Biography:
Coach, Mark Buckland, is entering his 8th year as the Boys’ Varsity Cross Country Coach and his 25th year as a cross country coach serving as the middle school coach for 17 years. Coach Buckland is a 1993 Portland High School Graduate where he was a 4-year varsity letter winner
for the Raiders. Currently, Coach Buckland teaches STEM classes at Beagle Middle School in Grand Ledge. Coach Buckland and his wife Angie live in Grand Ledge with their three children Grace, Drew and Markie.
Biography:
Coach Hutchinson has been coaching for over two decades. He was an assistant track coach in Hastings MI in 2001 and 2002 and the head girls track coach in 2003. He came to Grand Ledge in the summer of 2003 and was assistant MS coach for 2 years during the 03/04 and 04/05 school years. He was co-head coach of the MS track program during the 05/06 and 06/07 school years. He then became the varsity girls cross country and track and field coach during the 07-08 school year and has been in that position ever since.