Jim Hunt

Who is Jim Hunt?

Jim Hunt is the renowned former head cross-country and track and field coach at Humboldt State University, where he coached from 1965 until his retirement in 2008. His cross-country team won the 1980 NCAA Division II National Championships and his teams regularly finished in the top ten at NCAA Nationals, producing 64 All-Americans and eleven National Champions. He coached numerous distance greats including Gary Tuttle, Bill Scobey, Danny Grimes, Chuck Smead and 1984 US Olympic marathon trials winner Mark Conover, his most accomplished protégé. Hunt is well respected nationally as a coach and innovator of new training methods. He continues coaching to this day, and has produced a video "Training the Neurological Aspects of Distance Running" used by coaches across the United States.