Augustana College Athletics

From 1994-98, Allison Wolak put together an athletic resume at Augustana that included eight varsity letters in three sports. Her biggest impact came with Fred Whiteside and Ron Standley’s track & field teams, where she earned All-America status, won three CCIW individual championships and qualified for nationals a total of 10 times in five events. Wolak, who held three school records when she graduated in 1998, tonight joins the Tribe of Vikings Hall of Fame.
 
A 1994 graduate of Bolingbrook High School in Bolingbrook, Illinois, Wolak earned eight letters in track & field, basketball and cross country for the Raiders and captained each sport. She was a two-time team MVP and all-conference selection in basketball and was a three-time MVP and state qualifier in track, taking ninth at state in the high jump as a senior. She was twice named Bolingbrook’s Female Athlete of the Year.
 
After lettering for Whiteside and Co-Coach Doug Sand’s CCIW-champion cross country program in the fall of her freshman year, Wolak took to the basketball court, where she earned a starting spot for Coach Diane Schumacher’s Vikings. She finished second on the team and fourth in the CCIW in rebounding, earning Most Improved and Most Promising Freshman honors.
 
That would be Wolak’s lone season of basketball and while she would letter twice more in cross country, track & field was clearly where she excelled. As a freshman, she was the CCIW’s high jump champ, clearing 5’ 5” at Wheaton and helping the Vikings to the first of four team titles during her time. She also qualified for nationals in the heptathlon and was named Augustana’s Co-Freshman of the Year.
 
Wolak’s sophomore season yielded three school records, national-qualifying marks in four events and Viking of the Year honors. In addition to school standards in the 60-meter hurdles (:09.40) and with the shuttle hurdle relay (1:06.83), she posted an outdoor pentathlon score of 3,060 that bettered the Augustana record she had set as a freshman. She qualified for nationals indoors in the high jump and 60 hurdles and outdoors in the high jump—where she finished 14th (5’ 1¼”)—and heptathlon—where she was 15th (3,453).
 
Wolak earned All-America honors as a junior. At the NCAA Division III Championships in La Crosse, Wisconsin, she leapt 5’ 5¼” to finish second in the nation. That height actually equaled the winning jump, but she took second based on number of misses. She also qualified for the national indoor meet that year, finishing 10th.
 
As a senior, Wolak again qualified for indoor nationals in the high jump, finishing 9th in the nation at Brandeis University. At the conference meet outdoors in Decatur, Illinois, she cleared 5’ 5” in the high jump and ran a :14.95 in the 100-meter hurdles to claim CCIW championships in both. At the national meet in St. Paul, Minnesota, she finished 11th and 16th, respectively, with marks of 5’ 3¼” and :15.12. Her senior year was capped when she was awarded an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship.
 
In addition to her outdoor pentathlon record, which still stands, Wolak’s indoor (5’ 6”) and outdoor (5’ 7¼”) high jump bests each rank second in school history. She also still ranks in the school’s top 10 all-time in the heptathlon (4,255—4th), 60 hurdles (:09.40—5th), 100 hurdles (:14.95—5th) and 55 hurdles (7th—:08.73).
 
A speech communication and business administration major at Augustana, Allison went on to earn her master’s in communication from Illinois State University in 2000 and her doctor of chiropractic from New York Chiropractic College in 2004. She earned her Neurology Diplomate this year from the International Academy of Chiropractic Neurology and is currently self-employed as a chiropractic neurologist.
 
Allison and her husband, Terry Quadhamer, have three sons—Tramel, Trameliyoh and Jaivion—and reside in West Lafayette, Indiana. Among the organizations with which she’s been involved are the Teammates Mentoring Program, Girls on the Run, the International Chiropractic Association and Cedars Foster Care, from whom the Quadhamers won the Foster Family Award in 2012.
 
“My experiences at Augie prepared me for success in the real world,” said Allison. “I am grateful for my time there.”