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University of Massachusets Athletics
Hall of Fame
Welzel, Jane
Jane Welzel
- Induction:
- 2017
- Class:
- 1978
Jane Welzel participated in four sports and co-captained the 1975-76 water polo and 1977 cross country teams. The 1977 UMass Cross Country Most Valuable Runner, she was an inaugural member of the program in 1975 and the track and field program in 1976. She was also a member of and starter on the inaugural UMass women's water polo team in 1974.
Welzel led UMass to a top-10 finish at the EIWA National Championships in the program's first year of existence (1975), placing 25th individually. She placed second at the New England Intercollegiate Cross Country Meet in 1975 and competed in the New England, Eastern and National Championships for UMass in 1976.
Welzel qualified for and competed in five consecutive Women's Marathon Olympic Trials (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000) and was the first American and 10th overall woman to finish the 1992 Boston Marathon (2:36:21). She was also a four-time marathon champion and won the 2000 Avon World Masters 10K in Rome, Italy.
Runner's World's Comeback Runner of the Year in 1988, Welzel served stints as cross country coach at UMass (1978), Penn State (1979), Dover (N.H.) High School (1981) and Wellesley College (1985).
She was inducted into the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2017.
Welzel led UMass to a top-10 finish at the EIWA National Championships in the program's first year of existence (1975), placing 25th individually. She placed second at the New England Intercollegiate Cross Country Meet in 1975 and competed in the New England, Eastern and National Championships for UMass in 1976.
Welzel qualified for and competed in five consecutive Women's Marathon Olympic Trials (1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000) and was the first American and 10th overall woman to finish the 1992 Boston Marathon (2:36:21). She was also a four-time marathon champion and won the 2000 Avon World Masters 10K in Rome, Italy.
Runner's World's Comeback Runner of the Year in 1988, Welzel served stints as cross country coach at UMass (1978), Penn State (1979), Dover (N.H.) High School (1981) and Wellesley College (1985).
She was inducted into the UMass Athletics Hall of Fame as a member of the Class of 2017.
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