Illinois Wesleyan senior Amelia Glueck (Pekin, Ill./Tremont HS) has been a Division III All-American in every NCAA national championship she has entered.
2018: Second, long jump indoor
2017: Fifth, long jump outdoor; Fourth, long jump indoor
2016: National champion, long jump outdoor; Fifth, long jump indoor
2015: Second, long jump outdoor; second, long jump indoor
She won the College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin outdoor long jump as freshman, sophomore and junior and indoor long jump as a freshman and has been named to all-Midwest Region (long jump) for U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association every season.
In 2018, she was the winner of NCAA Division III Elite 90 award for highest GPA among athletes qualified for national track championships and, in 2017 she was elected to the Academic All-District 7 ® Division III Women's Track and Field team and was on the ballot for the Academic All-America® Team.
Majoring in health promotion and wellness management at Illinois Wesleyan, she is the daughter of Dale and Susan Glueck.
Why you chose to attend Illinois Wesleyan: I wanted to run at an academically reputable school… and the track team rocks!
IWU class you’re most qualified to teach: Any general fitness class because I practically live at Shirk
The hardest challenge about being a Division III student-athlete is: Learning time management
Worst grade in a class you ever got – what and when? I flunked naptime in grade school because I was too busy talking
I’m deathly afraid of ... : Spiders
Worst habit: Singing the same line of one song over and over and over gain
Most expensive traffic ticket: A speeding ticket in high school that was stupid expensive
Language I’d like to learn: French
The longest I could survive without my cell phone: Not very long
One word your mother or father would use to describe you: Hyper
Favorite sports figure: Sanya Richards Ross
My greatest moment in sports was: Contributing to a national team title in 2016
The best player I ever faced was: Wadeline Jonathas
Worst dresser on my team: Coach Shoe and his wacky socks
Thing that’s been in my fridge the longest: I’m pretty sure I’ve had a pork chop in the freezer for around two years….
Person I’m dying to have dinner with: Carl Lewis
Favorite food: Ice cream (or anything with a lot of sugar)
Vegetable I won’t eat: Cabbage… and that’s about the only one
Pepsi or Coke? Pepsi all the way
Favorite TV show: “This is Us”
Favorite musical group: Def Leppard
Favorite movie: “Sweet Home Alabama”
If a movie were made of my life, I would like the following person to play me: Mila Kunis
If my life were on TV as a reality show, I’d call it: “Keeping Up with Amelia”
The person in history I would most like to meet is: Elvis Presley
My dream job would be: Being a judge on a cooking show and getting paid a lot of money just to eat
Place I’d most like to live: Ireland
If you come back in another life, what would you like to return as: An over-excited puppy
Two things that are tops on my “bucket list”: 1) Eating everything on the menu at one restaurant; 2) Go to Irish pub
My possession that would fetch the most on eBay: My MacBook
Who is the luckiest person in the world? Guy Fieri because he makes millions to travel the world and eat
What I miss most about being in the third grade: Having zero obligations and expectations
