DES MOINES, Iowa - Two notable former Drake University student-athletes will be honored by Drake Athletics with the Double D Award on Saturday, Feb. 18, in a ceremony before the men's basketball game against Missouri State and a halftime of the contest.
Wayne Kreklow, a former Drake men's basketball player, and Lindsay Whorton, a standout women's basketball player, will be presented the award for their athletic accomplishments at Drake and their continued success in their careers and communities.
The Double D award is presented each year to former Drake athletes for achievements in their professions and or community service since earning their degrees from Drake. Since it's inception in 1968, the Double D honor has now been presented to 254 former Drake letter winners, including Kreklow and Whorton.
Both recipients will be honored at a reception and ceremony held on Saturday, Feb. 18 at 4 p.m. at the Courtside Club in the Shivers Basketball Practice Facility. Kreklow and Whorton will also be recognized at halftime of the men's basketball game against Missouri State that evening, which tips of at 8 p.m. in the Knapp Center.
2017 Double D Recipients
Wayne Kreklow – LA '80
Wayne Kreklow received a bachelor's degree in social science in 1980. He was a letter winner for men's basketball from 1975-1979 and earned All-America, All-MVC and all-district honors as a two-time team captain. He was named to the Drake's All-Century basketball team and was a member of the NBA World Champion Boston Celtics in 1980-81.
Kreklow is currently the head volleyball coach at the University of Missouri where he and his wife Susan have built a national power with 13 NCAA Tournaments, an Elite Eight, two Sweet 16s and 10 20-plus win seasons. Kreklow was recently named 2016 SEC Coach of the Year and AVCA Southeast Region Coach of the Year after completing a remarkable 27-6 season while advancing to the Sweet 16.
Before coming to Missouri, the Kreklows were co-head coaches of both the men's and women's volleyball teams at Columbia College. They enjoyed great success, taking their women's team to the NAIA National Tournament six times and winning consecutive national titles in 1998 and 1999.
In 1997 and 1998, the Kreklows shared NAIA/AVCA National Coach of the Year and Midwest Region Coach of the Year honors. In 1999, the coaching tandem took home the regional award for the fifth consecutive year. In 1998 and 1999, the Kreklows also received the NAIA National Tournament Coach of the Year award.
Wayne began coaching volleyball as an assistant under Craig Sherman at Missouri. He was with the Tigers from 1989 to 1994 before moving over to Columbia College to join his wife at the helm of the Cougar program.
Wayne resides in Columbia, Mo. with his wife Susan and are the parents of three children Rick, Ryan and Ali.
Lindsay Whorton – AS '08, ED '08
Lindsay Whorton received a bachelor's degree in English and secondary education in 2008. She was a letter winner in women's basketball from 2004-2008 and a three-time all-MVC Scholar-Athlete selection. In her senior season, she served as one of Drake's team captains while being named first-team academic all-American and first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference. She helped the Bulldogs win two MVC Championships during her career and was named the 2008 MVC Women's Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year .
Whorton currently works as a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) in its Washington D.C. office. For the past year, she has been on leave from BCG, serving as the lead planner for the Holdsworth Center – a new effort to develop educational leadership in Texas founded by HEB CEO, Charles Butt. This spring, she will leave BCG and join the Holdsworth team, based in Austin, TX, in order to serve as the Managing Director of District Support.
While at BCG, she helped to implement a new brand strategy for a major retailer, specifically focusing on organizational culture and leadership development within the organization. Prior to joining BCG, Whorton worked as the Legislative Director for Colorado State Senator Mike Johnston. She has also worked at the American Federation of Teachers and at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where she helped design the education team's grant-making strategy to attract and retain great teachers and leaders in the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Whorton received her PhD in Social Policy from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She lived in Helsinki, Finland as a Fulbright Scholar where she conducted research for her dissertation, Teachers' Unions and Education Reform in Comparative Contexts (Routledge, 2016), which examined the impact of teachers' unions on performance-related pay reform in Finland, Switzerland, Texas and Florida.
