2021-22 SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TRACK & FIELD GUIDE HALL OF FAME INAUGURAL CLASS OF 2002 LAURA BYRNE: TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY (1986-89) Byrne, a track and cross country athlete from 1986-1989, won four NCAA II individual titles during the 1988-89 school year when she won the cross country national championship and the indoor 1,500 and 3,000-meters and the outdoor 5,000-meters. MARVIN ROSENGARTEN: TRACK COACH, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS Rosengarten was a football player at Southeast who later served as an assistant football coach, track coach, athletics director and director of athletic development. The Marvin Rosengarten Athletic Complex on the Southeast campus is named in his honor. ABE STUBER: TRACK COACH (1932-46) Stuber was football and track coach at Southeast from 1932-1946 and also served as basketball coach from 1932-1935 and from 1943- 1946. His track teams won seven MIAA championships and his football teams claimed three league titles including the 1937 team that was unbeaten and untied. MIKE VANATTA: TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY (1981-84) Vanatta, track and cross country from 1981-1984, won four NCAA II individual national championships. He won the steeplechase title in 1982, 1983 and 1984 and claimed the cross country championship in 1984 while leading Southeast to the team title. 1984 MEN’S CROSS COUNTRY TEAM The team won the NCAA Division II National Championship. 1985 MEN’S INDOOR TRACK TEAM The team won the NCAA Division II National Championship.
CLASS OF 2003 RICK ATTIG: TRACK (1970-73) Attig, a football and track standout, was honorable mention All-American and team captain for the football team, and an All-American in the javelin for the track team. He is the Southeast and MIAA record holder in the javelin. He is currently an assistant track coach at Nebraska after having served as an assistant at Kansas. HERB MULKEY: TRACK (1939-42) Herb Mulkey was a star in both basketball and track. He was a two-time all-MIAA selection and team captain in basketball and held school records in the low hurdles, high hurdles and high jump. At one time, Mulkey held 11 high jump records at tracks throughout the Midwest. WALTER SMALLWOOD: TRACK (1965-68) Walter Smallwood was a two-time all-MIAA football selection who still holds Southeast records for touchdowns in a game (5), season (16) and career (38) and held the career rushing record until 1994. Smallwood was the MIAA 60-meter champion. CLARK WILLE: TRACK (1967-71) Clark Wille was a five-time MIAA champion in the high hurdles. He claimed All-American honors in the hurdles in 1971. After graduation he coached Herculaneum High School to ten state championships in cross country and track. Wille coached over 160 collegiate All- Americans at Lindenwood and Missouri Baptist. He guided the Lindenwood women to the NAIA cross country championship and the Lindenwood men to the NAIA men’s indoor track title. CURTIS WILLIAMS: TRACK (1964-67) Curtis Williams was the first African-American student-athlete at Southeast. He lettered four years in track and three years in basketball. He was the basketball MVP in 1967 and was MIAA champion in the high jump, triple jump and long jump.
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