From his freshman year to his senior year, Paul Bons was very cozy with all-conference awards. The distance runner from Little Chute, who still shares the top Stout 8-kilometer cross country time (24-minutes, 38-seconds), earned 11 all-conference awards, four in cross country, seven in track. Bons finished 16th at the 1983 WSUC Cross Country Championships to earn second team honors, then snagged three first team finishes the rest of the way, placing fifth in 1984 as a sophomore, seventh in 1986 as a red-shirted junior and fifth in 1987 as a senior, the same year he advanced to the NAIA national championships to earn All-America status with a 14th place finish. Bons also garnered WSUC runner of the week awards in 1986 and 1987. On the track, Bons specialized in the one-mile, two-mile and 5000-meter distances. Bons took second place finishes in the 1986 2-mile indoor championships and in the 1986 1500-meter outdoor meet. In one of the most exciting races in WSUC outdoor history, Bons was edged during the 1987 season in the 1500-meter (3:51.38) by Arnie Schraeder of UW-Stevens Point, who went on to run in the 1988 Olympic Games. Bons also recorded all-conference honors with a a sixth place finish in the one-mile at the 1984 outdoor, a fourth in the 1500 at the 1985 outdoor, a third in the 5000-meter at the 1986 outdoor and a fourth in the 5000 at the 1987 outdoor. Bons is a member of the 4x800-meter relay team that still holds the school record.