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NCAA DIII TF Athlete HOFUSTFCCCA NCAA Division III Track & Field Athlete Hall of Fame Class of 2025 Announced
NEW ORLEANS – The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association (USTFCCCA) announced the six inductees into the NCAA Division III Athlete Hall of Fame inductees on Wednesday afternoon.
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The Class of 2025 includes Eric Campbell-Woodruff of Moravian, Christy Cazzola of UW-Oshkosh, Renee Erickson of Concordia Moorhead, Jeremy Wendt of UW-Whitewater, Deshawnda Williams of Wheaton (Ma.), and Macharia Yuot of Widener.
Together, this legendary group combined to win 41 NCAA titles and collect 70 All-America honors during their illustrious careers.
Deshawnda Williams
Deshawnda Williams starred 400 meters at a time. Williams won four NCAA 400-meter crowns between the indoor and outdoor track & field seasons and toted the baton on three winning 4×400 relay teams. The Wheaton (Ma.) legend was truly prolific indoors, winning three consecutive two-lap finals from 1998 to 2000, and adding a 200-meter crown to her haul in 1998. Williams, who ended her legendary career as an eight-time NCAA champion and 20-time All-America honoree, helped Wheaton (Ma.) capture back-to-back national team titles indoors in both 1998 and 1999.
Renee Erickson
Renee Erickson attained a still unprecedented level of success in 1996. That’s when Erickson completed an NCAA three-peat in the javelin and became the first – and only – woman in NCAA DIII history to accomplish that feat (Erickson is just one of three in NCAA history to do so as of 2025). Erickson nearly made it four in a row in 1997, but lost by a mere two inches in the final collegiate meet of her career. The former Concordia-Moorhead star also went undefeated against fellow MIAC competitors and captured four consecutive conference titles in the process.
Christy Cazzola
Christy Cazzola’s legendary résumé speaks for itself: 17-time NCAA champion, 18-time All-American, 18-time WIAC champion, four-time USTFCCCA National Athlete of the Year, eight-time USTFCCCA Regional Athlete of the Year, the list goes on. Cazzola won multiple NCAA titles in four events, including absolute dominance of mid-distance races: four consecutive victories in the 1500 meters; three consecutive triumphs in the mile. She left her name all over the record book, setting NCAA DIII indoor records in the 800, mile, 5000 meters and as part of a distance medley relay, as well as outdoor standards in the 800 and 1500.
Macharia Yuot
Macharia Yuot won and won and then won again. That was just at the 2006 NCAA DIII Outdoor Track & Field Championships where he became the first – and still only – male athlete in NCAA history to win national titles in the 5000 meters, 10,000 meters and steeplechase. That’s across a career: Yuot did so in one meet. Those were three of six NCAA titles for Yuot and three of 14 All-America honors he earned between cross country, indoor track & field and outdoor track & field. He also topped the NCAA podium twice indoors in the 5000 meters and once following the NCAA Cross Country Championships as a senior in 2006.
Jeremy Wendt
Jeremy Wendt literally left his mark on the NCAA DIII record book. It was at the 2004 WIAC Outdoor Championships where Wendt launched the hammer 66.48m (218-2) to obliterate a 12-year-old NCAA DIII record and set one that stood for the next six years. Later that season, Wendt would win his second NCAA hammer title in a row to give him three career NCAA crowns alongside his 2004 weight throw victory. Wendt graduated from UW-Whitewater a seven-time All-America honoree and a four-time WIAC individual champion.
Eric Campbell-Woodruff
Eric Campbell-Woodruff graduated from Moravian as a four-time NCAA champion and a seven-time All-America honoree. He won three consecutive outdoor titles in the 200 meters from 2009 to 2011 and added the 100-meter version in 2011. The Greyhound legend remains the only male athlete in NCAA DIII history to win back-to-back-to-back outdoor 200-meter titles as of 2025. Campbell-Woodruff left his mark on the record book, too, registering PRs in the 200 meters of 20.85 outdoors and 21.55 indoors, which were the fourth- and fifth-fastest performances in NCAA DIII history at the time.