Wabash College Athletics

Greg, we induct you into the Athletics Hall of Fame for your accomplishments as an excellent distance runner and coach. As Wabash’s Cross Country Coach from 1984-86 and Coach Rob Johnson’s loyal volunteer distance coach for fourteen years, Wabash became a perennial national power in cross country with a string of All American runners and school record holders. You and Coach Johnson made a formidable coaching combo, leading the Wabash cross country team to three top-6 finishes at the NCAA Championships, including podium finishes in 1994 (4th) and 1995 (3rd).

As a student-athlete, you earned four letters in both cross country and track on Coach Johnson’s earliest teams. In your rookie cross country season you ran to an incredible individual runner up finish in the 1973 ICC Cross Country Championship Meet behind your teammate, all American Henry O’Connell. In your senior track season you placed third in the one mile and doubled back to win the three-mile to help Wabash to a second place at the 1977 Little State Track Championships. You were a two-time captain in cross country and earned team MVP honors as a senior. In the spring of your senior year, as team captain, you led the track team to a 7-1 dual meet record and were awarded the J. Owen Huntsman Award as the Team’s Most Valuable Runner.

For years, you served the College in the Admissions Office, including as Director of Admissions from 1987-96. Since leaving the College – and the United States – you have kept incredibly close tabs on the track and cross country teams and it seems you never miss a Live Stream football broadcast, regardless of the time difference. But even more important is how you have bound together generations of distance runners to celebrate and advance Wabash’s proud history – whether for Zoom reunions or to lead a fund-raising drive to name the Red Pack and Track Suite in the new Little Giant Stadium. Greg, we thank you for staying connected to your alma mater, while connecting so many track men and harriers to each other and to our College.

The National Association of Wabash Men is proud to induct you into the Wabash Athletics Hall of Fame. Congratulations, Greg, you are Some Little Giant!