Men's Basketball Coaching Staff

Mark Yoder, head coach

Mark Yoder is entering his third season after returning to Bethel College in 2007. Yoder coached at Bethel College from 1993-98. During his tenure, Yoder led the team to its first winning season in eight years. During the 1996-97 season, the Threshers won 18 games, third most in school history, and Yoder was named Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year. Yoder followed up the very next season by coaching the Threshers to 19 wins, the second best season in school history.

Before he came to Bethel, Yoder served as the head men’s basketball coach at Hesston College, 1986-93. In that time, he directed the Larks to their first-ever back-to-back winning seasons and first-ever appearance in the national tournament. During Yoder’s tenure at Hesston, the Larks went back to the national tournament twice more, and also recorded the most wins in a season with 24.

Yoder left Bethel to coach men’s basketball at Fresno (Calif.) Pacific University, where he had received his undergraduate degree in physical education in 1982 and had served as the Sunbirds’ assistant men’s basketball coach until taking the head coaching job at Hesston. Yoder served as FPU’s head coach from 1998-2005. While he was there, the Sunbirds made three conference tournament appearances in the very competitive Golden State Athletic Conference.

Yoder earned his master's in education from Wichita State University in sports administration in 1993. He lives in Wichita with his wife Diane and daughters Lindsay, Amanda, and Rebecca. Their oldest, Josh, and his wife Jackie, live in Ann Arbor, Mich., where Josh is completing his residency in Anesthesiology.

Alonzo Jamison, assistant coach

Jamison, originally from Santa Ana, Calif., played for the University of Kansas Jayhawks under Coach Roy Williams from 1989-92. In 1991, he was a starter on the Kansas team that defeated the Arkansas Razorbacks to win the Southeast Region Tournament and advance to the NCAA Final Four (Kansas ultimately lost to Duke in the final). Jamison was named Southeast Region MVP and also made Dick Vitale’s “All Rambo” team, which honors the top five defensive players in the nation.

Before coming to Bethel College Jamison served as the assistant coach at Mill Valley High School.