Harry Plouff - MCSHOF Inductee - 2025

Harry Plouff has been running for over 30 years and has logged over 100,000 miles, running in 57 marathons on seven continents. Plouff initially attended Mason County Central where he played football for coach Loren Dietrich and he ran track prior to attending Ludington High School where he ran track and graduated in 1966. Some of the interesting locations Plouff has run are Dublin, Ireland; the Great Wall of China; Kilimanjaro, Africa; Inca Trail, Peru; and Antarctica. Coaching girls’ and boys’ cross country for 11 years at Mt. Pleasant High School, Plouff’s teams won nine conference titles, two regionals and finished in the top 10 teams at state finals on four occasions. Plouff was twice Lansing State Journal Division II Cross Country Coach of the Year, was a finalist for Coach of the Year in the Michigan Track & Cross Country Association and in 2018 was inducted to the Mt. Pleasant High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Co-founder of the Mt. Pleasant Striders Running Club 35 years ago, Plouff has served over 300 runners. He taught for 31 years in Mt. Pleasant, graduated from Central Michigan University with a Bachelors and Masters degree.