THE LORAS COLLEGE MAGAZINE | VOL. 59 | NO. 1 | WINTER 2010

Athletic News | Spring 2011
Hall of Fame
The following people were inducted into
the Loras College Varsity Athletics Hall
of Fame on Sept. 4, 2010:
Tim Keane
(’92), as a
defensive back
and return man,
was a first team
All-Iowa
Conference
selection and an
Honorable Mention All-American
selection by Champion. Keane set seven
return records in football and 12 school
records in track. His record remains in
hurdles at 55 and 200 meters, 110 meter
hurdles record (outdoor), a member of
the best 4x200 meter relay and sprint
medley relay teams in program history.
Football records are: yards in a season
(270 in 1990), career average (9.2
yards), career kick return average (22.4
yards) and total kick return yardage in a
single season in 1989 (388 yards).
Keane spent 18 years serving wards of
the State of Illinois and other at-risk
young people. He currently is the
director of behavioral services for an
Illinois Safe School program. Keane
also earned degrees from National-Louis
University and resides in Chicago, Ill.
Ann
Cunningham
(’87) and her
teammates
enjoyed the most
successful era in
Loras College
women’s golf
history. Cunningham helped put the
Duhawks on the map immediately upon
joining the roster and headlined the
Loras portion of the leader board for
much of her career. Awards and honors
include: All-District honors, All-
Tournament Team at both the Iowa
Small College and National Small
College tournaments, individual
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Nominations for next year’s Varsity Athletics Hall of Fame inductions are being accepted.
Go to www.duhawks.com and click on Hall of Fame.
medalist at both the William Penn and
St. Ambrose Invitationals, runner-up at
Luther College, Iowa Conference All-
Conference team, second straight Iowa
Small College All-Tournament Team and
named an All-American at the NCGA
Tournament. Cunningham continues to
reside in Dubuque, has worked as the
general manager at Lacoma Golf Club
where she remains part-time, but now
spends the majority of her time running a
local night club and contributing to the
business operations of another.
Just as the
three-point arc
was being implemented,
Chris
Jans (’91) was
attacking it for a
school record
214 three-pointers.
He holds Loras’ all-time scoring
record with 707 points in 25 games, and
28.3 per game average record; 399 of
those points came from a record 133
baskets from behind the arc, a 5.3 per
game average and 93 of the 133 threepointers
were during Iowa Conference
games, a record that still stands today.
He is a member of the 1,000 Points
Club, finishing with 1,206 points. Jans
was named first team All-Iowa
Conference and NABC All-West
Region. Today, Jans is an assistant coach
at Wichita State University in Wichita,
Kan., a NCAA Division I and Missouri
Valley Conference member, after
previously coaching at several colleges
or universities as head or assistant
coach. Jans lives in Andover, Kan.,
with his wife Sheri and his stepchildren,
Nick and Maddie.
Jeff Valentine
(’85) was a member
of the men’s
basketball team
that put together
a program-high
29-win season in
1982-83 and laid the foundation for one
of the best individual careers in a Loras
uniform. Valentine produced a team high
16 points per game and helped push the
team into the NAIA national tournament
quarterfinals. In his three seasons with
the team, Loras went 68-26 (.723).
Valentine, a forward, finished his career
with 1,134 points, 20th on the program’s
all-time scoring list. He was widely
regarded as a strong perimeter player
and free throw shooter. He earned
Honorable Mention All-American status
from the NAIA during the 1983-84 season.
Valentine currently works as a State
Farm agent and lives in Naperville, Ill.,
with his wife Sharon (Smith) (’86 and
former Loras cheerleader) and their three
children—Cameron, Alissa and Jordan.
Shane Davis
(’98) received the
ball 694 times
during his career,
nearly seven
yards per carry.
Awards and
records include:
1st Team All-American, 1997; nearly
every rushing record in the program’s
history; produced what remains one of
the greatest single games on the ground
of any NCAA Division III player; holds
the records for rushing yards in a game
(382), season (1,774) and career (4,734);
averaged 8.43 yards per carry in 1996;
in his final game he provided 382 yards
on the ground, including over 150 on his
first three carries which propelled Davis
to the top of the Loras career rushing
list, where he remains today. Davis
played in the Aztec Bowl, NCAA
Division III All-Star Game and was a
two-time All-Iowa Conference selection.
Davis currently is the pastor at Chandler
Seventh-Day Adventist Church and
Phoenix South Mountain Seventh-Day
Adventist Church. He and his wife
Hayli live in Gilbert, Ariz., with their
daughter Hope and son Noble. �