People
173
Athlete
Ralph Cooper
Sports director
NewsChannel 10, Amarillo, Texas
Jon Corbitt
Former Illini gymnast
Associate director, BD
Naya Crittenden
Right side hitter, UI volleyball, 2015-16
Top scorer in Swiss pro league, 2019-20
Gene Cross
College hoops scout
NBA’s Sacramento Kings
Matt Cushing
President
First Choice Dental Lab
Cindy Dallas
Actress
21st pick, ’04 WNBA draft
Carey Davis
Won Super Bowl XLIII
Illini sideline reporter
Derek Dimke
LinkedIn relationship manager
Made Illini record 84.8% of FGs (39-for-46)
Doug Dossey
Managing partner
Tensile Capital Management
Bruce Douglas
No. 1 in assists, steals
All-Century Team member
Dave Downey
Big Ten Medal of Honor
Scored 53 vs. Indiana
Jean Driscoll
8 Boston Marathon wins
USOC Hall of Famer
Don Edwards
Flexpoint Ford CEO
Chair, UI board of trustees
Perdita Felicien
2-time Summer Olympian
Illini Athletics HOF
Ron Ferrari
Super Bowl-winning linebacker
Captain on Mike White teams
Jannelle Flaws
All-Big Ten soccer forward
Now playing in Germany
Darrin Fletcher
14-year MLB catcher
Illini Athletics HOF
Anjali Forber-Pratt
2-time Paralympian
Director, National Institute on Disability, Independent Living and Rehabilitation Research
McKinley Freeman
Athlete turned actor
45 credits and counting
Chris Gandy
3-year basketball starter
CEO, Midwest Legacy Group
Jarrod Gee
3-year starter
Illini basketball
Rick George
Colorado athletic director
Former Illini cornerback
Kendall Gill
All-Century Team member
Scored 12,914 NBA points
Jack Groppel
Former Illini men’s tennis coach (1978-81)
Co-founder, Johnson & Johnson Human Performance Institute
