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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.
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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
