Marco Guajardo was hired as an assistant coach for the UTRGV track & field program on Sept. 29, 2026.
Guajardo joins UTRGV after spending the last two seasons at UIW as an assistant coach and graduate assistant. He managed the horizontal jumps and helped with the multis, hurdles, 400/200 groups, pole vault and throws. He organized daily practice agendas for the jumps and sprints, met individually with athletes to make sure their goals were addressed, and helped with recruiting.
Before UIW, Guajardo worked in youth track and field and athletic development. From January 2023 to August 2024, he was an assistant personal trainer at Premier Athletics, where he helped build a performance facility for youth athletes and developed techniques for sprinters and jumpers. There he also formed and coached South Texas Speed, a track and field team that competes in TAAF. In the summer of 2022, he was an assistant track and field coach for the City of Edinburg Parks and Recreation, where he coached TAAF state-qualifying athletes in long jump and triple jump technique.
A standout in the jumps for the Vaqueros, Guajardo competed at UTRGV from 2021 to 2023 while the program was in the Western Athletic Conference (WAC). He earned All-WAC Second Team honors in the triple jump three times: outdoors in 2021, indoors in 2022 and outdoors in 2022. His indoor personal best of 14.26 meters in the triple jump came at the 2022 WAC Indoor Championships, where he placed eighth. In 2022 he also placed sixth in the triple jump at the WAC Outdoor Championships and helped the 4x100-meter relay to eighth. As a junior in 2023, he posted five top 10 finishes in the triple jump, including a 14.16-meter season-best mark at the WAC Outdoor Championships. He also set a long jump personal record of 6.65 meters indoors that year.
Guajardo was versatile as well. As a freshman, he scored 5,740 points in the decathlon to finish 11th at the 2021 WAC Championships, the fifth-best total in program history. In 2022 he won javelin gold with a personal-best 50.51 meters at the Roadrunner Invitational and set personal records of 11.28 in the 100-meter dash and 23.55 in the 200-meter dash.
Away from the track, Guajardo served as vice president of the Student-Athlete Advisory Committee from 2022 to 2023 and was a section leader for The Herd student section. He earned a bachelor's in business administration in management, cum laude, from UTRGV in May 2023 and an associate’s in interdisciplinary studies from South Texas College in May 2020.
