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Michelle Smallmon

Co-host, "Unsportsmanlike"

ESPN Radio

Rob Lang

Business litigation attorney, Thompson Coburn

Represented Illini basketball star Terrence Shannon Jr.

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

U.S. senator (2020-21)

Former WNBA team owner, Bakkt CEO

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

Joan Mahon

Named in 2020 to UI Alumni Association Board

Steelcase

Craig Virgin

1975 NCAA Cross-Country champion

Illinois Athletics Hall of Famer

Dee Dlugonski

Assistant Professor

Sports Medicine Research Institute, University of Kentucky

Kevin Jackson

Hematology program manager

Sarah Cannon Cancer Institute

Doniel Sutton

Co-owner, Commercial Aquatic Services

Former Senior VP/People, PayPal

Steve Johns

President and founder

Confluence Pharmaceuticals