John Majerus 2018 Headshot

John Majerus

  • Title
    Sports Information Director, Assistant Coach
  • Email
    jmajerus@harpercollege.edu
  • Phone
    847-925-6935
  • Sports Information Coordinator
    2023 - Current
  • Asst. XC Coach
    2017 - Current
  • Asst. T&F Coach
    2018 - Current
  • Recruiting Coordinator (XCTF)
    2023 - Current
Coach John Majerus joined the Harper coaching staff in the fall of 2017 as a volunteer coach for both the men and women's cross country program until 2021. He became the official assistant coach in 2022. He was also a volunteer track and field coach in 2018 before becoming an official assistant coach in 2019 focusing on sprints. He also helps coach relays and pole vault in track and field.

In 2023 Majerus was also named the sports information coordinator. In his two years in the role, his focus has been updating the Hawks website and maintaining the Hawks Instagram accounts. He is also working on updating the history of each team as well.

Majerus graduated from Elk Grove High School in 2011 as an Illinois State Scholar. He competed in golf and tennis for the Grenadiers. He was the captain of the varsity golf and tennis team his senior year and tennis MVP. He then spent a year at Arizona State University before he enrolled at Harper College. After a year at Harper, he joined the cross country team after never running competitively previously. He was a member of the 2013 and 2014 National Champion cross country teams, earning Second Team All-American status his sophomore season and winning team MVP. He was also an All-American for the 6th and 2nd place men's track and field teams in 2014 and 2015. After Harper, he transferred to Judson University where he competed for one track season and managed in the other seasons. After he graduated Judson in 2017, he ran the Chicago Marathon and qualified for the Boston Marathon which he raced in 2019. He earned two associates degrees from Harper and a BA in Accounting from Judson.
Coaching at Harper:
 
                                                               NJCAA National Championships
Year Women XC Men XC Women T&F Men T&F
2024 Runners-Up* Runners-Up* Champions* Fourth*
2023 Champions* Champions* Champions* Sixth*
2022 Champions* Fifth* Fourth* Eleventh*
2021 Fifth* Ninth* - -
2020 - - - -
2019 Runners-Up* Third* Third* Third*
2018 Champions* Champions* Third* Fifth*
2017 Champions* Champions* - -












*Assistant Coach
NJCAA/USTFCCCA Cross Country All-Americans
Women (6x): Fiona Metzo (2021), Lilly Alberts (2022, 2023), Samira Rosenfeld (2022), Brianna Ruiz (2022), Kaili Decker (2023)
Men (5x): Albert Szewczyk (2022, 2023), Marcos Jaimes (2023), Jose Morales (2023), Owen Whelan (2023)
NJCAA/USTFCCCA Track & Field All-Americans
Women (13x): Fiona Metzo 5x (2022, 2023), Lilly Alberts 3x ( 2023), Melanie Kehr 2x (2023), Kaili Decker 2x (2023), Brianna Ruiz  (2023)
Men (8x): Remington Jankusky 3x (2022, 2023), Marcos Jaimes 2x (2023), Albert Szewczyk 2x (2023), Matt Trybus (2023)
Personal Bests:
400m: 54.21
800m: 2:01.59
1k: 2:56.64
1500m: 4:15.23
Mile: 4:45.29
6k XC: 20:12
8k XC: 26:37
3k Steeple: 11:35.70
Marathon: 2:55.10


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