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Doug
Schwartz will carry on a family tradition
when he will be inducted into the Centralia
High School Hall of Fame. Schwartz
will join his two brothers Vince and Nick in
the Hall of Fame. "I'm
just humbled and honored to be a part of the
Hall of Fame," Doug said.
"There were a lot of great athletes
that came through Centralia, so I'm humbled
to be a part of this class." Schwartz
was a 2000 Centralia High School graduate
and was part of a dynamic duo with Justin
Amason. He was a member of the 1999
South 7 cross country championship team and
that year also placed 26th at the state
meet. He won the Scholar Athlete Award
in 1999-2000. He was a three-time
All-South selection for cross country. Schwartz
also was a state qualifier in track in
winning the 3,200 meters at eh Class AA
sectional as a senior and was a member of
the 3,200 realay team that took eighth at
state his junior year. He
credited a lot of his high school success to
coach Rod White. "Coach
White was very influential and was like a
second father to me," said Schwartz who
received the Golden Orphan Award his senior
year. "He was just an all-around
good guy. Whether you were the star of
the team or one of the last runners, he
treated everyone equal. And I respect
him a lot for that." Following
his time at Centralia Schwartz continued his
running career at the University of Southern
Indiana. Schwartz, who majored in
physical education, ran both cross country
and track at USI. He ran for coach
Mike Hillyard. Both of Schwartz'
brothers ran against Hillyard in high
school, so the family was very familiar with
Hillyard. "He
was a great coach and I'm still in contact
with him today," Schwartz said. Schwartz
graduated form USI in 2005. He earned
All-Great Lakes Valley Conference and
All-Region honors during his senior cross
country season at USI. He was fifth at
the FLVC Championship and was sixth at the
NCAA II Great Lakes Regional
Championships. He was USI's top
finisher in four of the six races he raced
and finished as the No. 2 runner in the
other races. Doug
won the Little State Championship at the
Indiana Intercollegiate with a season best
8K time of 25:08.00. He was ninth
overall at the Indiana
Intercollegiate. He was second in the
University Division at the Great American
Cross Country Festival and finished third at
the 5K Bellmont Opener in 14:55.27. He
was eighth at the Illinois/Missouri Border
Wars and had a top 10K time of 31:55.10 at
the NCAA II Regional championships. He
earned Academic All-GLVC honors. During
his senior indoor track and field season
Schwartz earned All-GLVC honors in the 3,000
meters after finishing second at the GLVC
Championships with a time of 8:44.29.
He won the 3,000 meters at the DePauw
Classic with a season-best time of 8:40.84
and also won the 3,000 meters at the Rose-Hulman
Invitational. He
finished sixth in the 5,000 meterrs at the
GLVC Championships and had a season-best
time of 15:05.18 in the 5,000 meters at the
DePauw Invitational. He helped the USI
distance medley relay team also take second
at the GLVC Championships. During
his senior outdoor track and field season
Schwartz finished 14th in the 5,000 meter
run at the NCAA II Championships. He
posted provisional qualifying times in the
1,500 and 5,000 meters. He earned All-GLVC
honors after winning the 5,000 meters at the
Butler Twilight with a season-best time of
14:30.81. He finished third in the
GLVC Championships with a season-best time
of 3;53.83. He won the 1,500 meters at
the Gerald England Invitational and earned
Academic All-GLVC honors. He
redshirted during the 2002-03 cross country
season. He earned All-GLVC honors in
both the mile and 3,000 meters during his
indoor track and field season. He
finished second in the mile at the GLVC
Championships with a season-best and
meet-record time of 4:16.09. That
performance ranks Schwartz fourth all-time
at USI in the mile. He also placed
second in the 3,000 meters at the GLVC
Championships with a time of 8:47.84.
He won the 3,000 meters at the DePauw
Classic with a season-best and meet-record
time of 8:35.29. He
earned Academic All-GLVC honors during his
junior outdoor track and field season.
He earned All-GLVC honors after taking
second in the 1,500 meters with a time of
3:56.13. He finished third at the
Vanderbilt Invitational with a season-best
time of 3:54.60, just 6-tenths of a second
away from the cut-off for the final NCAA II
Championship entry list in the 5,000
meters. He
finished third in the 5,000 meters at the
GLVC Championships with a time of
15:28.33. He was second in the 5,000
meters at the Butler Twilight with a
season-best time of 14:31.31. He won
the 5,000 meters at the Washington
University Invitational with a time of
14:32.93. He ran the 800 meters in a
season best time of 2:02.66 at the Gerald
England Invitational. He
ranked third all-time at USI in the 800
meters, fourth in the 1,500 meters and fifth
in the 5,000 meters. During
his sophomore cross country season Schwartz
was one of USI's top four in five different
meets. He earned All-GLVC honors at
the GLVC Championships with a seventh place
finish and a 10K time of 33:27. He
finished 23rd at the NCAA Division II Great
Lakes Regional with a time of 33:41.
He posted his best 10K time at the GLVC
Championships and his best 8K time of
25:27.10 at the Indiana State Invitational. His
freshman cross country season was limited to
six weeks of preparation due to an
injury. He posted USI's best time in
the NCAA Division II Great Lakes Regional
with a 10K mark of 32:44.4, finishing
16th. He finished 13th in the GLVC
Championships with a 10K time of
33:39. He was one of USI's top three
runners four times in five meets. He
didn't compete in the indoor track and field
season. He ran one race during his
outdoor track and field season, posting
USI's top 1,500 meter time of 4:11.63 at the
Little State Championships. Schwartz
is currently an elementary physical
education teacher in Mt. Carmel. He
has been the Mt. Carmel girls' track and
field coach for th pat three years and was
in the system with the boy's team for the
previous 5 years before that.
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