Responsibilites
Guard enters his ninth season as the Head Coach of the BYU women's gymnastics program in 2024
Prior to BYU
- Served as assistant men's gymnastics coach at the University of Oklahoma from 2000-05 and from 2011-15
- In nine seasons at OU, was part of four NCAA championship teams (2002, 2003, 2005, 2015) and five NCAA runner-up teams (2001, 2004, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Gymnastics Career
- Member of the BYU men’s gymnastics team from 1996-2000, winning six All-America awards and two NCAA National Championships on the vault (1999, 2000). As a senior, he also placed runner-up in the individual all-around at the 2000 NCAA Championships
- From 2000 to 2004, was a member of the USA Senior National Gymnastics Team, winning a team silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in Ghent, Belgium, and a team silver medal the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece
- As a junior gymnast, trained under OU coach Mark Williams at the Bart Conner Gymnastics Academy in Norman. He was the 1996 junior national champion and earned three junior national team berths
- Inducted into the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2010
Education
- Bachelor of Arts in Communications, BYU (2001)
- Emphasis was in broadcast journalism
Personal/Family
- Guard and his wife, Alisha, have three children — Tyler, Jaxson and Hadley
- His father, Wayne Young, was a BYU gymnast from 1970-1975 and captained the 1976 USA Olympic team. His father later became the Cougars men’s gymnastics coach from 1979-87 and was inducted into the BYU Athletic Hall of Fame in 1986
- Guard’s sister Jessica Young Wycherly was a gymnast at BYU from 1995-98