The Illinois Fighting Illini track and field team is the track and field program that represents University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The Fighting Illini compete in NCAA Division I as a member of the Big Ten Conference. The team is based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois at the Illinois Soccer and Track Stadium.
The program is coached by Petros Kyprianou. The track and field program officially encompasses four teams because the NCAA considers men's and women's indoor track and field and outdoor track and field as separate sports.
The program has won six national collegiate team titles, beginning at the 1921 NCAA Track and Field Championships and most recently at the 1970 DGWS Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
Postseason AIAW The Fighting Illini have had 12 AIAW individual All-Americans finishing in the top six at the AIAW indoor or outdoor championships.
AIAW All-Americans Championships Name Event Place Lyndell Wilken 880 yards Lyndell Wilken Mile run Connie Peterson 100 meters hurdles Connie Peterson Javelin throw Connie Peterson High jump Katherine Jones 100 yards Katherine Jones 220 yards Lyndell Wilken 880 yards Lyndell Wilken Mile run Cheryl Rogers 100 meters hurdles Connie Peterson 200 meters hurdles Unknown 4 × 110 yards relay Unknown Unknown Unknown Connie Peterson High jump Donna Schulenberg 100 meters hurdles Donna Schulenberg 200 meters hurdles Donna Schulenberg High jump Maeoper West 220 yards Maeoper West 440 yards Donna Schulenberg High jump Unknown 4 × 110 yards relay Unknown Unknown Unknown Beverly Washington High jump Linn Crieb 300 yards Anita Moyer 2 miles Anita Moyer 2 miles Beverly Washington High jump Beverly Washington High jump Becky Jo Kaiser Long jump Becky Jo Kaiser Long jump Marianne Dickerson 10,000 meters Cheryl Ward 4 × 800 meters relay Veegee Elsen Margaret Vogel Gretchen Grier Kathy Pannier Sprint medley relay Jayne Glade Rolanda Conda Gretchen Grier Becky Jo Kaiser Long jump Jan Wacaser Heptathlon
NCAA , a total of 176 men and 49 women have achieved individual first-team All-American status at the Division I men's outdoor, women's outdoor, men's indoor, or women's indoor national championships (using the modern criteria of top-8 placing regardless of athlete nationality).