Heidelberg Athletics Hall of Fame
Four-time All-American Adam Koppin certainly left his mark on the Heidelberg track and field and cross country programs. One of the best distance runners in program history, his name is all over the program's record book -- as an individual, as a relay member and as a scholar. Koppin remains the record holder of three individual events and two relays.
Outdoors, Koppin was a dominant force in the 1,500m run -- earning All-American status twice (1999, 2000). Koppin played an instrumental role in Heidelberg's back-to-back outdoor OAC Track & Field team championships. He was named OAC Jim Wuske Most Outstanding Track Athlete for the 1999 outdoor season, winning three titles, the 800m, 1,500m and 4x800m relay.
Koppin holds the distinction of being the first male All-American in the history of Heidelberg's indoor track program in 1999, a feat he repeated in 2000, both in the 1,500m. He received the OAC Don Frail Most Outstanding Track Athlete award following the 1999 indoor season -- a meet during which he took home four titles, 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 4x800m relay.
He earned USTFCCCA All-Academic honors for the 2000 indoor season and the 1998-2000 outdoor seasons.
In indoor track, Koppin holds program records in the 1,000m, the 1,500m, the 4x800m relay and the distance medley relay. Outdoors, he is the standard-bearer in the 1,500m and the distance medley relay.
For the cross country team, he again was integral in multiple team conference championships, winning in 1998 and 1999. He was an individual national qualifier in 1996, then was part of the team qualifiers in 1997-1999, becoming the first four-time national qualifier in school history. He earned all-region accolades in 1997 and 1998. He was the first four-time All-OAC First Team honoree -- one of just two in the program history.
Koppin graduated from Heidelberg in 2000 and later went on to graduate from Ashland Theological Seminary, where he earned a master's degree in biblical and theological studies in 2003. He and his wife, Rebekah, have three children -- Carrie, Juliette and Caleb. Now living in sunny Florida, Koppin teaches elementary music in Pensacola and stays active at his church.
(This profile appeared in the 2016 Hall of Fame Banquet program.)
