David Dimcheff
Head Coach

E-mail: dimcheff@kzoo.edu

Men's Cross Country

Year   MIAA Finish
2006      5th
2007      6th
2008      7th
2009      6th
2010      7th

Women's Cross Country

Year    MIAA Finish
2006       3rd
2007       5th
2008       3rd
2009       7th
2010       7th

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. In 2009, Kalamazoo's Jillian McLaughlin placed seventh at the Great Lakes Regional after finishing ninth the year before.

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 six runners who have qualified for nationals, including four 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 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 China and a year studying Chinese in Taiwan.

William Sbach
Assistant Coach

William Sbach joined the Hornets' coaching staff as the assistant coach in 2010. He is a 2007 graduate of Kalamazoo College where he ran for Coach Dimcheff and was captain of the team while earning a spot on the MIAA Academic Honor Roll. Previously, Sbach was a volunteer assistant coach at Columbia Central High School in Brooklyn, Mich. where his primary responsibility was coaching the distance and middle distance athletes.

Sbach graduated from Kalamazoo with a degree in political science and earned honors on his Senior Individualized Project before earning a M.A. degree in political science at the University of Toronto.

Sbach holds a USATF Level 1 Coaching Certificate.