Dorenkamp to retire after 14 years at Central.
After 14 years of serving to enhance the Central College athletics legacy he helped create as a standout student-athlete, Al Dorenkamp ’75 will retire as athletics director in June. His wife, postal services coordinator Jo Ann Fall Dorenkamp ’74, will be leaving Central as well.
Al Dorenkamp earned all-American distinction for the Dutch football team, serving as captain of the 1974 team that won the college’s first NCAA Division III championship. During his tenure as athletics director, Central student-athletes have won four more NCAA national team championships, 13 NCAA individual titles and 46 Iowa Conference crowns. He initiated numerous improvements to the A.N. Kuyper Athletics Complex, including the addition of the highly regarded cross country course and the Ryerson Golf Practice Range, new indoor and outdoor tracks and renovations to the softball field and Ron and Joyce Schipper Stadium. In 2002, Dorenkamp started Central’s Athletics Hall of Honor.
A former NCAA DivisionIII Football Committee national chair, Dorenkamp received the Distinguished Iowan Award from the Iowa chapter of the National Football Foundation.
“Al embodies the core values of this academic community and of the whole-person concept as taught to him by his beloved Central coach, Ron Schipper,” said president Mark Putnam. “He is a tireless worker, a committed servant, and deeply devoted to the young men and women of Central College.”
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