University of Illinois | 150 Years & Beyond

Mike Rizzo

GM, president of baseball operations

Washington Nationals

Gayle (Gomberg) Brim

Managing director

Grant Thornton LLP

Rick Lawrence

President,

PCIX, Inc.

Tricia Taliaferro

Women’s soccer coach, 1999-2001

Coached Illini to 1st 2 NCAA tourney berths

Seamus Reilly

President

Carl Sandburg College

B.J. Ogata

Former Illini tight end

2000 Academic All-Big Ten pick

Kendra Smiley

Author, speaker, host

2001 Illinois Mother of the Year

Brian Cook

5th on UI scoring list (1,748 points)

2,312 points in nine NBA seasons

Armando Espinal

Senior financial analyst

Disney Television Animation

John Kazik

Vice president, general manager

Brunswick Billiards

Justi Rae Miller

Associate general counsel, State Farm

2-time All-Big Ten golfer

Matt Fishman

President, Fishman Solutions

Former Sirius XM college sports programming director

Immanuel Chu

Georgia pastor, public speaker

Prized Ron Zook football recruit

Patty Cisneros Prevo

3-time basketball Paralympian

Coached Illini women to national title

Cary McMillan

CEO, True Partners Consulting

2004 Chicago Illini of Year

Nancy Suchomski

Director of resource development

United Way of Champaign County

Jim Lutz

Women’s swimming coach, 1993-2000

.615 win pct. tops in program history

Laura Ewan

Manager of membership services

McLean Co. Chamber of Commerce

Doug Erhard

Wealth management advisor

Northwest Mutual of Champaign

Mike Bass

Award-winning journalist

Former DI editor-in-chief

Cristy Chapman Uhrig

1999 Dike Eddleman Award

All-Big Ten middle blocker

Stanley Eisenstein

Chicago attorney

Katz, Friedman, Eagle, Eisenstein, Johnson & Bareck

Andy Marx

Director of provider contracting

Health Alliance

Sujay Lama

5 NCAA tourney trips as women’s tennis coach

Now North Texas' winningest coach