(Born April 7, 1963) Dave’s family moved to Corvallis and he began to take sports very seriously during his senior year at Crescent Valley High School. He attended Western Oregon and Linn-Benton Community College and then he moved on to Azusa Pacific. In 1986, this decathlete won his first of four U.S. Track and Field..Read More
(Born August 4, 1958) Mary Slaney moved to Eugene in 1979 and began training at South Eugene High School with Nike’s Athletics West track team. She went on to become the only athlete to hold U.S. track records from 800 to 10,000 meters. In 1982, she set world records in the mile (4:18.08), 2,000 meters..Read More
(born Nov. 7, 1957) One of the University of Oregon’s greatest and most versatile distance runners and the only one other than Steve Prefontaine that is the top-10 ranked for the Ducks in the 1,500 meter, 5,000 and 10,000 meters. During his career, Rudy was an NCAA champion in the 5K in 1978, three-time track..Read More
(born Aug. 7, 1958) As a prep athlete, Alberto Salazar was ranked #1 in the nation in the 5000-meter by Track and Field News. In 1977, he captained the U.S.A. Junior Track and Field Team. While at the University of Oregon, Salazar was a member of the 1980 U.S Olympic Track and Filed Team and..Read More
(born Nov. 15, 1950) Two-time Olympian Mac Wilkins captured a gold medal in the discus at the 1976 Montreal Olympic games and a silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. He was the 1976 Hayward Award winner as Oregon’s top amateur athlete. Mac established a world discus record on four separate occasions. He won..Read More
(born Jan. 23, 1951) Margaret Johnson Bailes remains one of Oregon’s greatest prep sprinters and won a Gold Medal in the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics as a member of the 4×100 relay team while still in high school. And then, she disappeared from the national and world scene. Bailes grew up in Eugene and..Read More
(Jan. 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) Steve Prefontaine was the greatest distance runner in the history of Oregon track and field. A native of Coos Bay, “Pre” was the first collegian to capture four consecutive 3-mile/5000 meter gold medals at the NCAA championships (1970-73). He also earned three NCAA cross-country titles (1970,71,73). Prefontaine owned..Read More
Ed Moeller played football for the University of Oregon, but made his mark on history as a discus thrower who once held the world record. Moeller played alongside Bill Bowerman as a fullback and then quarterback on squads that were a combined 20-7-2 in 1929-31. In 1929, Moeller, under the guidance of coach Bill Hayward,..Read More
(Sep. 30, 1940 – Dec. 7, 1982) Harry Jerome found his way from Canada to Eugene and became one of the state’s greatest performers, setting a world record three times and competing in three Olympic Summer Games before becoming a civic advocate for athletics. Born in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan in 1940, Jerome played football and..Read More
Otis Davis (Jul 12, 1932 – Sep 14, 2024) picked up track at a late age, but matured quickly in the sport and won two gold medals at the 1960 Rome Summer Olympic Games before settling into a life of coaching and public service. Born in 1932 in Alabama, Davis came to Eugene as a..Read More