People
423
Sports
Itch Jones
Career record of 1,240-718-6 as baseball coach at Illinois and Southern Illinois
Died in 2025
George Lundeen
Sculptor of statues on campus depicting Red Grange and Dick Butkus
2024 Alumni Achievement Award recipient
Theresa Grentz
Led Illini women's basketball to 5 NCAA tournament berths
Inducted into Naismith, Illini and Women's Basketball halls of Fame
Katie Hultin
Illini women's soccer coach
Succeeded Janet Rayfield in December 2024
Sharone Mitchell Jr.
Public defender
Cook County
Robert Jones
UI's 10th chancellor
(2016-2025)
Michelle Smallmon
Co-host, "Unsportsmanlike"
ESPN Radio
Rob Lang
Business litigation attorney, Thompson Coburn
Represented Illini basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr.
 Cooper.jpeg)
CeCe (Marizu) Cooper
Swimming star turned senior content producer for Apple Fitness+
Earned UI degrees in broadcast journalism (2010), education policy studies (2012)
Chloe Pistorius
Producer
Golf Channel
Ken Holtzman
Major League Baseball's winningest Jewish pitcher
Threw two no-hitters, won three World Series rings
Charlie Young
Senior front-end developer
Houston Astros
Randy Buhr
Director of championships and alliances
NCAA
Josh Whitman
Illini athletic director
2017 Central Illinois Business Magazine Forty Under 40 Man of the Year
Anjali Forber-Pratt
2-time Paralympian
Director, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research
Jaime Torres
General manager/sports attorney
International Baseball Sports Management, Inc.
Kelly Loeffler
Trump administration's Small Business Administrator
Former WNBA team owner, Bakkt CEO, U.S. senator
Jack Groppel
Former Illini men’s tennis coach (1978-81)
Co-founder, Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute
Jason Bohm
Judge, Champaign County Circuit Court
Adjunct Professor, UI College of Law
Alan Kessler
Senior data scientist
St. Louis Cardinals
Andy Szabo
Senior manager, partnerships
Oakland Athletics
Erica Bauer
Director of community relations , Chicago Bulls
Founder, Girl Power Songs
Matt Kolb
Executive VP, chief operating officer
Carle Health
Naya Crittenden
Right side hitter, UI volleyball, 2015-16
Top scorer in Swiss pro league, 2019-20
