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Monmouth College’s M Club
Hall of Fame will add four inductees at a Saturday morning ceremony on
Oct. 18 that will be part of the college Homecoming festivities.
The Hall of Fame Class of 2008 includes John Warfield ’89, John Jacobs
’94, Dan Schisler ’94 and Heather Furrow ’98.
Warfield, a Monmouth native, used two diverse athletic skills – kicking
a football and throwing a weight – to add to a resurgence in Fighting
Scot athletics in the late 1980s. On the gridiron, he helped Monmouth to
a 26-3 record from 1986-88, booting 98 extra points and 15 field goals
and averaging 36.9 yards per punt. In track, he was part of two
conference champion teams, and his top discus throw of 159’6 was the
school record for nine years.
Jacobs was a “man for all seasons” at Monmouth, starring in football,
wrestling and baseball. He got each year off to a great start by being
named a first-team All-Midwest Conference defensive back, making him the
only gridder in Monmouth history to receive four straight first-team
honors. Jacobs, who recorded 256 total tackles in his career was 42-13
in three seasons on the mats and had a career baseball average of .326
with nine homers and 52 RBI.
Schisler earned All-Midwest Conference honors each fall in cross country
and placed second, first and second at the MWC Championships his final
three seasons. He qualified for the national meet a school-record three
times, placing as high as 26th as a junior. In track, Schisler won both
the indoor and outdoor 1500-meter titles at the MWC meet as a senior and
won the outdoor 10,000-meter run as a sophomore.
Nobody was better at making it once around the track than Furrow, who
earned seven individual All-American efforts at the 400-meter distance.
Her school-record total of 10 All-American honors also includes three
4x100 relays. She peaked with a third-place finish in the outdoor
400-meter dash in 1996 and followed with fourth- and eighth-place
outdoor finishes her junior and senior seasons. Furrow also won 24
conference titles, including 14 individually.