All-Time Double D Award Recipients
David E. Abram -1971
Leonard B. Adams -1987
Frank D. Anderson -1979
Karla Burds Antonio -2006
Isaac J. (Ike) Armstrong -1968
Marlyn C. Augustine -1981
Dale Awtry -1972
Jarrold Bachman-2013
Michael Beaman-2013
Floyd T. Beasley -1977
Lisa Behlmann Cannon -2011
Mike Belinson -1982
Joe Bell -1996
Dale C. Bennett -1984
William E. Benskin -1989
Thomas J. Bienemann -1968
Tammi Blackstone -2014
William L. Bliss -1968
Sherwood Boudeman -1996
Lee B. Bowman -1986
Lois Brass -2005
Paul W. Brechler -1968
Lee E. Brewer -1969
John D. Bright -1968
John L. Briley -1980
Lisa Brinkmeyer-VanDeventer -2010
Frank Brody -1976
Donald Buckroyd -1994
Leanne M. Buell -1999
Verle Burgason -1975
Keith E. Burgett -1994
Jody Busing -2008
Jack Buss -1980
Dan Callahan -1985
Lou Callaway -2004
Liz Stephan Campbell -2004
Donald D. Carlson -2000
Clyde F. Carney -1988
Tom B. Case -1969
Udell Cason -1979
Robert Clark Jr. -1968
Robert I. Cobb -1977
E. Allen Colbert -1977
Bill Coldiron -2008
Ralph C. Collins -1976
Clarence R. Conklin -1986
Donald J. Cook -1979
Jay P. Cookman -1999
James B. Cooney -2000
Marguerite Cothorn -1995
Billy Cundiff -2012
Harold E. Davidson -1969
Sally M. Davis -1999
Kay Riek DiLeo -2000
Ernie C. Dippel Jr. -1988
Waldo E. Don Carlos -1972
Tom Drake -2005
Harry N. Drier Jr. -1989
Charles A. Duchen -1968
Donald L. Duncan -1989
James S. Duncan -1973
Charles H. Durant -1971
James E. Dyson -1968
Anne Erpenbeck -1996
Robert M. Evans -1968
William E. Evans -1972
Chuck J. Everett -1970
Jack C. Finegan -1968
Thell H. Fisher -1968
Jenni Fitzgerald -2009
Julie Fitzpatrick -2001
Wayne Ford -1995
John R. Freudenthal -1997
William H. Fulton -1978
George L. Funk -1991
Warren N. Gaer -1970
Rolland A. Gallagher -1974
Lou Gatta -2015
Frank Gilliam Jr. -2006
Robert B. Goode -1968
Paul W. Goodrich -1968
?Robert K. Goodwin -1968
William J. Goodwin Jr. -1968
David R. Griffith - 2001
Peter Hackett - 1991
Ronald P. Hallock - 1971
Thomas M. Hamilton - 1988
James L. Hanahan - 1978
Orbin W. Hanks - 1972
David Hansen - 1995
Alexander G. Harbutte - 1987
James A. Harris - 1977
Ray Harrison - 1968
Herbert V. Hedlund - 1976
Joe K. Henderson - 1980
Roger M. Herriott - 1976
Dick Hewins - 2014
Thomas G. Higgins - 1974
Robb B. Hill - 1998
Carolyn Schnure Hill - 1998
John Hodges - 2002
Albert G. Hodor - 1972
William F. Hoffman - 1992
Bob Holliday - 2009
Gibson C. Holliday - 1968
Charles E. Horner - 1971
Robert J. Horstmeier - 1972
Leighton Housh - 1968
Philip Howrey - 1992
Thomas P. Hyland - 1985
Donald C. Jackson - 1978
Michael J. Jackson - 1993
Thomas H. Jenk - 1978
John H. Jennett - 1981
Erling N. Jensen - 1968
Jan Jensen - 2007
Carl C. Johannsen - 1984
Maurice E. John Jr. - 1986
Zach Johnson - 2011
Barb Johnston - 2002
Jack W. Kaley - 1974
Karl Kassulke - 1974
George H. Keeney - 1968
Robert M. Klingler - 1986
Harrison Kohl - 1973
John H. (Jack) Kragie – 1993
Wayne Kreklow - 2017
Dan Kroloff - 1980
