Head Coach Jeff Kavalunas

Men's & Women's Cross Country and Track

Recently, he was selected as the GLIAC's 2004 Women's Cross Country Coach of the Year after leading the Bulldogs to a third place finish at the league's championships and the school's first national ranking in his tenure.

Kavalunas knows what it takes to build a program and his professional demeanor works well with the student-athletes on both the playing fields and in the classroom.

Kavalunas served five years (1991-96) as the head coach of the men's and women's cross country and track programs at Northwood University in Midland, Mich. Northwood had the 1993 NAIA National Champion in the long jump.

Prior to NU, Kavalunas assisted head coach Walt Drenth with the men's cross country program and head coach Jim Knapp with track at Central Michigan University from 1988-91. While at CMU, he played an integral role in helping the Chippewas' cross country squad finish among the top 20 teams at both the 1988 and 1989 NCAA Division I National Championships. Central also won the Mid-American Conference championship in each of those years as well. Kavalunas began his coaching career in 1988 at his alma mater, Ogemaw Heights High School, in West Branch, Mich.

Kavalunas continued his cross country and track career at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich. He received a bachelor of science degree in physical education in 1987 and went on to earn a master's in physical education (exercise physiology) at Central Michigan University in 1990.

Kavalunas is a member of the NCAA Division II Track and Field Coaches Association Board and has also served as an all-academic coordinator for Division II track and field.