WARNER, Cara

WARNER, MCDOLE

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 1/31/2016 at 13:34:19

Cara Warner, Hall of Fame 2015
Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa

Two sport star Cara Warner was born in Kansas, but she truly grew up on the Graceland campus after moving to Lamoni at age 11. After an adolescence with every spare hour spent in the Graceland gym, future as a Yellowjacket was not a matter of chance, but a matter of destiny.

A standout volleyball, basketball, and track athlete throughout high school, Warner was a classic "Spec Brat" over her teenage summers. Starring during the on-campus Spectacular festivities as well as in prep athletics, the 6'3" Warner possessed a unique athleticism that would pay off almost immediately after she first officially donned the navy and gold in 1997.

The flexibility of Cara's athletic gifts truly shone in track and field where she excelled in the high jump and middle distance runs. Competing in both indoor and outdoor activities, she was nearly unbeatable in the high jump, where set the mark for highest jump in the nation with a 5'10" leap in the midst of a dominating two year stretch in her junior and senior seasons. A four year All-American, Warner also excelled in the classroom as a commercial design and studio art double major, garnering Academic All-American honors as well.

In volleyball, the middle hitter was dual threat at the net who anchored Coach Stew McDole's front court, where she collected All-Regional honors during a dominating Yellowjacket season her senior year in addition to adding Academic-All American honors in that sport as well.

Cara now lives in beautiful Los Angeles, California, where she plays beach volleyball whenever she can around her career as an interior designer specializing in authentic modern interiors..

Cara was inducted into Graceland's Yellowjacket Athletic Hall of Fame in 2015.

SOURCES: gujackets.com/f/Hall_of_Fame.php; gujackets.com/roster.php

Submission by Sharon R Becker, January of 2016