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Gary Wasserman, originally from Grand Island, Neb., is the most accomplished distance runner ever to compete for Nebraska Wesleyan.
Wasserman was a 14-time All-American in track and the first athlete in school history to earn All-America status three times in cross country. He won a total of four NCAA Division III individual crowns, including three consecutive championships in the indoor 5,000-meter run and claimed Nebraska Wesleyan’s only national title in cross country (1992). Wasserman’s indoor 5,000 time in 1993 (14:11.54) broke the Div. III national meet record by 14 seconds. He was also the national runner-up in the 5,000 and 10,000 at both the 1992 and 1993 NCAA Outdoor Championships.
Wasserman still owns four school records in track (indoor 3,000 and 5,000; outdoor 5,000 and 10,000) and is also the NWU record holder for the cross country team’s 8,000-meter home course at Pioneers Park (25:11). He earned GTE CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 1992 and 1993, making first team at-large as a senior, when he shared NWU’s Male Athlete of the Year with Darren Stohlmann. Wasserman also received the Nebraska Wesleyan Accounting Student of the Year award and received a postgraduate scholarship from the NCAA.
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