SEPTEMBER 18, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

INDIANA ASSOCIATION OF TRACK AND CROSS COUNTRY COACHES ANNOUNCES HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2008

 The Indiana Association of Track and Cross Country Coaches (IATCCC) announced Tuesday its Hall of Fame Class of 2008. The class will be formally inducted on Friday, February 1, 2008 at a ceremony at the Sheraton Hotel, Keystone at the Crossing in Indianapolis.

 Highlighting this year's class is famed Indiana University coach Sam Bell, sprinter Chandra Goodman, a five-time IHSAA champion from Gary Roosevelt and distance star Michelle DelaVina, a four-time IHSAA champion from Wheeler.

 Other athletes being inducted are Richmond's Jason Briggs, Fort Wayne Northrop pole vaulter Jo'L Gerardot, Warsaw's Troy Furnival, Valparaiso's Collette Douglas-Liss and Woodlan’s Jamie (Gorrell) Hardin.

 Other coaches being inducted are Jim Jones (Anderson Madison Heights), Dick Shenfeld (Homestead), Allen Shockney (Plymouth) and John Smith (Portage).

Bell was the distance coach for the 1976 U.S. Olympic team, coached 22 men's and 4 women's Big 10 Championship teams. He also coached 189 all-Americans, 7 Olympians, 19 NCAA individual champions.

 Goodman won the 100 and 200-meter runs at the IHSAA meet in 1989 and 1991. In 1990 she won the 200. DelaVina won both the 1,600 and 3,200-meter runs at the IHSAA meet in 1999. She won the 3,200 in 2000 and the IHSAA cross country championship in 1999.

 Briggs was a two-time state champion in the 800 (1998 and 1999) and still has the fastest time ever (1:47) by an Indiana native. Gerardot won two IHSAA pole vault championships (1997 and 1998) and was a two-time national outdoor prep runner-up. Furnival was the 1982 IHSAA 400 meter champion. Douglas-Liss won both the 1,600 and 3,200 at the 1991 IHSAA meet. Gorrell won the 3,200 in 1987 and was the individual IHSAA Cross Country Champion in 1986.

 Jones was a Founding Father of the IATCCC and a past president. He coached the first Indiana schoolboy to break 9:00 in the 2 mile and the first schoolboy to throw the shot over 60-feet. Shenfeld has coached six individual IHSAA champions, two national champions and two national record-holders. Shockney has been coaching cross country for 42 years. He's 8 girls' and 6 boys' teams win sectionals. Smith, a weight coach, has coached 19 all-Americans at Ohio State University and 9 all-Americans at Southern Illinois. As an athlete, Smith holds school and MVC indoor and outdoor records in the shot put.