Hall of Fame
Dallas Robinson competed three seasons for head coach Rick Erdmann’s track team. In this span from 2003-2006, he was the OVC Indoor and Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year and earned 16 top three finishes at the OVC championships and won nine gold medals. He also received Athlete of the Championship and Athlete of the Year honors and was a six-time choice for the OVC Track Athlete of the Week award. Robinson was the 2003 and 2005 outdoor 100 meter champion, as well as the 2004 and 2005 outdoor 200 meter winner. The school record holder in the indoor 200 meters, he won the OVC championship in this event in 2005. After graduation, he was ranked first nationally in the 55-meter dash by USA Track and Field and also first in the world in that event, the only EKU athlete to achieve this honor. He is the United States’ only ever three-sport Team USA qualifier in USA Rugby Sevens and Fifteen and USA bobsled two and four-man national team. He is the only Soldier-Olympian. He competed three years as a team USA bobsled athlete and an Olympic team competitor as a US soldier, becoming only one of six to compete in Sochi Russia while serving full-time active duty in the military while a member of the 2014 USA Bobsled Team. Robinson was also one of three soldiers who competed in the 2014 Olympics in more than one sport. As a bobsled athlete, he broke five Olympic Training Center records. Competing in the World Championship Team event in 2012-14, he collected three World Cup medals. While serving in the U.S. Army, he graduated first in his training class, receiving the title Soldier of the Cycle and was promoted to Sergeant in just 11 months of service. Robinson received the Meritorious Service Medal, the highest non-combat medal a soldier can receive.
