Concordia-St. Paul Athletic Hall of Fame
Mark graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in elementary education (grades 1-6) and physical education (k-12). He also received his MSE in reading from the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. While attending Concordia, he participated in football being selected as a captain and named All-Conference during his junior and senior years. He was also named All-Conference in tennis for four years and eventually being Head Men’s Coach at CSP.
His full-time teaching and coaching career started at his fourth grade elementary school in Hibbing, Minn. where he coached football, gymnastics and tennis at the high school. He is in his fourth year as a teacher in the South Washington County School District where he currently serves as a secondary physical education teacher at Park High School in Cottage Grove, Minn. He has been Varsity Assistant Football Coach and Head Gymnastics Coach at Park for many years where he has been recognized for numerous awards.
Mark has been recognized for a few awards over the years. In gymnastics, he was voted “AA” coach of the year twice in 1998 and 2002. He was inducted into the Minnesota Girl’s Gymnastics Coaches’ Association Hall of Fame in 2002 and has been a MSHSL Gymnastics Official for the past 22 years. Mark is very proud of all of his teams that he has coached over the years. His teams took third place three times and won the State Championship in the 2003-04 season. Finally, Mark was truly happy to be recognized as an “Education All Star” from his district in 2004.
