This past spring, the Midwest Conference celebrated 100 years of intercollegiate competition. To mark the occasion and highlight its long history of athletic success, the Conference announced the Centennial Celebration Top 100.
The Top 100 highlights the athletic and academic achievements of 100 former student-athletes from the fifteen institutions that currently sustain, or at some point in history maintained full membership with the league. The Top 100 reveal began on March 1 with the unveiling of honorees in chronological order by their respective class years.
Several Foresters across a multitude of sports were highlighted during the campaign.
- Tobi Limke ’97 (women’s swimming and diving): As a 21-time conference champion, 3-time MWC Swimmer of the Year, and 9-time All-American, Limke is arguably one of the most accomplished women’s swimmer in the history of the league.
- Allison Grubbs ’01 (women’s basketball): Grubbs is the only women’s basketball player in Midwest Conference history to (1) earn player of the year honors three times and (2) receive the Josten's Trophy, which is awarded annually to one male and one female NCAA Division III basketball player based on excellence in the classroom, on the court, and in the community.
- Leigh Anne Furgerson ’04 (softball): A model of excellence and consistency, Furgerson pitched more than 100 innings, reached double figures in victories, and posted an earned run average of well under 2.00 in each of her four seasons.
- Mahir Mameledzija ’14 (men’s soccer): Of the numerous awards earned by Mameledzija, the one that best encompasses his excellence on the field and in the classroom came from the College Sports Information Directors of America, who selected him as the 2013 Men's Soccer Division III Academic All-American of the Year®.
- Michelle Greenway ’16 (women’s soccer and women’s hockey): Greeneway is the only woman in NCAA history with at least 100 career goals in both soccer and hockey.
- Heath Ogawa ’19 (men’s swimming and diving): Ogawa is the only male diver in MWC history to be named Division III Diver of the Year by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America – and he did it twice.
Lake Forest College has a deep and impressive athletic history, and these athletes are fantastic representations of the Forester Tradition of Excellence.