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Tony Yelovich is in his 12th year as an assistant athletics director at Notre Dame, with responsibility for game management. Yelovich moved into an administrative role during the fall of '94 after serving on the Irish football staff for eight seasons, the final three as recruiting coordinator. Before assuming the recruiting position prior to the '91 campaign, he spent five years coaching a variety of positions for the Irish. Yelovich began his tenure coaching the entire offensive line in '86 and '87, concentrated on the guards and centers in '88, handled receivers in '89 --then tutored the Notre Dame tight ends in '90. For all of his contributions to Notre Dame, Yelovich was given an honorary monogram by the Notre Dame National Monogram Club in June of 2001. The Paoli, Pa., native was an offensive line coach everywhere else he had been--including stints at Stanford (1984-85), Tulane (1980-83), Arizona (1977-79), among others. While coaching at Tennessee Tech, his team recorded a perfect 10-0 record in 1972 and played in the Grantland Rice Bowl. Among the players coached by Yelovich who went on to professional careers were Chuck Lanza, Tim Ruddy, Tim Grunhard, Mike Heldt, Irv Smith, Derek Brown and Pete Chryplewicz. He also coached a team of Notre Dame alumni that traveled to Hamburg, Germany, for the 2000 Charity Bowl. Notre Dame defeated the Hamburg Blue Devils 14-10. The All-America Football Foundation honored Yelovich in 1998 for his years of service to the game as an assistant coach. Yelovich began his coaching career at Tampa, his alma mater, as a graduate assistant during the spring of 1964. He served that season as defensive coordinator and linebacker coach at Seminole High School under Fred Robinson in Largo, Fla. Yelovich coached ends, linebackers and centers during the '65 and '67 seasons at Parsons College in Fairfield, Iowa. Yelovich graduated from Tampa in '64 with undergraduate degrees in history and physical education. He earned a master's degree from Truman University in Missouri. A four-year letterman as a center at Tampa, Yelovich captained the 1963 Spartan squad. A Little All-America pick in '62 and '63, he's a member of the Tampa Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame in June of 1995. In 2003, he received the Spirit Award , an award giving by the University in recognition of dedication to exceptional service which has inspired others to greater levels of achievement. Yelovich and his wife, Jean, are parents of two daughters--Jody, assistant athletic director for employee services at Notre Dame and a Notre Dame graduate, and Jill, also a Notre Dame graduate. |
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