Mark Byrne, Track & Field, 1988-89
Mark Byrne won six Big Sky Conference championships, winning the 800-meter titles in both indoor and outdoor track and field in both 1988 and 1989, and he also ran the anchor leg of the 4x800-meter indoor relay team in 1988 and 1989. Byrne's winning times in both the indoor and outdoor championships were the second-fastest times in Big Sky Conference history, and he was named the Outstanding Track Athlete at the 1989 Big Sky Conference Outdoor Track Championships. A 4.00 student, Byrne was a four-time Big Sky All-Academic performer. In his four seasons, Byrne never lost to a Big Sky Conference runner. In the year 2000, Mark authored the book "I Kicked the Devil in the Shins", about his fight with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.