Villanova track & field all-time great and 1968 Olympian Marty Liquori is one of four inductees that make up the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame Class of 2022. This year's induction class was announced by CoSIDA on Wednesday afternoon. Created in 1988, the Academic All-America Hall of Fame recognizes former Academic All-Americans who received a college degree at least 10 years ago, have achieved lifetime success in their professional careers, and are committed to philanthropic causes. The inductees in the Class of 2022 include Liquori, two prominent women in medicine and business, and a successful college football coach. 

Liquori represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics during his collegiate career running track & field and cross country for the Wildcats. He was a five-time NCAA individual champion, an eight-time All-American and an eight-time IC4A champion, and won 10 Championship of America titles at the Penn Relays during his collegiate career. The other Academic All-America Hall of Fame inductees are Jennifer Babik (Princeton), Gail (Koziara) Boudreaux (Dartmouth) and Matt Campbell (Mount Union). Babik was a four-time All-Ivy League softball player and led Princeton to the Women's College World Series. Boudreaux earned basketball All-America honors at Dartmouth and is the only women's basketball player to be recognized as the Ivy League Player of the Year three times. Campbell was an NCAA Division III All-American football player at Mount Union, leading his teams to a collective 54-1 record and three national championships.

The four inductees into the CoSIDA Academic All-America Hall of Fame will be honored at a luncheon on Tuesday, June 28, 2022, in conjunction with the CoSIDA Convention at Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas. The 2022 Dick Enberg Award recipient, to be announced at a later date, will also be recognized at the luncheon. For more information on the Academic All-America Hall of Fame, click here.

Liquori competed for the Wildcats from 1968-71 and won four of his five NCAA titles in the Mile, including three national championships outdoors and one indoors. He was only the fourth persion to win the Mile outdoors at the NCAA Championships in three consecutive years. Liquori was also a member of two Villanova national championships teams, helping the Wildcats win the 1971 indoor NCAA title and the 1971 cross country national championship.  During his collegiate career Liquori held world records, was ranked No. 1 in the world in the 1500 meters in 1969 and 1971, ran a sub-four minute mile 26 times and held five school records at the time of his graduation. In 1968 at the Summer Olympics in Mexico City he became the youngest person to advance to the final of the 1,500 meters.

Liquori graduated from Villanova with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He was a co-founder of the Athletic Attic chain of running stores. He provided color commentary for ABC during the Olympic Games in 1972, 1976 and 1984. Liquori wrote Marty Liquori's Guide for the Elite Runner and an autobiography, On the Run: In Search of the Perfect Race. He has been a spokesperson for the Leukemia Society of America's Team in Training initiative and has served as the vice president for the Gainesville Friends of Jazz and executive director of the Gainesville Jazz Festival.