Crystal (Walker) Ecton was a two-time All-American after earning honorable mention honors as a junior after averaging 16.2 points per game and a WBCA/Kodak All-American as a senior after scoring 16.6 points per game. Her 1,344 points from 2000-03 rank eighth on the all-time scoring chart. Crystal was named the MIAA Defensive and Most Valuable Player as a senior following the 2002-03 season. She was a two-time Daktronics All-South Central Regional team member. She ranks in the top 25 in 22 single-season categories as her 124 free throws as senior are fifth highest all-time. Her 564 points scored as a senior is the eighth-best effort all-time as well as her 218 field goals made that season. Crystal was also a member of the Washburn volleyball team during the 2000 season. She teaches social studies at Madison High School in Madison, Kan., and was the head basketball coach from 2010 to 2013 and has also been the head volleyball coach since the 2010 season. She is a 2004 Washburn graduate and lives in Gridley, Kan., with her husband Jarrod and children Max and Bodie.

Best Washburn memory: "I loved my experience and my teammates. It's hard to pick just one, but I guess hitting the game winning shot against Pitt State my senior year. My parents both graduated from Pitt and so we went there on an unofficial visit when I was in high school. The coach at the time told me my lateral movement was too slow to play at there. I also really enjoyed getting to play in the (WBCA) Division I all-star game in Atlanta as the DII representative. It was interesting meeting the DI All-Americans and getting to play with them and watching the Final Four. I think I might have been the only one who actually tried in that all-star game." 

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Cynthia (Schmidt) Heath - gymnastics 1967-70
Cynthia (Schmidt) Heath was a four-year member of the Washburn gymnastics team earning three letters overall. She was a national champion in the vault in 1968. At the same national meet, she placed 17th in the balance beam. She also won the balance beam and vaulting competition at the Kansas State event during the 1968 and 1970 seasons and took first place at the 1968 and 1970 meets at Missouri in the beam and finishing second in the vault. Heath was part of the team which finished fourth in the nation at the National Intercollegiate Championships held at Brigham Young. Schmidt placed seventh in the vault and 24th in floor exercise and 32nd in the balance beam. At the Emporia State meet, she took first in the balance beam, second in the vault and in floor exercise placing her second in the all-around as well. Schmidt is a 1971 Washburn graduate and also received degrees from Kansas State in 1978 and graduated from the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. She was named the Lila Day Monroe Award recipient in 2013 and she is a member of the Washburn University Foundation Board of Trustees. She is the Vice President Executive Compensation and Secretary to the Compensation of Emerson Electric Company of St. Louis and lives in Chesterfield, Mo. She has two children Ashley Heath and Heather Ryan.
Best Washburn memory: "Paricipating in the National Collegiate Gymnastics Championship for Women and winning a gold medal in Vaulting. At the time, we were a young team but our Coach, Peg Marmet, thought we could do well at this meet and we did. We competed against large and small colleges at our designated level. We were not afraid of the competition just excited to be there. I was surprised that I won first place given the competition."

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Mike Keeley - football 1975-78 and baseball from 1976-79

Mike Keeley led the Ichabod football team in receiving three years earning first team all-CSIC honors at wide receiver as a junior and senior. He had 104 receptions and 1,638 career yards, which were the most in school history at the end of his career. His receiving yard total currently ranks 11th in school history and his 104 receptions is 10th in school history. As a sophomore he recorded 32 catches for 463 yards and two scores and then had 30 catches for 538 yards and four touchdowns as a junior averaging 18 yards per catch. His senior season he had 591 yards receiving on 36 catches scoring three touchdowns. Keeley is a 1979 Washburn graduate and then received his juris doctorate in 1982. After working as an attorney in Great Bend from 1982-93, he was elected as district judge and has spent the last 20 years on the bench in Barton County. Mike and his wife Keeley live in Great Bend. His daughter Cindy is a Washburn graduate and was part of the 2005 women's national championship basketball team and she married Erin Beck, a member of the Ichabod football team. His daughter Christy is married to former Ichabod football player Dr. Mitch Birt and his son Matt spent two seasons as an Ichabod assistant basketball coach.

Best Washburn memory: "In 1977 my junior year we played Ft. Hays at home on the last game of the year. With about five and a half minutes left in the game we are behind 22-7. On a 4th and 15 at about Hays 45-yard line Mike Grogan throws a hail mary pass towards me which I catch and then run in for the score. This was my best memory because it allowed us to go on and score 3 more touchdowns in the last five minutes of the game to come from behind and beat Hays 30-22. In fact on the last play of the game from our own 1-yard line Hays threw a pass into the back of the end zone where it was caught but the receiver came down out of bounds. They could have tied it up with that score and a two point conversion but didn't and we won a very exciting game. So many things happened in the last 5 minutes it was incredible."