Four Join Staff as Assistants

Brian Clymer (full-time throws), David Mackey (part-time pole vault), and Isabelle Hoover (volunteer distance) have joined The College of Wooster track and field staff as assistants ahead of the 2025 season. Additionally, Dominic Gorence recently joined Wooster's baseball staff as a volunteer assistant.

Clymer brings 16 years of assistant track and field coaching experience to the College. He was a lead assistant at Kenyon College for seven years and possesses nearly a decade of Div. I coaching experience from his time at Wake Forest University. At Kenyon, Clymer mentored and coached the throws, sprints, hurdles, jumps, and multi-event groups. Clymer led Kenyon's recruiting efforts and managed the development and implementation of annual recruiting campaigns for the program. He helped Owls to 17 school records, including the discus, and coached Sierra DeLeon to runner-up honors in the 100-meter hurdles at the 2014 Div. III Championships.

At Wake Forest, Clymer focused on the jumps and sprints and led recruiting efforts. Wake Forest's 2012 class was ranked in the top-10 nationally by Track & Field News. He worked closely with national elite-level combined-event athletes who finished sixth or better at USATF National Championships and Olympic Trials. Elsewhere, Clymer spent nearly three years as a recruiting coach for IMG Academy and Next College Student Athlete (NCSA). He supervised the recruiting progress and program participation for over 1,600 clients, evaluated and verified NCSA student-athletes to match them with appropriate college programs, and hosted educational recruiting workshops for clients.

Clymer competed as a pole vaulter at Kent State University and coached vertical jumps for two years following the completion of his eligibility. Clymer earned a bachelor of science degree in business administration from High Point University and went on to earn a master's in sports administration from Ohio University. His dad, Jim, coached pole vault at the College for four seasons.

Mackey is the managing director of a highly successful pole vault club in Wayne County. He regularly works with 70 athletes each year ranging from middle school to post-collegiate levels. Nearly 50 Mackey-coached pole vaulters have won state championships, and over 300 of his clients have qualified for the state meet over the last 14 years. He regularly works with area coaches with pole selection, individual training programs, and safety training certifications. Mackey has coached or officiated track and field in some capacity for the last three decades.

Outside of coaching, Mackey is the owner of Peep's Pallets and Surplus, an overstock and surplus retail store in Wooster and owns DGM Sports, a screen printing and sports equipment specialist company.

Mackey attended Ashland University and graduated with a business administration degree.

Hoover graduated as one of Wooster's top distance runners. The 2022 North Coast Athletic Conference Distance Athlete of the Year was a four-time conference champion and earned the conference's top honor following a distance sweep in the 3,000 (10:32.11) and 5,000 meters (17:47.61) at the 2022 indoor conference championships. She was the NCAC 10,000 meters champion in 2021 (38:00.59) and 2022 (36:51.49). Overall, Hoover earned 10 all-conference honors, including a pair of first-team certificates as a top-seven cross country finisher. Her fourth-place NCAC time of 23:54.9 in 2022 marked Wooster's highest NCAC finish since W Association Hall of Famer and five-time All-American Katie Wieferich won the individual title in 2006. Hoover helped Wooster to a runner-up NCAC indoor finish in 2022 and its highest NCAC cross country placement since 1998 in 2021. She was named Division III Commissioner's Association Region VII Women's Sport Student-Athlete of the Year upon graduation.

The NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient graduated with a master's of philosophy in art history and architecture from the University of Cambridge after majoring in art history and classical languages at Wooster.

Hoover works in admissions at the College.

Gorence, who joined the baseball staff in December, works with the outfielders and the hitters.

As a player, Gorence was honorable mention All-Ohio Athletic Conference at Muskingum University. A regular as a junior and senior, Gorence played in 90 career games and posted a .327 average (100-for-306) with 67 runs, 58 RBI, 46 walks, 23 steals, and 22 doubles. His best year came as a senior, when the infielder hit .324 (45-for-139) with 34 runs, 22 RBI, 22 walks, 16 steals, and 10 doubles.

Gorence's coaching experience started with American Legion Post 1 in West Virginia, where he led a 15U program. He was an assistant coach at the high school level for the 2024 season.

Gorence graduated from Muskingum with a bachelor's degree in sports administration and sports communication and furthered his education with a master's in teaching.