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Kristin Garrison’s impact on women’s varsity athletics at Knox College took place only six months after her arrival on campus when she became the first woman from Knox College to qualify for the NCAA National Indoor Track meet as a long-jumper in 1993. She went on to represent Knox three more times in the NCAA Div. III Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Nationals, earning All-American status in 1994. The conference long-jump champion in 1995, she earned eight letters in indoor and outdoor track before her graduation in 1996.
 
Kristin’s success in women’s soccer was equally impressive. She lettered in soccer in 1993, 1994, and 1995, was the team captain in her junior and senior years. She helped lead the women’s soccer team to the Midwest Conference play-offs. The women’s team finished the season with an all-time best record of 11-5 and defeated a Grinnell team that season which had won 52 consecutive regular season conference games before losing to Knox. Kristin informed her teammates before the Grinnell game that in Knox tradition of putting academics before athletics, she must take the GRE on game day and hoped to join the team before the contest was over. She took the test in her soccer uniform, raced to the field when she was finished, and arrived in time to kick in the winning goal in one of the most stunning athletic victories in Knox history. She was the recipient of the Evelyn Bielefeldt award which recognizes the senior student-athlete on a women’s team with the most outstanding career in intercollegiate athletics.
          
Garrison’s accomplishments off the athletic fields were similarly outstanding. She earned honors in biology, served as a Resident Advisor to the first-year students, and was involved in several extra-curricular activities.