Former high school and college basketball star enters hall of fame
 

Mary Grinaker — Athlete

As a student athlete at Moorhead High School, Mary Grinaker maintained a high GPA while gaining recognition as athlete of the year in her sophomore, junior, and senior years, was a most valuable player in tennis, track, and basketball, and was one of the top athletes in the state.  
Mary led the Moorhead girls’ basketball team to Seventeen victories in Twenty-one games one season, averaging 18.5 points per game. She twice made it to the state tennis tournament, but track and field was the sport in which she triumphed and upon which she would excel.
By the time her high school career ended in 1977 Grinaker had set state records in the Sixty yard hurdles, the 880-yard relay, and the long jump. In 1974 she tied the national high school record in the 110-yard hurdles. She went on to repeat performances at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she set school and Big 10 records in the pentathlon and co-captained the track and field team, which in her 3 years as a team member took Big 10 Indoor and Outdoor Championships and 3 times finished as NCAA runners-up.