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Clarion University Sports Hall of Fame
Degree: Molecular Biology
Jamie Wolf Jackel is, without question, one of the top student-athletes that Clarion has produced in its rich athletic history. Jamie, a diver under the tutelage of coach Dave Hrovat, was an NCAA record seven-time NCAA D-II National Champion and a three-time NCAA D-II Female Diver of the Year. Jamie, as a freshman in 2004, won both the 1- and 3-meter NCAA D-II national titles and was voted D-II Diver of the Year. She won both national titles and Diver of the Year honors in 2005, while in 2006 she won her fifth NCAA title on 3-meter and placed second on 1-meter, then in 2007 Wolf won both 1- and 3-meter NCAA titles and D-II Diver of the Year. Her 1-meter total of 453.75 points was an NCAA record. Jamie graduated from Clarion in May 2007 with a 4.0 GPA in Molecular Biology. He 2007 post-season awards included ESPN The Magazine & CoSIDA NCAA D-II & D-III Academic All-America of the Year (all sports), First Team Academic All-American, Conference Commissioners Association & PSAC Pete Nevins Award-Scholar Athlete of the Year, NCAA Woman of the Year Finalist and the 2008 NCAA Top VIII Award, the first PSAC Athlete to receive that honor. She had an NCAA Post-Graduate scholarship to Ohio State and earned her Ph.D. in Molecular Genetics in 2013.
A 2003 grad of South Park High in Pittsburgh, Jamie, husband Dr. Matthew Jackel and son Riley resided in Delmar, New York at the time of her induction.
