Beloit College

It was in basketball and track that “Dave” Grady excelled as a record-breaking performer.  On the court, he not only totaled 999 points but also pulled down 725 rebounds to set a Buccaneer career standard that still stands today.  Twice team MVP, he was a Midwest Conference first-team forward as a senior, when he co-captained the Bucs to the league championship and their first NCAA Division III regional tournament.  Before in juries cut short his participation in track, the Beloit native and Memorial High School alumnus was the College’s “one-man gang” in the 1975 indoor and outdoor seasons; scoring 187 points and setting a University of Chicago Invitational long-jump record and school marks in the indoor high and triple jumps, he won five events in the first outdoor meet and the conference triple-jump title.  Still, his greatest performance came in the ’75 Beloit Relays, when he earned MVP honors by capturing the high, long, and triple jumps, finishing fourth in the 100-yard dash, and running in four other events to score 35 of Beloit’s 51 points.  Grady capped the year by winning the Pat Dawson Award as the top male student athlete.  A Wisconsin Power & Light Co. commercial industrial marketing representative in the past 16 years, he has been active in varied community affairs and served as chair of Crime Stoppers, Kiwanis and Beloit Board of Review.