| Andreas begins the 3rd year of his second stint with the Tiger track and field program.
He is in charge of the throwers of the team and their training regime. Maheras was a volunteer assistant coach at FHSU in 1991.
As a discus and shot-put thrower
in his native country of Greece, he competed both for his club and as a member of the national team and won numerous awards from 1980 to 1987. He received his
diploma from the University of Athens in Physical Education and Sports Science. Maheras also served in the Greek Army from 1987 to 1988 where he was a sergeant in
the reserves and a selected member of the Greek Presidential Guard. After serving in the army, he became an elementary school physical education teacher in Athens, Greece for one year.
Maheras came to the United States in 1989, having received a scholarship from the ministry of culture in Greece to study abroad. He served as an assistant coach at Western Michigan University
for two years where he obtained his master's degree in Coaching and Sport Studies in 1990. After his first stint at Fort Hays State, Maheras attended the University of Kansas where he obtained
his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1995. He has authored a book about weight training for track and field events and has published a number of articles pertaining to throwing.
In his second year at FHSU he coached three throwers in three different events to the NCAA division II, All-American status.
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