Central College Men's Track

COACHING RESUME - CROSS COUNTRY 2009-present (Central College) Head coach 2004-06 (St. Norbert College {Wis.}) Head coach 2002-03 (Trinity College {Conn.}) Assistant coach COACHING RESUME - TRACK AND FIELD 2018-present (Central College) Associate head coach 2010-18 (Central College) Head coach 2004-07 (St. Norbert College {Wis.}) Head coach 2002-03 (Trinity College {Conn.}) Assistant coach ATHLETICS CAREER 1997-2000 - Denison Univ. (Ohio) 2000-01 - Keene State Univ. (N.H.) EDUCATION Denison University (Ohio), 2002 B.A., history Trinity College (Conn.), 2004 M.A., history HOMETOWN Laramie, Wyo. One of the region’s most successful coaches, Joe Dunham joined the Central staff in 2009 as head men’s and women’s cross country coach and men’s and women’s track and field coach. He gave up his track and field head coaching duties after a record-breaking 10-year run in 2018, focusing on distance events as associate head coach while continuing as head cross country coach. In 2023, both the men's and women's programs qualified for the NCAA Division III Cross Country Championships, the fifth appearance for the men and second for the women in Dunham's tenure. The women finished ninth nationally in 2023, their first top-10 finish since 1981.The men's best national finish was 2013, taking sixth with a pair of All-Americans. He's had 11 additional men's runners qualify as individuals and nine more individual women's qualifiers. He's had six male runners earn nine all-America awards and three females earn four all-America awards.      The Dutch men have won a pair of league titles under Dunham, who has received two conference coach of the year awards. His athletes have tallied 34 all-conference performances in the men's races and 31 in the women's races.             As track and field coach, Dunham’s teams claimed 12 men’s indoor and outdoor track and field titles and recorded seven national top-10 team finishes, including a runner-up trophy in the 2011 NCAA indoor meet. Central claimed nine individual national titles in his tenure. The Dutch men gained 49 indoor and outdoor all-America awards and 23 women’s all-America honors. Prior to coming to Central, Dunham spent three seasons as the head men's cross country coach at St. Norbert College (Wis.) and four seasons as the head men's and women's track and field coach  He piloted the Green Knights to a pair of top-three finishes in men's cross country.  His men’s team finished runner-up five times in indoor and outdoor conference meets and his women’s team had a trio of top-four finishes.During Dunham’s tenure at St. Norbert, the Green Knights broke 41 school records and had numerous NCAA Division III meet qualifiers while capturing an individual national title in the 800 meters.  A two-time all-America cross country honoree at Denison University (Ohio), Dunham also earned all-America status in cross country and track and field at Keene State College (N.H.). He graduated from Denison with a degree in history in 2002 and has a master's in history from Trinity College (Conn.). Honors Central College (2) Conference men’s cross country coach of the year – 2012, 2013 (1) Conference women's cross country coach of the year – 2023 (6) Conference men’s outdoor track and field coach of the year – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018 (3) Conference men’s indoor track and field coach of the year – 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016 (1) USTFCCCA Midwest Region women's cross country coach of the year – 2023 (3) USTFCCCA Central Region men’s indoor track and field coach of the year – 2013, 2014, 2015 (4) USTFCCCA Central Region men’s outdoor track and field coach of the year – 2011, 2012, 2015, 2018 (Note: Conference coach of the year award changed to coaching staff of the year award in 2016) Achievements Central College - cross country (2) Conference men’s cross country championship – 2012, 2013 (4) Conference men’s cross country MVP's – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 (1) Conference women's cross country MVP's - 2024 (65) All-Conference performances (5) NCAA Division III men’s cross country championship berths – 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2023 (2) NCAA Division III women's cross country championship berths – 2009, 2023 (8) NCAA Division III men’s cross country all-America awards (4) NCAA Division III women’s cross country all-America awards (3) USTFCCCA Central Region Athlete of the Year awards - 2013, 2015, 2017 (59) USTFCCCA All-Central/Midwest Region performances Central College - head track and field coach (5) Conference men’s indoor track and field championship – 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 (7) Conference men’s outdoor track and field championship – 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018 (4) NCAA Division III men’s indoor track and field championship top-10 finish – 2011, 2013, 2014, 2018 (3) NCAA Division III men’s outdoor track and field championship top-10 finish – 2011, 2012, 2016 (9) NCAA Division III men’s indoor and outdoor individual championships (49) NCAA Division III men’s indoor and outdoor track and field all-America awards (23) NCAA Division III women’s indoor and outdoor track and field all-America awards Athletics career NCAA Division III cross country all-America honoree, Denison University, 1998, 1999 NCAA Division III cross country all-America honoree, Keene State University (N.H.), 2000 NCAA Division III track and field all-America honoree, 800 meters, Denison University, 1999 Men's cross country results Year Conference NCAA Regional NCAA National 2009 6th 17th 2010 7th 14th 2011 4th 9th 2012 1st 2nd 12th 2013 1st 2nd 6th 2014 2nd 3rd 11th 2015 2nd 2nd 25th 2016 4th 7th 2017 6th 9th 2018 6th 13th 2019 4th 8th 2020 5th N/A 2021 5th 6th 2022 4th 7th 2023 2nd 4th 15th 2024 4th 10th 2025 3rd 6th Women's cross country results Year Conference NCAA Regional NCAA National 2009 3rd 4th 19th 2010 3rd 17th 2011 5th 12th 2012 4th 12th 2013 4th 16th 2014 4th 15th 2015 4th 16th 2016 5th 16th 2017 5th 15th 2018 5th 16th 2019 5th 21st 2020 7th N/A 2021 3rd 6th 2022 3rd 5th 2023 2nd 3rd 9th 2024 2nd 4th 2025 2nd 4th Men's track and field results Year Indoor Conf. Indoor NCAA Outdoor Conf. Outdoor NCAA 2009 2nd 1st 36th (tie) 2010 1st 1st 17th (tie) 2011 1st 2nd 1st 7th 2012 2nd 57th (tie) 1st 9th (tie) 2013 1st 9th (tie) 2nd 22nd (tie) 2014 2nd 10th 2nd 53rd (tie) 2015 1st (tie) 55th (tie) 1st 56th (tie) 2016 1st 11th (tie) 1st 6th 2017 2nd 37th (tie) 2nd 32nd 2018 2nd 9th (tie) 1st 12th (tie) Women's track and field results Year Indoor Conf. Indoor NCAA Outdoor Conf. Outdoor NCAA 2009 4th 2nd 58th 2010 4th 46th (tie) 3rd 49th (tie) 2011 2nd 24th (tie) 3rd 17th 2012 3rd 32nd (tie) 2nd 2013 3rd 58th (tie) 3rd 2014 5th 23rd (tie) 4th 16th (tie) 2015 2nd 13th (tie) 2nd 2016 3rd 35th (tie) 4th 58th (tie) 2017 5th 6th 2018 5th 4th

COACHING RESUME 2024-present (Central College) Assistant track & field coach 2013-23 (Central College) Associate head track &field  coach 1988-2012 (Northern State University [S.D.]) Head track and field coach 1988-2003 (Northern State University [S.D.]) Head cross country coach ATHLETICS CAREER 1982-86 - Doane College (Neb.) EDUCATION Doane College (Neb.), 1986 HOMETOWN Denver, Colo. Jim Fuller joined the Central men’s and women’s track and field coaching staff in 2013. He was an associate head coach from 2013-2023 and started as an assistant coach in 2024      Fuller was named the USTFCCCA National Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year after guiding Will Daniels to the heptathlon crown and Ryan Kruse to a third-place finish at the 2018 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships. He was also named the Central Region Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year. In 13 years at Central, Fuller has coached 26 All-American performances at the NCAA Division III and Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In his first season, Eric Larson swept the 2013 indoor heptathlon and outdoor decathlon national titles. He later guided Will Daniels to two national titles in the heptathlon and one in the decathlon in 2018 and 2019. In 2023, Sam Beatty was the national high jump champion at the indoor national meet.  At the conference level, Fuller has coached 16 conference champions in the multi-events. His athletes have won an additional 27 individual conference titles in the high jump and hurdles races. On the women's side, Mary Gray won four indoor pentathlon and three outdoor heptathlon titles under Fuller from 2018 to 2021. Fuller has been on the staff for six men's conference titles.      