A native of Hillsboro, Oregon, Nick Schuetze serves as a volunteer assistant coach for the UCCS men’s cross country program.
Schuetze graduated from the University of Portland in 2004 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education. He has started his post-graduate education from UP in Education, and from the Denver Seminary in Clinical and Mental Health Counseling.
A former high school science and math teacher for nine years in Portland, Oregon, Beaverton, Oregon and Colorado Springs, he currently works for Cru / AIA helping people know more about God and grow in their faith. Every summer Schuetze co-directs a cross country training camp for college distance runners called The Altitude Project in Mammoth Lakes, CA.
As a student-athlete at UP, he was a two-time WCC conference champion in cross country and was honored with the "Most Inspirational" award his senior year. After exhausting his eligibility after his fifth year at UP, he continued to race and train. In 2007 he qualified for the US Men's Olympic Trials marathon where he placed 49th. He also won the NACAC mountain running championship 12k race in 2007.
