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GOLD AND BLACK ILLUSTRATED VOLUME 26, ISSUE 3 85 In Maine, where McClintock grew up from humble means in the small logging community of Athens — his mom Lisa is a special education teach- er; his dad Michael a school bus driver — he was by far the state's best cross country runner. He wasn't challenged, even when he wasn't really trying. "Innately as human beings, you're only going to put as much effort forth as you have to, to be the best," Mc- Clintock said. "So I was winning state championships back in Maine, not training, not running, outside of races or during the season a little bit." Because of it, McClintock's times, while great in Maine, weren't very good nationally. He talked to Florida State and Auburn about running there, but those programs weren't handing out scholarship money to someone who hadn't proven to be fast enough. And considering his family's finan- cial circumstances, it was going to take a scholarship to get him out of state — one-year tuition (with room and board) at Purdue, for instance, costs more than his parents' combined annual income — so he was set to go to a D-II program in Pennsylvania. But his high school coach want- ed him to take a second look at D-I schools, urging him repeatedly to do so during a snowy training session. "He has me by the collar of my hood- ie and he says, 'Just look at one!'" Mc- Clintock said. "And I said 'Fine,' so I dug back through a month of email trash — I had trashed a bunch of them, including Purdue's — and pulled up this email from (former assistant) Jake (Stewart) and was like, 'Hey, Coach, sorry I've been really busy,' or whatever bull I could come up with to "All the time, he's thinking 'What can I do to be the Big Ten champion? What can I do to be an All-American? And help my team? And make myself a better athlete? Make the Olympics one day?' Everything is geared toward running all the time." Teammate Caleb Kerr Celebrates Student-Athletes Meet You At Arni's TM Jake Replogle Junior, Krannert School of Management Replogle, a junior defensive tackle from Centerville, Ohio, was one of 19 football players to earn Fall Academic All-Big Ten honors. To be eligible for Academic All-Big Ten selection, student-athletes must be letterwinners, in at least their second year at their institution and carry a cumulative grade-point average of at least 3.0. Women's cross country and soccer also had 14 honorees, second only to football. Men's cross country had 13 members recognized and volleyball eight. Volleyball's total marked half of the roster. Women's cross country sophomores Kendall Hacker and Reagan Lear were recognized for having perfect 4.0 GPAs. They were two of merely 21 individuals across the seven fall Big Ten sports honored for perfect marks in the classroom for any conference school.