Roger J. LaBrasca - 1999
Douglas S. Lang - 1993
Charles A. Lanphere - 1978
James A. Lavery - 1973
Laura A. Leonard - 2000
Lewis J. Levick - 1973
William H. Lienemann - 1975
Joseph J. Lisek - 1974
William B. Lockhart - 1968
Trescott A. Long - 1968
Glenn S. Lott - 1999
Ralph J. Luchsinger - 1983
John T. Lynch - 1992
Kenneth A. Macke - 1977
Robert A. Maddocks - 1982
Raymond J. Malcoun - 1993
Clarence (Pug) Manders - 1968
Lucille Robinson Mann - 1995
E. Nick Manoles - 1968
Guido J. Marchetti - 1975
Laurie Bowden Mardis - 2003
Jack McClelland - 1973
William H. McCloud - 1971
Christie F. McCormick - 1975
Harold J. McCoy - 1971
John J. McGivern - 1971
Jack McGuire - 1970
John L. McKeon - 1974
McCoy McLemore Jr. - 1984
George R. Mellinger - 1989
Jerry W. Mertens - 1991
James M. Meston - 1984
Frank Metzger - 1974
Patrick Meyer - 2008
Emmanuel S. Migliorisi - 1977
Floyd Miller - 2003
Dave Milligan - 2005
David L. Mills - 1980
Victor A. Modeer - 1979
Clark R. Mollenhoff - 1968
Paul Morrison - 2003
Mike Murphy - 2007
Phillip R. Murrell - 1981
Thomas K. Murrow - 1968
Edgar C. Musgrave - 1976
William O. Myles Jr. - 1981
George S. Neel - 1969
Brett A. Nelson - 2001
James A. Nelson - 1987
Donald A. Nepote - 1979
Jim Neswold - 2004
Don Neumann - 2003
Connie A. Newlin - 2001
George H. Nolan - 1975
L. D. Norris - 1972
Harry Chandler Olson - 1968
Ronald L. Olson - 1979
Samuel E. Orebaugh - 1970
Gary Osborn - 2013
Joe (Philippson) Patrick - 1978
Robert B. Patrick - 1969
Theodore B. Payseur - 1968
Rita Harmening Pedersen - 2008
Alfred Perry - 1970
Richard F. Peterson - 1987
Jerry Pezetti - 2012
James W. Pilkington - 1977
Loren Pollet Jr. - 1980
Roger Prescott - 2010
Adolphus Pulliam - 1988
Nolan L. Quam - 1981
Harold A. Quint - 1973
Max P. Rauer - 1983
Kelly Reed - 2015
Dennis E. Rees- 1980
S. Albert Robertson - 1969
Timothy J. Roels - 1983
Wallace O. Rooker - 1974
Wilber W. Sackett - 1976
Bert Schaller - 1981
James Schmidt - 1995
Robert O. Schnarr - 1975
Arnold C. Schultz - 1983
Steve Scullen - 2009
Corwin B. Seitz - 1973
Theodore Shapiro - 1985
G. Donald Shawver - 1970
Ronald W. Shellady - 1992
Dean Showers - 1985
Doug Siedenburg - 2002
Ezra Silas - 2003
Brent Slay - 1991
Ted Sloane - 1970
Robert L. Smith - 1993
Merwin E. Soper - 1973
Robert H. Spiegel - 1968
Jim Stalnaker - 2007
Jack Stapleton - 2007
Oscar W. Strahan - 1970
William G. (Bud) Suter - 1968
David Terre - 1982
William R. Thompson - 1996
Michael Thorpe - 2004
Donald L. Tidrick - 1975
Terry Trieweiler - 1992
Charles B. Tupper - 1968
Danielle Tyler - 2012
Robert Underwood - 1978
Cary F. Viktor - 1994
Tricia Wakely Watts - 2015
Rick Wanamaker - 1994
Doree Ward - 2013
Herman Watson - 1978
Maurice White - 1971
Warren Whitted – 2010
Lindsay Whorton - 2017
Harley A. Wilhelm - 1968
Alicia Mundahl Wollmering - 2002
Jerry Wollmering - 2002
Harold L. Wright - 1974
James Wright - 1973
Robert W. Wright - 1976
Emil Wroblicky - 1989
Catherine Yeagley - 1997
Daniel J. Zarazan - 1997
