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David M. Symonds
David M. Symonds
  • Graduation Year:
    1970
  • Induction Year:
    1991
  • Sport(s):
    Cross Country/Track

Bio

You came to Olivet College from Belmont, Massachusetts, and immediately success was yours as you were part of the 440 relay team which set a record for Olivet with a time of 42.9 seconds. In your senior year you set a record in the 880 run. You received the Walter Sprandel Athletic Scholastic Achievement Award, the highest athletic award of Olivet College. You maintained a 3.4 grade point average and were selected for the All-MIAA track squad in 1970. Your leadership ability led you to be track and cross country team captain for two years each.

You were a member of the Sigma Zeta, an Honorary Science Society, a member of the student MIAA governing board, the Adelphic Alpha Pi Fraternity and selected to be in the Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges.

David, you were an outstanding person on campus, viewed positively by your peers, and a campus leader. Since your graduation from Olivet, you have received a Master of Education degree and have coached both men and women athletes.

Your enthusiasm, loyalty and athletic ability leads you to be recognized and formally inducted into the Olivet College Athletic Hall of Fame on this 12th day of January 1991.