JACK DRANKOFF

Hall of Fames:
Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Association
Wisconsin Track and Field Coaches Association
Green Bay Preble High School

-Head Cross Country Coach at Preble for 36 years serves as a current Assistant Coach
-Coached Track and Field at Preble for 41 years serves as a current Assistant Coach ---Served as the Athletic Director at Preble from 2005-2008

-Inducted into the Wisconsin Cross Country Coaches Hall of Fame in 2000
-Inducted into the Wisconsin Track Coaches Hall of Fame in 2008
-Red Smith High School Coach of the Year
-Bellin Sports Medicine Commitment to Excellence Award
-Numerous regional, area and conference coach of the year honors in Cross Country and Track and Field
-28 Fox River Valley Conference Cross Country Championships
-32 W.I.A.A. State Meet qualifying Cross Country Teams
-32 W.I.A.A. State Sectional and Sectional runner-up titles
-W.I.A.A. State Cross Country Champions 1984
-W.I.A.A. State Cross Country runner-up Champions 1988
-12 top 5 State Cross Country team finishes
-38 Conference Championships as a Head and Assistant Coach
-41 W.I.A.A. Regional Championships as a Head and Assistant Coach
-21 W.I.A.A. Sectional Championships as a Head and Assistant Coach
-Division One 2005, 2006, 2010 and 2011 W.T.F.A. State Track Indoor Champions
-W.I.A.A. State runner-up Track and Field 2005 and 2006

Coaching at Preble has been a great honor.  I would like to especially thank my dear wife, Faye, children, grandchildren and my entire family along with my Preble family of outstanding student-athletes, fellow coaches, staff and friends who are the real reasons behind this award.  Their efforts through the years have been magnificent.  Teaching and coaching are truly wonderful professions.

At Preble, you run.
Not for your life, but for honor!
You run for tradition.
You run because when you run at Preble,
It has meaning!

APRIL ECKE (Class of 1990)

Hall of Fame:
Green Bay Preble High School

-Four time Most Valuable Player award in Track and Field

-W.I.A.A. State Champion in the 3200 meter run in Track and Field 1989

-Four time All State Selection in Cross Country

-All State Selection in Track and Field

-Four time F.R.V.C. All Conference winner in Track and Field

-F.R.V.C. Conference Champions in Cross Country 1988 and 1989

-W.I.A.A. Sectional Champions in Cross Country 1988

-W.I.A.A. Sectional runner-up Champions in Cross Country 1987 and 1989

-F.R.V.C. Conference Champions in Track and Field 1987

-W.I.A.A. Regional Champions in Track and Field 1987 and 1990

-Ran collegiately at Mississippi State in Cross Country and Track and Field

-Recipient of the H. Boyd McWhorter Female Scholar Athlete of the Year by Southeastern Conference 1995

-All-American by Cross Country Coaches Association 1993

-Academic All-American in Cross Country 1993

-Academic All-SEC three consecutive years

-Recipient of the Newsom Award as the Mississippi State Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 1993-94 and 1994-95

-Recipient of the Halbrook Award at Mississippi State as the female student-athlete with the highest G.P.A.

-Mississippi State record holder in the indoor 5000 meter run, outdoor 3000 meter run and outdoor 5000 meter run

-Head Women’s Cross Country Coach Northwestern University

MARY KAY VAN ESS (Class of 1982)

Hall of Fame:
Green Bay Preble High School

Mary Kay lettered in Cross Country and Track and Field while attending Preble High School and earned First Team All-Conference in Cross Country honors in 1980 and 1981.  She was a member of the W.I.A.A. Sectional Champion Cross Country Team in 1980 and 1981 finishing second in 1981 and was a member of the W.I.A.A. State Cross Country qualifying teams in 1980 and 1981.  She ran collegiately at Marquette University in Cross Country from 1982-1985, where she was a member of the 1982 N.A.I.A. National Championship Team.  Mary Kay was an All-Conference runner and  achieved All-American status while running for Marquette University.  Mary Kay was inducted into Marquette University’s Hall of Fame in 1996.  She is married with four children and currently lives in Mequon, Wisconsin.