Aurora University
Spartan Men's Track and Field

Coaching Staff

Head Coach: James Kluckhohn
UW - La Crosse
Fourth Season

James Kluckhohn enters his fourth season as the head coach of Aurora University's cross country as well as the track and field programs. He is the first track and field coach in the history of Aurora Univesity.

Kluckhohn's Spartans captured the 2005 Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference Women's Cross Country Championship and he was named NIIC Women's Coach of the Year. AU also captured the 2006 Northern Illinois-Iowa Conference Track and Field Championship Meet and he was named the 2006 NIIC Men's and Women's Track and Field Coach of the Year.

Kluckhohn comes to the Spartans from Chicago where he was the head cross country and assistant track and field coach at North Park University. Prior to his three-year stay at North Park, Kluckhohn was the interim head track and field coach at Texas Lutheran University, an NCAA Division III institution in Seguin, TX. He was an assistant for three years in cross country and two years in track prior to becoming interim track and field coach. He also served as a cross country assistant at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, where he was a part of a National Championship in 1996.Kluckhohn is no stranger when it comes to starting a program from the ground up. While at Texas Lutheran University, he helped, as an assistant coach, to pioneer both the women's cross country and track and field programs. Overall, the team finished second in the American Southwest Conference in their first season.

As a student athlete, Kluckhohn ran for the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse cross country and track team. The seven-time University of Wisconsin-La Crosse scholar athlete was named cross country team captain in 1993. Kluckhohn received his B.S. in physical education and his M.S. in human performance from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, as well as his C.S.C.S. (Strength and Conditioning) certification. He is a member of the United States Track Coaches Association and National Strength and Conditioning Association. He is married (Kari) and has two sons (Jacob and Nathaniel).

Luke Cutkomp
Assistant Coach
Second Season

Luke Cutkomp enters his second season with the Aurora University track and field staff. Cutkomp coaches the throwing events including shot put, discus, javelin, weight and hammer throw. Cutkomp is a member of the United States Track and Cross Country Coaches Association Cutkomp spent the fall season with the AU football program and as an athletics admission liaison for male sports. Cutkomp comes to AU from Carroll College where he served as the defensive line coach for two seasons. Prior to that, he was a student assistant coach at his alma mater, Wartburg College, where he served as the defensive line - linebackers - tight ends student assistant coach. Cutkomp was a tight end on Wartburg’s 1999 Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference team and is a member of the American Football Coaches Association. He earned a B.A. in elementary education from Wartburg College in 2003.