Three Northern Arizona legends will be forever enshrined this July: David McNeill, Ida Nilsson and Johanna Nilsson have been voted into the 2025 Big Sky Conference Hall of Fame, as announced by the league office recently.
All three are decorated long-distance runners and will be inducted alongside 10 other athletes and administrators across five Big Sky institutions. They join four other Lumberjacks legends in the Big Sky Hall of Fame in Archie Amerson ('23), Angela Chalmers ('21), Lopez Lomong ('21) and Ron Mann ('21).
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