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Jan-Louw Kotze

  • Class
    2017
  • Induction
    2022
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Cross Country/Track & Field
• Qualified for the East Region Preliminary Round in the discus each of his four years, advancing to the NCAA Championship and earning All-America honors — first-team as a senior and honorable mention the previous spring — his last two seasons
• Earned the Elite 90 Award given to the student-athlete with the highest cumulative GPA participating in the NCAA Championship in 2016
• A two-time first-team CoSIDA Academic All-American, earning third-team honors when he was a sophomore as well to become the first-ever Jaguar student-athlete to earn the distinction three times
• Concluded his career as USA's record holder in the discus (62.11m, still second all-time) and the indoor weight throw (18.62m), setting the standard in the Sun Belt in the discus also
• Also continues to rank among the top 10 in school history in the hammer throw (60.88m, fourth), and indoor (16.19m, sixth) and outdoor (16.76m, fourth) shot put
• Concluded the 2016 regular season ranked third in the country and fourth regionally in the discus
• Was 13th in both the national and region rankings during his junior campaign
• Finished 10th in the East Region and 21st in the nation in the discus in the 2013 regular-season rankings
• Ranked 15th and 26th, respectively, in the region and the country in the event his sophomore season
• Received both NCAA and Sun Belt Postgraduate Scholarship awards, and made the Sun Belt Conference Commissioner's List five times
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