highlights:
• Was national champion in the 1,600-meter relay as freshman at 1999 NCAA Division III Indoor Track and Field Championships -- North Central's first relay national title in women's track and field.
• Graduated as North Central's record holder in the indoor 200-meter dash (25.59 seconds), long jump (19 feet, 7 inches), pole vault (10-10¼) and 800 relay (1:45.0) and 1,6000 (3:55.42) relays, as well as the outdoor pole vault (11-3¾) and 400 relay (47.47).
• Won seven College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin individual championships.
• Won six Division III all-academic certificates.
• A 2002 College Sports Information Directors of America Academic all-America selection.
Career
highlights:
• First North Central College track and field athlete to win multiple NCAA Division III national championships -- an indoor national title in 1988 in the 800 (1:49.9) and an indoor national crown in the 1,500 in 1989 (3:54.41).
• Won back-to-back College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin Championships in the 800 in 1988 and 1989.
• Four-year participant in the prestigious Drake Relays, running as part of a distance medley relay team that placed third in 1988 with a then-school record time of 9:53.95.
• Earned all-America accolades as a member of the 1,600 relay at the 1987 outdoor national championships.
• Graduated as a member of the quartet that held the North Central College record in the 1,600 relay (3:13.55).
Career
highlights:
• Holds record for most victories in North Central history with 111.
• Member of three teams that earned league championships.
• Three-time first-team All-College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin selection.
• One of nine all-Americans in the program's history (1985 Division III all-American as an outfielder).
• A 33rd-round draft pick of the Milwaukee Brewers in 1986.
Career
highlights:
• He led North Central to 1981 cross country national title by placing ninth at the Division III national championships as a freshman.
• Placed fourth overall in 1982 as the Cardinals repeated as Division III national champions.
• One of just 14 Division III harriers to earn all-America honors four times.
• Placed in the top three at the CCIW Cross Country Championships each of his four years, helping lead the Cardinals to the team title each time.
• Earned a pair of all-America honors in outdoor track and field, placing sixth in the 10,000 at the 1983 outdoor national championships and fifth in the same event in 1984.
Career
highlights:
• Three-time National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national champion.
• Ten-time College Conference of Illinois (CCI) titlist.
• Established conference records in the 150-yard individual medley and 300 medley relay as a freshman in 1955.
• Captain of North Central's first national championship team in school history by helping Cardinals win 1958 NAIA Championship, where North Central set six national records.
• Rank and his roommate, diver John Mizanin '58, went on to become the first Cardinals to participate in the NCAA National Championships at the University of Michigan in 1958.
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