Former Greyhound Coach/Athletic Director John Makuvek Selected to MAC Hall of Fame
ANNVILLE, Pa. --- Former Moravian University Head Men’s Golf & Men’s Soccer Coach and Director of Athletics John Makuvek has been selected as part of the 14th class to be inducted into the Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame that will be announced by the MAC office over the next two weeks.
ANNVILLE, Pa. --- Former Moravian University Head Men's Golf & Men's Soccer Coach and Director of Athletics John Makuvek has been selected as part of the 14th class to be inducted into the Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame that will be announced by the MAC office over the next two weeks.
Makuvek, who was inducted into the Moravian Hall of Fame in 2002, arrived in Bethlehem in 1968 as the head men's soccer and head men's golf coach and a health and physical education professor. Over his 43-year career, he also served as Moravian's Director of Athletics for four years before his retirement as a full-time employee in 1996. In 2016, Moravian turfed the HUB Quad Field and renamed it John Makuvek Field, the home of the men's and women's soccer, men's and women's lacrosse and field hockey programs. The turf surface was upgraded this spring.
As golf coach for 43 years, Makuvek compiled a 316-193 record. He is Moravian's all-time winningest golf coach, winning the 2006 Commonwealth Conference Championship as well as Commonwealth Conference Coach of the Year honors that season. His linksters also won the 1997 and 1994 Middle Atlantic Conference titles, following in the footsteps of the 1974 MAC champion team. The 1993 squad, with a 16-0 dual match record, was the first-ever undefeated Moravian golf team; 1994's 15-0 squad was the second, and the program enjoyed a winning streak of 41 matches in a row. Makuvek's 1999 team posted the squad's third undefeated season in the 1990's with an 8-0 record.
Makuvek also held the top spot in the Moravian men's soccer program for 24 years, and he was selected as the MAC Southern Coach of the Year in 1990. During that time, his soccer teams compiled a 219-134-31 overall record and competed in nine Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference postseason tournaments and one NCAA tournament in 1982. Makuvek coached team a MAC Championship squad in 1983 and four MAC Southern Division titles in 1979, 1983, 1990 and 1991.
Moravian plans to honor Makuvek with his MAC Hall of Fame award during the upcoming year. More information on the presentation will be announced at a later date.
The MAC of which Moravian was a member from 1945 until 2007 established a Hall of Fame as part of the celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2012-13. Moravian's Rocco Calvo and Harvey "Gil" Gillespie were two of a 36-member inaugural class selected in 2011-12 from current and former MAC member institutions while Kathy Beck DeKorte '92 was honored in 2013-14, Doug Pollard was selected in 2014-15, Heather Bortz '05 was picked in 2015-16 and Christina Scherwin '05 and Heidi Wolfsberger Peoples '02 were honored in 2016-17. Emily Shertzer '02 was selected in 2017-18 while Scot Dapp was honored in 2018-19, Sean Keville '96 was selected in 2019-20, Meagan Hennessy '06 was honored in 2020-21, Tracy Wartman '96 was selected in 2022-23 and Dawn Ketterman-Benner was honored in 2023-24. All 14 of the Greyhounds' MAC Hall of Fame selections are also members of Moravian's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Follow the MAC Class of 2025 Hall of Fame announcements at https://gomacsports.com/news/2025/5/29/MACHOF2025.aspx through June 13 at 11:00 a.m. daily.