Fuller previously spent 24 years as a highly successful head coach at NCAA Division II Northern State University (S.D.). At Northern State, formerly an NAIA institution, his squads placed in the top 35 in the nation 20 times. Fuller also served as cross country coach for 16 seasons. He received Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference coach of the year recognition six times in track and five times in cross country, helping 815 athletes earn all-conference awards. Between Central and Northern State, Fuller’s athletes have received all-America distinction 71 times. Fuller also serves Central as a lecturer of exercise science. Honors Central College (2) Conference men’s outdoor track and field coaching staff of the year – 2016, 2018 (1) Conference men’s indoor track and field coaching staff of the year –  2016 (1) USTFCCCA National Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year - 2018 (1) USTFCCCA Central Region Men’s Assistant Coach of the Year - 2018 Achievements Central College (3) men's conference indoor track and field championships – 2015, 2016, 2018 (3) men's conference outdoor track and field championships –  2013, 2015, 2016 (3) men's heptathlon indoor NCAA Division III champions - 2013 - Eric Larson; 2018 - Will Daniels; 2019 - Will Daniels (2) men's decathlon outdoor NCAA Division III champions - 2013 - Eric Larson; 2019 - Will Daniels (1) men's high jump indoor NCAA Division III champions - 2023 - Sam Beatty (26) men's NCAA Division III All-American performances (4) men's heptathlon indoor conference champions - 2017 - Will Daniels; 2018 - Ryan Kruse; 2021 - Lucas Heitz; 2022 - Brody Klein (6) men's high jump indoor conference champions - 2016 - Logan Mulford; 2017 - Logan Mulford; 2018 - Will Daniels; 2020 - Drake Lewis; 2021 - Drake Lewis; 2022 - Drake Lewis (3) men's 55/60-meter hurdles indoor conference champions - 2013 - Eric Larson; 2015 - Eric Larson; 2016 - Dan Roemerman (4) men's decathlon outdoor conference champions - 2013 - Conner Freeman; 2016 - Jaemin Powell; 2022 - Brody Klein; 2023 - Brody Klein (1) men's high jump indoor conference champions -  2024 - Gunner Meyer (6) men's high jump outdoor conference champions - 2016 - Logan Mulford; 2017 - Logan Mulford; 2018 - Will Daniels; 2019 - Drake Lewis; 2021 - Sam Beatty; 2022 - Sam Beatty (5) men's 110-meter hurdles outdoor conference champions - 2013 - Dan Roemerman; 2014 - Dan Roemerman; 2015 - Dan Roemerman; 2016 - Dan Roemerman; 2025 - Gunner Meyer (1) men's 400-meter hurdles outdoor conference champions -  2013 - Drake Hickock (4) women's pentathlon indoor conference champions - 2018 - Mary Gray; 2019 - Mary Gray; 2020 - Mary Gray; 2021 - Mary Gray (1) women's high jump indoor conference champions -  2019 - Courtney Kruthoff (1) women's 60-meter hurdles indoor conference champions - 2015 - Meredith Zimmerman (4) women's heptathlon outdoor conference champions - 2018 - Mary Gray; 2019 - Mary Gray; 2021 - Mary Gray; 2023 - Olivia Bohlen (1) women's high jump outdoor conference champions - 2019 - Tori VanVelzen  (83) men's all-conference performances (44) women's all-conference performances Athletics career Doane University

COACHING RESUME 2019-present (Central College) Head track and field coach 2016-2018 (Aurora University [Ill.]) Head track and field coach 2014-2015 (Aurora University [Ill.]) Assistant cross country/track and field coach 2008-13 (Aurora University [Ill.]) Assistant football coach/strength and conditioning coordinator/track and field assistant coach 2006-07 (Valparaiso University [Ind.]) Graduate assistant football coach - linebackers ATHLETICS CAREER 2002-05 - Valparaiso University (football) EDUCATION Valparaiso University (Ind.), 2006 B.S., sports management Valparaiso University (Ind.), 2008 M.S., sports administration HOMETOWN Brookeville, Md. Brandon Sturman was named Central’s men’s and women’s track and field coach prior to the 2018-19 year.      Since his arrival, Dutch student-athletes have qualified as individuals 92 times for 13 NCAA Division III Indoor or Outdoor Track and Field Championships. In 2025, Central’s women’s team had five athletes compete at the indoor national meet and two at the outdoor championships. The men’s team had six at both the outdoor and indoor national competitions. Central has won six individual national championships during Sturman’s six-year run, led by three from Will Daniels in the heptathlon and decathlon. Mark Fairley also won the 2018 outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase, Sam Beatty won the 2023 indoor high jump and Megan Johnson won the 2024 women’s outdoor 3,000-meter steeplechase. Dutch athletes have earned All-American status 54 times including 17 times in 2025. At the 13 American Rivers Conference Championships with Sturman, Central has piled up 56 event titles and 167 all-conference performers. Peyton Steffen and Megan Johnson were the women’s running events MVP at the 2024 and 2025 outdoor championships and Brock Lewis was the men’s field event MVP at the 2021 and 2022 indoor championships. The Dutch have finished in the top five 25 out of 26 times.              