Hall of Fame
- Induction:
- 2013
- Class:
- 2000
Wysong was a national-level competitor on the track and in the classroom. During her time at Mizzou, Wysong was a six-time all-American and NCAA national champion, specializing in the middle distance races. She was also a four-time USA Track & Field academic all-American. The native of Nevada, Missouri, dominated at the national level with five all-America finishes in the indoor and outdoor 800-meter races. She also earned all-America honors as a member of the record-breaking and NCAA National Champion Distance Medley Relay team in 2001. At the conference level, she raced to all-Big 12 Conference honors 16 times, winning the Big 12 title and setting the conference record in the outdoor 800 meters as a junior. That season, she went on to place third in the 2000 NCAA Championships in the outdoor 800 meters running an MU-record time of 2:02.94. She qualified for the 2000 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 800 and represented the U.S. in the NACAC/Pan-American Games, winning the silver medal. Wysong was the track and field team captain from 1999-2001 and president and vice-chair of the MU and Big XII Student Athlete Advisory Committees, respectively. She received the Director of Athletics Leadership Award in 2000. Upon graduating magna cum laude with honors distinction from Missouri in 2001, Wysong held Mizzou records in both the indoor and outdoor 800 meters as well as relay records in the indoor distance medley, outdoor 4x400m, and outdoor 4x800m, Wysong continued her academic career at Stanford, where she earned a master’s degree in epidemiology and ran professionally for Nike Athletics. She competed in the 2004 U.S. Olympic Trials in the 800m and was eliminated in the semi-final round after a comeback season and two knee surgeries. Following her retirement from track and field, Wysong continued her academic excellence as valedictorian at Duke University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in dermatology at Stanford before becoming the University of Southern California’s director of Mohs Surgery and Procedural Dermatology in the Department of Dermatology and the director of the Multidisciplinary Skin Cancer Tumor Board at the Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center. In 2018, she moved to the University of Nebraska Medical Center as Department of Dermatology Founding Chair and William W. Bruce MD Distinguished Chair of Dermatology. She is an accomplished leader, a nationally recognized Mohs micrographic surgeon, a translational skin cancer researcher, a skilled lecturer and a dedicated mentor.
