David Dimcheff
Head Coach

E-mail: dimcheff@kzoo.edu

Men's Cross Country

Year   MIAA Finish
2006      5th
2007      6th
2008      7th

Women's Cross Country

Year    MIAA Finish
2006       3rd
2007       5th
2008       3rd

Kalamazoo College promoted David Dimcheff to head men's and women's cross country coach on August 1, 2006. Dimcheff served as assistant coach for 12 seasons (1994-2005), with primary responsibilities for the men's program, prior to being named head coach.

Dimcheff led the women's team to a third-place finish in the MIAA during his first season as head coach. The men's team finished fifth. In 2008, the women's team again finished third as Allison Iott became the first women's runner in school history to win the MIAA Championship Meet and earn league MVP honors. Iott went on to earn All-American honors with a 10th-place finish at the NCAA III Championships.

As an assistant, Dimcheff helped guide the men's team to several second-place finishes in the MIAA, most recently in 1999. The 1997 team qualified three runners for nationals and finished the season ranked fourth in the region. Dimcheff has coached four runners who have qualified for nationals, including three that have qualified multiple times. Dimcheff also had the opportunity to coach two-time All-American Kory Kramer.

Dimcheff attended Ann Arbor Greenhills High School and helped lead them to two MHSAA Class D State Championships.

Dimcheff began his collegiate career at Emory University in Atlanta. He was the only freshman on the team to run at nationals, and helped the Eagles finish 12th in the country. Dimcheff transferred back home to the University of Michigan and earned Academic All-Big Ten honors running for the Wolverines. Dimcheff graduated from Michigan in 1990 with a degree in political science.

Prior to joining his current employer, Kalsec, Dimcheff spent a year teaching English in Asia and a year studying Chinese in Taiwan.

Jason Nicolai
Assistant Coach

Jason Nicolai began assisting the Kalamazoo College cross country teams in 2006. He works primarily with the women's team.

Nicolai helped lead the women's team to a third-place finish in his first season with the team.

Nicolai is a 1994 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where he earned a bachelor's degree in dietetics. He earned a master's degree in exercise science at Western Michigan University in 2006. Jason is employed as a diabetes dietitian at Borgess Center for Diabetes Care in Kalamazoo.

Nicolai has been training athletes to compete in half and full marathons since 2004. He also works closely with athletes nutrition needs and has conducted sports nutrition seminars.

Jason and his wife, Cecily, reside in Kalamazoo.