Football
- Title:
- Director of Football Operations
- Email:
- wsyerty@calpoly.edu
Lee Yerty
Director of Football Operations
First Year / Washington State 1986
A 1986 graduate of Washington State University with a bachelor’s degree in exercise physiology and a master's degree in education administration, Lee Yerty was named Cal Poly's Director of Football Operations in May 2023.
Yerty most recently was director of strength and conditioning at Briarcrest Christian High School in East Memphis, Tenn., from 2018 through April 2023. He was director of volleyball operations and assistant strength coach for the Wyoming women's volleyball program from 2008-12 and held the same positions at Memphis from 1996-2008.
Yerty also was marketing director for two years and assistant athletic director for three years at Eastern Washington from 1991-95. In his assistant athletics director role, Yerty was in charge of marketing, fundraising and event management, along with daily administrative planning and other functions. In 1995, Yerty served an assistant volleyball coach for the Eagles.
From 1985-90, Yerty was both a graduate assistant and assistant strength and conditioning coach at Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. He was the assistant for football, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's golf, volleyball, men's and women's track and men's and women's tennis, along with assisting all other sports.
While as an undergraduate at Washington State, Yerty played football for the Cougars from 1983-85.
A Naches, Wash., native, Yerty was a Washington high school all-state first team athlete in football and track and field (pole vault).
The Yertys have three sons: WesLee (who played football at Memphis), Jace (who plays football at Middle Tennessee State) and Cade.
