Hall of Fame
Coach Cochrane served as Head Women's Track & Field and Cross Country coach for 33 years while also adding the men's team and serving as an interm Director of Athletics during his tenure. Four women won five individual national titles in Track & Field under Cochrane. Marlene Frahm won both the 1985 Indoor and Outdoor Shot Put competitions, while Saundra Hester (1990) and Christina Winkler (2004) captured individual titles in the 400 meter hurdles. Katrina Biermann added a national Pole Vault title in 2010. In addition, Cochrane had 52 individual and seven relays earn all-America honors at the Indoor, Outdoor or National Cross Country championships. His 2004 cross country team advanced to nationals and placed 20th overall while Kerry Knepper had the highest individual finish at the Division II cross country meet with a fifth-place finish in 1988. Cochrane produced 14 Academic All-Americans and his teams were consistently ranked amongst the NCAA-II leaders in team grade-point averages. Stacy Roberts (1991) and Virginia Hoefer (1996) were each finalists in the state of Missouri for the NCAA Women of the Year Award. A benchmark of the program occurred during the 2000 calendar year, as the Bulldog women swept both the Indoor and Outdoor Mid-America Intercollegiate Athletics Association championships before capturing the conference cross country title that October. Cochrane's teams won three other league indoor meets (1989, 1990 and 2003) and the 1983 outdoor championship for a total of seven conference titles. He is a five-time conference coach of the year award recipient and was named the 1999 Regional Coach of the Year by the United States Track & Field/Cross Country Coaches Association. Cochrane received the Distinguished Service Award from the NCAA- II cross-country coaches for his contributions to the sport in 1992 and was a 1996 recipient of the NCAA-II Track Coaches Distinguished Service Award. In 2011, Cochrane was inducted into the Missouri Track & Field/Cross Country Hall of Fame.
