Saint Mary's University of Minnesota Athletics

Gossen made her presence felt on more than one athletic venue, dominating both as a volleyball player and a track and field athlete.

On the court, Gossen — despite missing most of her junior season due to a season-ending knee injury — appeared in 98 matches in her four –year career, compiling 1,225 kills and hitting .331, while also being named First-Team All-Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference twice times. Her 448 kills during the 2004 season rank fourth all-time, while her 394 kills as a sophomore in 2002 are ninth-best in program history. Gossen also owns two of the five-best single-season attack percentages, hitting .360 in 2004 and .343 in 2002.

And there was little rest for Gossen, who moved from the court to the track, where she was a seven-time conference champion, not to mention a five-time national championship qualifier and a two-time All-American. Gossen swept the MIAC’s pentathlon and heptathlon titles in school and conference record-setting fashion — twice — and her record 4,668 point total still stands. Gossen was the first-ever Saint Mary’s University track and field athlete to qualifying for the national championships as a freshman in 2002, and earned All-American honors in the heptathlon (2003) and high jump (2005).