Now entering his seventh year as Head Cross country and Track Coach at Butler Community College and nineteenth year overall in community college (12 at Colby CC), Hunter looks forward to the upcoming year with great anticipation. The 42 year old Hunter has developed a reputation for taking area student-athletes and developing them into nationally class athletes under his guidance.
Historically, BCC has always been known for its ability to field great cross country teams, and through Hunter’s tenure, this tradition continues. Regionally and nationally, both men’s and women’s teams have flourished under the
guidance of Coach Hunter. In fact, the BCC women have won the last FIVE Region VI titles in a row, and were the 2002 NJCAA team champions. Coach Hunter has the distinction of being the only coach in the NJCAA to coach national
championship women’s teams in both DI and the now defunct DII levels, (the other being the 1999 Colby CC women’s DII team champions). In addition, Coach Hunter’s women’s teams have seen four teams place second nationally and three teams placing third in the team rankings. Last year BCC had its first ever women’s individual cross country champion in freshman Diane Nukuri. Also while at Colby CC, the CCC women’s squads under Coach Hunter’s guidance won 7 of the last eight Region VI titles while he was at Colby CC. In track, the women’s team also excelled. Individually the women have won national titles in: two indoor DMR’s, four women’s 5k, four women’s 3k, four women’s mile, two
women’s outdoor 10k and one women’s outdoor 5k. In addition to Diane Nukuri being voted 2005 and 2006 Indoor Women’s Track Athlete of the Year, Coach Hunter had the pleasure of coaching Sara Wells, (2003 USA marathon champion, 7th 2004 Olympic Trials Marathon, World Cross country team medalist).
The men have not been overshadowed during Coach Hunter’s tenure too! At Colby CC, Hunter’s cross country men won six of the last eight Region VI titles, while placing in the top five nationally each year. At Butler, the Grizzlies won the Region VI title in 2002, 2003 and 2005, placing 2nd in 2000, 2001 and 2004. In 2003, the BCCC cross country team narrowly missed winning their third national title, finishing one point out of first place! Like the women, the men also have had many individual national champions. To date Hunter has coached individual national champions to: two men’s miles, two men’s 3k, one 800m, three men’s 5k, back to back men’s cross country, two outdoor steeplechase, two outdoor 5k, and one DMR. To date Coach Hunter has coached 174 individual athletes to a total of 435 All-American performances.
After the 2004 cross country season, both the men’s and women’s BCC teams won the NJCAA Half Marathon Classic team titles. In 2005 the men repeated as champions in the NJCAA Half Marathon Classic, while the women’s team finished second. Both Diane Nukuri and Joseph Maina set the NJCAA national record in the half marathon in 2005. In addition, Hunter coached the 1995 women’s marathon team that tied for first in the nation while at Colby CC.
Hunter was named Region VI Women’s Cross Country Coach of the year in 1992, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, and 2005 the 1995, and 2002 Region VI Cross Country Coach of the Year for men, the 1996, 1997, 2002, Women’s Indoor Region VI Coach of the Year, the 1996 NJCAA Women’s Indoor Coach of the Year, the 2005 Women’s Outdoor Region VI Coach of the Year, the 1995 NJCAA Men’s Cross Country Coach of the Year, the 1999 and 2002 NJCAA Women’s Cross Country Coach of the Year, the 1999, the 2002 NJCAA Coach of the meet, the Co-Coach of the Meet for the 1995 NJCAA Marathon Championships and the 2005 NJCAA Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year. Hunter also coached the 1995 NJCAA Women’s Athlete of the Year in Kay Mannebach of Colby, the 2002 Indoor Region VI Athlete of the Year and 2003 NJCAA Indoor Men’s Track Athlete of the Year in Simon Ngata, the 1999 Indoor Region VI Athlete of the Meet in Sara Wells, and the 2005/2006 Region VI athlete of the year and 2005/2006 NJCAA Indoor Women’s Track Athlete of the Year in Diane Nukuri. Nukuri also owns the NJCAA all-time records for the half marathon,
indoor 3000m and indoor 5000m. Joseph Maina holds the current all-time record for the NJCAA half marathon.
While attending FHSU, Hunter led the Tigers to the conference title his senior year, and placed 10th in the NAIA 3 mile indoor and 7th in the marathon outdoor. Hunter also earned All-American honors in Cross country his Junior year at FHSU, running 24:21 for the 5 mile distance. Prior to this, he attended Cloud County Community College where he was a national qualifier in both cross-country and track. He set school records in the 4-mile and indoor 2 mile while at Cloud County.
Hunter was graduated from Royal Valley High School in Hoyt, Kansas where he won the class 3A state title in the 2 mile as a senior.
Eugene Frazier
Now entering his fourth season as assistant track and cross country
coach at Butler Community College and his 10th year as a college coach,
Eugene Frazier is continuing to establish himself as one of the young,
up and coming coaches in the track and field world.
Coach Frazier coaches the sprints, jumps and hurdles for the men and women teams. He is building a reputation for being able to recruit and develop student- athletes from all across the country. Throughout his career, Frazier has coached over 30 All- Americans and more than 15 individual national champions.
Frazier joined the Butler track team at the start of the 2006 season. With little time, Frazier had an immediate impact, coaching two individual national meet qualifiers, helping the women’s team finish third at both the indoor and outdoor national meets
In 2007, Frazier continued to show his ability to develop athletes. He produced two NJCAA indoor national champions, the men’s 600m and the men 4x400m relay and a tie for 1st (3rd on misses) in the high jump with a school record jump of 7’1/2. Riding this momentum into outdoor season, the Butler men’s team was able to come away with four Kansas Jayhawk Conferences champions in the 110h, 400 intermediate hurdles and the 4x100 and 4x800 relays. The women won six KJCCC titles in the 100 hurdles, 400 intermediate hurdles, heptathlon, 400, 4x100 and 4x400 relays, finishing second overall as a team. Frazier coached five women and six men to NJCAA All American status.
Frazier’s third season at Butler, 2008, was one for the history books; the women started the year off with four individual indoor KJCCC titles in the pentathlon, high jump, 60 and 400, winning their first-ever team indoor conference championship. He also coached an indoor NJCAA champion in the 400 as the team finished third at indoor nationals.
Continue their winning ways into the outdoor season, the women won six individual KJCCC titles in breaking school records in the long jump (20’1/4) and triple jump (39-3) and won an individual NJCAA championship hepthathlon. As a team, the women again won the KJCCC and Region VI team titles and placed fourth nationally.
Not to be out done by the women, the men also made history with a conference and regional indoor champ in the 60 and a runner-up team finish, the highest in school history, and a third place finish at indoor nationals. The men followed this with outdoor performances that were even better, winning three conference titles in the 200, 400 intermediate hurdles and decathlon. They also claimed their first-ever KJCCC team title, and a fourth-place finish nationally.
Frazier coached at Kansas City, Kansas Community College for six years before coming to Butler. He is a graduate of Alabama State University with a B.S. in Criminal Justice. As an athlete, Frazier was a 1995 Southwest Athletic Conference runner-up in the 100 and 200, and in 1996, won SWAC conference titles in the 60, 100 and 4x100 relay. After graduating in 1998, Frazier returned to his hometown of Kansas City where he ran for the Nike Central track Club. He was a USATF 60 meter qualifier, with personal best times of 6.65 in the 60 and 10.24 for 100.
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