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Women's Cross
Country—Coaches
Mark Horstmeyer has served as head coach of the men’s and women’s cross country
teams since the program started in 2000.
He has guided his women’s teams to NJCAA Division I Region IV and Illinois
Skyway Collegiate Conference championships in 2003 and 2006 and a conference
championship in 2010. His men’s team won conference and region championships in
2004.
Horstmeyer was selected conference and Region IV Women's Cross Country Coach of
the Year in 2003 and 2006 and conference coach of the year in 2010. He was named
conference and region men’s coach of the year in 2004.
Thirty men and women runners have earned Academic All-American honors.
Twenty-five individual runners and six teams have competed in the NJCAA Division
I Cross Country Championships, 30 runners have earned all-region and 52 have
received all-conference recognition, including four individual conference
champions.
Horstmeyer, who also is Moraine Valley's director of College and Community
Relations and an adjunct faculty member, holds a bachelor’s degree from Trinity
University in San Antonio, Texas, and a master's degree from Drake University in
Des Moines, Iowa.
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Dimitri Dimizas
Assistant Coach
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Dimitri Dimizas joins the 2011 Cyclones as a
first year assistant coach after having a stellar career as a Cyclone runner the
past two years. Dimizas, who attends Lewis University, was a two-time national
qualifier at the NJCAA Cross Country Championship in 2009 and 2010. He was
All-Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference and All-NJCAA Region IV Division I in
2010. He still runs competitively having completed two half-marathons and a
marathon over the past two years. He is a graduate of Richards High School.
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Tony Manjarrez
Volunteer Assistant Coach
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Tony Manjarrez, a former Cyclone runner, is in
his third year as the volunteer assistant coach. He was a member of the 2008
team that took second at the Illinois Skyway Collegiate Conference and at the
NJCAA Region IV Division I championship and finished 31st at the national
championship in Spartanburg, South Carolina. Manjarrez holds a Bachelor of Arts
degree in English from the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is completing work
on a second degree in Psychology from UIC.
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