Assistant Track Coach-Pole Vault
Girls Track & Field
Coach Gillis is originally from Northeast Pennsylvania. After high school, he went on to make a brief stop at Northeastern University in Boston, MA, where he majored in Computer Science, before moving on to graduate from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA with a double major in Physics & Mathematics and a minor in Astronomy in May of 2007. He then moved to Northern Virginia to pursue a career in education and in May of 2016 completed a Master's in Physics Education through the University of Virginia.
Coach Gillis joined the faculty of Falls Church High School as a physics teacher. He resides in Falls Church with his marathon-running wife, Dawn, their little linebacker, Myles, and dog, Carlton.