Hope College

Mark Northuis '82 has guided the cross country fortunes of his alma mater since 1988.

The Flying Dutchmen have placed in the top 10 at NCAA regionals 24 times and finished in second or third place in the men's conference standings 33 times over 37 seasons.

Northuis guided Hope to a 29th place at the 2024 NCAA Division III Championships, the Great Lakes Region's top performer. Northuis has coached 18 all-region honorees since the USTFCCCA award began in 2010 and 115 All-MIAA selections

A professor of kinesiology, Northuis is also an assistant coach for the men's and women's track and field teams.  He has served on the NCAA Division III advisory committee for cross country and track and field.

Northuis was a five-time MIAA all-conference cross country and track runner at Hope. He won the 1979 Hope Cross Country Invitational and the 1980 MIAA cross country championship. He finished in the top five at the MIAA meet each of his four years. He was among the nation's top small college cross country runners, finishing 27th as both a junior and senior at the NCAA Division III national championship meet.

In track, Northuis won the 5,000-meter run at the 1980 MIAA Field Day. He is still the Hope record holder in the 3,000-meter steeplechase and six-mile run.

Northuis earned a master's degree in exercise physiology at the University of Michigan and received a Ph.D. in exercise science from the University of Minnesota.

He and his wife, Pam Bulthouse, a 1981 Hope College graduate, have five children, Anders, Elizabeth, Klare, Madalyn, and Michaela.