Bob Donker became the first three-time, single-season All-American in school history during his cross country and track career from 1991-95.
The Georgetown, Ontario, native earned All-America honors in cross country, indoor track and outdoor track in 1993-94.
Donker earned his first All-America honor by finishing 24
th at the 1993 NCAA Cross Country Championships. He followed that with a seventh-place finish in the 5,000-meter run at the 1994 NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships. Donker earned his third All-America honor in the same academic year with a fifth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run at the 1994 NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships.
He earned his fourth All-America honor in 1995 at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships with a sixth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run. At the end of his career, he was one of four Mountaineers to earn All-America honors in two sports.
In addition to his All-America honors, Donker captured first place in the 5,000 meters at the Penn Relays to become WVU's first male winner in 100 years. He earned three consecutive Atlantic 10 Conference individual championships in cross country from 1991-93, making him the only three-time winner in league history. Donker helped lead WVU to two Atlantic 10 team championships in cross country.
He was named the Atlantic 10 Male Student-Athlete of the Year, was a three-time selection to the All-Atlantic 10 Cross Country team and won the McCoy Award as the top track & field athlete in the state of West Virginia in 1994.
Following his WVU career, Donker was the Canadian indoor 3,000-meter track champion in 1995 and represented Canada at the Pan American games in Argentina in 1995. Donker's running career ended in 1996 due to a moving accident.
Donker currently works in the sporting goods industry, and he and his wife, Heidi, have three daughters, Sofie, Maja and Lily. They spent the last 20 years living in Oslo, Norway, and Donker is currently on an ex-pat assignment living in Boulder, Colorado.
Donker attended high school with current WVU cross country/track coach
Sean Cleary and encouraged Cleary to join him at WVU. Since then, Cleary has been WVU's head coach since 2007.