Sturman heads a deep and experienced coaching staff that includes three veteran collegiate head coaches in associate head coach Joe Dunham and assistants Aaron Fuller and Jim Fuller. Dunham, who led Central to eight men’s and women’s championships in 10 seasons as head coach, continues working with the squad’s distance runners. Aaron Fuller was the head coach at Simpson College in 2022 and 2023. Aaron Fuller, who joined the Central staff in 2013, spent 24 highly successful seasons as head coach at NCAA Division II Northern State University (S.D.). He works with Central’s multi-event athletes, a traditional area of strength for the Dutch. Sturman works primarily with the sprinters and horizontal jumpers. In two seasons as head coach at Aurora University (Ill.), Sturman piloted the Spartans to five indoor and outdoor men’s and women’s Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference titles. At the 2017 NCAA Division III Indoor track and field championships, Aurora finished sixth as a team and had the school's first individual national champion. The Spartan men were also 12th outdoors that year with another individual national championship. The 2018 women's team was 13th at the outdoor national meet. A Brookeville, Maryland native, Sturman was a two-year football team captain at Valparaiso University (Ind.) where he played middle linebacker for the 2003 Pioneer Football League champs and graduated in 2006. He received a master’s degree there in 2008. Sturman was a graduate assistant football coach at Valparaiso for two seasons, then served as an assistant football coach and strength and conditioning coordinator at Aurora from 2008-13. He was also a part-time assistant track and field coach in that span. In 2014, he gave up his other duties to become head assistant men’s and women’s cross country and track and field coach before taking over as head men’s and women’s track and field coach in 2016. Honors Aurora University (Ill.) (1) Northern Athletics College Conference Outdoor Men's Coach of the Year –  2018 Achievements Central College (3) men's indoor NCAA Division III champions -- 2018 - Will Daniels (heptathlon); 2019 - Will Daniels (heptathlon); 2023 - Sam Beatty (high jump) (2) men's outdoor NCAA Division III champions -- 2019 - Will Daniels (decathlon); 2019 - Mark Fairley (3,000-meter steeplechase) (1) women's outdoor NCAA Division III champions -- 2024 - Megan Johnson (3,000-meter steeplechase) (11) men's indoor NCAA Division III All-American performances (14) men's outdoor NCAA Division III All-American performances (11) women's indoor NCAA Division III All-American performances (14) women's outdoor NCAA Division III All-American performances Central College (sprints and horizontal jumps) (1) men's indoor NCAA Division III All-American performance (3) men's outdoor NCAA Division III All-American performance (3) men's triple jump indoor conference champions - 2020 - Brock Lewis; 2021 - Brock Lewis; 2025 - Kale Purcell (2) men's long jump indoor conference champions - 2021 - Brock Lewis; 2022 - Brock Lewis (2) men's long jump outdoor conference champions - 2021 - Brock Lewis; 2022 - Brock Lewis (2) men's triple jump outdoor conference champions - 2024 - Kale Purcell; 2025 - Kale Purcell (2) women's 4x400 relay indoor conference champions - 2024, 2025 (1) women's 4x100 relay outdoor conference champions - 2024 (1) women's 4x400 relay outdoor conference champions - 2024 (20) men's all-conference performances (18) women's all-conference performances Aurora University (1) men's Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference outdoor track and field championships –  2018 (2) women's Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference indoor track and field championships – 2017, 2018 (2) women's Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference outdoor track and field championships –  2017, 2018 (1) men's indoor NCAA Division III champions -- 2018 - Ryan Njegovan (shot put) (1) men's outdoor NCAA Division III champions -- 2018 - Ryan Njegovan (discus throw) (8) men's NCAA Division III indoor/outdoor All-American performances (6) women's NCAA Division III indoor/outdoor All-American performances Athletics career Team had 17-28 (.378) record, 5-11 (.313) mark in conference games in his four seasons Linebacker who finished career with 224 tackles, 16 tackles for loss, 2 fumble recoveries, 3 forced fumbles, two interceptions and two blocked kicks (1) Pioneer Football Championship - 2003 (2) seasons as team captain