Hall of Fame
Randy Lowe is one of four men in Shippensburg University history to win an individual national championship in track & field competition and is one of the best distance runners in the history of both the Raider program and the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference.
Lowe won the NCAA Division II national championship in the 10,000-meter run as a senior in 1992, posting a winning time of 30:00.91 to win the race by more than 12 seconds.
It capped off a storied collegiate running career in which he was a six-time NCAA All-American and two-time PSAC Champion in track and a two-time All-American in cross country.
In his final two track seasons (1991 and 1992), Lowe was named the PSAC Men’s Outdoor Track Athlete of the Year. As a senior, Lowe not only won his 10K national title, but he also finished second at 5,000 meters. At the conference championships, Lowe won the 10K title in the only time he ran that distance in PSAC competition.
As a junior, Lowe earned three All-Americas – including twice outdoors with a second-place finish in the 10,000 meters and a third-place finish at 5,000 meters. Lowe became just the second Raider to earn NCAA indoor All-America honors with a third-place finish in the 5K that season. He was the runner-up in the 5K at the conference championships.
During his sophomore track season, Lowe won the PSAC Championship in the 5K to help his team upset Edinboro and begin a streak of four consecutive conference championships for Shippensburg. Lowe went on to earn the first of his All-America honors by placing third in the 5K at the national championship meet.
Lowe was just as valuable, if not more so, to the Raider cross country teams. He was a three-time All-PSAC performer, a two-time All-American and was named the 1990 PSAC Men’s Cross Country Athlete of the Year following his junior season in which Shippensburg finished second in Division II – its highest-national finish in school history.
That season, Lowe finished third in the individual standings with a time of 29:32 was just eight seconds slower than SU’s school record on a track over the same distance. His effort was one place and 16 seconds faster than his longtime rival, Uriel Rivera of Edinboro. The SU team that season finished second at the PSAC, East Region and NCAA Championships while placing third at the Paul Short Invitational behind Kansas and Penn State.
In his senior season, Lowe became the third SU athlete to earn back-to-back All-America honors in cross country with a fifth-place finish at the national championships, following up a second-place finish at the East Regionals and a third-place finish at the PSAC Championships. SU that season finished fourth in Division II as a team – its second-best national finish to date.
Lowe’s sophomore cross country season featured him placing 15th at both the conference and regional championship meets before missing All-America honors by just two seconds after placing 29th in Division II.
Lowe earned GTE Academic All-American honors following his graduation for the At-Large division, which not only comprised of Division II, Division III and junior colleges, but also a variety of sports in addition to track & field.
He majored in history and maintained a 3.6 GPA while staying on the Dean's List for all eight semesters at Shippensburg. He was a member of Phi Alpha Theta, the history honors fraternity.
Lowe received his master's degree in library and information science from Drexel University in 1995 before becoming the reference librarian at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia.
He then moved to Frostburg State University, where he remains FSU's collection development and acquisitions librarian. He also works as a clinician at the Shippensburg University Cross Country camps and served as both the head cross country coach and as an assistant coach for the track & field teams at Frostburg State from 1998 to 2010.
