Mark Henninger

Mark Henninger
Current position
TitleAssistant athletic director
TeamMarian (IN)
ConferenceCrossroads League
Playing career
1992–1995Wittenberg
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1996–1997Millikin (GA)
1998Hamburg Blue Devils (assistant)
1999Wartburg (GA)
2000–2003Wittenberg (assistant)
2004–2007North Carolina Wesleyan (DC)
2008–2012North Carolina Wesleyan
2013–2022Marian (IN)
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2022–presentMarian (IN) (assistant AD)
Head coaching record
Overall118–48
Tournaments0–1 (NCAA D-III playoffs)
13–7 (NAIA playoffs)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
1 NAIA (2015)
2 USA SAC (2009–2010)
5 MSFA Mideast (2014, 2016, 2018–2019, 2021)
Awards
AFCA NAIA Coach of the Year (2014–2015)
NAIA Coach of the Year (2014–2015)
USA SAC Coach of the Year (2009)

Mark Henninger is an American college athletics administrator and former football coach. He is the assistant athletic director at Marian University in Indianapolis, a position he has held since December 2022. Henninger served as the head football coach at North Carolina Wesleyan College—now known as North Carolina Wesleyan UniversityRocky Mount, North Carolina from 2008 to 2012 and at Marian from 2013 to 2022. In 2014, his second season at Marian, he led the Knights to a share of the Mid-States Football Association Mideast League championship and an appearance in the NAIA Football National Championship title game, where they lost to Southern Oregon. In 2015, Henninger led the Knights to a championship game rematch with Southern Oregon, and this time Marian was the victor. For his efforts, Henninger was named the NAIA Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) in 2014 and 2015.[1]

  1. ^ "AFCA Announces 2014 National Coaches of the Year". American Football Coaches Association. Archived from the original on February 5, 2015. Retrieved February 5, 2015.