Hall of Fame winners

Two elite distance runners, a multiple-time conference golf champion and a volleyball record holder were enshrined in Cornell College’s Athletics Hall of Fame at Homecoming.

The 2011 Hall of Fame Class was Tony Every ’91 (men’s cross country, track and field), Jackie Clark ’83 (women’s cross country, track and field), Tina Naaktgeboren Brooker ’91 (volleyball), and J.D. Wagner ’92 (men’s golf).

Every, a four-time all-American, left an indelible mark on Cornell’s cross country and track and field programs. The Colesburg, Iowa, native is believed to be the only athlete in Midwest Conference history to earn all-America accolades in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track.

Clark, a native of Fort Dodge, Iowa, was named Cornell’s Outstanding Senior Female Athlete of the Year in 1983, stamping a running career in which she claimed three Midwest Conference individual titles while pacing the Rams to three conference team crowns.

Brooker, a Cedar Rapids, Iowa, native, holds Cornell’s all-time record for serve percentage, converting 1,242 of 1,243 career attempts for a glowing 99.9-percent success rate. She holds the top three single-season serve percentages, firing a perfect 712 serves in a row during the 1988 (311-of-311) and 1989 (401-of-401) seasons.

Wagner, of Barrington, Ill., was a three-time individual champion in golf, only the second men’s player to accomplish that feat in Midwest Conference history. He competed in the 1992 NCAA Division III Championships his senior season. Wagner won conference titles in 1989, 1991 and 1992.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(photos by Kerry Kahl)