Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame
A visit to Wabash in your junior year of high school to meet Coach Rob Johnson and chemistry faculty hooked you early in the recruitment process. Good thing for Wabash, too, since you would go on to win the Indiana state championship in the two-mile run as a senior at Shelbyville’s Southwestern High School. Colleges flocked to you with offers of scholarships, but you stuck to your first choice, Wabash, and made distance running history as a member of Wabash’s cross country and track teams.
As a rookie, you finished second to teammate and All-American Kent Baker at Little State, providing a glimpse of things to come. You finished your illustrious cross country career as a four-time First Team All-ICAC runner; two-time ICAC Most Valuable Runner and Champion; four-time Coaches Association All-Academic selection; and two-time All-American. You were the 1993 GLCA, ICAC, and Great Lakes Regional Champion, earning MVP honors for the Little Giants. In 1996, you were a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-American. And you seemed to be just as talented in track and field. You were a three-time ICAC 10,000 meters champion and two-time champion in the 5,000 meters.
You won the 1994 Little State championship in the 5,000, and took 15th place at the 1994 NCAA Championships in the 10,000. With all of those accomplishments, it was your fighting spirit which set you apart. You battled injuries and stress induced asthma throughout your career, yet kept fighting, kept competing on a national stage. And academically you were among the top chemistry students of your era. Since graduation from Wabash, you have been a four-time member of the U.S. Mountain Running Team, and twice won the Pikes Peak Ascent. Now, it seems, you have found a fondness for racing with snowshoes, and of course, have become a championship level performer in that sport, too.
For providing the vision to your teammates and friends to train and compete like champions, and for your original position as one of the “Three Amigos,” the National Association of Wabash Men is pleased to induct you, Jeremy R. Wright, in the Wabash College Athletics Hall of Fame.
