Dennis Weber
Head Coach

Dennis Weber is in his 12th season with the Tiger track and field program and third year as head coach after serving as co-head coach for three years with Dr. Jim Krob.

Weber's current responsibilities include running the fall track program and overseeing the sprinters, jumpers, hurdlers and multi-event athletes. He also helps with recruiting, organizes the weight training program, maintains the Tigers' records and performance standards and directs the annual track meets and coaches clinics.

Last season, he led the Tigers into their first season as a member of the Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association (MIAA), where he coached nine athletes that earned All-MIAA honors for the indoor season and 20 athletes that earned All-MIAA honors for the outdoor season.

In his 11 years at FHSU, Weber has led 68 jumpers and sprinters to NCAA II All-America status including four national titles. The Tiger men's team has won seven out of the past nine conference titles.

Weber is USATF Level I and II certified in the jumps. He was named coach of the year in the RMAC during the 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006 outdoor seasons. He is currently serving on the NCAA Championships Committee.

Prior to coming to Fort Hays in the fall of 1996, Weber was the head men's and women's track and cross country coach at Baker University in Baldwin, Kan., from 1987 to 1996. He received his bachelor's degree in Industrial Education and Physical Education from the University of Idaho and then completed master's work in Physical Education at Emporia State. Weber served as a graduate assistant coach for the Hornets in both track and cross country. Before that, the Goodland, Kan. native taught and coached at the high school level for five years. Dennis is married to the former Patty O'Connor. They have three daughters, Pamela, Lindsey and Stephanie.

Jason McCullough
Assistant Coach

Jason McCullough begins his third season as the head cross country coach at Fort Hays State University. He helped lead the Tiger squads to top seven region performances during the 2006 cross country season. The men's squad finished fourth while the women were seventh at the 22-team South Central Regional.

McCullough returned to the cross country and track & field squads after a successful running career with the Tiger program from 1996-99. McCullough was an NCAA II All-American and five-time Academic All-American while competing for the Tigers during that span. The four-time national qualifier also earned five all-conference awards while competing in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference, known for its national-caliber distance running reputation. He led the Tiger cross country squad to a 10th-place finish at the NCAA II meet in 1997, its highest finish since joining NCAA Division II.

McCullough spent two seasons at Thomas More Prep-Marian High School as the head cross country/assistant track & field coach from 1999-2001. He served as a volunteer assistant with the FHSU track & field squad during the 2001-02 seasons.

The 1999 FHSU graduate has also been active in the area running community, serving as both a race director and running club coordinator since graduating from FHSU.

McCullough also works in the Health and Human Performance department as an instructor. He earned a bachelor degree from FHSU in English in 1999 and completed a master degree in Sports Administration in 2001. He completed a second bachelor degree in Spanish in May of 2005. He had also spent the past six years in the FHSU Sports Information Department, where he worked as the head Sports Information Director for three years.

McCullough is just the fourth cross country coach in the 57-year history of the program. McCullough resides in Hays with his wife, the former Karen Kreutzer, and their son, Elijah.

Andreas Maheras
Assistant Coach

Andreas begins the 3rd year of his second stint with the Tiger track and field program. He is in charge of the throwers of the team and their training regime. Maheras was a volunteer assistant coach at FHSU in 1991.

As a discus and shot-put thrower in his native country of Greece, he competed both for his club and as a member of the national team and won numerous awards from 1980 to 1987. He received his diploma from the University of Athens in Physical Education and Sports Science. Maheras also served in the Greek Army from 1987 to 1988 where he was a sergeant in the reserves and a selected member of the Greek Presidential Guard. After serving in the army, he became an elementary school physical education teacher in Athens, Greece for one year.

Maheras came to the United States in 1989, having received a scholarship from the ministry of culture in Greece to study abroad. He served as an assistant coach at Western Michigan University for two years where he obtained his master's degree in Coaching and Sport Studies in 1990. After his first stint at Fort Hays State, Maheras attended the University of Kansas where he obtained his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995. He has authored a book about weight training for track and field events and has published a number of articles pertaining to throwing.

In his second year at FHSU he coached three throwers in three different events to the NCAA division II, All-American status.

Joe Spangler
Assistant Coach

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Amber Stephens
Graduate Assistant Coach

Amber Stephens enters her second season as and assistant coach of the Fort Hays State men's and women's cross country and track and field programs. A native of Colby, Kan., Stephens ran cross country at Oklahoma State University in the fall of 2001. Prior to that, she was a member of both the cross country and track and field teams at Colby Community College from 1999-2001.

Stephens was the NJCAA National Cross Country Champion in 2000 and was an NJCAA All-American in cross country in 1999 and 2000. She was also an NJCAA Track and Field All-American in 2000 and 2001.

Stephens completed a bachelor degree in Medical Diagnostic Imaging from Fort Hays State in 2005 and served as a student assistant coach of the Fort Hays State track and field team in the spring of 2006. She is currently working towards a master degree in sport/movement studies.

James Gildon
Graduate Assistant Coach

James comes to Fort Hays State this year from Omaha, Nebraska. He competed for Loyola University of Chicago from 2001 to 2004. He is the school record holder in the Triple Jump indoors and outdoors.

He completed his bachelors degree in exercise science from the University of Nebraska Omaha and coached at Creighton Prep High School from 2005 to 2007. James will be coaching the jumping events here for the Tigers.

Tyler Lauterbach
Manager

Tyler Lauterbach begins his fifth season as the Tigers' team manager. The South Haven native has been an important part of the FHSU Cross Country program during that span. Lauterbach has been responsible for a variety of duties within the program during his three years with the squad. The junior graphic arts major plans to graduate from the university after the fall of 2007.