UW Athletic Hall of Fame
Cathy Branta
- Induction:
- 1993
- A five-time national champion (twice in the 3,000 meters outdoors and once each in cross country, the 3,000 meters indoors and the 1,500 meters outdoors)
- The Badgers won the NCAA cross country team title the year Branta took the individual championship (1984)
- Set NCAA Meet records in the 3,000-meter run indoors (9:04.81) and outdoors (8:59.57)
- An 11-time All-American and eight-time Big Ten champ
- Alternate in the 3,000-meter run on the 1984 U.S. Olympic team
- Won the 3,000-meter run at the 1985 World University Games and the Olympic Sports Festival
- Second-place finish in the 1984 World Cross Country Championships helped the U.S. to the team title
- Earned the 1985 Big Ten Medal of Honor for proficiency in scholarship and athletics
- Three-time (1983-85) UW Women's Athlete of the Year
- Academic All-Big Ten honors twice in her career
- Big Ten Women's Athlete of the Year as a senior in 1985
- Recipient of the 1985 Broderick Award in cross country
- Won the 1984-85 Honda Sports Award, given to the top women college athlete in 11 different sports
- Named to the Big Ten's All-Decade Team in the conjunction with the 10-year anniversary of women's athletics in the conference
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