Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 1991
- Class:
- 1985
From Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, Dornhoefer lettered all four years in cross country, indoor and outdoor track from 1981-85, and established herself as Mizzou’s greatest female distance runner. She won all-America honors eight times and won the NCAA outdoor championship in the 5000-meter run in 1985. During her career, she also won Big Eight Conference individual titles in cross country (1982 and ‘83), indoor track (two-mile in 1984 and mile in 1985) and outdoor track (5000-meter run in 1984 and ‘85). She won an NCAA post-graduate scholarship in 1985. She competed in the 1984 and ‘88 U.S. Olympic trials and was an alternate on the ‘88 U.S. Olympic team at 3000 meters. She competed six times in the World Cross Country Championships, four times at the Olympic Festival, twice in the World University Games, and once each at the Goodwill Games and Pan American Games. After completing her running career, she earned a D.O. degree from the Chicago Osteopathic Medicine Midwestern University in 1997 and has worked for Good Samaritan Hospital in Indiana.
