Ryan Cory, who placed first at the NCAA Division III Niagara Region Cross Country Championships and earned All-America honors by finishing 40th out of 289 runners at the NCAA Division III National Cross Country Championships in 2021. In addition, she coached four national qualifiers between cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field.
As an undergraduate student-athlete at Cortland, Naylon earned All-America honors in the mile at the 2012 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships and earned two All-Region honors in cross country. In addition, Naylon, who qualified for nationals five times between cross country and indoor and outdoor track and field, was named to the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) All-Decade Team (2010-19) for women's track and field.
Naylon earned her Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science in 2013 and her Master of Science in Exercise Science in 2018, both from Cortland.
